NODE ADULT PINEWOOD DERBY 2020

today is our

pinewood

derby

day and we're doing this because when we were kids we always had little art projects, you know, making a little painting, building a little

pinewood

derby

car, look back at them right now and Do you think I could have done this much better if I had brought the skills I have as an

adult

? Today we are doing it. Let's re-approach this with everything we know today. How do we get a small wooden car? Get down a track as quickly as possible (that part is actually very simple, but we'll let everyone figure it out as we go.

I never got around to making one of these as a kid. My intention here is to build the car that I think I would have made when I was 8 or 10 years old, so using this block of wood we have to create a car. Do I need to design it? I don't want to design it too much. Mercedes racing cars are nice. Great, I've never built anything before except the desks we put up here, but I still never had to use a saw. I'm going to cut my hand. I know. I knew it. I don't have much experience in stores. but I have no workshop experience I took performance art in college this is my plan I don't have all the time to get into a first place car everyone is trying to get their first place car I'm going to get a last place car I want to break out a world record and what is the fastest thing I can think of to break a world record?

Pencils. I'm just not a big fan of cars, so I'm actually going to go with an animal or an object, but turning it into a car my initial thought is that I'm going to make a shark. Hopefully I can do something that I can completely crash and maybe even get first place. I think I can do it with this. It would be really cool to be able to do that. actually have wheel wells so the body is above the wheels, but I don't know if I can achieve this. I'm going to get a last place car, the least effort car, it's just a block of the wheels and then on top of it there's a sail and I hope I can catch the wind.

I'm going to turn my derby into a turtle. Honestly, I see a mask there that looks like it could be a turtle shell. I'm going to imagine. However, it will be beautiful and I will win. I have my body. I have my wheels. I think it's about creating a spoiler and then painting it, so what I wanted to do is not do anything to the actual pine forest. block, so this is what I did. I 3D printed something a little ridiculous that I haven't shown to Natalie yet, so I want to see her reaction because it's the silliest thing but also kind of funny, basically my Pinewood Derby car is one wheel. uh I have 3D printed, if I press the switch here, it's hidden, oh look, that's a cool look.

I know a lot of the guys put all kinds of effort into their Pinewood Derby car, but I'm the only one who's really into it. The spirit of the Pinewood Derby race, I mean, I did this with my daughter Eliza, she picked the color and I did the design. You know, she has all the markings of a championship car. Here I was accidentally trying to fix something and stabbed my thumb. right here on this stick that somehow didn't break somehow the super glue I don't know but I started bleeding well you know I'm going to put that on the boat and I put it on the front I broke the curse and now I think my secret objective will be achieved, big reveal right now, okay, let's see if this works well, you're ready, so the idea is that it just slides in here and I have no idea if this will fit, but I hope it does.

God it's perfect it's perfect you've got the sweet paint job that screams precision and speed so in the real Pinewood derby they have a mechanism on the track that releases since this is rubbish with the derby I'm going to shoot with a ruler, I think it's a pretty even, yeah, that will work for our first race today, we're going to pit Jordan against Clint, what are the names of your vehicles that you're racing? Mine, franklin, franklin, well, frank franklin the turtle, what special features or abilities does your car have? have love, compassion, he doesn't have a mouth so that doesn't get in the way of his problems, he won't catch any bugs along the way, super cool and Clint, this is potty water and it's ready to roll. toilet paper sails has an anchor on the back that drags back but what happens if you get caught and then if the anchor gets snagged we have little cannons coming out the sides and also my blood once, once , a bath of my personal blood, well, okay, let's see?

Who wins? Do I leave that anchor hanging? Yes, I let the anger hang. I'm ready. Alright. Three two a break, come on, come on, that was amazing. What we saw was Jordan's turtle car jumping off the track to try to follow in Clint's footsteps. It didn't work, she jumped, she literally crossed the finish line on my side, how, oh, it's your anchor, Clint, your anchor went the other way, she sabotaged me, I don't know, she jumped before, so, yeah, I think in this one case the turtle really did it. I won't win the race. Very predictable Turtle after a very disturbing Clint victory.

Now we have Matt and Christian taking the next spots. Christian, tell us a little about your car and what it's called. This is Bruce whose motto is uh, fishing, our friends. It's not food, I just let bruce go, that's cool, you got a little cut on your jaw in the front, there we go right now, I like the casual name, you know, we had franklin, bruce, franklin, maybe we'll get a jeff or a steve uh anyway so don't tell us about your car this is my pine wood derby car with one wheel and it's called purple rain and it has built in lighting i don't know the lights make things go fast you I'll let him call it uh tails heads I'll take the right side since Clinton just went that way we'll see if that has anything to do with it okay let's do it if I decide to do a pelvic thrust I can get rid of all this competition it's a lot of pressure ready let's go , bruce three, two, one, rice, come on, try to go with the previous winner's side, but my boy jumped the track, one will beat me, let's take a look at how this went, very good, and even at the beginning, Nascar definitely It's gaining a little bit there big bumps big bumps huge bump it was great all I saw was on the right side or the left side you can still win and you will lose if you go next to Clint because he was my anchor. i never touched your vehicle look at the tape circumstances happened things happen you know it's weird because now I just don't know what to think because we had a first derailment on the left side and then this round there's a derailment on the right side so there's like a number garbage uniform and you know what they say if you shoot first you're last well that was clear, nascar was very well designed next we have nick, we have matt, tell us about your car, well this is the fastest number in the world. two pencils and by the way it also works it's a pencil that works well you can sign the giant victory check that we gave you is this the pencil making contest okay nick let's look at this bonus it looks like we have a wrapped slice of gorgonzola or something here This is Philip or Felipe, the Arab emperor Philip, you could say it's a Roman-themed car.

