The thing with bullets is that they are negatively impacted by air resistance, causing them to tumble. But that is because they have no fletchings because in order to produce the explosive resistance necessary to launch a bullet, you need the bullet casing to be flush in the barrel. But gauss weapons do not have that issue. So to produce a proper and accurate gauss gun, you need projectiles with fletchings. They don't need to be big since the projectile is small. I believe you could get away with using 2mm tall feathered wire fletchings. Also, with a pointier tip (even just a ballpoint tip), they could actually break something. This will also take that load off the magnets. (The magnets will do less work.) I suggest slightly skinnier -tungsten- (rather hardened compressed powder steel) projectiles with fletchings and pointed tips.
@@radonsider9692 all you really need is the fin stabilized part. The discarding sabot could work, but it would be a tradeoff as you would sacrifice magazine capacity and cost by including it, but it could help stabilize the round more in the barrel.
i was actually shocked at my own disappointment sadly, its a wonderful project thats complex and hard to do however this type of technology is already at firearm levels this looked and felt like an over sized version of a real coilgun, like it was a nerfed up gun im a little worried at the cost of the project
"Due to Canadian laws, we had to make it less powerful than we hoped." I ended up going to the Mythbusters closing tour when they went around the country to promote the final season. Adam said his favorite thing was the water heater explosions they would do at Alameda. He revealed that they had told the FAA that the water heaters wouldn't go higher than 500 ft in the air, when in truth every single one of them cleared over a thousand.
Man I love Charles, his is just the right blend of simple enthusiasm and ability to casually disregard risks of things catching on fire to progress humanity's knowledge of energy weapons.
they really haven't progressed anything, the US military made prototypes of just this weapon decades ago, its just impractical and easy to break at such a small scale. the US literally already have large scale rail guns on a couple of their prototype battleships that can level entire buildings lol
"Engineering is hard". So true, as a repair technician who fixes almost everything at component level, I can understand that perfectly. But what you made here is simply amazing! A railgun with this power, capacity and so little (and fixable) flaws is incredible. You guys have built some really crazy stuff, the dream of any nerdy tech guy like me hahah! There's so much fun and potential for projects like this one, so keep it up and strive even higher! This weapon looks so amazing and the way it works is so interesting, a job amazingly done for sure.
I wonder if having thin copper or brass piping with vents along the side of the coils, which would then be filled by high-pressure co2 cartridges after every mag is emptied, would help. The idea behind this is that the co2 comes out extremely cold, and could act as a very quick way to cool down the coils. Alternatively, adding aluminium heat sinks might work
@@nebulisnoobis102 It would still work without the gas, but the gas would just increase the duration you can fire it for without having to cool it down. Heat sinks in addition could make it so you can fire throughout an entire battle, if you have one gas-mag every few mags.
Absolutely brilliant work mate. On top of the base functionality, every part is at such a high level of polish - the magazines, the aesthetic work, the ammo counter, and more. And to think I doubted that you'd even have full-auto!
@The commenter nobody cares about no. I am saying the "rifle" they made isn't full auto. You said "and to think I doubted that you'd even have tull-auto."
So I just watched this video, and yesterday I watched a video about the first real coilgun prototype being tested. Very interesting to compare the two, as the Hacksmith version looks smaller, lighter, and has a considerably higher rate of fire, whereas the other one is much bulkier but also fires projectiles with power comparable to a real gun. I would love to see what this gun would be capable of without restrictions, mostly because I would be fascinated to see how a Hacksmith weapon would compare with a weapon that's actually had military funding!
It the Hacksmith version is built from passion, has thousands of miles less of red tape, hundreds of pockets less trying to fill themselves, and thousands less crooks; not to mention millions less dollars. So better in most ways, extremely less expensive and probably just as good. Smh 🤦
I love how at the end you acknowledge the shortcomings but also celebrate just how cool this is. You guys already have something really cool and are on your way to something even cooler
I'd recommend potting the coils in a thermal resin and using a battery that is in parallel with an ultracapacitor bank, oh and do a build in the US so you aren't limited on power 😅
@@ZigaZagu Why? If they can make it actually powerful here(US), than why not? I'd be interested to see how capable they can make one instead of being forced to tone it down because of Canadian laws.
I think the only thing that would really improve this aside from just increasing power would be adding rifling or a type of fletching on the ammunition to keep it from tumbling. It would be way more accurate
use flechettes, and maybe have a small capacitor bank connected to a magazine rail so you can use a mini railgun to accelerate the proyectile into the coils. Tho I dont know of a capacitor small enough and still have enough juice to be useful for that. Hmmm.
@@TheAshran You can't really mix rail guns and coil guns, because one needs a ferromagnetic projectile and the other won't work with a ferromagnetic one. If you want to pre-accelerate the projectile I would recommend a linear electric motor. Also building a proper rifled barrel that runs the full length of the gun, maybe out of fiberglass or carbon, so that it doesn't interfere with the magnetic field too much would really improve the accuracy. Making fins is also an idea, but difficult, as they need to fit in the mag and through the barrel.
You need two sizes of coils so you can overlap them instead of having areas without magnetic field, like a slightly wider tube partially covering the end and beginning of the coils it's between. That should help.
Not necessary, though narrower segments (like 26 half width) and turning on the next coil earlier to make the pull stronger. More tumbling can be fixed with a smooth plastic barrel passing through all the coils as a single piece. Removing projectiles from the mag should be done magnetically, not with springs.
@@johndododoe1411 The springs in the mag push the rounds upwards, where a piston then shoves them into the barrel. Even in normal firearms, the springs in the mag do not remove the cartridges- they push the rounds to where the bolt can pick them up and shove them into position.
I'm genuinely excited for the future of small arms development. There's real companies attempting to make viable hand held rail gun type weapons. Maybe in my lifetime I'll be able to buy one to experience how different it is from regular firearms.
"Building the Coilgun was the easy part. What took us so long was relocating the Hacksmith workshop to our purpose-built artificial island in international waters off the coast of Newfoundland to circumvent Canadian weapon legislation."
Should build a Gauss warthog, those use coil gun tech instead of railgun gun tech. Also you could use the cars alternator, solar panels and thermocouple around the muzzle to recharge the capacitor bank. Additional charging could come from Regenerative braking and piezoelectric in the suspension.
Charles REALLY has that mad genius look in his eyes the whole time while developing this thing. Pretty sure he would have just built it for free if given the parts lmao.
Engineer's are fueled by stimulants and the pure joy of something working correctly. Lock one in a room with all the parts to something and they'll probably finish it before trying to get out.
@@extivus I'm sure they could build the parts and head south for assembly and filming! I'm reliably informed by the internet everything is legal in the US.
"Technology has advanced to the point where using any sort of black powder or explosive fuel seems downright silly" And yet in Halo the UNSC still uses 7.62 for some reason.
@@Kai_Keller02 Nay, its 8ga. Imagine the barrel width of a fig, persimmon or large strawberry. Honestly it's one of my biggest (silly) gripes about Halo. This is supposed to be standard issue shotgun for humans as well as Spartans, but hell, I'd be hating myself, and life in general, if I had to actually carry and use one on a daily basis - though, I suppose, the weight will help offset some of it.
