If you'd like details on how I designed it, feel free to ask James or myself. I'd love to see what an actual electrical engineer's take on the design is!
Suggestion- 1) make a bullet(s) made for the gun that fits it perfectly. Not long as it may spin out of control like it did And/or 2) make a bullet stabiliser so that the bullet actually goes straight rather than tumble Also this is just a suggestion. I don’t know anything about how to do this. Also What you guys have done is astounding. Keep it up!
@@violet9214 I can't think of any form of stabilization that would not slow the projectile. The Second Rule of Rocket Science states "If you want it to go straight, the ass end has to want to go slower than the nose." The simplest way to do that is to put in a concave taper behind the center of mass, like a shotgun slug.
@@bradkassuhn6131 yeah -- it's more a proof of principle. This version is inferior to even a child's bow and arrow. Unfortunately this technology can in principle be scaled up almost without limits.
I think I prefer the reliable family protection service provided by our Dobermann and Dobermann Malinois mix. They'd take care of any burgler before we even manage to wake up and search for that rail gun and, dammit, forgot to charge that battery...
I think a spherical projectile would fly better but wouldnt get the same initial velocity because there would be lower volume of effect from the magnetic field
I was going to comment the same thing as #2, since that projectile going sideways is really weird. Making it a bit more aerodynamic as well as rifling it for a spin sounds like a good idea. Additionally, I kept thinking this thing is still underpowered because it really looks like they're timing all the coils with the exact same delay (at least I haven't heard otherwise) and that doesn't make sense to me - the projectile is accelerating so the timing needs to be shorter as it goes forward.
@@eslachance They did , there's a sensor btween every coil that detects the bullet and turns off the previous coil and turn on the next at the same time , and if you watch the video carefully ull see he calibrates the sensors to determine the best time to do the coil switch, and he does that for each sensor separately , which fixes the acceleration automatically coz the individual timing .it's not them been precise, they have to do that coz if timing was even slightly off the bullet won't come out or it'll shoot back word or it'll come out with a little power.
what you could do to make automatic rifleing is make a projectile that has fins that go into the rifleing. This way when it's pulled forward it will start to rotate.
Or use a motor to spin up the projectile before firing. Could make the trigger start spinner motor on pull, and fire on release, which would be a familiar mechanic to most gamers. Plus it you couldn’t wait the 1 second for spin up, you could always release early, at the cost of more drop, less range, worse accuracy, and weak penetration… Clearly it would be better to let it spin up, but you could release after 200 milliseconds and have spin, just not at max rotation speed. 500 milliseconds (half a second) and you get pretty good spin, so projectile will hit straight and get penetration, and it will go further with accuracy, but the spin would wind down and it would tumble at very long range, and at that point forward velocity would also be diminished somewhat, so it would drop fast. At extreme range, you’d really want to let it spins up fully and make each shot count. I think their projectile is also too heavy for the coils they are using. A slightly longer but much thinner projectile might work better. I’m not sure of projectile requirements for the coil method, but if it could be partially hollow with a solid tip, I think that would be ideal. Bolt action seems a little silly too. I mean I doubt that the stability of the bolt mechanism will improve the shot in anyway, as it does with high end bolt action rifles, that are precisely machined. I mean most of the benefit a high quality bolt action imparts is because of the way powder burns, where a precisely engineered bolt leaves less room for pressure to escape in little ways here and there which effect power, accuracy, and predictability. Basically, a more tightly controlled explosion. All of that is completely irrelevant with the coils. I think the idea of “50 caliber” coil gun negatively impacted their results. Energy and time spent facilitating the pointless bolt action, would have been better spent elsewhere, while the large (was .50? I’m not actually sure) projectile would have probably been more effective if it had been lighter, more streamlined, and not tumbling.
For future upgrades: More power. If those wires aren't smoking they can have more power run through them. Also, thinner wire, more turns on the later coils. The projectile is moving increasingly faster, so each stage down the barrel is turned on for a shorter period of time. That means they can use thinner wire with more turns (more powerful magnet) because power will be applied for a shorter amount of time so they won't overheat. The last stage coils should be thin as hair. (Also, $1500 on wire? Jeeeeesus). Really cool to see Charles front on center for so much of his own build (though the Tony Stark cutaway was perfect).
@@prestong2292 yeah, you have to tune it so the resistance of the wire and the inductance of the overall assembled coil so that it saturates at *just the right time*. You also don't want too much inductance, otherwise the coil won't be able to turn all the way off before the projectile passes it.
They cannot, unfortunately, Canadian laws would basically make it look like they built a functioning nuclear bomb... or something. (Excuse my ignorance, I’m not 100% sure)
Hi Matt, Charles here. I'm glad you enjoyed the project! I had a great time building the thing! The reason for using thicker wire is not that we are worried about it melting, but that the resistance of thinner wire is very high compared to the rather monstrous 14AWG we used. The limiting factor is the boardmount MOSFETs I chose to use - they could only suffer so much current for so long. Having more turns of thin wire would actually reduce the magnetic field strength and the current, while increasing the inductive time constant, meaning that we would have to turn the coil on earlier to get full performance, and it would be less performance. The later stages should be thicker wire, while the earlier stages could be thinner wire, since the time constant matters less when the projectile is slower. Also, not quite $1500 on wire. There was a mix up. Overheating had nothing to do with it. As it is, we fired it 400 times in an afternoon and it only got mildly warm. For more power, we need better transistors, or at least more of them in parallel. The failures we had were due to leaving the coils active for too long, causing a failure in the MOSFET on that stage, or the current sense resistor on that stage. It was quite something to solo the design and build, though I had major help from the rest of the team with the construction!
Additional future upgrades: So first off I am certainly not an electrical engineer however I do tend to get a good/novel idea every now and then. I believe if you were to attach a neodymium magnet to the back end of the projectile and instead of producing a simple on off, you were to produce a full square wave (Sine wave would be best). You could no only pull the projectile, but once it cleared the center of the coil you could then reverse the polarity with an H-bridge and push against the magnet to produce even more acceleration and velocity. It would certainly be a complex build and I'm not sure you can reverse the voltage that fast due to flyback voltage but if you could get it to work, I think it would greatly increase the projectile velocity. Just a thought.
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I am an engineer, an engineer focuses on problem solving and our solutions are our design. This is almost "propaganda" for engineering. You either are engineer or not. You should see hints of this since you were a child. Did you like taking things apart and see how they work? Did you enjoy puzzles? Are you fascinated by the science of how things work? Be honest with yourself. Remember you will compete with us nerds who love the math, physics, and designing.
Charles Whitwan Obviously depends on laws and permits. After all, most military weapons are designed by private companies hoping (not always getting) a contract to sell to the government.
