I Built a Car out of Scooters — Transcript

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1. 0:00a couple weeks ago I was in the ER not
2. 0:02for me I'm fine but for my friend Tommy
3. 0:04whose wrist decided to explode after he
4. 0:06fell off an electric scooter it was
5. 0:08pretty disgusting it looked like you
6. 0:09took the Photoshop drag tool and just
7. 0:11went to his hand and the doctor was
8. 0:13telling us as he was putting Tommy's
9. 0:14bones back together how common it was to
10. 0:16get electric scooter injuries in the ER
11. 0:18gets up there with like car crashes and
12. 0:19motorcycle accidents and it makes you
13. 0:21think like how can we make electric
14. 0:23scooters easier to use and safer for
15. 0:25people like Tommy and we probably come
16. 0:27to the same conclusion make a car out of
17. 0:29them make a car out of electric
18. 0:34scooters now when I say build a car out
19. 0:37of electric scooters I mean it
20. 0:39metaphorically but I also mean it
21. 0:40literally I want to make a car out of
22. 0:42electric scooters where instead of these
23. 0:43caveman [ __ ] tires we slot in
24. 0:45scooters and then I weld together a
25. 0:47frame in between them to be like like
26. 0:49the body of a car this invention takes
27. 0:51all the risk out of riding these
28. 0:52dangerous demonic scooters no longer do
29. 0:54you need the requisite skill to stay
30. 0:56upright on one a talent few in our
31. 0:58society possess if any at all and
32. 0:59instead just sit down hit the
33. 1:01accelerator and go no balance required
34. 1:03but Michael I hear you ask how are you
35. 1:05going to hit the throttles on each of
36. 1:06the bird scooters to make it all go I am
37. 1:09[ __ ] getting to that if you would if
38. 1:11you would wait just a goddamn second
39. 1:13it'll cut to that part of the video
40. 1:14where it's the whole explanation happens
41. 1:16and it'll be cut to very fast-paced
42. 1:18music like subway surfers we got Subway
43. 1:19[Music]
44. 1:23Surfers the way you accelerate on these
45. 1:25scooters is by pressing this little
46. 1:26throttle tab with your thumb uh I don't
47. 1:28want to use my [ __ ] thumb cuz I can't
48. 1:30on four scooters simultaneously so
49. 1:31here's what it came up with it's a 3D
50. 1:33printed thumb printed thumb attached to
51. 1:35a motor so it can actuate the throttle
52. 1:36on the scooter that's cool right wrong
53. 1:38it sucks ass am I going to sit there
54. 1:39diddling wires together like a [ __ ]
55. 1:41Crow magnet caveman no no we're going to
56. 1:43make it Wireless for a couple of reasons
57. 1:45but mostly cuz I'm neurotic so it's
58. 1:46going to be 10 times more complicated
59. 1:47for very little benefit we can turn this
60. 1:49old remote into a controller for the
61. 1:50thumb thing and now it's a Detonator but
62. 1:52this Detonator can talk to an Arduino so
63. 1:54it's all good then we'll take some
64. 1:55microwave Sav Tupperware and put the
65. 1:57electronics in it that's not making it
66. 1:58past TSA these are all really basic
67. 2:00components you can buy online they come
68. 2:02from a beautiful little place in China
69. 2:04called and just like that we control the
70. 2:06throttle wirelessly now you might be
71. 2:08wondering why the scooter isn't plowing
72. 2:09through my bathroom and that's because
73. 2:10it's got a built-in safety feature that
74. 2:12makes you kick off and get a little bit
75. 2:13of speed before the scooter accelerates
76. 2:15which might then make you think that's
77. 2:16going to be a problem for scooter car
78. 2:18and you'd be right but that's
79. 2:19foreshadowing for later for now I need
80. 2:20to try to ride this not because I need
81. 2:22to test it but because it seems fun and
82. 2:24so I went into [ __ ] covered Los Angeles
83. 2:26to try it out with my friends we
84. 2:27definely not going to an airport uh this
85. 2:31right this doesn't look sussy it's my
86. 2:33remote control car dude get on the
87. 2:42scooter oh [ __ ]
88. 2:50go it's great to see that work but if I
89. 2:52were you I'd be thinking hey Michael
90. 2:54dumbass why would you just wire into the
91. 2:56scooter directly and skip the whole
92. 2:58motorized thumb thing well there's
