Real Life MARIO KART! (One Day Build)

Hi guys! You've been asking for more one-day setups, so Bogdan and I will have a day off to motorize these drift trikes and then have a race. And to do so, we've partnered with Litheli Tools, which makes amazing lithium-ion power tools for landscaping. A few months ago, Litheli Tools sent us their full line of lithium-ion power tools. Now, while the tools are great for landscaping, we are not a landscaping company. We will assemble them and use the motors to power these drift tricycles. In addition, they have sent us so many batteries that we will be able to run without stopping.

Alright, Bogdan, we'll do a one-day

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and motorize some drift trikes and then race them. Litheli sent us all these tools. So... What tools do you want? Alright, my favorite tool is an angle grinder. Then I take the chainsaws. Yes, chainsaws are basically angle grinders. And you guys know I have a certain affinity for anything jet-powered, so I'm going to use all these leaf blowers to power my drift trike! I know exactly what he's going to do. These leaf blowers will be amazing! My plan is to mount the three leaf blowers on the back of the tricycle, which will give me momentum when pedaling.

But! To make it more interesting, I'm going to give it the ability to drift, so what I'm going to do is put them all on a pivot, so that when you turn the steering wheel, the leaf blowers spin in the opposite direction to the direction we're turning to. put you in that drift, so hypothetically this means that every time you turn, it will drift, hopefully, it will work. So the reason I chose chainsaws is because they will have a lot of torque, especially considering they run on lithium. Hello James! Hey! Hey! Guess who has the top gun now?

James: What are we not? Bogdan: It's the ultimate weapon! James: That's the chainsaw from Dead Rising. We're

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ing drift trikes! Bogdan: That's a lot less fun. Before we start, we should figure out how much thrust these leaf blowers actually produce, so I broke the scale and now I'm holding the leaf blower and hypothetically, if I shoot it down, it should produce... About two. pounds of thrust, so... That's

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ly not much, but it's nice that it has three, which should be a whopping six pounds of thrust. It's

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ly not much, but I think it will work. It's my toolbox. escape!

We don't need these parts. We have already finished! So, I need to build a small platform to mount all three of, that can also rotate. Each leaf blower must rotate on the plate. I need... Baby Lazy Susan's, excursion to Rona! So the nice thing about chainsaws is that they actually have a sprocket on the end to run the chain, so I'm hoping we can have some kind of chain to replace this and just make the rear wheels chain driven. Let's start a nice and powerful engine. Chain. I have to give him his bike back so he doesn't even know we were here.

Did you receive paint? Why do they need paint? Wait, this is for something else. We need wheels. So, they didn't have the Lazy Susans, but when I was in Rona I thought, What if we used wheels and took the wheel off? And luckily, we have wheels! This could work because we could bend them, screw them and then... Yes. Step one: remove the nuts. Step two: we must remove the wheels. So the question is how can we fold them evenly and without ruining everything? Now I just have to do that two more times. Alright, I'm done with my caster wheel bearings.

Which means all I have to do is assemble them. Look at that, a securely mounted spinning boy. So we have two actual sets of sprockets for a

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. Wait, where is half of our sprockets? Did they take half of our sprockets? Where is my wheel? Where is my wheel? Where the hell did he put my wheel? Oh my God, James... We just have to set it up right there. That's how it's supposed to be. If I can machine the center of this, then I should basically be able to take it, weld it right there, and put a C-clip in there.

Okay, I need to machine that to fit this. So now I have a sprocket here, I just machined it. A couple of welds there. Let's see if they fit. That fits very well. Alright, what I'm going to do now is add an extra switch line to each of these that comes out of it and that I can then connect to a master switch so that with the push of a button I can turn on all 3 blowers. of leaves. Let's weld them. Alright, there's one done below the next one. To power the tricycle, all we have to do is connect these three cables to the three leaf blowers.

And then you put this in your mouth and as long as you touch your tongue between the two contacts, you'll go. Wow, there's voltage running through it! So these things have a safety trigger to make sure you really want to turn it on, and we'll just strap it on. There we go, now it turns on. My engine modules are complete! Hi Bogdan, look at my engine modules! Look at that hair! Alright, we've got this one that's a 62, hopefully it fits inside the wheel without the chain scraping the floor, which will be pretty unfortunate. And then I got this 58.

