Making a RAILGUN and then TESTING it!

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  • @wonderp3574
    @wonderp3574 Před 5 lety +3646

    This man’s electrical bill must be unbelievable

    • @CulturalToast
      @CulturalToast Před 5 lety +114

      Not if he has his own generator...

    • @TheFrankieMcMurphy
      @TheFrankieMcMurphy Před 4 lety +252

      @@CulturalToast Because generators make costless energy?

    • @GuyPipili
      @GuyPipili Před 4 lety +31

      @@TheFrankieMcMurphy I want one… so how many centuries will I have to wait… 😆😂🤣😂

    • @SpydersByte
      @SpydersByte Před 4 lety +15

      @@TheFrankieMcMurphy yup, free lunch :D

    • @nathenstone4147
      @nathenstone4147 Před 4 lety +17

      Jorge Graça some of them do have a cranking system

  • @135roze
    @135roze Před 5 lety +995

    “So, what do you do for a living?”
    “I work a 9-5 job with a decent salary and has a good house living in peace, what about you?”
    “I casually build dangerous weapons in a large garage”

  • @xdtrollface5721
    @xdtrollface5721 Před 3 lety +735

    Hacksmith: "One capacitor isn't enough."
    Me: "Oh, so he's going to have like 4 or 5."
    Hacksmith: "We're gonna use *16* ."

  • @gudshepherd2282
    @gudshepherd2282 Před 3 lety +955

    You can get the same results with a rubber band and a Y shaped stick.

    • @rcx2699
      @rcx2699 Před 3 lety +141

      no you can get even better results

    • @D4rkenedskies
      @D4rkenedskies Před 3 lety +12

      A stick with rubber band or flexible rope between its edge will do too

    • @eriksab1609
      @eriksab1609 Před 3 lety +19

      yes you can, but does were those results achieved with a railgun?

    • @Kyrious
      @Kyrious Před 3 lety +19

      @@rcx2699 Despite that I think the railgun was an important scientific advancement, that served the purpose of cool science fiction portrayals of it.

    • @JC-XL
      @JC-XL Před 3 lety +32

      Or just switch that paintball gun back to full power

  • @ElectroBOOM
    @ElectroBOOM Před 6 lety +2653

    Thanks a lot for the plug mate! I was going to take the challenge and make it stronger, but then you said we could go to jail! In any case if you like to serve some time, just add magnets to the mix!

    • @hacksmith
      @hacksmith  Před 6 lety +391

      I love your videos! Sorry for calling you Electro-GO-Boom I might be slightly dyslexic, or perhaps a psychic for when you inevitably -go- boom in a video!
      The project ended up being a lot harder than we imagined, you're video certainly helped us out!

    • @johndavis6482
      @johndavis6482 Před 6 lety +15

      Poop all at once?or as it passes ? Opto circuit!!! Great Scott!! Luv u guys!!!

    • @ElectroBOOM
      @ElectroBOOM Před 6 lety +182

      :D No worries! Misspelling my name(s) is a curse I carry to the end! I wish you weren't on the other side. There are some projects that could use your expertise.

    • @aedionsky3
      @aedionsky3 Před 6 lety +34

      I like where this is going... 🤔😀

    • @nicks2437
      @nicks2437 Před 6 lety +60

      Well, for it to be considered a firearm, it has to have a "barrel." So an argument might be made that a railgun doesn't have a barrel, it has a parallel set of rails which do not meet the definition of a barrel.
      Assuming a "barrel" is a metallic tube typically used on firearms. And a "tube" is a cylinder used for transporting objects. And a cylinder =/= parallel rails.

  • @GarlicSoda
    @GarlicSoda Před 5 lety +2927

    My cat reaches higher speeds at 3 am

  • @shoup15u27
    @shoup15u27 Před 4 lety +78

    Imagine you try and rob this dudes house and the next thing you hear is “someone’s breaking in, go charge up the railgun”

    • @The_radiodemon.
      @The_radiodemon. Před 3 lety +2

      Hm you yust dont Breake in there al those weapons take the laser sword

  • @felixfelix9062
    @felixfelix9062 Před 4 lety +146

    I want a collab with EVERYONE. Osman, Michael, styropyro, Sripol, Flitetest, ALL OF THEM.

