Working Web Shooters You Can Swing From!

[Music] all right we're finally doing it probably the most requested project on this channel make some spider-man web shooters that you can actually swing from you see i listen to you guys which is why you should comment right now what i should build next like the next thing i make is probably going to be the most like comment idea from this video and of course toss a like and subscribe please because i put a lot of work into this if you guys already know i've made tons of stuff like this in the past while those were cool you can't actually swing from them i've done other variations too like retractable ones where you could shoot it at something and reel it in that is if you don't mind slight punctures in your item walls and your dignity when everyone makes fun of you for being a nerd all right so things we need a web and this web has to be strong enough for us to swing from we also need a web shooter then we need a way for the web to stick onto whatever we're shooting it at so we need the web to have enough stuckness like stick stuck to to so that it won't break when we try and swing from it and lastly we need a way for the web to release when we're done swinging or else we'll end up on one of those rope swing fail videos yikes but before we do any of that we gotta look the part got this pretty cool mask we also gotta fix this whole beard situation i think me and peter parker would have the same facial hair growing abilities you know patchy at best thankfully though harry's sponsor of this video is going to help us out so whether you can grow a full one or you're rocking the more uh prepubescent look like me here is quality german engineered blades sure to help you out you got blade refills for only two bucks and they've got a hundred years of experience and a hundred percent money back guarantee of course they deliver it right to your door because it's 20 20 and that's how it should be in the case of this pandemic you don't even have to go outside so we got a razor 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more cotton until something explodes i've got a gram scale too who can figure out the optimal amount of cotton somewhere between a dollar store squirt gun and uh hindenburg turns out it's about .15 grams now we need a web to blast and a way to make it stick to stuff so we can swing on it now while a dart would be ideal we can't really count on them to hold our weight we're gonna go with the good old-fashioned grappling hook and because a big metal grappling hook is a bit too clunky for this spider-man gadget we're gonna use a small self-latching grappling hook so it'll loop around something and attach back to itself a few other youtubers have done stuff like this i think the hacksmith did one recently also greek gadget guru alan pan definitely check them out as well all good channels so for the webs we're gonna use some kevlar cord because it has a load capacity of about two thousand pounds and it's thin and light so for the time being i 3d printed a grappling hook down i think it's going to work printed at 100 in fill and how to print the layers so it'd be aligned with where the force was pulling it hopefully it can hold my weight till i find a way to make this out of metal i'll put the model down below if you guys want to check it out but i'm not responsible if you end up hurting yourself i used to screw for the center of the hook and attach the kevlar to the end now we have ourselves a hook that works pretty well i got it to stick about 80 percent of the time so did 10 shots eight out of them stuck also learned a couple ways to make the stick better like right after you shoot it if you pull slightly and wave your hand back and forth the rope will sort of tangle up a little bit better and uh have a better chance of a sticking you don't really need to be good at aiming either because all you have to do is hit anywhere above the uh thing you're trying to wrap around it'll go over and then wrap itself around and hopefully stick and to release the hook all you got to do is shake the line gently and it'll come unstuck and pop right off sometimes you can catch it too it looks pretty sweet then i 3d printed a wrist mount to hold the launcher let's store the rope in such a way that it would be able to unspool as we shoot this actually has room for a ton more rope too so i did a bit of testing to sort of get used to the recoil of the blaster and i practiced getting good grappling sticks [Music] [Music] last thing we need is a way to release the web when we're done swinging so we can eventually you know continue on to the next swing double tap to release and whip it out again to do this i was originally thinking like a simple friction mechanism instead of just straight up holding the rope like that and trying to swing that's pretty much impossible what you want to do is have something that hooks onto your waist so just pretend this is hooked on there and then what i was thinking is we would wrap the string around it a couple of times so then the weights going directly through my waist and all we'd have to do is keep this rope attached to this thing but because we have these loops we just grab on and the friction would actually do most all of the work for us and then when we wanted to release we just let go and then it'd unspool off like that but i figured it'd be much better and cooler if we could just press a button and release like that uh because in the future i want to pair this with like my wall climbers so i can't be like holding onto rope i need my hands free for that so i decided to use a quick release paired with a super high torque servo so we just hook in the rope and pull the latch whenever we wanted to drop the latch pops open and we pop off the only thing is the more weight on the latch the harder it is to release the latch because of the friction luckily this 20 kilogram servo is a beast i did a little testing and with my full body weight on it we need about five pounds of force to