93. 2:59actually a really good good reason
94. 3:00they're not my scooters they're public
95. 3:01rental scooters that you can rent on
96. 3:03your phone so if I were to wire directly
97. 3:04into one that would be destruction of
98. 3:06property and make it illegal but since
99. 3:08we're just renting them off the street
100. 3:09and strapping a bunch of electronics to
101. 3:11them that makes it less illegal all
102. 3:13right now we got four of these little
103. 3:14[ __ ] and I'm going to cut out the 13
104. 3:16hours of soldering between that last
105. 3:17clip and this one I also noticed a
106. 3:19problem with this controller it sends
107. 3:20the same signal to each of the little
108. 3:22throttle things so they all do the same
109. 3:24[ __ ] but we want to be able to talk to
110. 3:25each one individually and for that we're
111. 3:27going to need a more advanced controller
112. 3:28so I got this weote steering wheel off
113. 3:30of eBay now I'm not good enough at
114. 3:33Electronics to make a weote talk
115. 3:35directly to these thumb things but if we
116. 3:37slip some software some coding in
117. 3:39between the two I'm pretty sure I can
118. 3:40make it work now some people would call
119. 3:42that compensating for my crippling lack
120. 3:44of electronics engineering skills using
121. 3:45computer programming and I would also
122. 3:47call it that that's exactly what I'm
123. 3:49doing hey kid you want to learn some
124. 3:51python first thing you're going to want
125. 3:52to see if you can even [ __ ]
126. 3:53communicate with these things so open up
127. 3:55your little code editor and we'll write
128. 3:56some code to test it out this line says
129. 3:58connect to an Arduino over you USB
130. 4:00that's our little transmitter here and
131. 4:01these guys are just variables they're
132. 4:02numbers they say how much and which
133. 4:03motors to move these lines down here
134. 4:05tell our transmitter to send those
135. 4:07variables over to the thumb thing and if
136. 4:08we run it it
137. 4:10should nice put a cute little function
138. 4:13up there uh will save every scooter
139. 4:15address in an array and now if we Loop
140. 4:17through that array and okay and now if
141. 4:19we Loop what the [ __ ] man just run the
142. 4:21[ __ ] oh I hate you I hate you I hate
143. 4:23you I hate you
144. 4:27forever all right so the next thing I
145. 4:29should do is kill myself connect to the
146. 4:30weote steering wheel we kind of just
147. 4:32capture the steering wheel's position
148. 4:33and use it to draw this red ball but it
149. 4:35gets a little cooler when you combine it
150. 4:36with the code we wrote earlier now
151. 4:38depending on which way I turn the
152. 4:39steering wheel the throttle lays off on
153. 4:41that side of the car and with only one
154. 4:42side of the car powered scooter car will
155. 4:44turn in that direction I hope I don't
156. 4:47[ __ ] know I haven't tested it well
157. 4:48you should probably go tested it then
158. 4:50huh stupid so it's time to go kidnap
159. 4:52some scooters initially I was worried
160. 4:53how I would get these back to my house
161. 4:55but then I remembered I own a white
162. 4:56truck with a light on top of it which
163. 4:57essentially makes me God on the streets
164. 4:59of Los Angeles and with that sorted we
165. 5:00just need a quick Montage to hook these
166. 5:02guys up and uh should be good to go
167. 5:05problem the front wheel can still turn
168. 5:07which is definitely a [ __ ] problem
169. 5:09that we have we need a system to
170. 5:10immobilize the front steering column
171. 5:12entirely so here's what I designed in
172. 5:13Fusion 360 and here's what I actually
173. 5:16made I call it two clamps from Home
174. 5:17Depot I weld it together in my
175. 5:20garage okay all the controls are running
176. 5:22I got the software running and I just
177. 5:23activated all the scooters on the app
178. 5:25the controls look good I'm going to bank
179. 5:27a right turn out of the driveway and
180. 5:28we'll test it out on the street
181. 5:31[Applause]
182. 5:35push huh I'll be honest with you I meant
183. 5:38to crash it into my truck as a goofy
184. 5:40haha kind of meme classic comedy but I