  • @hacksmith
    @hacksmith  Před 6 lety +22

    What'd you guys think? What should we build next!? For more awesome info about Rail Gun's check out ElectroBOOM: czcams.com/video/NJRDclzi5Vg/video.html

    • @thealmightyintp5728
      @thealmightyintp5728 Před 6 lety

      the Hacksmith try build a nuke
      Or
      A real life flash

    • @antti9560
      @antti9560 Před 6 lety

      Your mom gay

    • @thealmightyintp5728
      @thealmightyintp5728 Před 6 lety

      ur name is

    • @s3ptic433
      @s3ptic433 Před 6 lety

      the Hacksmith you should build some type of wolverine claws that come in and out

    • @off-alfa
      @off-alfa Před 6 lety +1

      Hmmm, a mortal kombat thing? Like, kitanas knife fan or scorpios harpoon? Lol i dunno. BTW thanks for the gift ;)

  • @CosmoFusion
    @CosmoFusion Před 4 lety +2340

    Imagine this guy in a collab with styropyro and with the military’s budget

    • @okthen1353
      @okthen1353 Před 4 lety +131

      Holy shit
      Step aside military

    • @chrish1590
      @chrish1590 Před 4 lety +136

      High powered laser cannon that actully looks finished!!

    • @_b1itzkri3g21
      @_b1itzkri3g21 Před 4 lety +39

      Tony Stark

    • @monkeyman7048
      @monkeyman7048 Před 4 lety +12

      It would be amazing lol

    • @kja6336
      @kja6336 Před 4 lety +33

      They could legit make an iron Man suit

  • @AlexSchendel
    @AlexSchendel Před 4 lety +90

    Ughhh, all my education as an Electrical Engineer is screaming at me as I watch this video 😂

    • @tyty8484
      @tyty8484 Před 3 lety +12

      4:30 I can't explain it, it just feels like that rail design wouldn't work well. Is that wrong? Like the current could path through the rail in a way that could decrease the tangential force.....
      Tell me EE education says about that!

    • @runningchild8052
      @runningchild8052 Před 2 lety +1

      @@tyty8484 would you mind explaining that further?

    • @tyty8484
      @tyty8484 Před 2 lety +3

      @@runningchild8052 the way that the rail is a semi-circle, my intuition tells me that the path electricity will take will be "the path of least resistance." So what i imagine is that it is either going to jump across the tiny gap so you're only getting a pinch of that tang force. OR even going from that tiny gap and wrapping around the circle and back thus increasing the distance between the current direction changes.
      From what I can tell, the best shape would be the opposite of this. The rails being 2 parallel cyclinders and the projectile being a cut-out in between. Like a rounded I-Beam.

    • @robertsink1323
      @robertsink1323 Před rokem +2

      @@tyty8484 yup, you can tell this is correct based off the fact they needed to use a paintball gun to shoot it. i wouldn't be surprised if they just had a paintball gun with a high pressure canister to make it look like they were accelerating it with their setup, b/c they couldn't get it to work. lol

  • @giga-chicken
    @giga-chicken Před 4 lety +86

    1:30 "Eletrogoboom"
    no... Mehdi would be disappoint.

  • @johnstone8361
    @johnstone8361 Před 6 lety +286

    Who just thinks to themselves "Hey, let's build a railgun cause why not"
    Cause thats amazing

  • @hugojmaia
    @hugojmaia Před 4 lety +122

    For those in electrical engineering, it's a fancy name for a linear motor that lets one of its pieces escape.

    • @andrefilipe6757
      @andrefilipe6757 Před 2 lety +6

      That would be a coilgun, no?

    • @hugojmaia
      @hugojmaia Před 2 lety +14

      @@andrefilipe6757 The linear motor is literally 2 straight wires and a bar connecting them, the direction of the current determines where the bar goes, the value of the current determines how fast the bar accelerates. In a rail gun the wires are the 2 copper channels and the bar is the projectile.
      A coilgun is something the people in this channel also made, it is a series of coils wrapped around a tube where you have to time the activation and deactivation of the magnetic field generated by the coils in order to accelerate a ferrous projectile. Doesn't require as high a voltage, but the circuitry is more complicated with a lot of fine tuning required.

