Self-Kickflipping Skateboard!

Hey Hacksmith, do a kickflip! Hey guys, in this episode of Mak. In this episode of Make It Real we made an all-electric

skateboard

that can do a kickflip on command, which means... All I have to do is press this button. Man, this game takes me back in time. I played Tony Hawk's pro skater all the time in elementary school. When I heard that Activision was releasing Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2 Remastered, I almost had a nostalgic heart attack, and then when Activision reached out to ask if we could build an I. kick

skateboard

for game launch. Well, my 10 year old

self

wouldn't believe what I'm doing today.

Now I was never able to do a kickflip in the past. I wonder if I can make one now. Come on, skater, James! Alright, if I want to do a kickflip soon, I'll need this board to do two different things. Number one: it needs to drive it

self

. Number two: you need to be able to do a kickflip, now get it to drive itself, that's the easy part. You can get DIY electric skateboard kits online pretty easily, you need a speed controller battery and then we have this microcontroller. The challenging part here is that we want to be able to control it with a PlayStation 4 controller, which means we need to communicate with the board via bluetooth.

Hi Ben, do you think you can do that for me? - That...? Alright, now the fun part. I need to figure out how to do this kickflip. Alright, test number one, let's show that we can do a kickflip by putting a certain amount of force on one of the bottom edges of the board, so I hope I keep it up. triple kick flip first try it good, that's good, let's see what else we can try Oh, it's getting more power, let's try something a little more explosive. Perfect oxy-acetylene balloon, safety first guys. Okay, that's not going to work either, we need some more serious firepower, so this g. -The Class Rocket Engine is the largest rocket engine you can buy without needing a professional rocket license.

I strapped two of these to my wrists to try to fly like Iron Man, so I think I might be able to make this thing flip. I think for this one we should probably salt because uh- yeah, rocket engines. Now it's armed, which means that when I press this big red button, that rocket and hopefully the skateboard is doing a kickflip 3... 2... 1... Fire! HOOOOOLY- That's a world record that was like uh- I don't even know what you call numbers that high. Okay, now we have the airbag 3... 2... 1... I mean, I guess that's it. It worked, it flipped over but I don't know how we are going to mount it to the bottom of a board.

I have it! Springs! Alright Ben, what do you have for me? I have the hub motors communicating with the electric skateboard speed controllers and they are being controlled by an arduino that has been paired with this ps4 controller. Here, try it. Maybe it's not so difficult. Okay, yeah. ! Alright, I can work with this. I'm going to take this and put it on a skateboard in the meantime. I need you to make a giant mouse trap. -That? Awesome Alright I have all the parts now we just need to build an electric skateboard so the deck is actually an official Birdhouse Tony Hawk deck made for the game which is cool so let's start putting it together.

Hey, that must be the 3D printer. Very good. We have our electronic box straight from the 3D printer, which means we are ready to install it. Now we can install the electronics, so we'll start with the charging port. For more information on how the auto-flip circuit works, see our page. at maker.io [Disclaimer Hacksmith industries digi-key and activision are not responsible you build your own self care flipping the skateboard you get hurt using it the team here are professionals who often get hurt and believe me, it sucks to get hurt] We didn't do it In Actually, we have a switch that had a high enough current rating for the battery, so we're actually using a battery connector as our main power switch and it connects here, so we have some lights: blue light, blue light , green. light, it's going to work Ha ha!

It's done, let's try it! Crazy air! Alright, that was awesome, now we just have to turn it around. I have to go see Ben and see how my mousetrap idea is going. Alright, Ben sent me a design for his metal mouse trap. Let's take a look. Turn it on, it looks like a skateboard. Here it is. the kick twist mechanism, we have two really big springs, oh look at that, I think it's actually the archery trigger we used on Spider-Man's web-shooting project with JT, which didn't work out so well. I hope we have better luck. This time when you remove them it should do a kickflip, but wait, how do you do a kickflip?

Well, it's good that I have the remastered edition of Tony Hawk's pro skater 1+2, let's try it! There are links in the description below if you want to try it yourself. Alright, to do a kick flip on Tony Hawk's pro skater, all you have to do is hold down the jump button and then press the flip button while holding left and bam kickflip 360 flip! This is exactly how we are going to do our skateboard kickflip too, but let's be serious. Alright, let's build this. This is the largest torsion spring you can buy on the market and it's not big enough, so we're going to make our To do that, we're going to use this spring steel which is incredibly difficult to bend, so we're going to use this mandrel on the lathe and then we will feed it.

Alright, it's time to assemble our steel mouse trap. Alright, it's built, let's try it out. Oh God, this is terrifying. I have it! Say goodbye can C4 We're doing it! It was not that bad? This could send plastic fragments back to people. And that, kids, is why you don't make a metal mousetrap. Well, we have the mechanism of the kick mouse trap, which means we just have to install it and plug it in. in... Alright, that's the last screw, which means, try it. This thing is terrifying! Alright, let's see if it does a kickflip. That was incredibly sweet!

It works perfectly. Now we just need to put some grip tape here and be ready for the big test. Alright, today is the day I will learn how to kickflip using an auto kickflip skateboard. It should be as simple as jumping in the air by pressing the button and then landing on the board again OOOOHHHHHH! THAT?! My first kickflip at 30 years old! My first kick flip at age 30! Two for two Wait, I'm getting a call Dude, it's Tony Hawk! Hi James, I'm Tony Hawk. I just want to congratulate you on your first kickflip at 30 years old.

I know you didn't necessarily do it yourself, but you did it because you designed a board that would do it for you, so I'm impressed. Um, I never thought I'd see the day when a board flipped over on its own, so congratulations on that, it actually sounds a little scary, but you did it, I saw it, congratulations! Thanks Tony! That was Tony Hawk! So let's try it in the store, let's see how it works in real life Alright, let's try a double kickflip Yes!!! Hey Hacksmith, do a kickflip! Alright this is an awesome build, big thanks to Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2 Remastered Edition for sponsoring this video.

Check it out at the links in the description below. Let's see if I can kick right here.