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I think you got to stop breaking your bones you know I just have a small hinge that I may be a good idea

Try some sticker wheels bro

You know, why didn't you put suspension on the wheels, so when the ball goes through, the grip of the wheel grabs and expands out to maximize forces in grip and when it goes out, it pushes the ball out maximizing everything to the limit. I underatand that makes it to where it could make it more dangerous and unbalance forces, but I mean. If it works it works

combine this with worlds strongest baseball bat machine

@Joseph Cribb 7 Please 7i

There must've been rotator cuff injuries after making this video. LOL. Tyler is one hell of a pitcher! If you get hit by that ball, expect broken ribs. Great video guys.

@Grumpy I play club baseball in college and throw 80 so you’ll find a lot of D1 players who can hit 90

Actually it might not break them, but definitely seriously bruise them, but i almost got hit by a 60mph fastball in the ankle and that would have broken it

@TheDullNull lol I don’t think it’s very common to find a 90 mph pitcher but I still don’t plan on playing baseball

Now think deeper and replace the Baseballs with Live Grenades

I don't feel like playing sports for a long time now

Lovely bit of engineering, good job Ian! Pity you didn't quite reach your goal, but to be fair, accelerating a baseball to 140mph by friction over a contact distance of only ~5-10cm is a pretty crazy ask. Maybe a sequence of flywheels for v2? Or just take the easy way out and go pneumatic... or even solid propellant ;)

Or rubber wheels ....

“As long as I don’t cross this line, I should be fine, right?” Famous last words.

Ian's discussion feels so much more genuine and passionate than the acting in other recent videos. It brings me back to what the Hacksmith channel used to be like years ago. Awesome video!

I’ve actually built something like this in the past. One of the rotating wheels has to be sprung loaded agains the ball - so the passage of the ball pushes past the rollers. The spinning of the wheels is enough to feed the ball through. I hope that makes sense? I actually used gravity acting on a swing arm that held the motor and the wheel but a spring could be used instead.

not going to lie, not exactly how i thought james broke his hand lol

I thought he would’ve been swinging at the machines ball

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"As long as outside this line, it wont hurt me right?" "Hopefully" Luck had enough of James, so it struck back in the form of a 91mph fastball

Eeeee

I'd love to see you revisit this and get the ball to 140, maybe some type of sabot. That might solve the irregular shape and surface deformation problem. You'd need some type of system to stop the sabot flying down range.

It's insane that after all these crazy projects the thing that injures James is a human thrown baseball. I hope you enjoy your much deserved vacation.

Been hit like that before. Didn't break but damn painful.

actually it’s probably the most dangerous

I no right!

Yeah… :( I hope he enjoyed his vacation though! :D

@Jack T no jlazer made it almost perfectly

Hacksmith: has handle some of the most dangerous equipment ever made and is fine Baseball: I'm bouta end this mans whole career

“Iron Man, Captain America, Spider Man, but not all hero’s wear capes.” …none of the hero’s you mentioned wear capes lol

Eeeeee

😂😂😂 *right*

He was trying to say that heroes all don’t where capes eg: iron man, cap and spider man

@Gear Bangin' Entertainment no it wasn’t, he wasn’t trying to make a joke out of that

What he did having to take it apart several times is what I call pulling a me, because that happens to me every single time I try and build something. Actually, it happens to me whenever I actually put any sort of effort into almost anything.

"I can tell ya, it fuckin hurts" - The Hacksmith

Get it on a tshirt

To be fair, as awful as it is that it happened. The fact that anyone rarely gets injured at Hacksmith industries is a testament in of itself :)

@Roran04 this guy

@_Plain crazy Lizark_ To what part do you refer?

@Infinity Timer oh believe me, I know this. Its simple physics that if any object connects fast enough to your head it could kill you. Heck think about this, a piece of foam was able to move fast enough to take down a space shuttle 😶

@Jared Trainor that was a joke

@Jared Trainor I mean hey don't underestimate baseballs a good throw to the head is enough to potentially kill someone that is why they wear helmets.

I would love to see this combined with Stuff Made Here’s explosive baseball bat

Yes Omg Imagine the distance

baseball players: look what they have to do to mimic a fraction of my power

@Ian this looks really cool. I'm digging the engineer vibe from this vid. Hope James feels better soon.

Hey Ian, what about swapping out the wheels with some sort of tripple belt driven system? Could reduce rotational weight and also allow more prolonged contact with the ball to actually get it to speed and reduce slippage.