    • @mrb7931
      @mrb7931 Před rokem +1

      yeah exactly, capacitor pushes it instantly through a large current. And the moving part escapes

  • @theghostofjohnnycash4418
    @theghostofjohnnycash4418 Před 3 lety +16

    "I'm not a machinist by any means, but let's hit go and see what happens"
    *rapids turret into spindle*

  • @BlueprintScience
    @BlueprintScience Před 3 lety +26

    Now, I'm not doubting your claim of a 36 farad capacitor bank... all I'm saying is that you had 16x 3300uF capacitors in parallel (=0.528 farads)
    P.S. Still love it!

  • @LoganRR
    @LoganRR Před 5 lety +166

    "it's at 317 Volts"
    "That's fine"

  • @kevcantwinlol
    @kevcantwinlol Před 4 lety +558

    Next:
    Getting on the FBI watchlist!

    • @jkuebbing12358
      @jkuebbing12358 Před 4 lety +2

      In Canada

    • @jaanikaapa6925
      @jaanikaapa6925 Před 4 lety +10

      Josh Kuebbing Canada Schmanada. Everyone is on FBI's watchlist. Land of the bound and home of the cowardly.

    • @WTF-vv8ic
      @WTF-vv8ic Před 4 lety

      Funny But Irritating

    • @wardfertuck9331
      @wardfertuck9331 Před 4 lety

      I'm Canadian and a good Buddy of mine who happens to be Native wears his FBI shirt all the time. If you look closely under the FBI it says F*CKING BIG INDIAN. First time I saw the shirt I just about pissed myself laughing so hard.

    • @groverbundy899
      @groverbundy899 Před 4 lety

      You mean off

  • @thatvrkid0874
    @thatvrkid0874 Před 2 lety +2

    I like how it took the military decades but it took him one video

  • @mlgfabulousman
    @mlgfabulousman Před 3 lety +6

    So, what I got from this video was "zap zap make bullet fast." I like your funny words magic man.

  • @Mundanemann1234
    @Mundanemann1234 Před 4 lety +691

    Now thats “A Certain Scientific Railgun”

    • @DanDoesStuffs
      @DanDoesStuffs Před 4 lety +54

      Yup. But I prefer the anime one

    • @marothastuga2552
      @marothastuga2552 Před 3 lety +20

      Really had to reference that

    • @lag8319
      @lag8319 Před 3 lety +68

      *Imagine* if they try to *accelerate* the *railgun's* projectile but it *breaks*

    • @DanDoesStuffs
      @DanDoesStuffs Před 3 lety +11

      @@lag8319 very punny

    • @blackbluealexv2
      @blackbluealexv2 Před 3 lety +6

      Dan You are not being a downer , are you ?

  • @kielhawkins9529
    @kielhawkins9529 Před 4 lety +621

    Step 1: Move to Montana in the USA
    Step 2: Buy a plot of land with a crap load of acreage for a reasonable price
    Step 3: Build whatever you want
    Step 4: ????
    Step 5: Profit!

  • @snoig1
    @snoig1 Před 2 lety +1

    One correction for you, the Navy has been working on railguns since at least the 70's. I worked on the Army's version back in the 80's.
    And here's a couple of tips for you.
    1. Purge the barrel with He just before the shot. The lighter gas offers less resistance and will increase velocity.
    2. Try a lighter projectile. Al can be accelerated to a higher speed due to less mass. It's that velocity squared component that does the real damage.
    3. Cut a vertical slot into the back end of the projectile. The current through the projectile will force the tabs apart and give better contact with the rails and less rail ablation.
    4. Make an inductor from heavy wire to spread the pulse out. You should be able to optimize the pulse width to the time that the projectile will be in the barrel.5
    5. Increase the pressure of the injector. But you already know that.

  • @PIIT0II
    @PIIT0II Před 4 lety +4

    The rail gun almost reached the speed of the alien from assassanation classroom

  • @hacksmith
    @hacksmith  Před 6 lety +316

    Buy one of the used projectiles from the video! www.ebay.ca/itm/222865692130?ViewItem=&item=222865692130 (2nd listing)
    Also if you're wondering why it didn't seem as powerful as it could be -- that's because we had to limit how powerful it was to remain inside legal limitations. A video isn't worth going to jail over.

