BIONIC ARM = MAXIMUM STRENGTH (Crysis Nanosuit IRL)

Very interesting! I love the look of the pneumatic muscles but it does seem like the restricted ROM is a limiting factor to the designs functionality but all in all dope project! Would be awesome to explore different ways of augmented strength enhancement! Also good discussion at the end of the video addressing the pros and cons can’t wait to see what you guys come up with for a future exo suit 😱

Let's just be happy he's enjoying making content instead of taking over the world

“Muscles are pretty useless without your bones”
Heart: “am I a joke to you?”

13:12 that's a bionic bicep tear over there

This mans gonna be the death of us when the military gets ahold of these ideas

A LOOOOONG time ago (1980's), there was a company working on artificial muscles, but instead of mechanical or pneumatic or hydraulic they used photo-reactive material. What happened is that when this material was exposed to light it contracted exactly like a muscle. I followed the project for a while, but it failed because they couldn't get a fiber-optic switching system good enough. I've always thought it should be re-attempted as fiber-optic switches have come a LONG way. You would basically have to recreate the human nervous system, but the system would have the benefit of not being slow and clunky like the suit demonstrated here.

Bully: You're just a Weak Nerd
Charles: Ight someone hand me the Pneumatic Muscles

15:32 What a save. Turned that girly scream into an excited WOO!

I love the education aspect this show has! what went right, vs what went wrong. I love this channel, such an awesome job you all do

"we're a real engineer company now, we've even got the sign", that's all they needed.

:Scientists: This technology is centuries away
:A few Canadians in a garage: Observe

As a die hard fan of crysis series, your computer with crytek theme was mesmerizing. Almost made me cry that crysis got under your radar. It was a very underrated game with graphics truly ahead of its time

"Him lifting 100 pounds with exoskeleton arm"
"World's strongest man :/ "

It's funny how Mjolnir broke the bionic arm. Seems as if the Norse gods themselves are saying 'you are not worthy.'

About what you said in the beginning of the video:
I remember when i found this channel a few years ago. After watching a few videos, i thought "this channel probably has millions of subscribers". When i looked at the number i was shocked to see it well under 1 million. Its great that this channel has become so big

Something important about the Crysis suit is how big it is. The soldiers are quite small, and Prophet or Psycho in the suit are really tall. The suit is really bigger, it's really possible.

Each time I come to this channel I'm just blown away by the creativity and determination and inspiration the best channel I've ever seen can't wait for more like this

Hacksmith: * does thing*
U.S. military: * furiously taking notes*

Y’all just need to have Charles narrate the videos. He has an announcer voice and it absolutely brings it all together 😂

With defense spending and allocation, something like this can very easily be upgraded. So, no worries guys, you made do with what you have - kudos for that.
And... this kind of an external arm would need a support structure connecting to the ground and taking the pressure of the rest of the body I.e., an Exoskeleton in short. But all in all, good job guys!

15:31 This dude was so strong, he broke the arm. He must have super strength💪😂

Hacksmith: don’t try this at home
Me: we dont have this at home

2007: can it run crysis?
2020: can we make crysis?

If you make some kind of leg exoskeleton, it could be more effective as it is larger meaning the suit can too, and the leg is already strong. It could also be directly connected to something on the back, with weights on the front to balance.

Man I love that guys voice why does he sound like he’s a movie narrative MAN that’s an amazing voice

Charles and Bogdan when James survives their second murder attempt of the video: B****, how dare you still live?!

I can already imagine having an automatic machine that puts my body into working out while I'm unconscious.

I love you guys so much you make me feel like there is no limit to the imagination or what we can make keep inspiring

First half of the video I was waiting, waiting, waiting for the part where they made the back and hip harness to make sure the shoulder wasn't the weakest link.
Mr. Hacksmith, you're super lucky it didn't go worse.

Is it just me or has the cinemtography has improved so much lately.

It feels just like yesterday you were making the “Will it laser” videos, and the flip videos. It’s been a nice journey...

This guy and his script delivery were great. Awesome project 🤘

It’s been 5 years that I haven’t watched u and.... wow I’m speechless u and ur channel have grower up so much like.... OMG

"One part down. Just 86 left." I feel that on a spiritual level. Sometimes at work we have to build boards from scratch like that. We call them "Build-a-Bears", and they take a looooong time to get done.