I would like to see this versus Stuff Made Here's explosive bat.

That would be the only baseball game I would watch.

@Pascal i thought this was a video to go up against that bat

HELL YEAH

Why would they compete? Why not collaborate to make a baseball launcher capable of sending a baseball to space?

OMG YYESSS

Good sport on James for not blaming the Pitcher.

Very cool! So many things one could try out to improve the design. I think the slipping is caused by the ball dropping too slowly onto the wheels and then the fast spinning wheels only have a millisecond or so to accelerate the ball. So you could try out to have the balls drop faster onto the wheels already (airpressure?) or increase the time it takes to accelerate the ball. So perhaps 3 sets of wheels each with increasing speed would accelerate the ball more gently and also be able to put more energy in it.

I appreciate that you show the iteration process and looks amazing. Get well Hacksmith

When you aim it at 45 degrees you can see the balls going to the back of the pipe .you should of included a spring mechanism that would keep pushing the balls to the pushing rotating gear that way you can also shoot while aiming at 45 degrees

James: let’s test this Real Life Protosaber without anything to protect myself and not get injured Also James : gets injured by a baseball Me: Are lightsabers safer than baseballs?

to be fair he wasnt throwing a lightsaber, wait, when will we get throwable lightsabers?

Yes’nt

Statistically, there have been more injurys by baseballs then real light sabers so...yes

Yes because they have the only existing lightsaber...

@Quasi Magic well if you made it hot enough to melt steel definitely not

I may be a bit late, however, there is a wheel in competitive robotics called a compliant wheel, which is a wheel that can comply to the shape of the object it is rolling on. Using a medium to lower durometer compliant wheel would help with the traction problem you are having without the need to rebuild the entire setup.

The model of the cannon really reminds me the model for the RYNO V from Ratchet and Clank. It would be super cool to take some iconic weapons from that game and to make it real! Love the content your doing!

That throw went exactly how I thought it would. 0 athletic bones in his body lol

I'd love to see a video where you increase the acceleration distance. A rail-gun arrangement with rows of smaller motors might not tear the ball apart so much.

I knew at first that those kind of wheels will be the problem. I think a simple conventional air filled wheels will do the job, but it'll be a bit heavier and maybe that's the point, portability. Still a really really cool project🔥

for indexing the balls out of the hopper one at a time you could probably make a simpler setup that uses the same mechanism as pinball machines - Wintergatan did a video not too long ago on his newer marble feed gates that used the same design. They look like super-wide-mouthed pacmans. Also you might have less of an issue with the balls getting shredded if you gradually accelerated them. A baseball normally gets accelerated from zero to a hundred over the whole arc of a thrower's arm motion - you might want to maybe have several wheel sizes, geared together so they spin at the same rotational speed but increasing surface travel speeds. One set would pitch to the next set basically. If you can get ~70mph increase per set of wheels without it stripping the covers off, that's only 3 sets of wheels to get over 200mph.

James broke his hand taking a 90 mph baseball to the hand. Kinda impressed tbh

Sick build Ian! I just wish you could have gotten the ball up to 140 or at least 90mph!

Awesome process! I'd also love to dumpster dive at an engineering shop like this 😂

Thanks for entertaining me during quarantine if it wasn't for your videos I would be going insane

You really outdid yourselves on the edit on this one. Great job!

You need to tack them up with some clay or what they call "dyno sauce" for car and motorcycle dynamometers or something. Do that, use regular hardness balls, and then set the motors to max except the bottom left one (from shooter's perspective) which should be at half, for the ultimate curveball.

The nerf modding community has been dealing with similar problems for YEARS, I'm sure there's already a solution to get those balls launching harder, Concave wheels are just ONE, also using softer balls would probably help too, but you might have to consider having 2 stages of flywheels, the first stages gets the ball going, then the second stage really kicks the speed up a notch.

@Rattytherat you're a springer/ HPA stop aren't you? :P but for real, I doubt a baseball would seal properly in a barrel with the stitching and everything, probably barrel-drag problems too, flywheels are probably the best option for launching a baseball at high velocity.

Or just use compressed air to get a smooth acceleration

@Discitus have you heaed of the backyard scientist

@ninjafruitchilled froging rail gun

@Discitus things have come a long way in the last couple of years, flywheels have reached new heights. While denser foam may be used, the harder tips have fallen out of favor quite a bit

Gotta admit it was hilarious watching them pitch. :P I feel a lot less bad about my 82 lol.