  • @yameensekandari3302
    @yameensekandari3302 Před 5 lety +1497

    Just imagine if this dude had the military’s budget

  • @mynamesmatthew1551
    @mynamesmatthew1551 Před 3 lety +5

    The soviets: WE ARE THE STRONGEST HAHAHA
    America with railguns: NANI

    • @greenaum
      @greenaum Před 3 lety

      Tsar Bomba would like a BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

  • @ryanlebeck259
    @ryanlebeck259 Před 3 lety +3

    You can increase your firing output and projectile velocity by using an oscillating power supply(modified sine inverter will do the trick) and incorporating a micro generator for faster recharge.
    I'm designing a fully automatic man portable railgun and those two design modifications will make a serious difference.

  • @JoseELeon
    @JoseELeon Před 4 lety +1027

    "Perfect for a school project"
    -the quiet kid

    • @robertpejhovsky2669
      @robertpejhovsky2669 Před 4 lety +31

      Jose E Leon no
      The quiet kid scales it up

    • @Onerso
      @Onerso Před 4 lety +10

      He's right the quiet kid would build that

    • @ace50cal1
      @ace50cal1 Před 4 lety +13

      That quiet kid is elon musk

    • @Victor-056
      @Victor-056 Před 3 lety +4

      @@robertpejhovsky2669 Scales it up, puts it on a Tank, and Trundles around in it.

    • @josphe9011
      @josphe9011 Před 3 lety +6

      If we do deal with them we bring out the railgun

  • @Salu_TV
    @Salu_TV Před 6 lety +4352

    Cool, i buy it for 3500 caps

  • @flaminghazmat8612
    @flaminghazmat8612 Před 2 lety

    Everyone gansta until the soldiers pull out hand held rail guns

  • @ataphelicopter5734
    @ataphelicopter5734 Před 3 lety +1

    Casually makes the heaviest possible handheld weapon

  • @Rod-ld4gt
    @Rod-ld4gt Před 5 lety +699

    These dudes' chances of surviving an zombie apocalypse are probably off the charts.

  • @starch_1
    @starch_1 Před 5 lety +650

    *The US Navy want to know your location*

    • @juancabrera8909
      @juancabrera8909 Před 5 lety

      jaja

    • @dumpeeplarfunny
      @dumpeeplarfunny Před 5 lety +8

      "Navy" is singular. It is a group made up of plural individuals, but a singular group nonetheless. So it's "Navy wants" not "Navy want".

    • @PepperThief
      @PepperThief Před 5 lety

      Phantom Bonnie, here is your answer: YOUR MOTHERS HOUSE!

    • @dragnet53
      @dragnet53 Před 4 lety +2

      @@davinci3478 Trudeau would jail these guys if he could.

    • @patrickcoyle3547
      @patrickcoyle3547 Před 4 lety

      true

  • @blackhole3407
    @blackhole3407 Před 3 lety +1

    Everybody gangsta until you whip this out in a paintball game

  • @elias_ebs4833
    @elias_ebs4833 Před 2 lety +1

    To belive that only three years later he is gonna build a power loader in a facility of his own is insane

  • @H3xx99
    @H3xx99 Před 5 lety +183

    With the capacity of that bank, you'd get better performance if you'd have made a multi stage coil gun rather than a rail gun.

    • @rustyy270
      @rustyy270 Před 5 lety +4

      Hexx Bombastus kinda like fallout 4s gauss rifle?

    • @H3xx99
      @H3xx99 Před 5 lety +12

      @@rustyy270 yeah. I've seen some coil guns that can reach bullet speeds, which is scary because the projectiles have to be ferrous metals which typically aren't as squishy as lead is, so you get ricocheting and shattering at lethal speeds...

    • @grahamlopez6202
      @grahamlopez6202 Před 5 lety +2

      But with steel core ammo and a cheap rifle from a pawn shop you can achieve even better results and it can be carried easily

    • @H3xx99
      @H3xx99 Před 5 lety +5

      @@grahamlopez6202 that defeats the purpose of building a solid state weapon.

    • @asismagul830
      @asismagul830 Před 5 lety

      that is impossible, the faster the bullet, the faster you need to discharge capacitors, which speed of discarhe is very limited because of high coil inductance. You will need at least 4-8 meters long coil gun(with perfect components) to archieve near pistols bullet speed.