John Francis Doe Legal? LEGAL? You could build a cannon that shoots 100000gram projectiles at a speed of 10,000 ft per second giving you 22210376.69ft lbs. of energy. Compare that to a small anti material round (50BMg) that produces ~13-15k foot pounds of energy
I wonder if the spinning projectile from the rifling would interfere with the magnetism that's propelling the projectile. Sort of how Eddy current energises and magnetises the rotor of an A.C. induction motor. Would be interesting to find out. 🤔
Yo Fiskfille nice seeing you around, I remember your Minecraft mods where the best specially the Fisk superheroes mod, haven’t heard from you since you retired, hope you are well!
One of the reasons that your gun was so inefficient is: you need to use pipe pieces as projectiles. The bigger the radius, the higher the induced ring currents. Pipes should also offer better flight characteristics. Finally, they should be out of copper, gives you 3x the energy, since it has 3x less specific resistance than steel.
...or at least make projectiles smaller. the smaller the better in case of coilgun, as its the bigger speed that gives the better(more destructive) results
This coil gun is mainly relying on the ferromagnetic properties (reluctance) of iron, not eddy currents (induction).Actually eddy currents are bad, since they transform the energy in to heat. Best choice is either solid iron or iron powder, joined by some non-conductive material. Both have their pro and cons
A longer coil means more acceleration the metal is pulled to the center of the silinoid. The strongest point of magnetism. So you can simplify the electronics. Only need one timed circuit instead of several in series.
acually that only really works with gun powder based firearms the gas form the gunpowder is what acually spins it the rifling aids the gas and makes therefore making the bullet spin
Dont think it would work , there is no gas propelling the projectile and the magnetic field just pulls it in whatever direction I dont know, but worth trying
@@SpartanGerar *There is certainly enough forward momentum for this to be useful (surprisingly), if the projectile can just be stopped from tumbling. It's a neat idea if it can be perfected!*
@@acesierra1741 Power loader is mostly pnuematics if I'm not wrong. It's not actually all that advanced. We've had stuff like that for quite a while. Just no one has put it into a suit.
They didn't use capacitors and lost a huge amount of efficiency, so it's probably operating at the highest level it can with the stuff it's using. There's also no rifling on it, so the projectile is losing a lot of energy and accuracy
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Yeah they hyped it up but any real gun guy was definitely let down lol. It seems fun for kids to use, tho, and is a fun concept. Kinda failed as a gun.
I built mine 25 years ago and only used a power supply, multi-parallel capacitor bank, a few SCRs, a couple hundred feet of copper wire, and optically triggered sensors in a three-stage design. Oh yeah, we also submersed the coils in liquid nitrogen because the current we measured in the coils was around 2200 amps. I won the university contest every year I entered it in.
@@jacobpeters5458 A micro robot that ran on a 9V battery and walked up 3 stairs and then proceed to park itself on the upper deck platform without overhang. The robot specifications required it weight less than 300g, occupy a starting volume of less than 10cm × 10 cm × 10cm, and store no useable energy beyond the battery... By the by, I didn't use AI or anything like machine learning. It was purely electromechanical. I wasn't aware of such things at the time...
With rifling the projectile needs to be forced into the grooves, this gun is nowhere near powerful enough to force a steel (or any) projectile into grooves that could spin it. Using a spherical or diabolo shaped projectile would be a much safer bet
@@Local_commentor guns use gunpowder to launch a small metal thing at somebody that’s how they kill people Also cannons those shoot metal spheres really fast and those kill people
Theoretically, there are ways to go past the speed of light...without actually going past the speed of light. But that's a lot of quantum physics you don't wanna get into.
The way to surpass the universal speed limit is theoretical It is physically impossible to go faster Also, even if you could go faster, you would eventually exceed the plank temperature Then your object has so much energy (from speed) that it collapses into a black hole
I would have to say though it would be badass for Canada to make the world's first handheld military grade coil or rail gun! As an American I'd be glad it's still in North America!
@@nynick5841 You can 100% tell if a normal gun is loaded or not too, or if the safety's on or not. You still always treat it like it's loaded just incase you mess up. See: The repulsor laser that this channel made that burned through James' clothes because he got too comfortable with it. That could have easily been much more dangerous if anyone or anything was standing behind him.
Ballistics gel Gun people use it as a standard test (eliminating variables and measuring outcomes just like scientists) Anyone making a coil gun or railgun needs this.
It is all about the hybrid. Coil + rail. Imagine if the projectile was an electromagnetic dart energized by the barrel. Magnet field on magnet field is stronger than magnet on iron alone. This way you can also flip flop the coil polarity to both pull the dart through and push it out doubling the force. A sabot dart negates the need for any rifle spin for accuracy as well. sigh... someday.
You don't want capacitors on a coil gun one of its many benefits over a rail gun is its rapid fire capability. What they really need is to replace the bolt action receiver with a full auto bullpup receiver. So that you maximize the distance the projectile is accelerated.
Great job. Good to set it up like this so you don't get demonitized. Now few small suggestions which I think you already had in mind. Reduce coil chamber size, reduce bullet length so it weights less (easier to bring up to speed), amp up the wave function (for more speed), have barrel just miss touching bullet and drill holes down barrel in spiral to reduce pressure waves in front and behind the bullet (to allow less resistance, greater speed, and possible rifling).
@@amoeb81 exactly it’s so inefficient. If they had enough power to make it fire as straight and powerfully as a Barret then it would be efficient and even marketable. Because of how much it weighs they had the potential to make it into a real sniper with enough electricity at least. But they settled for a nerf gun that can shoot lawn darts 🤦♂️
Hard to get spin, the lack of friction in a coilgun is what gives the projectile speed. A dart could work, all he would need to do is machine one of the rounds he has to have a thinner part between the head and the washer-like tail section. Simple, front-heavy, and makes its own drag at the rear. Also, the reduction in weight would allow for higher speed, so less drop over the same distance.
You just need plutonium/uranium and c4. It's easy. Surround the plutonium with c4 and make sure the c4 will explode all at the same time. With uranium you just need to explode the uranium into another uranium and boom. Capital punishment.
If u combine the concept of a railgun and a coilgun, you could automatice de activation of every coil dependendig on where the bullet is at the moment, cause you can complete the circuit of the coil with the bullet itself. sorry for my English
I see all the suggestions about rifling and I'd like to point out, these guys aren't looking to make functional weapons, more proof of concepts. I would love to see this ramped up, but at the same time, their shop doesn't appear to be designed for field testing military ballistic weapons. Still damned cool!
