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I made a baseball bat that (pretty much) always hits home runs. It uses explosive charges to put an enormous amount of power into your swing. In this video I show how I designed it and all the unexpected trials and tribulations of getting something like this to work. It turned out to be really hard but the end result is so much fun I can't complain. I don't think it's possible to use this bat and not grin.
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I made a baseball bat that (pretty much) always hits home runs. It uses explosive charges to put an enormous amount of power into your swing. In this video I show how I designed it and all the unexpected trials and tribulations of getting something like this to work. It turned out to be really hard but the end result is so much fun I can't complain. I don't think it's possible to use this bat and not grin.
I built this with the new Tormach 24r check it out: hubs.ly/H0rSZY60
My next video is project is a device that can shoot a mask onto your face :) Click here if you want to subscribe: tinyurl.com/subscribe2SMH
Other tools and things that I think are great:
Wera allen keys 1000x better than el cheapos: amzn.to/2KlCb36
Wera allen keys (english): amzn.to/2RQUxNG
Cordless angle grinder - this thing will change your life: amzn.to/3cxrDdy
Dropped off ladder 20x and still going strong: amzn.to/2wO855g
Wera allen keys 1000x better than el cheapos: amzn.to/2KlCb36
Wera allen keys (english): amzn.to/2RQUxNG
Vise brake (highly recommend): amzn.to/3akCkhZ
20 ton press brake kit: amzn.to/2xw4fhL
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Hypertherm fine cut consumables (great for sheet metal) amzn.to/34SjMom
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The way he casually says “alright, let’s redesign and remake everything” shows the dedication he puts into his videos
Erik Inc it shows the money he has to enjoy life
@RamadaArtist He basically says it himself: he failed because the conditions of his test were not comparable with the conditions in the final device. So please tell me what the merrit was in blowing the final device up instead of finding the same mistake in the simulation he staged before (had he managed to simulate the conditions correctly)? Also just because there are different ways of defining success and failure and sometimes failure can be bent into a success, it does not mean that failure does not exist or always has a merrit. Which seems to be what the sellers of this "the real treasure is the friends we made along the way" BS want to sell above.
@Herr Schmidt I'm not sure in what world you live in that people just casually have access to physics simulators that can reliably calculate yield strength for various, and sometimes non-homogenous, materials; but if you could direct me to where I could find that software I'd be hugely appreciative. You're proposing he do what? Take all the design specifications, which he had to make anyway for the CNC machines, and put them through a supercomputer to find out if some wood might break when explosions happen? I'm almost 100% positive that whatever simulators that do exist and can handle this kind of complex composite physics interaction, would take *significantly* longer to compute than simply having the machines churn the pieces out and testing it by hand. This is exactly why the concept of "rapid prototyping" exists, and it's a strategy that most "successful" innovators and businesses regularly implement. If the thing you want to build or design is any less complex than, say, rocket science, it's usually cheaper and quicker to just make a mock-up almost version of the thing and see how that works. This is especially true when you're working with tools like CNC machines, because part of the process of building your prototype will be finding out how viable it is to *actually* produce it at scale. Like, in electrical engineering, you can design an ideal circuit to your hearts content, but when it actually comes to printing microchips, the physical realities of the material demand that it take a certain shape, and you'll only know how easy it is to produce it in large quantity if you actually do a test production. For high end semiconductors, like the kind that go into multicore CPUs and $10,000 graphics cards and, you know, actual super computers, you may only have a production yield of something like 25%. Most of the chips will "fail" to some degree, because actually printing them is a delicate process taking place at a microscopic scale and a lot of things can go wrong. But this is why Intel has ten dozen different offerings in whatever their current generation of CPU production is, because some of those "failed" chips will still work, but with fewer active cores, or at a lower processing frequency, and so they get sold as second and third tier products. Further, the notion of "success" to begin with is much more nebulous and intractable than you seem to think. For example, the AIM-54 Phoenix missile is considered to be one of the most "successful" long range air-to-air interception weapons ever fielded by the US military. On paper, it's perfect for what it was designed for, which is to let a Navy fighter shoot down a half dozen nuclear bombers from 200 kilometers away. In testing, it regularly outperformed any existing long range air-to-air missile. As it was built, the *only* platform which can actually use the AIM-54 is the F-14 Tomcat. Of all the other things that the Navy and the Airforce fly, only the F-14 had the proper avionics to use the AIM-54, and when the F-14 was retired the AIM-54 went with it. Which means, despite being in service for 30 years in the US military, the AIM-54 has never actually scored a kill for a Navy fighter. It was never, "successfully" used by the United States. It was actually fired in combat by US forces a handful of times, but it only ever saw use against other fighters, which weren't the intended target, and none of them scored kills. The US in total made about 4500 of these missiles (at half a million dollars each,) and over the span of 30 years, had exactly zero successful kills in live combat. For something that was deemed to be a "success," the AIM-54 was mostly two billion dollars worth of wasted potential, because the thing that it was "successful" at, turned out to not actually be the kind of threat air-to-air fighters would be encountering. Oh, other than the fact that the US sold a few hundred of the missiles along with some modified F-14s to Iran, back before the Islamic Revolution. Since the Revolution, Iran has actually used the AIM-54 somewhat regularly, notably during its war with Iraq. So, this design, while conceptually successful, in implementation, was only ever used to effect by enemies of the people who built it in the first place, and was otherwise just three decades and billions of dollars worth of busy work. So the definition of successful appears to me, not as readily objective as you seem to want it to be. Success always has to be defined within some context, but only the most narrow of perspectives allow clearly delineated "succeed" and "fail" states. If one looks at any effort through a broader lens, and recognizes its relation to the encompassing network of systems that every actual decision is made with, you start to see that there are connections of a profound amount of "failed" attempts, by other people, or coming from a different approach, that will inevitably contribute to any actual function of success.