trigger the quick release which the servo can provide no problem so one 3d print later and we have this servo attached to the latch we've got the lever arm right here so this lever arm pulls the latch latch pops open and on the other end of the latch we've got this bit of kevlar cord we can strap on a bit of rope that goes to the harness on our waist so that none of the tension is through our hand so wrote a bit of arduino code control this with a push button and it seems to work pretty well [Music] so this is what it looks like when everything's put on got the rope grappling system down here you can see all of the line tucked into this little pocket grappling hook shoots out of this port arc light over here explosion chamber right here boom grappling hook shoots out i'm just gonna simulate this you can see the string easily flows out when it gets to the end it catches on this hook mechanism back here so that's resting on my wall climbers i made in the last video so that pops out i just 3d printed a little backing these have spikes on the tip that uh let you climb trees and such and then this is the tensioning mechanism say the grappling hook's hooked and there's still a little slack in the line what you can do is this is a one way it falls this way but doesn't let you pull that way and then this clip is uh hooked on to our release mechanism right there these two buttons we have the fire button and then the release mechanism button on the front of our hand right there so if i just click that boom pops off releases off you drop down just like spider-man and that's pretty much how it works of course we had to add some sweet decals to the side i think it came out pretty good especially for version one but it doesn't matter how it looks about performance so uh let's go test this thing out now since i'm not in a city i am fresh out of skyscrapers so uh we don't really have anything to test this on like spider-man so if we built something like scaffolding like structure maybe something like this we could uh could like shoot our rope up here and maybe like swing off of the side um that'd be pretty sick wait a minute we already built it so during testing we did have a couple problems first being the kevlar chord's strength yes the chord is super strong like you can swing around it no problem if you're just sort of hanging there but when you start to sort of like jump off stuff put a lot more force on it especially because kevlar is static so that means there's no like give to it so the cord kept snapping so to fix this we tripled up the cord just braided three pieces together i don't think this should be too much of an issue because the gauntlet could already hold way more line than we were putting into it so once we figured that out the line wasn't snapping anymore then the release mechanism started to uh give way like all this stuff yeah it works if you're just hanging there but when you start actually putting a ton of force on it like me falling onto it and repeated use uh it starts to wear out so what happens with this every time this thing opens under tension it bends slightly so right now it's fine but if i were to use this this piece right here would start to bend and what that does is it makes it very hard for you to lock it and open it so it sort of gets stuck so we need a way to take some of the force off of this and i think i have an idea for that so we're going to pretend right here this is the adjustable clip that hooks onto the web so i've got this rope right here which is attached to my harness at one end and then there's a loop at the other end so what we're gonna do is loop this through here about three times what this is going to do is it allows us to use friction to actually help us out so i can hang off of this right now i can actually hold myself up because of this friction not very hard but as soon as i let go everything falls off whenever i release it is much easier on this system and honestly with this new friction method like it's a small enough force for me to hold myself on where i can just do it with my hand if i wanted so we technically don't even need this part i don't know if i'm gonna use it still but hey now we got options so back outside before we test this though i want to show off some projects that you guys made and sent to me on instagram so if you made anything cool send it my way and of course toss it a follow if you want all right moment of truth we actually did end up making a metal grappling hook just sort of bent two pieces of steel and put it around the bolt i don't know i didn't think that before here's what we're gonna do we're gonna try and do a shoot a latch a swing and a drop all in one take before we get into any fancy edits or whatever i wanna show you guys that this actually works i might speed ramp it a little bit just while i'm working up the courage to actually swing but i'm not gonna cut anything so uh wish me luck all right no cuts starting now or whenever i fire it because this might take a couple things [Music] just wanted to make sure it was a good stick let's go one take now let's have some [Music] fun [Music] so we're going for about the tenth swing of the night so here's kind of the order basically we shoot this grappling hook try and get a good stick onto that post up there we sort of leap off of this swing down there and hopefully drop off before we run into that wall all right let's get it [Music] [Applause] [Music] [ __ ] nailed it well that about wraps this one up no pun intended we actually made it out alive with minor scrapes and bruises um so obviously if you like these videos definitely subscribe i don't need to tell you this i'm pretty pleased with how this came out not only the invention but the quality of the videos lately so if you guys keep liking them i'm gonna keep making them so thank you very much for watching we'll catch you next one [Music]

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Length: 12min 39sec (759 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 09 2020