@@tiredman99 and also ignoring the gun had one malfunction. Basically these Dunning Kruger's don't have a clue what's even going on with this coilgun. 1. Yup it shoots like a shotgun slug because the current design requires no barrel lubrication. 2. Those circuits can only cycle so fast and can only handle so much power output. This is the main reason they are using a heavy shell.
@@paxaeternus5718 They used a half inch bolt because it was as long as a single coil. This allowed the bolt(hence the bolt action rifle joke in the beginning) to float down the center of coil. So basically the musket ball would have to achieve the same type of balance most likely by building a whole new coil size and array.
Incredible you actually made it. One thing that might maximize the "lethality" would have been the creation of a bullet with optimum aerodynamic shape and less weight. That's because I noticed that it's time it hit the target did it, not with the tip but the whole body of the bullet. That means that the air drag reduces the speed of the projectile and created torque that put the bullet in an unstable pathway.
Sadly all that time, effort, and money, and air would have propelled that projectile much faster, but it was cool to see you use that kind of tech to propell a projectile.
Maybe they could 3d print a sabot to go around an off the shelf masonry nail. Make the nail a dart by glueing on fins to get it to spin. Print the sabot so that it has longitudinal grooves and holes into which metal rods or wire can be inserted.
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but at these low speeds, wouldn't a magnetic ball be a better ammo type? That way the shot won't tumble through the air as much. Or, rather, the tumbling won't affect the shot nearly as much.
I love how you explained how the coil guns worked. I can imagine that was difficult to make, but I really hope this becomes a regular thing for you in the future.
According to Professor Laithwaithe's research encasing the coil's in steel and adding a steel barrel as a firing chamber significantly increases power of the electromagnetic waves emitting from the magnets.
Adding a electromagnet at the start of the firing chamber will significantly increase the muzzle velocity even more by forcing the projectile down through the firing chamber with an electromagnetic wave.
@@limeguy8280 Well they do have a very impressive set of tools at their disposal. They have limited time though. After all , they run a business, and they are in the entertainment business. The question is simply "will optimizing it get enough views to be worth the extra time?" and the answer is most likely no. They made a design, they stuck to it till the end. It works, but it's not optimized, but the video is a success. Those of us who are really into this kind of stuff would really like it to be optimized though. I would like to see someone with the knowledge, resources and time really optimize one of these even if it's a multi part project.
@@violet9214 Ok but would you agree that a projectile with a more stable flight pattern would be the next logical step in improving that coil gun for now?
"stupid units" the REAL units are defined by the IS : International System so in almost all of th world, scientists have agree to use those units ... just america and other unefficient nations don't use them
@@elijah_9392 Celsius is based on water, which is all fine and dandy, but Fahrenheit is based on the human body. This makes it a much more convenient system for everyday use by normal people, and it makes little difference at all to the people on the technical side of things (though, since a single unit covers a smaller range, it is slightly more accurate, but not really noticeably).
@@benheinz8817 The problem about farenheit is simple... is based on the human body therefore it's based on our genetics which can vary from place to place. Water in the other hand has constant values most of the time
Seems to me that a series of carefully spaced brush contacts could have been used instead of the electronics. Steel projectiles make a nice conductor. Once the contacts are properly spaced, the power could be scaled by ramping up the power.
Coil gun, eh?! Maybe I shall make something stronger! That is if I decide it is ok to have my video demonetized...
If you'd like details on how I designed it, feel free to ask James or myself. I'd love to see what an actual electrical engineer's take on the design is!
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Please, please, please!
You must use a FULL BRIDGE RECTIFIER
Suggestion-
1) make a bullet(s) made for the gun that fits it perfectly. Not long as it may spin out of control like it did
And/or
2) make a bullet stabiliser so that the bullet actually goes straight rather than tumble
Also this is just a suggestion. I don’t know anything about how to do this. Also What you guys have done is astounding. Keep it up!
3. Rifle the barrel.
4. Mo Powa
@@gtd360 5. Mo daka!
@@gtd360 rifling is not a good idea, it'll heavily slow down the projectile. They need fun stabilization.
@@violet9214 I can't think of any form of stabilization that would not slow the projectile. The Second Rule of Rocket Science states "If you want it to go straight, the ass end has to want to go slower than the nose." The simplest way to do that is to put in a concave taper behind the center of mass, like a shotgun slug.
@@Warfare_Clown l see youre a man of culture as well
"we're gonna strap the coilgun to a ship"
*Sees finished gun*
Uuhhhmmm, think you strapped the ship to the gun
turn 2 coils on and after the bulled passes one coil turn that off and the next on.
sorry for using your comment :-/
@@benjaminjackson8713 I was going to make the A10 comparison, but you beat me to it.
Under barrel warship attachment
I think we need a bigger boat.
@@benjaminjackson8713 isn't that how UNSC frigates are made?
Imagine robbing this guys house and he launches a spoon at you at Mach ten
That's like using a Barrett .50 CAL sniper rifle for home defense, but way deadlier
Mach 10? This thing seems like 200mph at best
@@bradkassuhn6131 yeah -- it's more a proof of principle. This version is inferior to even a child's bow and arrow. Unfortunately this technology can in principle be scaled up almost without limits.
I think I prefer the reliable family protection service provided by our Dobermann and Dobermann Malinois mix. They'd take care of any burgler before we even manage to wake up and search for that rail gun and, dammit, forgot to charge that battery...
@@StefanThiesen a bow doesnt shoot at 200mph i have one believe me
A spheric projectile would work better, since, without any rifling, the cylindrical projectile flies not linear but spins uncontrolled
Bl4ckSp1d3r oh so that’s probably why the rounds were vertical
I think a spherical projectile would fly better but wouldnt get the same initial velocity because there would be lower volume of effect from the magnetic field
And you know because of less contact points and friction.
A spherical projectile wouldn't reach the speeds as the cylindrical rounds so I would just go ahead and say rifle the barrel.
Bl4ckSp1d3r smart ass
"this is the ridiculous thing we've ever made'
1 year later
James: "we build a real lightsaber"
2029 James: *WE BUILD A ROCKET LAUNCHER*
@@CharlotteGamesMC more like a real gravity hammer
@@keyienalzamora2190 energy sword
2090, we built a life size version of Mars.
3030, We built the very first time machine.
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A Homemade Nuke!
I am pissing myself at 3 o'clock in the morning 😂😂😂
The nuclear Boy Scout
Well they would have to go to russia or the black market for that kinda stuff to make a nuke
How about a homemade Big Boy from fallout if we are talking about nukes
Czechoslovakia has some uranium
1) Have you tried steel ball bearings?
2) Could the projectiles be machined so that they spin like a rifled barrel would do for a conventional bullet?
I was going to comment the same thing as #2, since that projectile going sideways is really weird. Making it a bit more aerodynamic as well as rifling it for a spin sounds like a good idea.