  • @neolin.99
    @neolin.99 Před 5 lety +83

    “Rail gun” is the phenomenon when an elder is holding on to railing and decides to whip out the Ol’ Peacemaker.

  • @matviihordiichuk5167
    @matviihordiichuk5167 Před 4 lety +4

    Hello, Hacksmith! I'm a huge fan of you and I've been watching your videos for a long time. I have 3 questions for you. When did you make your first build? How and why did "The Hacksmithing Company" form? How much time (on average) does it take to make a project (not a 1-day build)?

  • @Emporer-hz1dd
    @Emporer-hz1dd Před 4 lety +7

    19:08 goose will remember that

  • @PeterSripol
    @PeterSripol Před 6 lety +626

    Come to ohio and lets mount that to one of my boats... hahaha I want to see that again with 6 more of those capacitor banks!

    • @hacksmith
      @hacksmith  Před 6 lety +136

      Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

    • @PlasmaChannel
      @PlasmaChannel Před 6 lety +64

      Peter and HS that makes for an entertaining combo. Do it HS

    • @matthewnovak3095
      @matthewnovak3095 Před 6 lety +3

      need a montage

    • @thanatphatto3301
      @thanatphatto3301 Před 6 lety +3

      PeterSripol hey ...... i know you ........ ur the one i subbed........ en u have a himemade plane.......... okkk.......wierd

    • @rageriustheoverlord7086
      @rageriustheoverlord7086 Před 6 lety +1

      PeterSripol having more would be like having more charge not power

  • @NexusDex
    @NexusDex Před 5 lety +131

    Did you guys build that thing to look like the railgun from fallout 4 on purpose? Because this is more than 80% similarity! (i like it!)

    • @MaskedOutdoor
      @MaskedOutdoor Před 5 lety +2

      Dexter Nexus Gauss Rifle*

    • @caylindelacruz2641
      @caylindelacruz2641 Před 5 lety +1

      lxeonx 05 the gauss rifle is a railgun

    • @bobafettish6730
      @bobafettish6730 Před 5 lety

      @@caylindelacruz2641 I hope you're pronouncing it 'gouse'

    • @pistachoiideespana1403
      @pistachoiideespana1403 Před 5 lety +2

      Caylin Dela Cruz nope, a railgun uses the magnetic field generated by the current passing through the rails and the projectile to accelerate the projectile, and the gauss rifle uses a number of coils to accelerate the projectile

    • @pistachoiideespana1403
      @pistachoiideespana1403 Před 5 lety

      Caylin Dela Cruz and also, the gauss rifle is much more efficient than the railgun

  • @talonnewsom7896
    @talonnewsom7896 Před 3 lety +6

    12:52 that has to be the most painful clean up ever!!

  • @gamelover7926
    @gamelover7926 Před 3 měsíci

    When I think about railgun, my mind suddenly show Misaka Mikoto

  • @kingquan7176
    @kingquan7176 Před 6 lety +30

    The Hacksmith always looks like the happiest person alive when he gets to test his projects

  • @mtanakin
    @mtanakin Před 6 lety +59

    You made me want to go into a engineering job thank you

    • @henry8630
      @henry8630 Před 6 lety +1

      mtanakin ‘an’ you sponk

  • @meskisz
    @meskisz Před 3 lety +29

    I'm really late, but...
    Misaka Mikoto would be proud of this one.

  • @inkjoestar5683
    @inkjoestar5683 Před 3 lety +2

    I'm developing an airplane which have 5 weapon configurations:
    Attacker: 2x 30 mm cannons; 2x 12.7 mm machineguns; 16x 70 mm Hydra rockets; 4x 750 lb bombs
    Interceptor: 2x 30 mm cannons; 4x 12.7 mm machineguns; 8x AIM-ASRAAM missiles
    Air superiority: 2x 30 mm cannons; 4x 12.7 machineguns; 1x 3 Gw carbon laser; 4x SHM missiles
    Multirole: 4x 25 mm cannons; 2x ShVIS pulse laser units; 2x MD-1 molecular disruptors; 2x 150 lb bombs
    Starfighter: 2x 3 cm pulse lasers; 4x 13 mm machineguns; 1x 5 Gw super laser; 2x SBU (solid booster unit for flight to orbit)

  • @MichaelCullen
    @MichaelCullen Před 6 lety +25

    16 35F capacitors... you guys are insane.
    By the way, for anyone who would possibly think doing this at home could possibly be a good idea, normal capacitors (~10uF, about a million times less powerful than this) can explode like firecrackers if misused. You can imagine what one of these would do.