Tip for the next time (for you and anyone reading this). Hold your hand up high to limit the amount of swelling, that should make it easier to put the cast on later.

The build starts around 6:14

The lead guy on this video is my favorite Hacksmith engineer. Seems like a cool guy

"As long as i don't cross this line I'll be fine right" famous last words

@True Success imagine knowing nothing about baseball or even how to see things when they pitch you and still going to batting some balls I played as a teen but I still would be scared with that kind of speed lol

Exactly what got me:-D the only one cautious was the only one hurt.

soo unexpected hitlol

Your are the closest thing to mythbusters thank you for make me relive those crazy experiment. Damn I miss that show. But your doing a incredible jobs keep it up

your video intros just bring goosebumps ..........absolutely love your work 😊

Maybe automatic feed into a slower flywheel before ejection? Giving the ball a little speed before it hits the big flywheels won’t subject the ball to such crazy acceleration and friction. Might just have to have two sets of flywheels. Great idea! Wish I had that in little league!

You guys got my thumb up once i've seen that infinite number of itterationS you made and being honnest!! many project dont necesarely go always well!.. and you also show that to us.. nobody is perfect that's what make the world diversity!.

Professional pitchers: Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power

@Jim shit bro- you killed the “it’s copied” dude!!

to be fair he wasn't using pine tar/stickum

Lmao thats the first thing I thought when I saw this

*double

Yep. Tesla got ripped off.

@HacksmithIndustries I am making a ping pong shooter using your same concept. Could you please mention (in percentage) the rpm of my motor to achieve max distance and force for the ball to travel ? Motor 1 (Top) : Motor 2 (Bottom left): Motor 3 (Bottom right):

I’ve worked in my own shop self-employed for years solving all kinds of weird problems like this… And I love my job and wouldn’t want to do anything else. But you guys have it made because you get to spend time with lifelong friends and share the experience! You’re truly living the dream!

I like how informative this was/is.

I think that in fully automatic a legend could aim for the 3rd ball using the first 2 to predict where and when it would be, getting a single chance at a very difficult but arguably possible play. I think 3 separate individual shots are better against someone with that strategy in mind, being arguably impossible to hit unless one could use the action of whoever triggering the device to fire for timing and I honestly don't know how you'd get the location accurate but only getting lucky in one way to hit is still better than 2.

I was watching this and I thought "isn't James' hand broken?" And not ten seconds later is the very moment he broke it

I was like expecting to see "thank god James recovered " in the comments and then things happened

Make something so powerful that you're afraid to turn it up all the way

This is one over engineered pitching machine. Really cool video!

You could try the frame but use springs to push the wheels. That way it can grip them without being too tight

Thanks for that Ian. You might not have managed it in mph, but got it in KPH.

I used to be able to hit 70 when I played baseball and throw that fast too, but it's been a few years since I've even been on a field. I kind of miss it, but then I remember the last time I played.

I recommend a hand guard for the front hand. Edit: also try spiked wheels for better grip.

To fix the balls getting chewed up by the wheels, increase the feed speed, not the feed rate though. So have 6 wheels total, 3 slower ones feeding into 3 fast ones

If you try to use a rim and tire setup instead with them a bit closer together. The tire will compress slightly increasing the contact surface dramatically. This may solve your problems.

I love how it looks like none of them have ever thrown a ball

@Doug McBoat yeah you can see in his leg position,and how he fall after his swing that's very bad, I played baseball in my teens years but I would be scared with that pitch, don't know why he made that decision

All of them except maybe on guy had terrible baseball mechanics.

I thought that was kinda funny, haha

@Mountiangoat888 Doesn't know? That's an understatement. His back foot was so badly placed that the moment he stepped up to the plate I figured he'd somehow get hurt. How are you supposed to step into a swing if your initial stance is already that angled and far apart?

In addition to that, James really doesn't look like he knows the batter "ready" position.

Softer wheels for more contact area. Bigger contact patch more friction less fried balls.

I have been watching the channel for a long time, LOVE THE PROJECTS

my suggestion would be to use softer wheels like small tires with low air pressure. By doing this it would increase surface friction without damaging the ball

damn this is probably the coolest design you guys have ever made

James swung like the kid who doesn't want to be there

@Hello world didnt someone make that already

@KaboomGaming 42 yaa

@Hello world jlaservideo made it, i think

His stance though 🤦

@Hello world search it some one did it already not exactly the movie one but it worked

great job.. a couple of points.. number one.. your wheel on the top should actually be positioned on the bottom .. the way a ball is thrown the pitcher creates backspin going from the bottom forward on the ball not the top.. second.. by putting a heavily textured surface on the wheels will increase the friction giving greater velocity.. and third by using a softer ball you are hurting the performance of the "pitch" a harder ball will not absorb as much of the energy creating less of a damping effect on the kinetic energy....