Additionally, I kept thinking this thing is still underpowered because it really looks like they're timing all the coils with the exact same delay (at least I haven't heard otherwise) and that doesn't make sense to me - the projectile is accelerating so the timing needs to be shorter as it goes forward.
@@eslachance
They did , there's a sensor btween every coil that detects the bullet and turns off the previous coil and turn on the next at the same time , and if you watch the video carefully ull see he calibrates the sensors to determine the best time to do the coil switch, and he does that for each sensor separately , which fixes the acceleration automatically coz the individual timing .it's not them been precise, they have to do that coz if timing was even slightly off the bullet won't come out or it'll shoot back word or it'll come out with a little power.
what you could do to make automatic rifleing is make a projectile that has fins that go into the rifleing. This way when it's pulled forward it will start to rotate.
@@bonkyouded Or just make it a fin-stabilized discarding sabot projectile to begin with.
Or use a motor to spin up the projectile before firing. Could make the trigger start spinner motor on pull, and fire on release, which would be a familiar mechanic to most gamers. Plus it you couldn’t wait the 1 second for spin up, you could always release early, at the cost of more drop, less range, worse accuracy, and weak penetration… Clearly it would be better to let it spin up, but you could release after 200 milliseconds and have spin, just not at max rotation speed. 500 milliseconds (half a second) and you get pretty good spin, so projectile will hit straight and get penetration, and it will go further with accuracy, but the spin would wind down and it would tumble at very long range, and at that point forward velocity would also be diminished somewhat, so it would drop fast. At extreme range, you’d really want to let it spins up fully and make each shot count.
I think their projectile is also too heavy for the coils they are using. A slightly longer but much thinner projectile might work better. I’m not sure of projectile requirements for the coil method, but if it could be partially hollow with a solid tip, I think that would be ideal.
Bolt action seems a little silly too. I mean I doubt that the stability of the bolt mechanism will improve the shot in anyway, as it does with high end bolt action rifles, that are precisely machined. I mean most of the benefit a high quality bolt action imparts is because of the way powder burns, where a precisely engineered bolt leaves less room for pressure to escape in little ways here and there which effect power, accuracy, and predictability. Basically, a more tightly controlled explosion. All of that is completely irrelevant with the coils.
I think the idea of “50 caliber” coil gun negatively impacted their results. Energy and time spent facilitating the pointless bolt action, would have been better spent elsewhere, while the large (was .50? I’m not actually sure) projectile would have probably been more effective if it had been lighter, more streamlined, and not tumbling.
For future upgrades: More power. If those wires aren't smoking they can have more power run through them. Also, thinner wire, more turns on the later coils. The projectile is moving increasingly faster, so each stage down the barrel is turned on for a shorter period of time. That means they can use thinner wire with more turns (more powerful magnet) because power will be applied for a shorter amount of time so they won't overheat. The last stage coils should be thin as hair. (Also, $1500 on wire? Jeeeeesus). Really cool to see Charles front on center for so much of his own build (though the Tony Stark cutaway was perfect).
MattsAwesomeStuff thin wire also affects how much electricity runs through them
@@prestong2292 yeah, you have to tune it so the resistance of the wire and the inductance of the overall assembled coil so that it saturates at *just the right time*. You also don't want too much inductance, otherwise the coil won't be able to turn all the way off before the projectile passes it.
They cannot, unfortunately, Canadian laws would basically make it look like they built a functioning nuclear bomb... or something.
(Excuse my ignorance, I’m not 100% sure)
Hi Matt,
Charles here.
I'm glad you enjoyed the project! I had a great time building the thing!
The reason for using thicker wire is not that we are worried about it melting, but that the resistance of thinner wire is very high compared to the rather monstrous 14AWG we used. The limiting factor is the boardmount MOSFETs I chose to use - they could only suffer so much current for so long. Having more turns of thin wire would actually reduce the magnetic field strength and the current, while increasing the inductive time constant, meaning that we would have to turn the coil on earlier to get full performance, and it would be less performance.
The later stages should be thicker wire, while the earlier stages could be thinner wire, since the time constant matters less when the projectile is slower.
Also, not quite $1500 on wire. There was a mix up.
Overheating had nothing to do with it. As it is, we fired it 400 times in an afternoon and it only got mildly warm.
For more power, we need better transistors, or at least more of them in parallel. The failures we had were due to leaving the coils active for too long, causing a failure in the MOSFET on that stage, or the current sense resistor on that stage.
It was quite something to solo the design and build, though I had major help from the rest of the team with the construction!
Additional future upgrades: So first off I am certainly not an electrical engineer however I do tend to get a good/novel idea every now and then.
I believe if you were to attach a neodymium magnet to the back end of the projectile and instead of producing a simple on off, you were to produce a full square wave (Sine wave would be best). You could no only pull the projectile, but once it cleared the center of the coil you could then reverse the polarity with an H-bridge and push against the magnet to produce even more acceleration and velocity. It would certainly be a complex build and I'm not sure you can reverse the voltage that fast due to flyback voltage but if you could get it to work, I think it would greatly increase the projectile velocity.
Just a thought.
When he mentioned how fast the coildgun can go, I imagined interplanetary war using several mile long coilguns.
*Warhammer 40k Intensifies*
*ZENOS*
Your thoughts are correct sir, im fairly certain it will be exactly like that.
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@@rebel6301 you cant just shoot a hole into the surface of mars.
These guys are one reason I’m studying engineering
then you are on to a big disappointment
I am an engineer, an engineer focuses on problem solving and our solutions are our design. This is almost "propaganda" for engineering. You either are engineer or not. You should see hints of this since you were a child. Did you like taking things apart and see how they work? Did you enjoy puzzles? Are you fascinated by the science of how things work? Be honest with yourself. Remember you will compete with us nerds who love the math, physics, and designing.
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Carter Marcelo nice name
If you love it, I wish you luck!
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Nice, wonder if there's one for my favorite word "Defenestrate"
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Besides pay for everything and design everything and make everyone look cooler.
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I just pay for everything and make everything look cooler
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Yes, you should upgrade it. It was underwhelming. It has to be more powerful than a rifle.
Might not necessarily be legal
Charles Whitwan Obviously depends on laws and permits. After all, most military weapons are designed by private companies hoping (not always getting) a contract to sell to the government.
Canadian gun law won't feel so good
*THE MILITARY WANTS TO KNOW YOUR LOCATION*
John Francis Doe Legal? LEGAL? You could build a cannon that shoots 100000gram projectiles at a speed of 10,000 ft per second giving you 22210376.69ft lbs. of energy. Compare that to a small anti material round (50BMg) that produces ~13-15k foot pounds of energy
The coil gun feels underwhelming... UPGRADE IT ON A FUTURE VIDEO :3
they can't go up much. it will become a "gun" and has to follow national laws
@@Herdatec lol, that's not true at all.