My only sadness in this video was knowing the whole time theres already a waayyy more powerful commercially available version, but considering the legal constraints yall have come up with an amazibg alternative, and knowing you guys i immagine this thing is capable of being turned up a few notches 😅
I thought it looked a little low power for the theoretical abilities you could get from such a system. Only 5J of energy and such a low muzzle velocity restriction definitely is rough for such a project, though it did look very good. Maybe one day you guys can do a V3 build in the states where you don't need to worry about the same restrictions limiting how overkill you can go on the design. Best of luck on your future projects and progressing this design even further if you have the desire to.
152 m/s is still a lot, faster than even the fastest modern crossbows. 5 J is not a lot, but even that can do quite a lot. I think they need to decrease projectile weight to only 1 or 2 gramms.
@@kairi4640 Considering they probably live close to toronto or montreal they could just set something up in Michigan or Vermont and have it only be like an hour or two drive. Its legal everywhere in the US to build firearms at home with no need to inform the gov or any permits.
Have you guys considered working with someone that has a firearms manufacturing license to build something beyond what Canadian laws would allow the normal person to make? It would be cool to see what you could come up with when not being limited by projectile energy laws.
@@Owy. I believe we actually own more firearms per capita than the US does. It's just that most of our guns are actually used for hunting or target shooting rather than killing people.
You're also getting the projectial tumbling. The why modern guns over this is with rifling. Rifling allows the spin about length wise axis. Without a means get the projectile rotating the projectile will need to balanced over a 360 degree plane. To help lower the weight the increase in the power of the solenoid to hit the projectile faster. Another option is a pressured gas (not as stable and could lead to wide range of starting speeds.) But by increasing the first coil speed you could get a faster speed (but Canada says no) or to maintain current speed lower the amount coils needed.
Fascinating. Came here from the “forgotten weapons” arcflash video. Looks like they used a bull pup design with a gap between the accelerator cascade and a… feeder accelerator. You mentioned not being able to feed them fast enough (initial velocity required into the cascade). I think that gap is how they are achieving that.
No matter how many different styles of railgun I see various UA-camrs build over the years, I'm always happy to see them as they tend to be pretty heckin awesome. That and you guys rarely fail to make items that are amazing to look at and cool :D
@@kreigguardsman3355 for exactly the reasons this video detailed. They're big, heavy, and cumbersome. They're unreliable. They require an inordinate amount of electricity to accelerate projectiles to lethal velocity. And honestly, Gunpowder based weapons are just better, in every possible way. The only time a rail/coil gun is better than a conventional gun is when we reach the ludicrous sizes involved in artillery, at which point the magnetic accelerator can actually impart similar force over the length of the barrel when you compare it to a gunpowder weapon of the same size.
@@blise518B There may be very few moving parts, but electrical components still fail. The Ammunition may be cheap, but the firing mechanism and construction of the weapon itself are not. And there are no superconductors that can handle the heat things like this produce. Still, none of that is the main issue. out of everything I said, power/portability ratio is the most important problem. You just can't pack enough juice into one of these things to rival gunpowder weapons and still maintain a portable size. Electrical work has improved over the years, yes, but it's not on that level.
@@kreigguardsman3355 gunpowder weapons: cheap, mass produced, reliable, tough, simple, compact, works 24/7 as long as you have ammo which is cheap and mass produced coilgun (at least as shown in this prototype and most likely for others for at least the next few years): enormous, heavy, expensive, probably pretty delicate and would break if you dropped it or it rained or literally any weather event, doesn't have nearly as much power, requires electricity which you might not have enough of in the middle of some shithole jungle or desert to charge a hundred guns at a time (and if you did you would still leave a good portion of the troops weaponless for hours at a time) like the original commenter said. pretty heckin awesome and amazing to look at and cool. that's it. they're not supposed to be actual things you would use irl
Hmm for the next one, try having the batteries in the rear. Usually when I go target shooting, I place weights on the stock to offset the weight of the barrel, so it makes handling the rifle a lot easier. This looks very front heavy! Still VERY cool!
Some sort of combo cartridge that houses a battery and a rail magazine may be the best idea, you can store both in rear, and you get a fresh battery every time you reload ammo.
Reduce the number of turns and use more thicker gauge copper wire as u move upward in the coil assembly in the rail gun... It will cause the projectile to move more quicker per coil sets...
as they mentioned they are legally limited to how good it's allowed to work. I have some ideas on how to get it super sonic as i'm sure they do as well but they ain't allowed to sadly. Aka it's a bit of a toy just cause they ain't allowed to make it scary
@@shamarerskine3987 doesnt mean they can break it, laws are laws even if you thinj theyre stupid. They arent gonna broadcast themselves commiting a crime to millions of people on youtube
This is fascinating, the key thing they aren't incorporating is making the bullet spin and rotate with rifling either at the end of the barrel or throughout.
This is literally the coolest thing ever. I literally have started trying to get into engineering recently because of these u guys. One day I might want to work at hacksmith lmaooo
FyI since projectile speed is increasing with each coil, you need to make each coil shorter for shorter pulse duration and higher current, due to the decrease in projectile field duration. This should also mean each coil operates at a higher voltage, so the magnetic field switches faster and to a higher value. If each coil was just 10 percent shorter than the previous one, it would increase your efficiency by a LOT. You can also switch from one polarity with a big cap to the opposite polarity from a smaller cap, to force field collapse when you need to transit out of the coil into the next one. The projectile's field will still be present and you can push it out while the next coil pulls. The caps for this can be really small in value, like 10 percent or less that of the pull capacitor, because their only purpose is to reverse the field.
Charles has that mad look in his eyes that is absolutely required for something this awesome, yet clearly, frustratingly complex. I like his demeanor. 10/10 would trust my sci-fi guns to.
I like the guy , but the gun was pretty lame. They have built much more better and cooler stuff. This gun was just an evolved form an automatic nerf gun. Like brooooo , it could not get through a gummy bear. I expected it to be at the power of almost a real gun.
@@codeomatic4351 They literally explained why they couldn't do that. Because of Canadian law. He's a prominent figure with these *public* videos and doesn't want problems with their law enforcement. And "engineering is hard." Esp. custom engineering.
They said this in the board room "We need a new video" "okay, lets take marvel, and do NONE of that, HALO REACH" Love the videos guys, keep them coming! boaty mc boatface will be missed
I would like to see y’all come to the USA and build one with out any predetermined limitations holding back the full potential of what this stroke of genuine genius could be.
@@jrasiy4048 Just use aluminum, like with the main body, (or something with a higher melting point) there are lots of non magnetic metals that could work
@@heramaaroricon4738 Nope, overpenetration is when the projectile travels *through* your target. Putting a small hole in them, and a larger hole in the wall/ground behind them. Damage takes energy, heating, burning, moving or ripping stuff takes Joules. A projectile that's too good at penetration will do surprisingly little damage to your target as it deposits most of its energy into whatever's behind them. Considering people can survive having a limb blown off, sometimes you need to make a big hole to stop someone. The ideal projectile doesn't blast through the target, it hits em, then sticks in them. Depositing all its kinetic energy into the said target.
@@willb5278 Could throw a micro explosive that's detonated upon impact and call it a day tbh, although then your cost per round and risk of misfiring shoot up a lot more.
Theoretically, how quickly do you think you could propel the projectile without the 152.4 meters/sec and 5.7 joule limitations? I wonder how much kinetic energy a hand held rail gun could generate in comparison to a traditional firearm of any given caliber. Thank you for doing this! I very much enjoyed watching your work. :)
you also gotta take into account the projectile used, its a rounded small probably steel rod, were they not under legal obligation, i'd expect it could do considerable damage. simply by making the projectile pointed and finned, both increasing stability of it in flight as well as overall kinetic impact, Smaller point of impact greater focus of energy, making for a greater penetration capability. overall it would be interesting albeit unwieldy and impractical. but an interesting thought nonthless, it wouldn't be ground breaking innovation but definitely an interesting and unique weapon.