Young James looks like Steve Rogers before the serum

This was really cool.
I was wondering though. They mentioned the inflatable tube for the muscle can expand a bit, what if the outer steel covering was a wider circumference to start with? Sure you might only be able to hold 1-2 tubes on each side due to space, but youd get a couple more inches of lift. And instead of the muscle ends being connected next to each other, have them more in a circular bind like how actual muscles are? And then just account for inflation space.

now make a full body combat exoskeleton with this

Hacksmith 2020: Today we're making bionic arm
Hacksmith 2040: Today we're making a portal to universe 32

I just wanna see the day he combines all his projects into one
(Exoskeleton, AI, IR vison, thermal vision, flying, etc)

just an idea but if you guys were to use Nitinol instead of stainless steel, the suit would be EXTREMELY stronger. loved the video! (Nitinol also acts as a memory metal and can be flexible and remember different motions)

Curious to see how carbon nanotubes would work in exosuit tech. I feel like it would be narly. However getting the material at least from what I know at the moment would cost an arm and a leg. But one could possibly try to make it, just would take alot of time and effort.

After James try’s to kill his team, the team tries to kill him...........

Lets just appreciate how james went from looking like peter parker to steve rogers

I think he deserved more subs for making these insane videos!!

I am so happy that the technology of artificial muscles is gaining more attention!

15:51 Haha I know what that feels like. I was once building a compressed air cannon for a science project. It was actually pretty powerful. We could throw a golf ball very far. Anyway, as we were testing it one of the first times (without awareness it was going to be that effective) I spotted an air leak in one of the connections of the tubes we had. I got close and tried to pull them together, but it exploded and I became deaf for 20 seconds. One of the best experiences of my life.

Charles' voice is so deep it makes the Mariana trench look shallow

You guys are building the future. How would you guys create a whole exosuit? Love what you guys do.

This looks awesome! Do you guys think you could make a full-body exoskeleton that would be slim? It would have a back and legs so you could lift things easier, but still be not clunky

Make It Real Idea: Throwable Taser Discs that stick to people

Damn, wish I found this video sooner because I used these actuators in my master's thesis to build a prosthetic limb for transtibial amputees. You guys did a great job but these muscles can be way more powerful than what you showed if you vary things like length, bladder diameter, and wall thickness. I was using much smaller actuators and I was able to achieve comparable strength to your larger actuators. I was also able to get much more of a contraction by messing with the parameters I mentioned above. The most difficult part of these actuators is how you secure the ends (I think you found that out the hard way) and as part of my thesis we came up with a clever way to weave the actuator at the ends to increase its durability. I highly encourage you guys to revisit this topic because I definitely think you're only scratching the surface with these actuators. I'd be willing to answer any questions you guys have or try to point you in the right direction.

Imagine them building an actual armored exosuit that can amplify the physical body using technology.

After playing Crysis 2 over with a texture mod, gotta say you guys even nailed the look. way to go guys rad stuff

18:05 the motion of lifting is a full body motion when he lifted the tool cart for example it would also put strain on his legs and back as you can see from his foot stance and how he was sort of hunched over. The device takes the stress of his bicep but ideally you would require a full body of this with an exo skeleton to move more weight safely. This is really good start though I’m not criticising at all.

He has had that prototype in his pocket the entire time.

When the muscles broke i felt so smug because i had been saying it out loud when seeing the end product.
"This is risky, it could be exactly like EVERY scifi book about exo-skeles and mech suits i have ever read. It breaks someones arm or spine." Which almost happened!
The first prototype suit or armor always kills the first wearer in scifi books. Glad that didn´t happen here. I kinda guessed nothing would happen because then it wouldn´t have been here on KRplus. But it is scary to imagine what damage that preasure could do it something snapped and your arm basically got pulled in any direction.

Made me remember the prophet suit in the crysis 3 😌.

Definitely looking forward to the "future exoskeletons and future pneumatic projects"! Keep up the good work and innovation!

God, this feels like it was made ages ago, but yet it’s so fresh.