@@danm3780 check their Railgun video. they get more into details there.
@@danm3780 read that^^
Coil gun tank, 60 coils
I would be interested in seeing what a rifled barrel and wing stabilized rounds would do with this coil gun.
I wonder if the spinning projectile from the rifling would interfere with the magnetism that's propelling the projectile. Sort of how Eddy current energises and magnetises the rotor of an A.C. induction motor. Would be interesting to find out. 🤔
Using a rifled barrel makes fins redundant.
Bonus points for a magazine and bullpup configuration
I'd say leave the barrel alone and instead of fins, do a drill bit style round. If that shape doesn't affect the magnetic propulsion that is.
they could probably make it shoot normal 50 bmg bullets since most are steel core
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*sees a roach*
Hacksmith: Where is the flamethrower?
😂
more like the apocalypse was born for Hacksmith
More like the apocalypse was born from Hacksmith
More like hack Smith was born from the apocalypse
The editing and production quality of these latest videos has gone through the roof! Mad props to the heroes working behind the scenes!
Yo Fiskfille nice seeing you around, I remember your Minecraft mods where the best specially the Fisk superheroes mod, haven’t heard from you since you retired, hope you are well!
@@iptluhnar4742 Thank you! As a matter of fact, I returned to the modding scene just a couple of days ago, so new updates will be rolling out.
New idea , Make Hawkeye Arrows pls...
with multiple functions
@Dark Luminous It's 100% possible, the explosive arrow would actually be kinda easy.
Green arrow would be better
Would be sooooo cool
@@musicals_rock why? He has no changable arrow tips
@@lennardrogge7752 you have no idea who green arrow is do you?
One of the reasons that your gun was so inefficient is: you need to use pipe pieces as projectiles. The bigger the radius, the higher the induced ring currents. Pipes should also offer better flight characteristics. Finally, they should be out of copper, gives you 3x the energy, since it has 3x less specific resistance than steel.
@@JustAnotherGenXerwhat, bro its not stealing his idea to just use what is scientifically best at a given price point
...or at least make projectiles smaller. the smaller the better in case of coilgun, as its the bigger speed that gives the better(more destructive) results
What about copper plated steel bullets? Allows for the conductivity and durability, or will that not work?
This coil gun is mainly relying on the ferromagnetic properties (reluctance) of iron, not eddy currents (induction).Actually eddy currents are bad, since they transform the energy in to heat. Best choice is either solid iron or iron powder, joined by some non-conductive material. Both have their pro and cons
Capacitors Too
Next up, fully automatic coil gun with turret style mount
And faster
I hope there's a future video where they upgrade each stage with two capacitors from the railgun :D
Plz actually do this
Yea
"Lets not rob this house"
"Why?"
"Look, they have a turret."
Ahh, the sponsor"ship" makes so much sense now! Long live Boaty McGunface!
Reviewy McReviewface nice pun
Hack Smith your projectials are unstable, if you make them more front heavy and remove weight from the back it will ly more stable
Why?
@@thomasduong5120 a more stable flight path can be helpful when trying to hit things, even at 15 feet or whatever the distance was.
I mean why that pun
74 views, 357 likes.
*Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.*
Logic and the lack of it
Bring me THANOSSS
r/unexpectedthanos
HAHAHAHAHA
%g you can like videos without watching them
A longer coil means more acceleration the metal is pulled to the center of the silinoid. The strongest point of magnetism. So you can simplify the electronics. Only need one timed circuit instead of several in series.
I love how he’s just casually using the captain America shield to protect himself
He is a real life hero 😂😂
That’s cuz it’s vibranium
I'm stealing ur comments!!!!!
@@dahgman3225 l@l@l@l@l@l@l@l@l@l@l@l@the park is a park park in park park and park park in park park and park park park le@33333 e
I love how the gun is only 50 calories.
you guy need to put a spiral barrel in the COILGUN so the projectile fly's stable in the air
Charles Freitag that’s what I was thinking
so you mean rifling the barrel?
acually that only really works with gun powder based firearms the gas form the gunpowder is what acually spins it the rifling aids the gas and makes therefore making the bullet spin
Don’tsigninon Theipadfagg gas doesn’t spin it, gas propels it and rifling spins it
Or maby grove the projectile? So it's like the fins of an arrow.
*Your projectile needs to spin for stability: you need a rifled barrel.*
Dont think it would work , there is no gas propelling the projectile and the magnetic field just pulls it in whatever direction
I dont know, but worth trying
@@SpartanGerar Plastic barrel?
@@measl maybe
@@SpartanGerar *There is certainly enough forward momentum for this to be useful (surprisingly), if the projectile can just be stopped from tumbling. It's a neat idea if it can be perfected!*
What if you have an rifled bullet instead?
at 20:01 in the slow-mo shooting the soda do you see that spark that is made. Super cool
Here’s the speed of some everyday things
*shows only weapons*
*American anthem starts playing*
There was a Bugatti at the bottom. . .
And the sun screaming it's head off best weapon yet
RUSSIANGUY2217 you should watch the intro to lazarbeam playing hot dogs, horseshoes, and grenades if you think thats really american
He goes in vr into a game with guns and with 4 M14S just starts hip firing them directly up
@@yellowflamez6443 who says Bugatti's aren't weapons
"this is the most technologically advanced projects"
Umm, what happened to the Ironman helmet?
It's probably because they had to use so many controllers
@@acesierra1741 Power loader is mostly pnuematics if I'm not wrong. It's not actually all that advanced. We've had stuff like that for quite a while. Just no one has put it into a suit.
@@lychanking no, hydraulics.
@@coler154 Ah my bad I got the two names mixed up.(no idea why I could remember one name and not the other)
Military: "We have a railgun"
Hacksmith: "We have a coilgun"
Military: "..."
next step up is a plasmoid gun (shoots real plasmaballs xD)
I mean he's also made a railgun too
Area 51: we have ray gun mk4
I have a potato gun
@@liverii6540I have a propane powered potato cannon
just a suggestion... bore the cylinder? rotation on the projectile might straighten out its path to the target
You need a way to spin the projectile to make it more accurate and to make it fly straighter.
Rifling makes coil gun design a real pain
Titanium tube or ceramic tube rifled on the inside? Stainless? Other non magnetic steel like substance?
@@zennyblades ceramic is cheap with few uses titanium is expensive with many uses. And their project already exceeds $2k
A spheric projectile would work better since without any rifling the cylandrical projectile flies not linear but spins uncontrolled
@@NANA-ut3oy yes we know that but it wouldn't have the penetration power of a stabilized pointed projectile
Is it me or is this thing “tuned down” like crazy. This should/could be sending this projectile A LOT faster than it is. Right?