@@Synthc4t Soon enough, hand held proper energy weapons for soldiers(laser weapons more specifically), then, we form the Empire of Man, and carry ourselves out among the stars and beyond. :O
Barrel improvement idea: same thing you have here, except print the black coil frames/barrel segments with 100% infill (at least around the hole) and purposefully make the bore size too small. Assemble to the point of rigidity, then reem out (*cough* get a hydraulic ram and a rifling button set *cough*) the barrel to the correct size. You now have a segmented yet contiguous barrel (until you disassemble it at least). I would recommend using the strongest and hardest plastic you are able to print for this one.
Have you thought about taking advantage of the coil collapse energy to forward charge capacitors to boost the next coil in succession. Maybe a tripod mounted version.
I'm curious, do you mean the back EMF? I thought ideally there would be little energy left around the inductor as the magnetic field collapses when the core (bolt) absorbs the energy and converts it to kinetic but that would be impractical since you can't calibrate the driver timing perfectly I'd imagine? Or are you talking of something completely different? Please elaborate.
imagine this hun with 10 times more power :O then it is for real the new future weapon :) Love it to see how some things out the future are so close to becoming real
Based on performance it's slightly more powerful than a BB gun, Imagine what they could build if they were actually trying to build one for military testing
The Canadian armed forces should just have commissioned the hacksmith and his team to build a full power version for evaluation as the next generation of standard infantry weapon system
Designing a double stacked magazine from scratch would take a while as well. Factor in reliability issues from the magazine with the reliability issues with feeding in general and you might get lucky to be able to feed one full mag out of every 30 or so without a jam. There is a reason why most firearms use the same magazines as their competitors, and that is design cost and tooling to manufacture the new design.
@@Bill_DeBerry ah yes, making an automatic coilgun definitely didn't take any time at all. Furthermore, I don't know what type of firearms you are looking at, but most rifles and pistols I've handled use different (generally double-stacked except in older/subcompact guns like the 1911 or glock 43) magazines from one another. Also, its not like they couldn't do the research into what makes a good double-stack mag. It's pretty clear these guys do a lot of homework for their builds.
@@jacobkeltz3584 That's true, but it's also clear their builds are mainly meant to be fun demonstrations of a concept being executed and not actually viable tools/weapons in their current state. A double-stack mag would be an unnecessary complication, one that an actual weapon would definitely have reason to overcome for the extra capacity, but one that provides a pretty minor increase in entertainment value for the effort it takes. Also I think when @Bill DeBerry was talking about magazine compatibility he was referring to glock and stanag mags being used across a wide variety of firearms, though of course that's not gonna be everything in the same caliber.
I love how you guys makes all those things, this makes me so exited to try build something my self! But I still need to learn more things about physic and mechanic in engineering first
It's videos like this that both make me wish that I would have stuck with engineering in college, and also glad that I changed majors. Keep up the great work!
This is very well made, however I feel that the MA5 Halo assault rifle would be replicated in an airsoft like fashion as the platform is more expandable, You guys did awesome with this replica and i hope to see more like it, keep up the good work!!!
@@CheapCheerful the United States has a Population of 329.5 Million. Australia is 25.6 Million and Canada is 38 Million. Your Numbers are not a fair comparison.
Your guys persistence and attention to detail is INSANE! Seriously it’s very inspiring to me, you’ve inspired me to stay persistent with a lot of projects I’ve done!
Do you do any form of waveform control on the coils? It would seem that it may be possible to control the fields so that all coils could contribute. It also looks like it is running open loop but if one were to sense the field and the disruption of the projectile running through the field more control would be possible. Once that was done, more shorter coils with finer control could be considered to maximize efficiency and energy transfer. Not sure of the potential gains but it would make for an interesting trade off study.
I think it would be more efficient if the coils at the back where smaller to reduce back emf from the fast projectile going trough it, this would increase the current consumption of these coils but it should be fine since they are energized for less time. Still looks sick tho
The coils nearest the user will actually be running longer per-length than the ones closer to the target, since the projectile won't be moving at it's final speed yet.
This was a really cool project. It would’ve been cool to see a covenant weapon for this, seeing as the Ma5 uses actual ammunition, but really cool to see still.
Can't imagine how frustrating and tedious it must have been to buff out every kink with every test fire and then in the end it still jams and heats up like crazy, looks absolutely incredible despite its faults though, appreciate the hard work that went into this ^w^
Well, the heating is mostly a thing you can't avoid no matter what. Every resistance will produce heat equivalent to the power that runs through it. And since there is a metric **** ton of power running through those coils, you just sometimes have to accept that and run the thing for only so long at a time.
You should somehow take a trip South to the US, and test the gun at full power. Or have someone *in* the US build a replica and test it. See what you can really do with it. I'm sure there's more complicated stuff to go through to do that, and I'm not sure it's even legal to transport that thing. I say it's worth looking into, though.
I have experience with magazines and aerodynamics. Consider different materials or shapes for the projectiles, as something slightly finned with a twist may function better for the purposes of firing out of a linear accelerator, and you can get around magazine feed issues by first, switching to a double-stacked magazine configuration which is yes, complicated and potentially costly, but increased spring pressure and feed lips that simply prevent the projectiles from spewing out into the action.
I have no experience in such a thing but I'm pretty sure adding fins and rotation to a coilgun-like aparatus is easier said than done, there's still chance of the projectile hitting the barrel itself and with fins it might make the accuracy worse if the angle of the projectile changes too much, maybe if there was a way to magnetically induce spin or even find a material smooth enough to make a smoothbore like barrel with little enough friction to be overcome by magnetism that might help. Or maybe making something like a compound projectile made of two materials forged in a helical pattern might help but I wouldnt know
This is really cool, I knew how a railgun works in theory but I thought it was impractical, now I know you can turn magnets off, it's really crazy what modern tech can do
That is for firearms. To be “Not a Firearm” the limit is 152m/s and 5.7J. I do believe your average Joe is not legally allowed to manufacture firearms without firearm manufacturer licenses and all that. Probably costs a fortune in fees, and 5 years of paperwork, knowing this country. Likely too costly/too much hassle for a relatively small business that would rarely utilize it.
As long as the firearm is 1 the required length (18 inch barrel) 2 semi-automatic or manual(bolt, single shot, pump, ect.) And 3 has the proper magazine capacity, then anyone with a valid PAL can manufacturer it for personal use. Not exactly sure the rules for a company like hacksmith industries though.
A few problems I've noticed (disclaimer: I'm not saying it looks bad or is bad at all) the ammo counter area is too far forward, it is only black, unlike the in game version, the ammo counter is also really short, he tried to kill jega with two melees. It looks great though!
if you really want to get spicy, I'd recommend a laminated soft-iron wrap for the coils. If you had a better flux path you get get possibly order of magnitude improvements on your field strength. You'd need to do some inductance modeling to make sure you pulse length wouldn't be too long though...