185. 5:42also 100% in my heart of hearts believe
186. 5:45that when I turn the steering wheel it
187. 5:47would turn I believe so much and uh
188. 5:50nothing happened when I turned the
189. 5:51steering wheel so I went in and did a
190. 5:53Boeing 737 crash site analysis I rebuilt
191. 5:56the frame out of stronger wood so I
192. 5:57could test why it didn't work and I
193. 5:58discovered some very disturbing things
194. 6:00namely it was that I didn't understand
195. 6:02the concept of like like steering in
196. 6:04general you cannot just power one side
197. 6:06of a vehicle and expect it to turn you
198. 6:08are now watching a live video of me
199. 6:10encountering this concept for the very
200. 6:12first time and like a child who cannot
201. 6:14grasp reality I keep trying to make it
202. 6:16work cars don't do that ever I do not
203. 6:18know where I got these ideas my only
204. 6:20hope is that I'm becoming schizophrenic
205. 6:22and a voice told them to me in the
206. 6:23[Music]
207. 6:26night but I can't give up Tommy's out
208. 6:29somewhere with a broken hand what if he
209. 6:31tries to ride another scooter he's so so
210. 6:33bad at riding scooters I need to do this
211. 6:35for people like Tommy who is again so
212. 6:37utterly dog [ __ ] at riding scooters we
213. 6:39need to Pivot literally pivot the front
214. 6:41half of scooter car to change the
215. 6:43direction of our rotational velocity am
216. 6:45I using that word right here's a chart
217. 6:46you figure it out we'll need to ditch
218. 6:48the wood and go with a metal frame with
219. 6:49a heavy duty rotating Hing like this one
220. 6:52exactly like that one it will take days
221. 6:54maybe weeks to well oh no there it is
222. 6:56yeah know I cut all that [ __ ] out it's
223. 6:58boring but if you wanted to watch it
224. 7:00here see everyone's happy except for me
225. 7:03cuz I um again haven't tested it yet
226. 7:05well you should probably go [ __ ]
227. 7:06tested it then yeah no I know thank you
228. 7:08it's just I'm kind of worried that
229. 7:09epilepsy Montage was maybe like 80 hours
230. 7:12of work it shouldn't have taken that
231. 7:13long it's cuz I learned to weld on
232. 7:15YouTube and also this [ __ ] part it
233. 7:17holds the bearings that lets the whole
234. 7:18thing rotate I had to make it on a lathe
235. 7:20which meant I had to learn how to use a
236. 7:21lathe which meant I had to buy a lth on
237. 7:24Facebook Marketplace and I also bought
238. 7:25this couch on Facebook Marketplace this
239. 7:27is not an ad I just buy a lot of stuff
240. 7:28from there what I'm hoping is we can use
241. 7:29the same concept as before where we use
242. 7:31the scooter speed to steer the car but
243. 7:33this time they have a nice pivot to work
244. 7:34around and also it's only two scooters
245. 7:36turning so it's like a line instead of a
246. 7:38square so that should work
247. 7:41[Music]
248. 7:44right I think I smudged it [ __ ] just get
249. 7:47that
250. 7:48out it's so beautiful I'm looking for a
251. 7:51parking lot big enough to test this in
252. 7:53last time I tried it in my driveway I
253. 7:55got a couple places in mind like the
254. 7:56roof of a Westfield Mall just going to
255. 7:58move these I got kicked out pretty much
256. 8:01immediately new spot found it we trying
257. 8:03to figure out how to take a piss not how
258. 8:05to take a piss like a a place to pee I'm
259. 8:08in the back parking lot of trying to
260. 8:10hide from their security I'm hiding
261. 8:11everything behind my truck but I don't
262. 8:12know how long that's going to last I
263. 8:14think I just have to test it out this
264. 8:15one's not unlocking and I don't know why
265. 8:17this can't be real one of them is not
266. 8:19unlocking why is it just this one I
267. 8:21literally tested it please oh my God it
268. 8:24[ __ ] worked that's all for push
269. 8:27off let go that's
270. 8:40creepy yes it
271. 8:42STS oh [ __ ] it actually sters let's go
272. 8:47again yes yes yes now right
273. 8:52yes I think the reason we had that
274. 8:55little issue was cuz scooter car got
275. 8:56outside of the range of the transmitter
276. 8:58which won't be a problem when I actually
277. 8:59ride it cuz I'll be on it so that's