They didn't use capacitors and lost a huge amount of efficiency, so it's probably operating at the highest level it can with the stuff it's using. There's also no rifling on it, so the projectile is losing a lot of energy and accuracy
Yeah they hyped it up but any real gun guy was definitely let down lol. It seems fun for kids to use, tho, and is a fun concept. Kinda failed as a gun.
@@GardenOf-Eden Instead of a rifling, maybe fins could be added? Like an APFSDS but without the DS
@@LukasJosai nah, rifling the barrel will be a whole lot more effective, well as lengthening the barrel slightly, even just a few inches
They could make it much much much more powerful if they wanted to
been waiting for a hacksmith upload, youtube has been dry lately man.
Yeah no ones uploading
True
Where be there mech
So true
Is it a coincidence you guys have the same last name
I built mine 25 years ago and only used a power supply, multi-parallel capacitor bank, a few SCRs, a couple hundred feet of copper wire, and optically triggered sensors in a three-stage design. Oh yeah, we also submersed the coils in liquid nitrogen because the current we measured in the coils was around 2200 amps.
I won the university contest every year I entered it in.
nice! what else did you make?
@@jacobpeters5458 A micro robot that ran on a 9V battery and walked up 3 stairs and then proceed to park itself on the upper deck platform without overhang.
The robot specifications required it weight less than 300g, occupy a starting volume of less than 10cm × 10 cm × 10cm, and store no useable energy beyond the battery...
By the by, I didn't use AI or anything like machine learning. It was purely electromechanical. I wasn't aware of such things at the time...
Imagine buying screws srry ammo from home depo
The ammo is cheaper than bullets
Nails would be better - more aerodynamic. Also, entry and exit wounds would be much cleaner
So its basically a nail gun
@@whoopwhoop4783 YES
You can't compare it exactly to a nailgun it's still a coilgun
So is fertilizer.
And nails.
Blasting caps too.
HMM.
I think you gun needs a barrel with rifling spins so your projectile can fly more straight.
sabots are better for such guns
It would make it way more powerful if you stabilize the bullet
True. But how about this...?
-Sabots,
-Fins,
-Rifling, and...
-A better shaped projectile.
With rifling the projectile needs to be forced into the grooves, this gun is nowhere near powerful enough to force a steel (or any) projectile into grooves that could spin it. Using a spherical or diabolo shaped projectile would be a much safer bet
I think making it a bearing should be good enough tho for the scale of this project
You and Colin furze should do a kingsmen battle!
Rivercraft911 agreed
Or join up to make an ultimate weapon.
Kingsmen dont fight each other smh
@@___echo___ uh oh, fun police.
Ferb! I know what we are going to do today!
omg so original
The editors are so good at their job, I mean, the cuts and all that are perfect, and that is so difficult to do
Let’s get some respect for the editors
Friends theme doh
Burgurlar: breaks into this guys house
This guy: TODAYS THE DAY
Imma be honest this is like a slingshot that shoots a metal cylinder I don't think it can really hurt anyone
@@Local_commentor that’s what a gun is
@@maddoxWolfe umm I am sure a pellet gun hurt more than this is still looks cool
@@Local_commentor guns use gunpowder to launch a small metal thing at somebody that’s how they kill people
Also cannons those shoot metal spheres really fast and those kill people
@@maddoxWolfe there is no way that gun kills anyone let alone even go in to plywood all I'm saying it looks cool
"Theoretically there's no speed limit"
"the maximum speed in the universe"
sounds like there is a speed limit
indeed ; )
Well, they have a huge load of pseudoscience bs in video.
Theoretically, there are ways to go past the speed of light...without actually going past the speed of light. But that's a lot of quantum physics you don't wanna get into.
@@captaindrake1235 if there is no gravity then theoretically you could pass the speed of light
The way to surpass the universal speed limit is theoretical
It is physically impossible to go faster
Also, even if you could go faster, you would eventually exceed the plank temperature
Then your object has so much energy (from speed) that it collapses into a black hole
I would have to say though it would be badass for Canada to make the world's first handheld military grade coil or rail gun! As an American I'd be glad it's still in North America!
nobody:
The hacksmith: Lets build a coil gun!!!!!
U.S. Government: Oh we F***** up
That's why he lives in Canada
😂🤣🤣
but he's canadian
When I first saw it I though it said coin gun
Fucked*. Just stop censoring swear words, it’s childish
*The Brotherhood of Steel would like to know your location*
HA
the australian wastes the only place that has guzzoline
FALLOUT 4 THO
"soil contents dirt, sand, gravel and communism..." - liberty prime
Now if they built a 3 star two shot explosive version....
"most ridiculous thing we've ever made"
*proceeds to flag everyone in the room with it*
That shit was so annoying
@@wilysquid2278 bruh it's not a normal firearm, they can 100% tell it its loaded or not
@@comradeurod9805 rule 3 of firearms; always treat a firearm as if it was loaded. Even if you know its not.
@@PatriotAnimates It's not a firearm though
@@nynick5841 You can 100% tell if a normal gun is loaded or not too, or if the safety's on or not. You still always treat it like it's loaded just incase you mess up.
See: The repulsor laser that this channel made that burned through James' clothes because he got too comfortable with it. That could have easily been much more dangerous if anyone or anything was standing behind him.
Ballistics gel
Gun people use it as a standard test (eliminating variables and measuring outcomes just like scientists)
Anyone making a coil gun or railgun needs this.
Yes!, I've been hoping you guys would make a Coil Gun/Gauss Rifle!!
Do you play vaga conflict
It is all about the hybrid. Coil + rail. Imagine if the projectile was an electromagnetic dart energized by the barrel. Magnet field on magnet field is stronger than magnet on iron alone. This way you can also flip flop the coil polarity to both pull the dart through and push it out doubling the force. A sabot dart negates the need for any rifle spin for accuracy as well. sigh... someday.
I hope there's a future video where they upgrade each stage with two capacitors from the railgun :D
Rifle the barrel, upgrade the projectile, and more power to the bus, like big capacitors like the rail gun.
making sabot is better
If he did that he’d just be drafted into an Area 51 research facility
i was thinking the same thing.
@@atlas9100 Atlas9 meet Atlas1
You don't want capacitors on a coil gun one of its many benefits over a rail gun is its rapid fire capability.
What they really need is to replace the bolt action receiver with a full auto bullpup receiver.
So that you maximize the distance the projectile is accelerated.