I think you might be able to boost the power of the rifle with a simple addition. Magnetic circuits obey Hopkinson's law, and the magnetic circuit includes the interior of the solenoid where the projectile travels, followed by the air surrounding the solenoid. You might be able to increase the reluctance of the circuit by wrapping the solenoids with muMetal sheet thereby significantly increasing the field in the circuit. I could be mistaken, but it would be easy to try. Another step would be to put a muMetal washer between each solonoid that would further shorten the path where the magnetic field had to travel through air.
If you guys had another office like in the U.S. could/would you guys make a higher powered version? It would really cool to see how destructive you could make this. But this is so awesome to see and I really hope you guys do more iterations on this things cause it is awesome.
@@GovernmentalMoments Apparently civilian grade "railguns" do exist in the us under the name of E-Gun and coilgun and they aren't classified as a gun there,meaning you could build one there without worry
I'm curious about the choice of the MA5 rather then the actual handheld railgun introduced in Halo 4 (i know it's not a railgun). Still a cool build either way
whenever you see a sci-fi movie and it’s some random scientist or engineer that made this amazing technology that ended up destroying the world, it’ll probably be these guys that become those guys
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Did the government come knocking at your door saying they need this weapon🤣
"It is still the coolest thing I have ever built"
You've built a lot of cool things, so that means a lot dude
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That actually looks like something that would be correctly scaled to a spartan, nice work!
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The thing with bullets is that they are negatively impacted by air resistance, causing them to tumble. But that is because they have no fletchings because in order to produce the explosive resistance necessary to launch a bullet, you need the bullet casing to be flush in the barrel.
But gauss weapons do not have that issue. So to produce a proper and accurate gauss gun, you need projectiles with fletchings. They don't need to be big since the projectile is small. I believe you could get away with using 2mm tall feathered wire fletchings. Also, with a pointier tip (even just a ballpoint tip), they could actually break something. This will also take that load off the magnets. (The magnets will do less work.) I suggest slightly skinnier -tungsten- (rather hardened compressed powder steel) projectiles with fletchings and pointed tips.
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Prototype V4 coming in 3 years xD
Dear God I can see the Future where gunpowder is obsolete
Just like an APFS projectile? (I changed it to avoid confusion. Not everyone is into about ground vehicles/projectiles)
@@radonsider9692 all you really need is the fin stabilized part. The discarding sabot could work, but it would be a tradeoff as you would sacrifice magazine capacity and cost by including it, but it could help stabilize the round more in the barrel.
genuinely impressed by its fire rate
The only limitation is how fast you can get the coils to pulse
@@Dianasaurthemelonlord7777 and the heat build up in your coils :)
i was actually shocked at my own disappointment sadly, its a wonderful project thats complex and hard to do however this type of technology is already at firearm levels this looked and felt like an over sized version of a real coilgun, like it was a nerfed up gun im a little worried at the cost of the project
"Due to Canadian laws, we had to make it less powerful than we hoped."
I ended up going to the Mythbusters closing tour when they went around the country to promote the final season. Adam said his favorite thing was the water heater explosions they would do at Alameda.
He revealed that they had told the FAA that the water heaters wouldn't go higher than 500 ft in the air, when in truth every single one of them cleared over a thousand.
You know your water heater experiment is serious when you have to get the FAA involved. lol.
@@redsquirrelftw wait until Elon Musk gets interested.
Due to Canadian tyrannic laws, it should be made more powerful, to get through the armored vehicles they use against peaceful protesters.
So I'm guessing Canada laws are hard capping how much advancement Hacksmith's "toys" are able to evolve.
@@tekknorat like the ones in trucks and tractors
in all seriousness, fuck canadian laws
Man I love Charles, his is just the right blend of simple enthusiasm and ability to casually disregard risks of things catching on fire to progress humanity's knowledge of energy weapons.
They don't progress anything. They haven't actually done anything impressive or done any complicated engineering.
@@Imaboss8ball ok show me your energy weapon
@@Imaboss8ball people like you are a prime reason why UA-cam shouldn't have removed the dislikes.
@@john.dough. I don't have one and neither do they. They have a toy.
they really haven't progressed anything, the US military made prototypes of just this weapon decades ago, its just impractical and easy to break at such a small scale. the US literally already have large scale rail guns on a couple of their prototype battleships that can level entire buildings lol
"Engineering is hard". So true, as a repair technician who fixes almost everything at component level, I can understand that perfectly. But what you made here is simply amazing! A railgun with this power, capacity and so little (and fixable) flaws is incredible. You guys have built some really crazy stuff, the dream of any nerdy tech guy like me hahah!
There's so much fun and potential for projects like this one, so keep it up and strive even higher! This weapon looks so amazing and the way it works is so interesting, a job amazingly done for sure.
Coilgun, not railgun.
@@MrCumberlander1 came here to say the same thing coils not rails
Well fixable yes, but little.. potentially but more likely they just didnt show us everything that went wrong just most explodi parts of it.
I wonder if having thin copper or brass piping with vents along the side of the coils, which would then be filled by high-pressure co2 cartridges after every mag is emptied, would help.
The idea behind this is that the co2 comes out extremely cold, and could act as a very quick way to cool down the coils.
Alternatively, adding aluminium heat sinks might work
Wasn’t the point for it to be a purely electrically powered weapon?
@@nebulisnoobis102 It would still work without the gas, but the gas would just increase the duration you can fire it for without having to cool it down. Heat sinks in addition could make it so you can fire throughout an entire battle, if you have one gas-mag every few mags.
Absolutely brilliant work mate. On top of the base functionality, every part is at such a high level of polish - the magazines, the aesthetic work, the ammo counter, and more. And to think I doubted that you'd even have full-auto!
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That didn't look full auto to me, looked like semiautomatic.
@@ddevil4980 Give the guy a break, its fully semi automatic at least. About as close as your average politician gets
@@ddevil4980 Are you referencing the "No Full Auto In Building" meme?
@The commenter nobody cares about no. I am saying the "rifle" they made isn't full auto. You said "and to think I doubted that you'd even have tull-auto."
So I just watched this video, and yesterday I watched a video about the first real coilgun prototype being tested. Very interesting to compare the two, as the Hacksmith version looks smaller, lighter, and has a considerably higher rate of fire, whereas the other one is much bulkier but also fires projectiles with power comparable to a real gun. I would love to see what this gun would be capable of without restrictions, mostly because I would be fascinated to see how a Hacksmith weapon would compare with a weapon that's actually had military funding!
When the Canadian government lets you own a laser but not a decently powered coilgun
You go to USA
If they didn’t have the restrictions Canada would hire them as a weapons manufacturer.
what is the video?
It the Hacksmith version is built from passion, has thousands of miles less of red tape, hundreds of pockets less trying to fill themselves, and thousands less crooks; not to mention millions less dollars. So better in most ways, extremely less expensive and probably just as good. Smh 🤦
You break in this warehouse, you’re probably going to see an Iron Man, halo soldiers, rail gun wielding interns, and super-weapons
Lol
If i break in this warehouse i Will die
And light sabers
Naw you break into that warehouse you gon see god
@@himanish.b4583 you are right lfamo
Canada: we have restrictions on projectiles for homemade weapons.
US: Hold my beer.
America 🇺🇸
I love how at the end you acknowledge the shortcomings but also celebrate just how cool this is. You guys already have something really cool and are on your way to something even cooler
In 30 years... it will be combatively viable
I'd recommend potting the coils in a thermal resin and using a battery that is in parallel with an ultracapacitor bank, oh and do a build in the US so you aren't limited on power 😅
I didn't understand a word until the emoji but your probably right. Everyone seems way smarter than me nowadays.😀
The last part is so true. They basically built a unique pellet gun.