You need to do a two stages launcher; first stage pushes the ball at half speed to the second stage that propells the ball to the maximum speed, or using a belt corridor propeller instead of wheels

Oh boi, the endless possibilities with this machine 🤤

I think a fair amount of pro baseball players train with either a pitching machine closer in to provide “over speed” training or use a tennis ball launcher at well over 100mph.

I was expecting something else for that broke hand like a a circular saw, a test on another deadly weapon or even falling from high level while testing something like spider man or someone else gadget, but not a baseball throw. But that means that guy throwing is a real Beast, you played with fire !!

I would love to use that for baseball practice

He took that hit like a champ. Get well soon!

Maybe it would work better if you had a second set of wheels before the main wheels to pre accelerate it. So the main wheels don't need as much friction force to accelerate the ball and stop them from burning it up.

Ian is a perfect best friend. "Wow, you really got hurt and we got it in 4K! Wanna see it?"

So was everything launched soft balls or just the ones being swung at? I'd really like to see that thing launch a big steel ball coated in rubber for grip.

The wheels need to have some give to them to keep them from shredding the ball. Look at pitching machines. And what wheels they use. Would love to see a version 2.

Me playing competitive baseball and watching y'all swing is killing me!

That thing is definitely a unique weapon in a fallout game. Reminds me of the bowling ball launcher in far harbor

try looking into the wheels they use on pitching/jugg machines. they're huge wheels but they work for this kinda thing

I like how they wear protective gear for the baseball machine even though the balls go slower than a professional mba pitcher

I'm not an engineer, but I think you should've put "shock breakers" or some kind of big springs on each of the wheels, so that the wheel would adjust to the ball's width and pinch the ball when it came through. So there would be less scraping? IDK, just a thought.

Love how James was the only one who showed fear of the ball and he was the one who got hurt

Seeing that finger break sent shivers down my spine

Please make yondu's arrow , guys please make this visible to them

@Phavian P just Report...

@905 sensei Don't care

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In one of the slow Mo shots after firing the baseball, you could see the 3 rubber marks where the wheels came into contact. from it being shot out of such a high velocity lol.

I think this is perhaps of one of your most realistic and useful weapons yet!!!

I'm so glad he eventually put a glove on the hand that's infront of the speeding ball🤦🏻 I would've had a hell of a hand gaurd.

Wow, I've seen a lot of projects of hacksmith but this one looks like the most stressful one. I hope xbox paid you enough for this.

Forget baseball, that thing's a high-class weapon.

Lol

If that's a high-class weapon then me and any other college pitchers arm is a Nuke

It looks like one but most highschool kids throw harder than it does

It doubles as a brutal melee weapon.

Crazy that a baseball was what broke his hand

what if the wheels had rounded spikes? wouldnt that reduce friction to the ball

That's so sick!! You guys are my new watch I enjoy all of you videos they are awesome!!!

Obviously, one reason why the balls were slipping was because it was accelerating too fast, so if there was a second set of slower wheels behind the faster ones, it would probably slip less (but weigh more)

The amount of time for acceleration is too short. You need to speed the ball along twice or 3 times. Each step accelerates them a bit more. I bet your wheels surfaces are moving at 2-3X more speed than the ball. There's just not enough time for the balls to match wheel speed.

I wise man once said "if you can't make it perfect, make it adjustable"

Did he invent the wrench??

a very wise man indeed.

lol that's what I was thinking as he went through dozens of frames for those wheels

I would love to see this shoot at Stuff Made Here's Baseball Bat!

You can consider placing a rubber band on the wheels, it might work

Hey what if you had multiple rows of spinners that each progressed in speed? The ball would enter through the first row of spinners that are slow enough to not shred the ball; now the ball is already moving as it proceeds to the next line of spinners that are faster than the previous spinners and since the ball is already moving fast there should be less friction and still allow for the ball to go even faster. I dono how many rows of spinners you'd need but I feel like this would work?

James: Gets burnt, ran over, jet engined, plasma sabered, etc. Also james: broken finger due baseball ball. ...are you trying to emulate Rasputin?

Maybe you could try putting treads on the wheels to help them grip the ball more?