The Hacksmith workspace would be the best place for a zombie apocalypse tbh
GRAB WHATEVER YOU WANT EVERYTHING WORKS! JUST DON'T SHOOT THINGS YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO USE
no colin furze made an underground bunker i guess that'll be perfect
Not if it's the zombies place...
Ever heard of Achievement Hunter? They have a literal arsenal nowadays.
Great job. Good to set it up like this so you don't get demonitized. Now few small suggestions which I think you already had in mind. Reduce coil chamber size, reduce bullet length so it weights less (easier to bring up to speed), amp up the wave function (for more speed), have barrel just miss touching bullet and drill holes down barrel in spiral to reduce pressure waves in front and behind the bullet (to allow less resistance, greater speed, and possible rifling).
now imagine this powered by a 25MW capacitor.
thats the railgun's power.
25MW capacitor? MW is power, capacitors store energy... anyway the design is nice but inefficient as hell.
@@amoeb81 He probably meant the output of the capacitor. It can dish out 25MW.
@@boris8515 hm, yeah could be you would need thick conductors and so on...wouldn't fit on a handheld
@@amoeb81 exactly it’s so inefficient. If they had enough power to make it fire as straight and powerfully as a Barret then it would be efficient and even marketable. Because of how much it weighs they had the potential to make it into a real sniper with enough electricity at least. But they settled for a nerf gun that can shoot lawn darts 🤦♂️
And superconducting coils. And sensor and controller technology not limited by any financial restrictions... pooh...
I'm only 12 years old and engeneering is very interesting... This channel got me into wanting to be a engeneer
Mati Semenowicz Good luck
Same. I am 14.
Mati Semenowicz maybe focus on your English first.
@@PunkRockJedi420 lmao, you don't need to good at English to become a great engineer
@@PunkRockJedi420 Maybe you should stfu.
You should make an infinity gauntlet that sparks or does something cool when you snap
I would be impossible to snap unfortunately 😭 even in a fabric gauntlet
Or make 50% of all life turn to dust that'd be cool too
Chris Stephens that’d be too easy
i support that idea
You cant snap with a gauntlet lol
So, how fast is the projectile going in ft/s? Have you guys thought about adding a mechanism to spin up the slug so it doesn't tumble?
i mean, if you'd rifled the barrel i think it'd have shot a lot better
And make the projectiles into tiny fin stabilised sabots
Hard to get spin, the lack of friction in a coilgun is what gives the projectile speed. A dart could work, all he would need to do is machine one of the rounds he has to have a thinner part between the head and the washer-like tail section. Simple, front-heavy, and makes its own drag at the rear. Also, the reduction in weight would allow for higher speed, so less drop over the same distance.
@@mojavewastelander4035 he should make fin stabilized discarding sabots
Maybe a round projectile would have less drag if it tumbles?
@@alexanderrelgnir perhaps
You guys deserve 20 million subscribers. I hope one day it will happen
The projectiles are kind of unstable in the air
Maybe iron ball as projectile will be more effective
@@penono or just rifle the slug / barrel
That's why guns are rifled
@@stevenle9960 yes it's to stabilize the projectile
Now make it so the bullet rotates to decrease air friction and make the bullet go faster
“What are you doing today “
Making a coil gun
“oh okay”
"Nothing especial, just shooting Thanos face with a coil gun. You know, the usual"
L0L
i wanna see like a version 2, like more efficient and powerful
I want a more powerful and magazine fed version
They also need to get the projectile spinning. Something akin to rifling. The projectiles are tumbling the second the leave the barrel.
and without a boat under the barrel
@@Someone-ci8wf yeah magazine would be very easy to do, because there is no casing
And attach it to their iron man armor and make a war machine turret
16:19 "All that for a drop of blood." :-)
Now all you need to do is somehow make it automatic or semi automatic with a compatible ammo clip. Then you'll have one hell of a gun
Next video building a nuclear bomb from world of war ships
😂😂🤣
You just need plutonium/uranium and c4. It's easy. Surround the plutonium with c4 and make sure the c4 will explode all at the same time. With uranium you just need to explode the uranium into another uranium and boom. Capital punishment.
@@DFE-wu9lq Not even C4, you just need a big enough boom provided from ANYTHING that can make the yellowcake lost its shit
@@DFE-wu9lq *just*
Umm fun video but not a great idea lel
you *Have* to shoot the coil gun with the mech arm at some point if possible!!!
He should attach it to the mech arm
so... what youre saying is... make a supersized version with more stages? HELL YEAH!!!!
I'd just like to say that I love our new robot masters and give my allegiance to them whole heartedly
A bigger coil gun on the mech ?
@@RRanun yup... MUCH BIGGER
Hacksmith: Makes a coil gun in the time it takes me to solve a Rubik's cube
you're not alone :(
Wait you guys finished one!
If u combine the concept of a railgun and a coilgun, you could automatice de activation of every coil dependendig on where the bullet is at the moment, cause you can complete the circuit of the coil with the bullet itself. sorry for my English
I see all the suggestions about rifling and I'd like to point out, these guys aren't looking to make functional weapons, more proof of concepts. I would love to see this ramped up, but at the same time, their shop doesn't appear to be designed for field testing military ballistic weapons. Still damned cool!
And how everyone is pointing out it's not amped up like it could be
@@tiredman99 and also ignoring the gun had one malfunction.
Basically these Dunning Kruger's don't have a clue what's even going on with this coilgun.
1. Yup it shoots like a shotgun slug because the current design requires no barrel lubrication.
2. Those circuits can only cycle so fast and can only handle so much power output. This is the main reason they are using a heavy shell.
Itd be cool as shit to build it fully funtional then take it out to demoranch or something. Do a channel collab
Point made, but do you think a musket ball type slug would be more appropriate for this design?
@@paxaeternus5718 They used a half inch bolt because it was as long as a single coil. This allowed the bolt(hence the bolt action rifle joke in the beginning) to float down the center of coil. So basically the musket ball would have to achieve the same type of balance most likely by building a whole new coil size and array.
Hacksmith and Elon Musk combined to make real-life Tony Stark
I guess Hacksmith doesn’t have long then
Allen Pan could help too
And that jetpack dude
I thought Elon musk was the weeb-man
they could probably could
*Hacksmith Uploads*
Me: Mr. Stark I feel really good.
Magical Blanket lol
Magical Blanket that turned out so bad
But does Mr. Stark feel good?
But where's Mr stark?
Incredible you actually made it. One thing that might maximize the "lethality" would have been the creation of a bullet with optimum aerodynamic shape and less weight. That's because I noticed that it's time it hit the target did it, not with the tip but the whole body of the bullet. That means that the air drag reduces the speed of the projectile and created torque that put the bullet in an unstable pathway.