I bet demolition ranch would love to do that collab.
>do a build in the US so you aren't limited on power
That's fucked
@@ZigaZagu Why? If they can make it actually powerful here(US), than why not? I'd be interested to see how capable they can make one instead of being forced to tone it down because of Canadian laws.
I think the only thing that would really improve this aside from just increasing power would be adding rifling or a type of fletching on the ammunition to keep it from tumbling. It would be way more accurate
you can stabilize it with fins
So sort of like a sabot round
use flechettes, and maybe have a small capacitor bank connected to a magazine rail so you can use a mini railgun to accelerate the proyectile into the coils. Tho I dont know of a capacitor small enough and still have enough juice to be useful for that. Hmmm.
@@TheAshran You can't really mix rail guns and coil guns, because one needs a ferromagnetic projectile and the other won't work with a ferromagnetic one. If you want to pre-accelerate the projectile I would recommend a linear electric motor.
Also building a proper rifled barrel that runs the full length of the gun, maybe out of fiberglass or carbon, so that it doesn't interfere with the magnetic field too much would really improve the accuracy.
Making fins is also an idea, but difficult, as they need to fit in the mag and through the barrel.
@@TheAshran at that point it would just be simpler and cheaper to make the railgun bigger and more powerful
You can really tell on how creative this gun really is. You guys were amazing.
I love how this kind of destructive genius is directed at something relatively harmless
We need to put these guys on terraforming/colonization efforts. We’ll be a galactic civilization in a matter of days
@@TheCorrodedMan YES
@@TheCorrodedMan these guys need to be part of the military. Like not fighting, but just creating designs for weaponry.
a railgun, which is essencially what this is, is not safe. Still really cool tho
He made a prototype railgun… it’s non-lethal at this stage of development, but as he said it’s only his second attempt at a new weapon technology.
You need two sizes of coils so you can overlap them instead of having areas without magnetic field, like a slightly wider tube partially covering the end and beginning of the coils it's between. That should help.
Not necessary, though narrower segments (like 26 half width) and turning on the next coil earlier to make the pull stronger. More tumbling can be fixed with a smooth plastic barrel passing through all the coils as a single piece. Removing projectiles from the mag should be done magnetically, not with springs.
@@johndododoe1411 i was under the impression that the loading piston was actuated by a solenoid...
@@TheScarvig The magazine uses the spring system like in normal guns.
@@johndododoe1411 The springs in the mag push the rounds upwards, where a piston then shoves them into the barrel.
Even in normal firearms, the springs in the mag do not remove the cartridges- they push the rounds to where the bolt can pick them up and shove them into position.
while all of u wer discussing this, i was seeing how i cud pronounce his name
Canada: Lets Hacksmith Industries build a Mech
Also Canada: "No Magnet Guns for you!"
Thank Trudeau
Gotta love Canadian gun laws lol
Next thing you know they'll be taking our trucks away
@@jackv2054 The firearms manufacturing laws have been in place WAY before Trudeau was in office.
@@darkrootox A truck travelling at speed has far more joules of energy, so yep.
I'm genuinely excited for the future of small arms development. There's real companies attempting to make viable hand held rail gun type weapons. Maybe in my lifetime I'll be able to buy one to experience how different it is from regular firearms.
"Building the Coilgun was the easy part. What took us so long was relocating the Hacksmith workshop to our purpose-built artificial island in international waters off the coast of Newfoundland to circumvent Canadian weapon legislation."
I've not seen anyone so happy with their invention even though it's not entirely perfect. Charles brightened my day with his excitement!
This Halo-Thing is getting way better than I even thought! Great job!
I love Halo
Should build a Gauss warthog, those use coil gun tech instead of railgun gun tech. Also you could use the cars alternator, solar panels and thermocouple around the muzzle to recharge the capacitor bank. Additional charging could come from Regenerative braking and piezoelectric in the suspension.
Don't forget to toss in a couple wind turbines to get some extra power from the airflow around the vehicle as it moves around the battlefield
Charles REALLY has that mad genius look in his eyes the whole time while developing this thing. Pretty sure he would have just built it for free if given the parts lmao.
any sane engineer would
Engineer's are fueled by stimulants and the pure joy of something working correctly. Lock one in a room with all the parts to something and they'll probably finish it before trying to get out.
And he sounds like Ben Stiller too!
imagine a large scale version of this on the power loader
next video. we weaponised the power loader.
Canadian law says nay
@@extivus I'm sure they could build the parts and head south for assembly and filming! I'm reliably informed by the internet everything is legal in the US.
@@extivus just don’t listen to the law
We created Pacific Rim in real life
"Technology has advanced to the point where using any sort of black powder or explosive fuel seems downright silly"
And yet in Halo the UNSC still uses 7.62 for some reason.
Because batteries turn out to be even sillier.
@@absalomdraconis Yeah, but I've heard some gun nuts say that there's a reason the cartridge is less and less prominent even now.
They also use 10 Guage shotgun munitions I stand corrected its even more ridiculous its 8 Guage
@@Kai_Keller02 8 gauge actually
@@Kai_Keller02 Nay, its 8ga. Imagine the barrel width of a fig, persimmon or large strawberry.
Honestly it's one of my biggest (silly) gripes about Halo. This is supposed to be standard issue shotgun for humans as well as Spartans, but hell, I'd be hating myself, and life in general, if I had to actually carry and use one on a daily basis - though, I suppose, the weight will help offset some of it.
Also this is probably one of the coolest channels out there. I love seeing new technology
My only sadness in this video was knowing the whole time theres already a waayyy more powerful commercially available version, but considering the legal constraints yall have come up with an amazibg alternative, and knowing you guys i immagine this thing is capable of being turned up a few notches 😅
I remember a Demolition ranch video showing a small sized railgun which fires coin like projectiles 4 months ago
@@llamanodrama5432 Demolition ranch is in America though. So there is the biggest difference.
The main point is changing some sequencing maths and increasing the electricity.
Gib link
There doing this within those restrictions so imagine if they could make it as powerful as they wanted
I thought it looked a little low power for the theoretical abilities you could get from such a system. Only 5J of energy and such a low muzzle velocity restriction definitely is rough for such a project, though it did look very good. Maybe one day you guys can do a V3 build in the states where you don't need to worry about the same restrictions limiting how overkill you can go on the design. Best of luck on your future projects and progressing this design even further if you have the desire to.
152 m/s is still a lot, faster than even the fastest modern crossbows. 5 J is not a lot, but even that can do quite a lot. I think they need to decrease projectile weight to only 1 or 2 gramms.
@@kairi4640 Considering they probably live close to toronto or montreal they could just set something up in Michigan or Vermont and have it only be like an hour or two drive. Its legal everywhere in the US to build firearms at home with no need to inform the gov or any permits.
@@Nick-sx6jm as god intended 😎
@@Kaiwalski Once the NFA, ATF, and GCA are repealed and some federal reciprocity laws are put in place then it will be as God intended.
@@Nick-sx6jm bruh
Have you guys considered working with someone that has a firearms manufacturing license to build something beyond what Canadian laws would allow the normal person to make? It would be cool to see what you could come up with when not being limited by projectile energy laws.
Good old Canadia, can't even build a damn airgun without the glowies trying to lock you up.