278. 9:01that's good now we're going to go right
279. 9:04okay and now back lift oh my
280. 9:08god oh [ __ ] oh [ __ ] [ __ ] [ __ ] [ __ ]
281. 9:13[ __ ] there
282. 9:16you right brakes [ __ ] honestly I'm going
283. 9:21to add more than just
284. 9:22brakes welcome to the
285. 9:27Future come here let me show you let me
286. 9:29show you let me show you what we got huh
287. 9:30brakes yeah we got we got brakes so the
288. 9:32scooters actually already have brakes on
289. 9:34them they knew that stupid so I just
290. 9:36took a $9 air piston and 3D printed a
291. 9:38bunch of [ __ ] onto it and now you
292. 9:39can control the brake with compressed
293. 9:41air don't worry I've already tested it
294. 9:44out it's pretty good yeah I could have
295. 9:47spent time with my family but instead I
296. 9:48spent days making brakes for a scooter
297. 9:50car you're wasting your life away you
298. 9:52idiot you [ __ ]
299. 9:55[ __ ]
300. 9:57um check this out check this out we got
301. 9:59a custom push off system look at this
302. 10:01you might be wondering why we need a
303. 10:02push off system well you obviously don't
304. 10:04[ __ ] listen Mak you kick off and get
305. 10:06a little bit of speed before the scooter
306. 10:07accelerat so we'll use a big metal
307. 10:09piston to give us a push uh-oh not
308. 10:11enough friction I wish we had something
309. 10:12made out of rubber take off your Sho put
310. 10:14your foot out of a sheet of metal
311. 10:16breathe a bunch of poison gas nice job
312. 10:18now if you have trouble with friction
313. 10:19just take off your Air Forces put the
314. 10:21metal plate in screw it to the piston
315. 10:23and wow look at all that friction wow
316. 10:25wow nice job hello that was Elon blow up
317. 10:30his house Custom Body Work a spoiler H
318. 10:33to custom synthetic leather
319. 10:35seat oh we need a chair come on come
320. 10:42on so big should I like cut the
321. 10:49seat I think about all the dangerous
322. 10:51things on this
323. 10:52thing and then I realized I'm In Too
324. 10:54Deep like I can't stop shut up dumb ass
325. 10:57no one cares it's got everything
326. 10:59only one thing left to do is to make
327. 11:01Tommy's wish come
328. 11:03true I mean not now like probably
329. 11:06probably tomorrow morning it's tomorrow
330. 11:07morning and the plan is simple we drive
331. 11:09scooter car across Los Angeles directly
332. 11:11to Tommy's house this won't be easy but
333. 11:13it's just the right thing to do for a
334. 11:14poor boy with a broken hand and that's
335. 11:17good enough for me can you believe this
336. 11:18idiot broke his hand on a scooter no I
337. 11:20don't give a [ __ ] about his arm it's
338. 11:21like charity work you know think of all
339. 11:22the attention I'm going to get for
340. 11:24helping his ass you still are you still
341. 11:25recording I'm coming Tommy
342. 11:32could you guys help me get it over the
343. 11:33the the lip Okay
344. 11:36[Music]
345. 11:42Okay it [ __ ] work it's like turns and
346. 11:46[ __ ] dude it [ __ ] turns it works like
347. 11:49for real progress is good but we're
348. 11:52approaching the first major obstacle big
349. 11:54road four lanes of traffic with no
350. 11:56stoplight in scooter car even the modest
351. 11:57Prius will headshot you like child
352. 11:59versus minivan but no matter I've
353. 12:01already lost all regard for human life
354. 12:03and
355. 12:04safety she handles it like a [ __ ]
356. 12:06Camp she doesn't like a [ __ ] chance
357. 12:08she can do the
358. 12:09turn how you going it's hot out
359. 12:15now [ __ ] one of the scooters is giving
360. 12:18out oh no it's probably the low battery
361. 12:21one I started with so I could create
362. 12:22conflict because this is a YouTube video
363. 12:24but that's no problem with scooter car
364. 12:25grab a scooter from wherever and you can
365. 12:27simply replace it let me show you how
366. 12:28disengage to the parking locate a high
367. 12:30lift Jack jacket up a few inches unplug
368. 12:32and remove your electronic don't that
369. 12:33can't buy another one of those unscrew
370. 12:35and remove your braking system remove
371. 12:36the throttle motoro undo the rear clamp