Make the elektronik whip from ironman 2 that ivan wanko built!
Yes that would be awesome
What about ivan wanker
Yes
how did nobody comment on how its spelled electronic
CoolGamer101588 Roblox And More! Or that it’s Vanko, not Wanko
I like the diagrams used to explain it, it makes it look more simple looking while also making it look complicated
Yo guys the hack smiths r going to be the last guys to survive the zombie apocalypse
@Nathaniel Winchester and multiple types of ammo (if the weapon even uses any) to choose from.
Including COLIN FURZE
Two Questions:
1- How much electricity to use in order to make it effective?
2- How much speed did it shoot by the end of the video?
Anyone else get a fallout 4 vibe?
Omg me
He built a Gauss rifle
Holy frick literally exactly what i thought
Ya
OMG he highlighted my comment
You guys have come do far, great work.
By the way, you should use spherical projectiles for the gun. It'll probably go faster than bars.
*1 person shows up to the Area 51 raid*
Guards: :D
*its the Hacksmith*
Guards: :O
lol OwO
iKillYou X *Reborn* no
The hacksmith is more advanced than Area 51 the aliens at hacksmith are more valuable
The hacksmith with two shoulder mounted coilguns and a rocket suit
I miss the energy of the internet 9 months ago
Sadly all that time, effort, and money, and air would have propelled that projectile much faster, but it was cool to see you use that kind of tech to propell a projectile.
Zombie Apocalypse: Starts*
The HackSmith And The Bois: *We Good*
Too bad the rail gun has the power of an airsoft gun.
If they made it more powerful it would be good, because it’s not loud.
Electricity out. "Autobots fall back!!!!"
So you stuck Iron Man’s face onto your wall.
That is dark and will be haunting my dreams for a good while.
“Freedom units” I love that!
Facts
Makes a crazy complicated coilgun - doesn't machine fins into the projectile...
lol
I would use a nail cuz is easier to cut the nail head the flat part into fins
Maybe they could 3d print a sabot to go around an off the shelf masonry nail. Make the nail a dart by glueing on fins to get it to spin. Print the sabot so that it has longitudinal grooves and holes into which metal rods or wire can be inserted.
Yeah i was also surprised they didn't an *apfsds* ammunition for this project
The fins would increase the magnitivity of the end of the projectile so it would get stuck in the barrel or it would just be extremely bad at flying
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but at these low speeds, wouldn't a magnetic ball be a better ammo type? That way the shot won't tumble through the air as much. Or, rather, the tumbling won't affect the shot nearly as much.
4:53 look at the guy in the background when the main guy is talking lol that was great
God: creates humans
Hack smith: creates all of his projects
God: ThAtS wHaT iM tAlKiNg AbOuT!!!
God:damn no regret boi
I love how you explained how the coil guns worked. I can imagine that was difficult to make, but I really hope this becomes a regular thing for you in the future.
According to Professor Laithwaithe's research encasing the coil's in steel and adding a steel barrel as a firing chamber significantly increases power of the electromagnetic waves emitting from the magnets.
A superconducting wire would significantly increase the muzzle velocity if you did an exact swap with copper wires.
Niobium-titanium wires should work according to my own research.
Adding a electromagnet at the start of the firing chamber will significantly increase the muzzle velocity even more by forcing the projectile down through the firing chamber with an electromagnetic wave.
They've done it again- an 8-wrap coil gun with a built-in exploding resistor dispenser.
Technological advancements at their finest.
Great job guys!
u mean, a pack of redstone torches, a pack of redstone and a dispenser filled with tnt
13:05
"She a heavy boi"
Seems legit
Tristan G lol
You can sat, they got a real
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I'll show myself out
thanks
The door's this way pal. I'm looking for doctor Zola.
For good results, you must use big electrolytic capacitors charged to 300 V trough just a light bulb and tyristor for switching
“MaKe It MoRe PoWeRfUll” says half of the people who barely know how hard it is to design something and make it at least a bit useable...
As an electrical engineer, it's amazing to see what these guys can do without having a massive budget
yeah until someone get killed, the comment will be
"That your fault to make such dangerous thing" XD
It still hits like a truck. Just cause it’s slow didn’t mean it can’t hurt someone
So true tho
@@limeguy8280 Well they do have a very impressive set of tools at their disposal. They have limited time though. After all , they run a business, and they are in the entertainment business. The question is simply "will optimizing it get enough views to be worth the extra time?" and the answer is most likely no. They made a design, they stuck to it till the end. It works, but it's not optimized, but the video is a success. Those of us who are really into this kind of stuff would really like it to be optimized though. I would like to see someone with the knowledge, resources and time really optimize one of these even if it's a multi part project.
1:37 I love how they listed ak 47 as “everyday things”
A Glock?!?! NO THATS TOO DANGEROUS!!!
A ak-47 ah thats allright, mate, nothing too serious
Not to mention artillery and railgun
They are everyday things though
and a Bugatti
Well, in american school's, it is
It is awesome, but needs rifling to stabilize the projectile😁
And an upgrade in the design of the projectile because a rifled barrel doesn't help much without a property balanced and aerodynamic round
Not rifling. Coilguns are better smoothbore and fun stabilized
@@violet9214 Ok but would you agree that a projectile with a more stable flight pattern would be the next logical step in improving that coil gun for now?
Mike Leatherdale definitely
@@mikeleatherdale2950 possibly make the projectile fin stabilized
Bro I just realized that if there’s ever a zombie out break or alien invasion the hacksmith crew got crazy weapons on deck
I love that Cap's shield is apart of their PPE.
Appreciate you calling imperial units “freedom units”, but they still are kinda inefficient (using whole world)
"stupid units"
the REAL units are defined by the IS : International System
so in almost all of th world, scientists have agree to use those units ... just america and other unefficient nations don't use them
Which is why we used metric first...
In terms of distance, metric units are better, but I will defend to the death Fahrenheit as a system far superior to Celsius.
@@elijah_9392 Celsius is based on water, which is all fine and dandy, but Fahrenheit is based on the human body. This makes it a much more convenient system for everyday use by normal people, and it makes little difference at all to the people on the technical side of things (though, since a single unit covers a smaller range, it is slightly more accurate, but not really noticeably).
@@benheinz8817 The problem about farenheit is simple... is based on the human body therefore it's based on our genetics which can vary from place to place. Water in the other hand has constant values most of the time
you should upgrade the coil gun for the power loader 🧵🔫
That is the best idea ever
that would be amazing, especially as they were complaining about how heavy it was
Seems to me that a series of carefully spaced brush contacts could have been used instead of the electronics. Steel projectiles make a nice conductor. Once the contacts are properly spaced, the power could be scaled by ramping up the power.