@@spacebound1969 I mean it's a lot safer to live here then it is in the USA where everyone own guns so we don't mind it to much at all
@@Owy. any constitutional carry state is safer than Canada...
@@5002strokeforever you don't need a gun to be safe you just think you do
@@Owy. I believe we actually own more firearms per capita than the US does. It's just that most of our guns are actually used for hunting or target shooting rather than killing people.
You're also getting the projectial tumbling. The why modern guns over this is with rifling. Rifling allows the spin about length wise axis. Without a means get the projectile rotating the projectile will need to balanced over a 360 degree plane.
To help lower the weight the increase in the power of the solenoid to hit the projectile faster. Another option is a pressured gas (not as stable and could lead to wide range of starting speeds.) But by increasing the first coil speed you could get a faster speed (but Canada says no) or to maintain current speed lower the amount coils needed.
Fascinating. Came here from the “forgotten weapons” arcflash video. Looks like they used a bull pup design with a gap between the accelerator cascade and a… feeder accelerator. You mentioned not being able to feed them fast enough (initial velocity required into the cascade). I think that gap is how they are achieving that.
I got here because of the stormbreaker vid.
No matter how many different styles of railgun I see various UA-camrs build over the years, I'm always happy to see them as they tend to be pretty heckin awesome. That and you guys rarely fail to make items that are amazing to look at and cool :D
Makes you wonder why we don’t use them more in the military
This is a coilgun not a railgun.
@@kreigguardsman3355 for exactly the reasons this video detailed. They're big, heavy, and cumbersome. They're unreliable. They require an inordinate amount of electricity to accelerate projectiles to lethal velocity. And honestly, Gunpowder based weapons are just better, in every possible way.
The only time a rail/coil gun is better than a conventional gun is when we reach the ludicrous sizes involved in artillery, at which point the magnetic accelerator can actually impart similar force over the length of the barrel when you compare it to a gunpowder weapon of the same size.
@@blise518B There may be very few moving parts, but electrical components still fail. The Ammunition may be cheap, but the firing mechanism and construction of the weapon itself are not.
And there are no superconductors that can handle the heat things like this produce.
Still, none of that is the main issue. out of everything I said, power/portability ratio is the most important problem. You just can't pack enough juice into one of these things to rival gunpowder weapons and still maintain a portable size. Electrical work has improved over the years, yes, but it's not on that level.
@@kreigguardsman3355 gunpowder weapons: cheap, mass produced, reliable, tough, simple, compact, works 24/7 as long as you have ammo which is cheap and mass produced
coilgun (at least as shown in this prototype and most likely for others for at least the next few years): enormous, heavy, expensive, probably pretty delicate and would break if you dropped it or it rained or literally any weather event, doesn't have nearly as much power, requires electricity which you might not have enough of in the middle of some shithole jungle or desert to charge a hundred guns at a time (and if you did you would still leave a good portion of the troops weaponless for hours at a time)
like the original commenter said. pretty heckin awesome and amazing to look at and cool. that's it. they're not supposed to be actual things you would use irl
If this guy ever goes insane, he would probably make a alien spaceship and take over the world.
you guys were my inspiration to get into engineering, thank you for everything on this site truly
Notice the 117 likes. I can’t like this comment as I want to preserve it
Hmm for the next one, try having the batteries in the rear. Usually when I go target shooting, I place weights on the stock to offset the weight of the barrel, so it makes handling the rifle a lot easier. This looks very front heavy! Still VERY cool!
Some sort of combo cartridge that houses a battery and a rail magazine may be the best idea, you can store both in rear, and you get a fresh battery every time you reload ammo.
I was thinking that, for the time being, you could make straight up kevlar body armor and hide batteries in there. idk if that is viable though
If this people have the budget of America's military they would probably recreate halo irl
Reduce the number of turns and use more thicker gauge copper wire as u move upward in the coil assembly in the rail gun... It will cause the projectile to move more quicker per coil sets...
they mentioned they had to limit the projectile speed for legal reasons, but this would be awesome
as they mentioned they are legally limited to how good it's allowed to work. I have some ideas on how to get it super sonic as i'm sure they do as well but they ain't allowed to sadly. Aka it's a bit of a toy just cause they ain't allowed to make it scary
Also spin stabilisation or more aerodynamic bullets would be good its keyholeing pretty badly
@@lordhelix3252 bro that law is bullshit tho
@@shamarerskine3987 doesnt mean they can break it, laws are laws even if you thinj theyre stupid. They arent gonna broadcast themselves commiting a crime to millions of people on youtube
THE CHUCKY DOLL WITH "where is your chuck key?".... IM DYING!!!
Excellent build! Anti-climax is something you don't want. LOL
Lol
hahaha yep with $2 I can make something 100 X more powerful than that with some rubber bands. As for the technical aspect great work :)
I've been watching this channel since 2016 and how large they've scales their projects,equipment,and quality is truly incredible
I always like how they say, “Getting pretty heavy.” I’m like “Have you seen the guys who carry these weapons.”
Spartans can flip a tank, i'm not sure that a "pretty heavy" rifle is their biggest concern xd
lol spartans treat .50s like they are nerf guns, weight ain't an issue
This is fascinating, the key thing they aren't incorporating is making the bullet spin and rotate with rifling either at the end of the barrel or throughout.
This is literally the coolest thing ever. I literally have started trying to get into engineering recently because of these u guys. One day I might want to work at hacksmith lmaooo
Follow your dreams
Could a out of country gun be built plus use a steel/ plastic projectile?
FyI since projectile speed is increasing with each coil, you need to make each coil shorter for shorter pulse duration and higher current, due to the decrease in projectile field duration. This should also mean each coil operates at a higher voltage, so the magnetic field switches faster and to a higher value. If each coil was just 10 percent shorter than the previous one, it would increase your efficiency by a LOT. You can also switch from one polarity with a big cap to the opposite polarity from a smaller cap, to force field collapse when you need to transit out of the coil into the next one. The projectile's field will still be present and you can push it out while the next coil pulls. The caps for this can be really small in value, like 10 percent or less that of the pull capacitor, because their only purpose is to reverse the field.
Yes that makes sense also you need to 4x5 then (-65)+56=
Charles has that mad look in his eyes that is absolutely required for something this awesome, yet clearly, frustratingly complex. I like his demeanor. 10/10 would trust my sci-fi guns to.
Would seriously watch a whole Charles Channel
I like the guy , but the gun was pretty lame. They have built much more better and cooler stuff. This gun was just an evolved form an automatic nerf gun. Like brooooo , it could not get through a gummy bear. I expected it to be at the power of almost a real gun.
@@codeomatic4351 They literally explained why they couldn't do that. Because of Canadian law. He's a prominent figure with these *public* videos and doesn't want problems with their law enforcement.
And "engineering is hard." Esp. custom engineering.
master chief gives up for the first time reloading his weapon after YEARS 14:05
They said this in the board room "We need a new video" "okay, lets take marvel, and do NONE of that, HALO REACH" Love the videos guys, keep them coming! boaty mc boatface will be missed
Love therussianbadger reference.
"why should we hire you"
Mini rail gun
"You start on Monday"
Best skit ever.
This was really well done! Love it!
"It's probably way faster and more fun to plug them in and see if they explode" - electroboom would be proud
I would like to see y’all come to the USA and build one with out any predetermined limitations holding back the full potential of what this stroke of genuine genius could be.
Wouldn't the energy loss be averted by having a thin tube within the barrel that isn't affected by the magnetic field?