    • @SuperJhon360
      @SuperJhon360 Před 6 lety

      Michael Cullen depends on the type of capacitor your talking about foil capacitors don't explode they just pop and catch fire and plate capacitors don't either they are just a piece of plastic with copper sheets on either side. They don't explode that's why they use them in high voltage projects like Tesla coils.

    • @PulsedPower
      @PulsedPower Před 6 lety

      Michael Cullen
      Not to take away from the impressive size of this cap bank, but those definitely aren’t 35F caps. Probably 3500uF, which for 16 in parallel is still a whopping 56mF which is about 1000 times most electrolytics you would find in everyday electronics.

    • @SuperJhon360
      @SuperJhon360 Před 6 lety

      If you open a printer adapter they have one of these capacitors inside with a tiny little electric board I don't have to worry about my printer exploding do I.

  • @andrewengel3023
    @andrewengel3023 Před 6 lety +34

    by the way, the call the "disposable casing" Discarding Sabot

  • @dcay5652
    @dcay5652 Před 3 lety +2

    Breaking News: Local Canadian guy goes on a rampage with a Railgun, Law-Enforcement still unsure about what to do.

  • @stevenpinneo6590
    @stevenpinneo6590 Před 3 lety

    Hacksmith in 15 years: making a orbital cannon and testing it

  • @madguy8485
    @madguy8485 Před 4 lety +78

    *Excitement when projectile breaks GLASS...
    "Success"
    "Works"
    These words you keep using...

  • @lennyerdody
    @lennyerdody Před 6 lety +129

    Sponsor=100x better build quality

  • @dot7307
    @dot7307 Před 3 lety +1

    Hacksmith :does literally anything.
    That one guy in the comments
    : DO YOU WANT TO EXPLODE

  • @stefanolassandro886
    @stefanolassandro886 Před 2 lety

    This is a case in which the gun is even more dangerous than the projectile.
    Great project!

  • @HarjotSingh0ldschoo1
    @HarjotSingh0ldschoo1 Před 6 lety +89

    "Atomized aluminum. Great for the brain."

    • @Cooe.
      @Cooe. Před 5 lety

      @Tt Miller They specifically referenced the Alzheimers link in the video... (They crack a joke about it).

    • @jamiehayn
      @jamiehayn Před 5 lety

      Aluminium*

    • @draketurcotte4760
      @draketurcotte4760 Před 5 lety

      JammieJam *aluminum.

    • @jamiehayn
      @jamiehayn Před 5 lety

      Drake` Turcotte no, it is aluminium. Ask any English-speaking country on the planet that isn’t America

  • @sonicfire65
    @sonicfire65 Před 5 lety +56

    Mikoto misaka would be proud

    • @theriddler1656
      @theriddler1656 Před 4 lety +7

      sonicfire65 I was waiting for this comment.

  • @dmitritelvanni4068
    @dmitritelvanni4068 Před 3 lety

    I honestly dont know how it took humanity this long to figure out a railgun. Such a simple thing really.

    • @Nick-me1ms
      @Nick-me1ms Před 3 lety

      It takes incredibly strong electro magnets?????? Not that simple?

  • @owenlastname.3500
    @owenlastname.3500 Před 3 lety

    That's cool how the charging up before firing is a thing. I always thought games and movies didn't make sense when something had to charge up because it's not like it's going to recharge the battery without being plugged in. But now that I get what is going on that's cool.

  • @garrettmogel3802
    @garrettmogel3802 Před 6 lety +12

    I have been leaving the idea of a rail gun in your comments for years. I’m so excited that you are now doing one, a coil gun may be even more interesting.

  • @JelqSquirmer
    @JelqSquirmer Před 6 lety +39

    this channel's really "off the rails"

  • @robertt9342
    @robertt9342 Před 3 lety +10

    It would have been cool to see the speed of the projectile, and at different voltages.

    • @wasordx3245
      @wasordx3245 Před 9 měsíci

      Doesn't voltage not affect the speed of the railgun?