Let's model them, throw the wheel in there, make some brackets and put everything together. Let's cut this with the plasma cutter. They're not the brightest pieces I've ever made, but I think they'll hold up. We need some spacers, we need some screws that size to make sure everything lines up right. And if one works, then we can do the second one, otherwise we will change the design. James stop touching my things Oh my god! I don't even want to walk away from my workbench just because when I return I'll be missing my tools. THEY ARE BOTH MISSING!

Where-I saw you-. I know they are somewhere around here. Should we try all three at the same time? Works! Hahaha! Fantastic move on to the next step. Let's get rid of this thing that's in the way. I want to keep it DIY. Then we should opt for wood. So we have this little bracket on the side and now we should be able to mount our gears on it. That's a wheel. The chain fits quite well, it should be able to turn very well. Now let's hope it fits on the bike. It wobbles quite a bit, but it's a drift trike, it should be fine.

All we have to do now is drill three holes! Let's set those up... like this. Then all we have to do is make a link bar through them and we're ready to go! Alright, James is back to work, it looks like they already have the electronics finished, but you know what? The design of it was flawed from the start, so I'm not too worried. Still driving! Let's put the chains there. I don't know what I was thinking when I attached this. Getting closer! It's starting to take shape! Check it out! Look. In. That. Moment of truth.

We should be able to mount this here, we'll just cut it out. Look, if I were James, I'd hold him there and call him done. Now that that's done, let's put it all back together and see if we can handle this thing. I can't believe his works. So I just need a small switch. To the welding room! And how do I mount this on this? Tada! And ready to go. Oh! This isn't even my final form! I think we need both of you here. Okay, I think I'm going to use these. So if I'm drifting I can turn on one and then the other or both.

I wired up the switch for the animal controls, so we should be able to turn it on and see if it turns and test it. Very good, that's it! Let's see what she can do. No, not the Cybertruck! Alright, I call that a success. Let's ride these! That's all. Run tomorrow... That's pretty epic, but not as epic as our Patreon supporters and YouTube members who help ensure we can continue creating these amazing projects for you! Did you know that YouTube members and Patreon followers get early access to our videos, plus our followers also get access to most of our CAD designs, get access to private channels on our Discord server, receive a weekly newsletter about what is happening at Hacksmith Industries?

You can vote on new projects, receive exclusive invitations to events at Hacksmith Industries, and more! Many thanks to all our latest YouTube members and Patreon followers. It's thanks to people like you who help ensure we can continue making these amazing videos for the world to enjoy. James: Whoa! I'm getting faster! Bogdan: Oh no! A banana got stuck to the wheel. James: I win! Alright, that worked a lot better than I thought, I thought it would work. The leaf blowers were definitely the best option in this drift trike race and I really liked how it had this linkage that really helps redirect thrust as direction and when I was racing it really helped me because when coming out of a drift.

I could actually straighten myself out and this would help me stop drifting and continue forward. The other beauty was that they are leaf blowers, basically, the faster you go, it keeps increasing because it's a constant of about three Newtons of force, the thrust comes out the back. So I was able to keep accelerating while Bogdan reached top speed and that's why I was almost able to lap him at the end of the race. Well, obviously I'm a little upset that I didn't win. I definitely think this design had the potential to do that. I'm pretty happy with how the change turned out.

I think the proportions are pretty decent and the tension. In fact, the chain turned out very, very well and everything is very solid. Unfortunately, these chainsaws are designed to spin a chain at high speeds and even with the gear ratios, they really get stressed when I'm going to turn or when I'm trying to go a little slower because the clutch is slipping. So if I were to fix some of the design or make future modifications I would definitely lock up that clutch, it would take a little more power out of the engine, but I think the Litheli power tools could handle it and hopefully give me a little more power in those slow speeds and allows me to accelerate a little faster.

Alright, it was an awesome one day hackathon competition, if you like it let us know in the comments below, it was a lot of fun and I think we could have a lot more fun if we do it with more team members and more engineers in a future video , so let us know in the comments if you want to check it out, and once again, a big thank you to Litheli Tools for sending us all these awesome power tools. Plus, you can get 15% off your tools and the free USB adapter by clicking the link below; These tools are Hacksmith approved.

Now it's time to take it on the road. Although James won the race, I spent some time modifying my design and soldering the clutches to show the true power of the Litheli tools. And the good thing is that we have an extra one so we can put it on James' bike and have a fair race.