I would love to see an entire suit of this

people in the 19s: there’s gonna be flying cars in 2020
people in 2020: yeah, there’s no way we’re reaching that any time soon.
hacksmith: *MAXIMUM ARMOR.* *MAXIMUM SPEED.* *MAXIMUM STRENGTH.*

Finally a machine to help me bring in all the groceries at once

James is the king of making our wildest dreams come true.

The thumbnail James face has more super strength than the bionic arm

James:"We dont care for prototypes but make the reall thing": Me: thats what i love about these guys

LOVE the talk about the reality of R&D!! So many kids growing up watching everything look perfect on vids that have been edited (please keep editing, that’s important too!) and not realizing the struggle and work that goes into real accomplishments!! Amazing wrap up!! Keep up the awesome work!! You learn more from your failures than successes 😍🇨🇦 and happy Canada day!

This mans cause of death will be astounding. 🤣 I jumped so hard when the muscle exploded while he was arm wrestling.

If you want to prevent muscle explosion make a steel bearer that has different diameter at different lengths of the pipe.
When it get pressurized it looks exactly like crysis nanosuit muscles

That “can it run crysis” joke is gonna fly past so many people

Watching the black and white explanation clip on the muscles made me feel like I was watching an old bill nye science video, love the work you guys do, keep it up

Make a “Giant Suit”
Basically a human driven full body version of this thing

Can we just talk about how smooth that clip was at 2:24?

Piece by piece, video by video, they're building their own iron man suit.

Just waiting now for the “cloak engaged” Crysis project.

Thanks. My brain is rattleing now. Thinking of ways to approve your design. had some excellent ideas, but as you mentioned money is a factor. I definitely couldn't do better, besides you had a whole team to think this through.

Idk why this was recommended to me but you seem like a nice guy, cheers

Plot Twist: the suit doesnt actually work. He is just insanely strong

Welp, guess I'll wait another 20 minutes until I can go to sleep.

I have an idea. Earlier today, I was actually reading this article about a kind of artificial muscle created by some people at MIT that appears to be much more powerful than the kinds of artificial muscles in this videos. I think that a future video idea could be modyfing this prototype to work with the MIT muscles

What I want to make: (iron man suit)
Where I give up: myeh can’t find red paint

I liked the “teaching you something” type video format you did in this video

"Wait a minute that muscles inside of James."

Hi. Like watching your project builds. I would like to hear what you think the possibilities would be getting more arm motion if you use a multi stage pneumatic muscle system that works regulated.

If you used thick cloth like cotton, some good seam sewing, and maybe some stretch bands or something (maybe tiny wire coils/springs), I bet the 'softness' could take place. I always thought about making one, since I would work in the warehouse.

Bionic arm muscle: explodes
James: WOOOOOOHHHH!!!

I love the post mortem at the end. I think you guys should impliment more of that in the vids. Kinda like the q&a but only covering what went right and wrong and how you'd improve it.

this dude charles has such great comedic timing and delivery

could you make a sleeve that you put on your arm, made out of miniaturized pneumatic muscles using sensors to tell the sleeve which ones to retract, for when you move your arm so that there's flexibility and strength?

2019: OMG HE LOOKS LIKE CAPTAIN AMERICA
2020: OMG HE LOOKS LIKE WOLVERINE

"But Can it run Crysis? No, it cannot"
Just like everyone's computers when the game launched

This is a great invention spent some time and make it a future

You asked the other day about a project that somebody would like to see done I have one! A star trec Phaser built off of hyper sonic pulse energy

This should be narrated like How It's Made

I do not know if that sound at 15:30 was James or the hose, but it sounded like some kind of animal mating call.

Somebody: ahhh, i can't open this jar...
James: that's a really important issue, take this and open it

dude you are insane!!! you arelike all super heros in 1. just think of it.
luke skywalker
spider man
crysis guy
iorn man
captian america
thor
and even docter strange!.
you should make the big daddy drill from boi shock2 that would be insane. probalby a simple build but would be pretty sweet to have a weopen from a under water city named rapter

I like Charles, seems legit lol. He should definitely do some voice over work or something too

The Hacksmith is pretty much a tech university at this moment in time..

Have you thought of using any meta-materials? Like the metal that contracts with heat. Great show. The world needs more people like you, pushing the boundaries of science.

Just subscribed, notifications bell on!!! This was epic