  • @NbgBytezYT
    @NbgBytezYT Před 3 lety +2

    18:08
    I fell of my chair laughing
    Then
    The duck suffered the same fate

  • @thevictorianghost8222
    @thevictorianghost8222 Před 6 lety +51

    Those Steampunk googles make you look like a real mad scientist from a Jules Verne story! That video was awesome!!

  • @Avocado7765
    @Avocado7765 Před 4 lety +77

    Me: trying to put a custom scope on my nerf gun
    Them:

  • @Th200Ponies
    @Th200Ponies Před 2 lety +10

    It would be neat to see an improved version of this, especially now that I've taken enough classes to understand more of what's going on.

  • @trigger207
    @trigger207 Před 3 lety

    If a zombie apocalypse would happen, these guys will tests their inventions limits

  • @glenntanner3
    @glenntanner3 Před 6 lety +45

    Suggestion: Build parts for powerful railgun, rent boat on ocean, go 24mi (39Km) to get to international waters, fly pirate flag and "go fishing" with rail gun. ;)

  • @deadmangaming9737
    @deadmangaming9737 Před 6 lety +27

    My guess is that he's growing out his beard so he can look like Captain America when he makes his new arm-shields

  • @Kingkool-uo1ew
    @Kingkool-uo1ew Před 2 lety

    i feel like hacksmith would dominate everyone in a post apocalyptic world

  • @Weretyu7777
    @Weretyu7777 Před 3 lety +7

    King Henry VIII's first wife was one of two he divorced, the other being his fourth. He had his second and fifth beheaded, his third straight up died, and his last wife outlived him.

  • @paulhedges4625
    @paulhedges4625 Před 6 lety +34

    At first i wasn’t sure about the beard, but you’re rockin’ it

    • @FrigginBoomToys
      @FrigginBoomToys Před 6 lety +1

      I feel like anyway who makes railguns and wears insane goggles kinda HAS to have a beard

  • @vvv-eq4kq
    @vvv-eq4kq Před 4 lety +307

    Accidentally clicked the Russian captions and uhh I don't think that Russian

    • @corpsenugget455
      @corpsenugget455 Před 4 lety +11

      Wtf

    • @kja6336
      @kja6336 Před 4 lety +12

      That I Russian. Try cursive Russian lol. It's basically - llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll

    • @vvv-eq4kq
      @vvv-eq4kq Před 4 lety +10

      @@kja6336 yea what you wrote is cursive Russian but that's nothing like russian

    • @Retrenorium
      @Retrenorium Před 4 lety +2

      @@vvv-eq4kq 《⊙•⊙》

    • @CarpeUniversum
      @CarpeUniversum Před 4 lety +4

      Someone's missing their Russian language pack.....

  • @NathanBonsal
    @NathanBonsal Před 9 měsíci +1

    Hey guys-- if you build a controller with optical interruptor and give it half the capacitors when it's fired and the other half once it passes about 25 percent of the barrel length, it'll shoot it faster.
    You will have to have a pretty good fast high-current switch, but you can use an SCR. What happens otherwise is that you run out of current before the projectile leaves the barrel.

  • @anonco1907
    @anonco1907 Před 4 lety

    That railgun was so slow it couldn't even break glass lol

  • @V2weapons
    @V2weapons Před 6 lety +15

    I love how you guys don't care how sketchy a project is you just do it anyway👌👌👌👌 keep it up

  • @geoffsails
    @geoffsails Před 5 lety +167

    Take it to Texas. Then you can do whatever you want.

    • @happygolucky7814
      @happygolucky7814 Před 5 lety +17

      We are known for our shooting ranges and exotic guns. IT'S THE WILD WEST WAY!!!!

    • @sknerl
      @sknerl Před 5 lety +2

      South Dakota would be a much shorter trip...Texas has nothing on SD and the ole west tradition of freedom.

    • @joecook3223
      @joecook3223 Před 5 lety

      Was it true what mark wahlberg said about Tennessee being the patron state of shooting stuff? Or is it really texas? Asking from Australia

    • @invmanti9951
      @invmanti9951 Před 4 lety +1

      In the west of Texas most kids just shoot guns when they are four and when I turned nine I was allowed to get a hunting license

    • @invmanti9951
      @invmanti9951 Před 4 lety

      We have a lot of shooting ranges

  • @shadmanshahriar2206
    @shadmanshahriar2206 Před 3 lety

    My mind went HAARUUUUMMFF everytime the railgun fired.