Other than that, looks cool af.
I wouldn't imagine much materials being able to withstand a metal rod rubbing against it at high speeds
@@jrasiy4048 Teflon
@@jrasiy4048 if it's rifled there should be no contact at all.
@@jrasiy4048 Just use aluminum, like with the main body, (or something with a higher melting point) there are lots of non magnetic metals that could work
That might make it a firearm, so it may not be worth it for legal reasons.
"Today, Charles and I sail out to international waters to create a fully-functional nuclear-powered railgun"
What's interesting is that we eventually can have smaller rounds that go further and impact harder than conventional cartridges.
Hello overpenetration! Smaller +faster = its own set of problems.
@@willb5278 Don't put logic into my fantasy! That would be a problem though, wouldn't it, lol.
@@willb5278 Idk, Overpenetration sounds like a good feature for a gun designed to kill aggressive Aliens...
@@heramaaroricon4738
Nope, overpenetration is when the projectile travels *through* your target. Putting a small hole in them, and a larger hole in the wall/ground behind them.
Damage takes energy, heating, burning, moving or ripping stuff takes Joules. A projectile that's too good at penetration will do surprisingly little damage to your target as it deposits most of its energy into whatever's behind them.
Considering people can survive having a limb blown off, sometimes you need to make a big hole to stop someone. The ideal projectile doesn't blast through the target, it hits em, then sticks in them. Depositing all its kinetic energy into the said target.
@@willb5278 Could throw a micro explosive that's detonated upon impact and call it a day tbh, although then your cost per round and risk of misfiring shoot up a lot more.
This guy is a real g for spending years to build this
Theoretically, how quickly do you think you could propel the projectile without the 152.4 meters/sec and 5.7 joule limitations? I wonder how much kinetic energy a hand held rail gun could generate in comparison to a traditional firearm of any given caliber. Thank you for doing this! I very much enjoyed watching your work. :)
you also gotta take into account the projectile used, its a rounded small probably steel rod, were they not under legal obligation, i'd expect it could do considerable damage.
simply by making the projectile pointed and finned, both increasing stability of it in flight as well as overall kinetic impact, Smaller point of impact greater focus of energy, making for a greater penetration capability.
overall it would be interesting albeit unwieldy and impractical. but an interesting thought nonthless, it wouldn't be ground breaking innovation but definitely an interesting and unique weapon.
There’s a company producing them check out forgotten weapons for their video but they got it to be comparable to a .22lr round
@@alexeipistoun9783 we're getting closer to greatness
@@Synthc4t Soon enough, hand held proper energy weapons for soldiers(laser weapons more specifically), then, we form the Empire of Man, and carry ourselves out among the stars and beyond. :O
@@Khornedevotee FOR THE EMPEROR!
Yea, I can see why you hired him. Clean and tidy build, very well done.
Barrel improvement idea: same thing you have here, except print the black coil frames/barrel segments with 100% infill (at least around the hole) and purposefully make the bore size too small. Assemble to the point of rigidity, then reem out (*cough* get a hydraulic ram and a rifling button set *cough*) the barrel to the correct size. You now have a segmented yet contiguous barrel (until you disassemble it at least). I would recommend using the strongest and hardest plastic you are able to print for this one.
NEEEEEEERRD
@@kryptos4812 Damn straight!
Hey Max,
This is certainly worth attempting next time i get a chance to build one!
These guys should honestly pitch some weapons at the military
Have you thought about taking advantage of the coil collapse energy to forward charge capacitors to boost the next coil in succession. Maybe a tripod mounted version.
I'm curious, do you mean the back EMF? I thought ideally there would be little energy left around the inductor as the magnetic field collapses when the core (bolt) absorbs the energy and converts it to kinetic but that would be impractical since you can't calibrate the driver timing perfectly I'd imagine?
Or are you talking of something completely different? Please elaborate.
imagine this hun with 10 times more power :O then it is for real the new future weapon :) Love it to see how some things out the future are so close to becoming real
The USA military is definitely working on something I mean they hide powerful laptops
Being here to see if I could possibly make one for my gun collection... imagine going to the range with a real life halo rifle 😳
If they can do this on a youtube channel, someone somewhere has already taken this to the next level behind very secure closed doors.
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@@richardscott28 Theres a company called Arcflash Labs that have been working on coilguns for a while now
Based on performance it's slightly more powerful than a BB gun, Imagine what they could build if they were actually trying to build one for military testing
It wouldn't work due to lack of a suitable power source.
The Canadian armed forces should just have commissioned the hacksmith and his team to build a full power version for evaluation as the next generation of standard infantry weapon system
@@scifirealism5943 even if we consider non portable power sources?
@@theredvelvetyfox8814 wouldn't work still.
It the stupid law
I love how they crammed hundreds of hours of engineering work into an 18 minute video
In addition to the tube to increase efficiency, you could make the magazine double-stacked since more projectiles=more fun
Problem is that might introduce some feed/reliability issues, considering it's already on the shadier end
Designing a double stacked magazine from scratch would take a while as well. Factor in reliability issues from the magazine with the reliability issues with feeding in general and you might get lucky to be able to feed one full mag out of every 30 or so without a jam. There is a reason why most firearms use the same magazines as their competitors, and that is design cost and tooling to manufacture the new design.
@@Bill_DeBerry ah yes, making an automatic coilgun definitely didn't take any time at all. Furthermore, I don't know what type of firearms you are looking at, but most rifles and pistols I've handled use different (generally double-stacked except in older/subcompact guns like the 1911 or glock 43) magazines from one another. Also, its not like they couldn't do the research into what makes a good double-stack mag. It's pretty clear these guys do a lot of homework for their builds.
@@jacobkeltz3584 That's true, but it's also clear their builds are mainly meant to be fun demonstrations of a concept being executed and not actually viable tools/weapons in their current state. A double-stack mag would be an unnecessary complication, one that an actual weapon would definitely have reason to overcome for the extra capacity, but one that provides a pretty minor increase in entertainment value for the effort it takes. Also I think when @Bill DeBerry was talking about magazine compatibility he was referring to glock and stanag mags being used across a wide variety of firearms, though of course that's not gonna be everything in the same caliber.
I love how you guys makes all those things, this makes me so exited to try build something my self!
But I still need to learn more things about physic and mechanic in engineering first
Why don't you make a circular accelerator to speed it up even more and then shoot it through the tangent
It's videos like this that both make me wish that I would have stuck with engineering in college, and also glad that I changed majors. Keep up the great work!
I love this guy's energy. He's kinda awkward, but it's in a fun kinda way.
Aren't they all kinda awkward 🤣 but i still love those vids cuz it's not the bad awkward type
@@burek_building I mean, you're not wrong. I guess it's just nice to see people that act like people, and not actors. We'd all be that awkward :)
Man now I want to see you guys build the Hydra MLRS
I thought that WAS the hydra
Yes
It’s the assault rifle I think.
@@Dragonclaw01 the hydra is the rocket launcher
This is very well made, however I feel that the MA5 Halo assault rifle would be replicated in an airsoft like fashion as the platform is more expandable, You guys did awesome with this replica and i hope to see more like it, keep up the good work!!!
How much you want to bet that if the Hacksmith was based in Texas their MA5 replica would fire actual 7.62x51 like it does in game/lore.
Murders in 2020. Australia: 396 Canada: 743 USA: 21,570 Hmmm I wonder why that is...