372. 12:38undo the front clamp remove the low
373. 12:40battery scooter shut the [ __ ] up shut
374. 12:42the [ __ ] insert the fresh scoo into your
375. 12:44scooter SL CL trying it's the wrong way
376. 12:46don't forget to throw back in your he
377. 12:49can stop at stop
378. 12:50lights and just like that you're ready
379. 12:52to
380. 12:54rock this [ __ ] sucks
381. 12:58[Music]
382. 12:59could I get a one number four the
383. 13:05meal from here on out it's smooth
384. 13:07sailing except for this street which is
385. 13:09blind in both directions with zero
386. 13:11visibility wait it's [ __ ] remote
387. 13:13control I can just stand
388. 13:16up for got his remote control just do
389. 13:19whatevers you
390. 13:21know and after a long journey we were
391. 13:24finally about to
392. 13:25reach Tommy Tommy
393. 13:29what there's your car you have my what
394. 13:31where's your [ __ ] cast uh your it's
395. 13:33gone now it's been months the whole
396. 13:34video hinges on your arm being broken
397. 13:36the video doesn't make sense now you
398. 13:38understand you understand how the video
399. 13:39doesn't make sense now do you get it
400. 13:40come on let's get a cast let's get a
401. 13:42cast what is this it's your car bro so
402. 13:44you don't fall on a scooter and break
403. 13:45your hand ever again this thing looks
404. 13:47more d f do makes sense without a cast
405. 13:48you sit inside of it you sit you sit ins
406. 13:52yeah yeah yeah you're not driving
407. 13:55I see you L dumb ass just uh just sit on
408. 13:58my lap
409. 14:00okay don't worry baby get a little speed
410. 14:03you feel that you get a little speed oh
411. 14:04wow acceleration go crazy I can't see
412. 14:06too good so if you could point out like
413. 14:08what's going on so how come you have a
414. 14:10helmet but I don't this is [ __ ]
415. 14:12dangerous I think it's just a right here
416. 14:15Santa
417. 14:16Monica holy [ __ ] I know this is not part
418. 14:18of the plan oh boy ignore it ignore that
419. 14:22ignore it there [ __ ] dang ignore it
420. 14:24ignore
421. 14:26it [ __ ] get off piss off
422. 14:30this arm oh ow what the [ __ ] man bro
423. 14:33your arm has to be broken to put it in
424. 14:35here which kind of does make sense when
425. 14:36you think
426. 14:37about look at that it makes the video
427. 14:40makes sense let's get you in your car
428. 14:42feels better huh yeah hey man you're
429. 14:45welcome and there's no need to thank me
430. 14:46actually for real you enjoy this okay
431. 14:49have fun all right I'll enjoy
432. 14:54[Music]
433. 14:56this wait wait wait
434. 15:00[ __ ]
435. 15:05dumbass thanks for watching the video if
436. 15:07you liked it share it in your family
437. 15:08group chat and uh favorite Discord
438. 15:11duning server 5:00 a.m. I I don't even
439. 15:13know where I am anymore uh if you want
440. 15:14to see scooter car in person I'm
441. 15:15actually taking it to open sauce it's a
442. 15:17convention that my ex- roommate puts on
443. 15:19every year it's like an adult science
444. 15:20fair uh it's not porn I feel like every
445. 15:22time you say adult you have to preface
446. 15:24that with it's it's not poring it's
447. 15:26essentially hundreds of boots that the
448. 15:27biggest nerds on planet Earth showcase
449. 15:29their stuff in I think my favorite from
450. 15:30last year was a shrimp that fried rice
451. 15:32but yeah it's cool it's in San Francisco
452. 15:34and it's going on June 14th to 16th and
453. 15:36if you go to see scooter car you can sit
454. 15:37in it and you can mess with the buttons
455. 15:39I haven't asked will about this but
456. 15:40because I'm saying it he'll be forced to
457. 15:43let you do that yeah maybe I'll see you
458. 15:44there and uh what else what else oh
459. 15:46sorry the video took so long I promis
460. 15:48the next one will be faster more lies
461. 15:50and uh oh Tommy didn't really break his
462. 15:52hand on electric scooter he broke it on
463. 15:54electric toy moped that I built and he
464. 15:55broke it because it didn't have any
465. 15:57brakes on it and that's why we're in the
466. 15:58emergency room together and that's it
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