  • @christopherr8441
    @christopherr8441 Před 2 lety +1

    We need a collab between the Hacksmith and Styropyro.

  • @phased6467
    @phased6467 Před 6 lety +33

    I've been here since before 1 mil you guys are so awesome! I'm considering becoming an engineer because of you guys

  • @generousghibli6031
    @generousghibli6031 Před 6 lety +61

    And months later, they will still be picking up those GOD DAMN LITTLE PEGS.

  • @younoki9509
    @younoki9509 Před 3 lety

    You know it's fast when you can see the rotation

  • @generaltofu511
    @generaltofu511 Před 3 lety +1

    8:35 is me with tinfoil and my plasma ball.

  • @nicothetoad9493
    @nicothetoad9493 Před 6 lety +27

    Government:Sees video* oh shit we need to get this guy
    Hacksmith: oh hell naw

  • @davidel9466
    @davidel9466 Před 4 lety +38

    The real-life Certain Scientific Railgun!

    • @electronx5594
      @electronx5594 Před 3 lety +1

      Yes misaka mikoto is actually a living capacitor

    • @bedwardo476
      @bedwardo476 Před 3 lety

      so u speak chinese and english huh?

  • @georgevitanov4460
    @georgevitanov4460 Před 4 lety +2

    Please do a redesign of this one into a UNSC halo railgun!!! It would be really fun to redesign some of your older project which dont fit any superhero/game weapon into one!

  • @sigmastudios9263
    @sigmastudios9263 Před 3 lety

    He is looking like a crazy villian in the starting😂

  • @picklehanma8029
    @picklehanma8029 Před 4 lety +22

    4:10 Ian looks like he found the perfect toy in a toy shop

  • @bnlss2
    @bnlss2 Před 6 lety +21

    So , i've been thinking. From start Hacksmith wanted to create things from games , movies etc IRL. But since he started he is creating more and more deadly weapons , and got this beard and wielding goggles AND crazy face. Could it be the rise of first super villain?
    Edit: Watched video till the end. Yep we've got us first super villain . How can i become a minion or something?

    • @CookiesuchtiLP
      @CookiesuchtiLP Před 6 lety +1

      Maybe we can hope for a Hacksmith and Elon Musk evil scientist dictatorship on mars. I will fight on their side if they declare war on earth.

    • @bnlss2
      @bnlss2 Před 6 lety

      Cookie Wow. Sign me up. I want to drive mecha suit(whatever they have).

    • @thomas_nl_
      @thomas_nl_ Před 6 lety

      They won't need humans, as they have an army of tesla roadstars and falcons heavies

  • @eriksteele2810
    @eriksteele2810 Před 3 lety

    Basically you made a railgun less powerful than a BB gun.

  • @jaycobi
    @jaycobi Před 4 lety +8

    "The US Navy wants to know your location"

  • @j_viper0277
    @j_viper0277 Před 6 lety +65

    Looks like the Hacksmith hasnt left the lab for a few weeks

  • @RonAlbert
    @RonAlbert Před 6 lety +69

    I wanna see you and "ElectroGoBoom" make a video together. PLEASE.

  • @redemptionwins
    @redemptionwins Před 3 lety +4

    Props for using that song from unreal tournament

  • @YRCloggers
    @YRCloggers Před 3 lety

    When I saw the thumbnail I thought the capacitors were soda cans 😂

  • @rileypeterson1796
    @rileypeterson1796 Před 6 lety +5

    "umm... it's at 370 volts." hacksmith:"aww that's fine"

  • @johngg4867
    @johngg4867 Před 6 lety +204

    Nice to see ElectroBoom reference, love that guy
    Because FULL BRIDGE RECTIFIER

  • @conkCreets
    @conkCreets Před 2 lety +1

    well, we see how the Navy's railgun project went...

  • @thermonuclearmememonke9431
    @thermonuclearmememonke9431 Před 4 lety +144

    Me: So how many capacitors do you use?
    Hacksmith: Yes

    • @yoda50yearsago99
      @yoda50yearsago99 Před 4 lety +1

      As many as likes you have

    • @ebeb9156
      @ebeb9156 Před 4 lety

      Dont even imagine how many single capasitor like that cost