We have a small silver coin from Philip himself there to guide the car with the power of the Roman empire. Wow, I hope that guides my car to victory. Okay, this is all cool or whatever, but let's see how he runs upside down on which side of the track you want, well, I mean they're both equally reliable, okay, I'm going with the left side, he better not lose with this damn wedge of cheese. ready let's go here we go three yes two one let's go good game good game the second collapse of the roman empire i feel good so we saw what real pencils can do next it's me and jared jared tell us about your car first my car's name Dragon Fire and I'm against Sam's theory about age and experience since I did this when I was 10 years old.

You didn't use the same kit as us. That's true. I feel a little intimidated. because you have such a streamlined shape very low to the ground, well I have a cool car here, it's just a nice racing car, I love racing cars, it's called a racing car, you know, it has windows, an engine and a spoiler, let's see what happens. see what's up heads please since it's which side of the jackpot I'm going to go with the right side okay I'm so nervous who knows how a 27 year old car will do I mean that makes me classic, right? three two one race my worst fear has come true.

I have to face Clint and his super streamlined boat, his super streamlined car, so this one's name is Doug. Hell yeah, these are the real names we want. Doug will guide me. to victory here, although I have some tough competition with the flexible padded cool steel urinal, the anchor plays an important role, heads, heads, which side would you like? I want the right side, it's the side I didn't want while other people did. at recess i was studying fluid mechanics there's no way i'm losing this one three two one bruce there just wasn't enough free space that's all that happened was just you picked the wrong seven yeah come on come on we're running three two one race yeah yeah yeah yeah right here right here right here no matter how well built your car is all it needs to do is hit a pothole tell me it was the anchors it goes fast it goes fast and then something happened oh it's in a hurry.

My paddle was supposed to get the air out instead of trying to slide, but it wasn't, no, it wasn't the paddle, I think you have some water to go to the bathroom, yeah, you really know you're right and then Clint won in a fair victory. with ss potty water next we have the previous victor nat versus jake hey jake has a car i did this with my daughter eliza she chose the colors this one is for her and we'll see how it turns out i'm afraid since her car has been touched by the magic of a child I have no chance in hell heads let's go to the left side ready three two one I actually didn't expect it to be so straight you had the smoothest run of the day look you're glued to the track that kid match you keeps down I literally have sales and an anchor and somehow I made it to the semi-finals this is a great example of how this clue is the deciding factor I'm winning the toss and I choose the left side let's call okay go for it queues wait , who's home, he said, I said, he's calling him, oh, that's what I call him, oh no, we said anyway, oh, come on, redo, you got queues, get out of here, he called him after It's queues, right, yeah, I don't.

I don't even want to think about it I'm not going to win this I'm not going to win this there's no way to win this don't be so humble quinn I want to see the race beyond the finish line I want to see Matt cry ready three two one race oh, Come on, come on, yes, that's right, that's my friend and there will be the end, that's all she wrote, the faithful voyage, I lost the rudder, a crew of 40 did not survive rough seas, dark and stormy waters, at least write to myself. the finals j j solutions here and we're here to give you the winning formula because one of these cars I don't know which one is going to win this whole tournament okay let's flip a coin tails jerry what's up um I'm going to change it.

I'm going to go on the left side. I'm a little nervous about this. This should be a really real competition. Yes, you are fighting the man who runs on the best side of the track with a no. -Standard car, okay, here we go, ready, two, one run. You know, I have a feeling that 27 years is too long to maintain that magic. Wow, she is running like a champ. That's all I have to say about it. Jerry, choose the right side. the track, but there is something that always happens to the cars that run on that side and it happens at the end right here, you see I stayed on the track, the first person to cross the finish line on that left side, this brings us Until the final showdown, who knew these two would be the best cars of the day.

We all wish you the best and really hope one of you wins. I think it's very likely that it's one of us. staying good here we go to the final tails it doesn't matter right side right side crushing friend look look I'm sad because I made your car number two but it says number two let's say number two so I wrote I got into that man well, well, well, I was hoping it would come off the track any second, yeah well that was a really fun tank with derby, can't wait to race this again, maybe design another one too.

Matt is going to do it. He writes a list of all the YouTubers we want to face in a Pinewood Derby tournament. Now contact them on Twitter. Contact them on YouTube. Let them know that here at Node we want to compete with them. The list will continue like this. There's another one, oh yeah, that's going to be a lot of fun, yeah, yeah, oh I know, I forgot, yeah, yeah, okay, anyway, if you guys are interested in us competing against any of these people for prizes, let us know.