@@CheapCheerful the United States has a Population of 329.5 Million. Australia is 25.6 Million and Canada is 38 Million. Your Numbers are not a fair comparison.
Isn't it amazing how 'In The Hall of the Mountain King' by Edvard Grieg always makes construction montages seem so much more epic?
I want to say thank to filmmakers and game creators for INSPIRATION!
Your guys persistence and attention to detail is INSANE! Seriously it’s very inspiring to me, you’ve inspired me to stay persistent with a lot of projects I’ve done!
Do you do any form of waveform control on the coils? It would seem that it may be possible to control the fields so that all coils could contribute. It also looks like it is running open loop but if one were to sense the field and the disruption of the projectile running through the field more control would be possible. Once that was done, more shorter coils with finer control could be considered to maximize efficiency and energy transfer. Not sure of the potential gains but it would make for an interesting trade off study.
I think it would be more efficient if the coils at the back where smaller to reduce back emf from the fast projectile going trough it, this would increase the current consumption of these coils but it should be fine since they are energized for less time. Still looks sick tho
The coils nearest the user will actually be running longer per-length than the ones closer to the target, since the projectile won't be moving at it's final speed yet.
This was a really cool project. It would’ve been cool to see a covenant weapon for this, seeing as the Ma5 uses actual ammunition, but really cool to see still.
You guys are so good that the military is going to hire you to make weapons for them. Keep up the good work.
Can't imagine how frustrating and tedious it must have been to buff out every kink with every test fire and then in the end it still jams and heats up like crazy, looks absolutely incredible despite its faults though, appreciate the hard work that went into this ^w^
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Well, the heating is mostly a thing you can't avoid no matter what.
Every resistance will produce heat equivalent to the power that runs through it.
And since there is a metric **** ton of power running through those coils, you just sometimes have to accept that and run the thing for only so long at a time.
@@itwasntme967 even though the overheating portion is impractical, it coincides with the guns in the game overheating so it kinda works out
You should somehow take a trip South to the US, and test the gun at full power. Or have someone *in* the US build a replica and test it. See what you can really do with it.
I'm sure there's more complicated stuff to go through to do that, and I'm not sure it's even legal to transport that thing. I say it's worth looking into, though.
I have experience with magazines and aerodynamics. Consider different materials or shapes for the projectiles, as something slightly finned with a twist may function better for the purposes of firing out of a linear accelerator, and you can get around magazine feed issues by first, switching to a double-stacked magazine configuration which is yes, complicated and potentially costly, but increased spring pressure and feed lips that simply prevent the projectiles from spewing out into the action.
I have no experience in such a thing but I'm pretty sure adding fins and rotation to a coilgun-like aparatus is easier said than done, there's still chance of the projectile hitting the barrel itself and with fins it might make the accuracy worse if the angle of the projectile changes too much, maybe if there was a way to magnetically induce spin or even find a material smooth enough to make a smoothbore like barrel with little enough friction to be overcome by magnetism that might help. Or maybe making something like a compound projectile made of two materials forged in a helical pattern might help but I wouldnt know
Idk canada gun laws but i wonder if it would be possible for them to just buy a commercial double-stacked magazine and modify it for the flechettes.
@@rockyroadmagic4152 they could probably buy an empty magazine but then they'd have to get the measurements redone
@@Kiyodio They could use the standard pellet shape. Its aerodynamically stable.
16:40 you guys are like Superman but your only weakness is Canada 🇨🇦. 😂
This is really cool, I knew how a railgun works in theory but I thought it was impractical, now I know you can turn magnets off, it's really crazy what modern tech can do
Yup electromagnets are crazy.
This isn't a railgun, it's a coilgun.
Canadian gun laws only limit it to 10 000 J, so long as the projectile is
That is for firearms.
To be “Not a Firearm” the limit is 152m/s and 5.7J.
I do believe your average Joe is not legally allowed to manufacture firearms without firearm manufacturer licenses and all that. Probably costs a fortune in fees, and 5 years of paperwork, knowing this country. Likely too costly/too much hassle for a relatively small business that would rarely utilize it.
As long as the firearm is 1 the required length (18 inch barrel) 2 semi-automatic or manual(bolt, single shot, pump, ect.) And 3 has the proper magazine capacity, then anyone with a valid PAL can manufacturer it for personal use. Not exactly sure the rules for a company like hacksmith industries though.
A few problems I've noticed (disclaimer: I'm not saying it looks bad or is bad at all) the ammo counter area is too far forward, it is only black, unlike the in game version, the ammo counter is also really short, he tried to kill jega with two melees. It looks great though!
see in a apocalypse situation people like these guys would be so important
if you really want to get spicy, I'd recommend a laminated soft-iron wrap for the coils. If you had a better flux path you get get possibly order of magnitude improvements on your field strength. You'd need to do some inductance modeling to make sure you pulse length wouldn't be too long though...
"Look at what they have to do to replicate a fraction of my power"
- Misaka Mikoto, Railgun
Didn't expect a certain reference on this channel.
Awesome 🤩 we should test that against the Xenomorph
No
@@kerstinparker2920 Yes
@@pizzaeldante3446 But that would mean having to meet Xenomorphs.
I think you would just piss it off, I'd rather use bullets.
@@FunkMaster_J . Nuke it from Orbit .
The t-bagging had me dying lmao, incredible video
15:53 i love how this guy is wearing a plate carrier LOL
I think you might be able to boost the power of the rifle with a simple addition. Magnetic circuits obey Hopkinson's law, and the magnetic circuit includes the interior of the solenoid where the projectile travels, followed by the air surrounding the solenoid. You might be able to increase the reluctance of the circuit by wrapping the solenoids with muMetal sheet thereby significantly increasing the field in the circuit. I could be mistaken, but it would be easy to try. Another step would be to put a muMetal washer between each solonoid that would further shorten the path where the magnetic field had to travel through air.
16:20 Love how he just teabags on the paper after it falls over.
Can y'all imagine where you play Halo and your gun 🔫 gets jammed every other Magazine you put in.
😅😅😂😂
If you guys had another office like in the U.S. could/would you guys make a higher powered version? It would really cool to see how destructive you could make this. But this is so awesome to see and I really hope you guys do more iterations on this things cause it is awesome.
depends on how the AFT feels about it.
@@GovernmentalMoments Apparently civilian grade "railguns" do exist in the us under the name of E-Gun and coilgun and they aren't classified as a gun there,meaning you could build one there without worry
@@PirateCat822 oh yeah, i forgot about the E-gun
@@GovernmentalMoments Could just say it's a submission for one of those DARPA contests.
ATF: Oh yes, then by all means. Sorry to disturb you!
@@PirateCat822 Yep, not even blackpowder weapons are considered firearms here. We can have a full size cannon if we are so inclined.
I'm curious about the choice of the MA5 rather then the actual handheld railgun introduced in Halo 4 (i know it's not a railgun). Still a cool build either way
because iconic things get more clicks
Yeah it’s even more weird considering the speech about how gunpowder projectiles aren’t a thing in sci-fi when the MA5 uses modern rifle cartridges
I have to wonder at one point, when these things will become commonplace, with how these guys experiment a lot.
whenever you see a sci-fi movie and it’s some random scientist or engineer that made this amazing technology that ended up destroying the world, it’ll probably be these guys that become those guys
that is a real achievement for your entire team.
This is maybe my favourite Hacksmith project yet, I'm scared to think what you could achieve with more time & less regulations.