@RamadaArtist True. A fail state depends on the chosen approach. But in a trial and error method the fail state is not the error. So succeeding without failing within the context of the method is absolutely possible. In this case it would have saved time to test the material using the expected force in a simulation rather than finishing all final parts. But only when considering the final device. For the video it made sense to have it fail in a spectacular way. So very obviously the idea of failure - and therefore wasted time - depends very much on the context. Which is why those absolute statements about "the way being the goal" and shit like that are absolutely pointless and derive from the minds of people who need a simpleton's excuse for wasting time and ressources.
@Herr Schmidt Failure and failed attempts to produce something are only wasted time if they don't contribute to net outcome. If you fail at something 100 times, but when you succeed it yields a ten thousand fold positive outcome, then all of the failed attempts are worthwhile in generating the successful one. Always being successful is only possible in disciplines that are already well established and have highly structured parameters. Any attempt to do something innovative, or creative at all, to produce something new, is almost inevitably strewn with failure. If you aren't failing at least some of the time, you either aren't pushing yourself to the extent of your potential, or you're doing something that is functionally mundane. Failure is way of learning limits, and it's helpful in determining the scope of a project or creation; if certain attempts fail, generally they fail for a reason, and critical analysis of that yields insight into how to improve or into refining the intention of whatever you're after. Failure is only wasted time if you don't have the ability to think critically about what and how that failure happened. You need to analyze unsuccessful attempts to determine more precisely what success is, and should, look like.
"Want to play baseball?" "Sure, just let me reload my bat"
Would like but at 444
Loved the "Maker shoots wife with bat?"
Imagine if you saw a fight going down with weapons, and suddenly one guy starts RELOADING his bat, you know stuff is going down.
@Gortalla yikers, thanks for the heads-up
@Relentless_Shotgun oh that’s from rwby, I would recommend not going to find the fandom or show, they both suck, a lot
sounds like the one blender weapon i saw that is a gun, a scythe and a halberd at the same time if someone knows what fandom that thing comes from please enlighten me
This guy at a gun shop: "I need some 556" Gunshop owner: "Ah, what are ya carrying?" This guy: "Custom Louisville Slugger"
@Sen That is absolutely a thing in the fallout universe
Anyone else get fallout vibes from this?
Ah yes the "Slugger" that'll $15 bucks
Thats a badass name for a shotgun, maybe
"I googled until I found someone who said bats used to be maede out of pine." hahahahahahaha
@Giratus 25 ?
@misguidedsaint 3 ?
@Geoff Press ?
Until
Dude your builds are insane.
He should build a Golf Club. Go all Happy Gilmore.
nice
Collaborateeeeee
And the dedication to it! This video took months at least, from receiving the equipment to building everything twice.. but the result it's amazing. Can't wait to see v2.
Nice
awesome. would love to see this on a juiced baseball, or official Rawlings gameball - I think the storebought practice balls you're using have much more hollow cores and rubber skin for safe casual play, but a tightly wound string core in a leather ball could clear the trees I imagine!
"Tacticle reload!" "But you have a bat?" "*reloads*"
Tacticle: Army balls?
@Gunsmith gaming op
A melee weapon with ammo. Interesting.
Haha casey
as a mechanical engineering student, you inspire me more than my professors. I wish I can be your intern or assistant or even better, adopt me.
Notice how he said “This looks survivable” like it’s a bad thing.
@KeyboardWrecker yes they do
Dead people don't sue
That was AWESOME. I really want to see this coupled with the Smarter Every Day home run machine. :)
My thoughts exactly!
That's amazing! Love the CNC wood router. I've got one too, though way smaller. Hope to see more videos using that sweet new toy.
I am incredibly jealous of the machines you have. Man I wish I had a garage I could put stuff like that in.
I love your contents. I wish I had a fraction of your geniuses
Lots of efforts put in into these videos🔥
Imagine you break into this dude’s house and hear “I like your cut G” and he explodes your head with a bunt
@first name lastname “oh sorry that was a foul” -Socks
When you go to a massage place that cracks your neck and they snap your neck with scp 173
YOU PICKED DA WRONG HOUSE FA-OOOL
The last thing you hear is the taco bell ringing and at that moment you know it's all over.
🤣
That’s definitely a home protection device 😂
Just found this channel. You’re awesome man. Im kind of a jack of all trades myself but you’re another level. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
You’re an absolutely brilliant individual. Thank you for making these videos. They are amazing.
Hey I'd really low to know the science/physics/mechanics involved all of your projects. I have been watching your vids non-stop for the past couple of days. Thank you!
Awesome. We should hang out.
I managed to not hit a home run. I just hit the ball with the handle instead.
The beginning of a legendary friendship
PLEASE YES PLEASE
What if you three and mark rober did a collab
Combine it with the supersonic baseball cannon and make the worlds highest level game
It amazes me how smart you are. I can't even imagine being able to make something like that!
Saw your redesigned metal contraption and the high speed footage with SamrterEveryDay. You guys rock. What a great workshop. Subscribed and looking forward to your future endeavors.
Seems like a great example of something that's extremely simple in principle, but actually developing it to withstand the energies involved is something else.
What an amazing skill set this guy has!
This man is literally the definition of “work smarter, not harder”
Having actually watched the video, I'm inclined to disagree. This video was an example of an exercise in futility.
Except at this point it is probably easier to just hit the ball harder
@Lance Cyber lol
Looked up the definition and this guy wasn't in here. You mean, "figuratively" ?
"Literally" No. False. Wrong.
I feel like if this man played D&D, he’d play an Artificer every time
Just discovered your channel. You are incredible man !
Love that you made a shelf for it. Nice display for a cool creation.
You're doing crazy stuff, but you just sound so matter of fact - I love it. Thank you for your content.
Surprised you felt safe enough to test that without a flak jacket on. Imagine just one screw flying out at 2500 fps.
@ryzyble you didn't say thank you :(
Bro I'm stupid. I read fps as frames per second until I read these comments. Even as an american, metric is so much better.
That's a fast computer
fps
ryzyble ...it’s feet per second, in airsoft or real firearms you measure the speed of the projectile in feet per second l
I love the tactical crocs for fending off a home intruder. Seriously love your videos and humor.
That was fun to tag along on your experiment. Thank you so much for sharing with us. :)
I had an idea now when I was rewatching these - how about making a "pump action bat"? No need to have full 3-4 blanks power, just one blank would be enough, but with rapid deployment. It'd also be cool if you could perfect the blank powered axe. Something like that might be kinda fun and useful when dealing with big, tough logs, although I do realize that it'd be devastating if a swing misses and hits your leg...
I always wondered how people can afford those incredible expensive machines xD im a million years away to buy one of those
Imagine going to the park and seeing a man hit dingers off a tee with a wooden bat with the worst batting stance
@行屍走肉 I know exactly 0 people who have ever held a bat (for sports purposes) in their life.
LMFAOOOOOOOOOO
@Michael McCoy Yeah the grip he had on the bat made me want to cry.
I gotta imagine he has at least _one_ friend that can swing a bat right? Maybe growing up in Boston I know a disproportionate amount of baseball lovers but I feel like everyone has one friend that could demonstrate this bad boy better.
@kegpdc As a golfer I can attest to that
You know I just started watching your videos and they are great. Tonight my 5 year old son and are watching this one and he also liked it. Thanks!
... i would so enjoy to go such a path... but my excuse: i miss the knowledge, the tools and everything else for that i guess Its so amazing that u do all that by yourself... coding.. designing... cutting and everything else Thanks for making us see everything step by step
This is what’s great about guys! The level of commitment and skill is incredible.... YES, this lady wants to see what happens with 3!!!
5:25 Mass in grams, speed in mph, distance in feet, inches and millimetres, volume in millilitres, area in mm^2... **clenches fists and sweats profusely**
@The Black Baron the "imperial system" is a bunch of units designed specifically for one scenario mushed together and slightly standardized by the us govt. For instance the pica, a unit equal to 1/6 of an inch, initially seems stupid, but it existed for use in print shops long before it was incorporated into the system and standardized to exactly 1/6 of an inch. Whereas the metric system was designed all at once. Your "drink mathmatician" comment is a pretty unfair comparison imo.
@The Black Baron it doesn't really matter these days. You can input it all in a computer and it will handle it just fine.
Have you ever heard of an intersystem volumetric area flow rate? Something like "cubic foot per square meter second".
@The Black Baron wait no I'm stupid
The metric system is better, especially for scientific purposes. Also it hasn't been made by a drink mathematician rolling dive for values.
The most American sport finally found a way to incorporate guns. Ladies and gents we have reached peak Merica... Beautiful
@a diamond sword oh yeah
@Melting Colors That Don’t Blend hmm I wonder why
I mean baseball isn’t that American anymore. I more so think about Japan when talking about baseball
@Samantha Blaisdell y'all say this shit then wear confederate flags lmao
That is definitely incredible home defense for a bat.
Very cool invention and entertaining video. While some older bats were made out of pine, they were probably made out of pine with tighter growth rings and no knots.
When you finally get the extended mag mod for your bat.
Obviously the engineering is insane but the video editing skills are impressive as well
"Let me know if you're interested in a redesign wh-" YES, you can do like 10 videos with this bat.