Can I just say... I like how deliberate Charles is in breaking down and explaining some of the processes like 3D printing, light sensor, crimping, etc. I can totally see all the effort going into deciding how much is too much info, so that the audience doesn't get too bored, yet maintaining a level of educational sense. Great job!

might be fun to make a infrared 'gun' on the front with sensors on the rear of the cart were you can 'fire' red and blue shells at each other causing a drop of power for a second or two.

this looks so fun! I can't wait to see a Grand Prix video!

Excellent use of materials you already lying around for a fun build. Also, nostalgic to see the old garage. Changes there look nice.

Charles: mario kart isnt just about speed Everyone when playing Mario kart: holds down accelerate entire match

James: I absorbed the impact better with my shoes, oh, but don't worry, I just broke both of my legs and almost died.

As a huge Nintendo fan this is definitely one of my favorite videos you guys uploaded. The ideas and use of materials are amazing. 😄

I love Charles's energy with a little time I feel as though he would be perfect at having more project with greater detail!

17:40 ''These boost are dangerous'' said the man who created a lightsaber.

This is the most enjoyable project I’ve ever seen. I’m guessing you’re making more and putting it in the hacksmith store.

16:39 I bet James didn’t feel very invincible with that star just then

For other power ups you could connect all the karts via bluetooth or wifi. A red shell would briefly shutoff the motor of the kart in front of you, a banana could slow done the person and a blue shell would briefly shut off the person in first. Using the color sensor you could use a counter for laps or checkpoints so the karts no who is in what position. This might be complicated solution but I'm sure what ever you would be super intuitive.

Imagine this as a standalone, legally distinct, go-kart track run by Hacksmith Industries.

If there is one thing Hacksmith can do, *it’s taking “make it real real” to a godlike level*

Idea: use droppable color panels as disposable ‘items’ like bananas that initiate a temporary stop or slowdown when driven over.

1:52 sometime shit happens...

Years ago I had the idea to combine carts with augmented reality so you would actually see the crates and shells.

Easily one of my favorite vids y'all have done in a while! Charles, you're doing great at leading these videos! Keep it up man! Love it!

12:38 You should use the gyroid infill in cura or how its called. It makes your print stronger

13:44 it's a nose

I was thinking, you could get some infrared sensors in front and in the back of every kart, that way you can make a Shell power up, if you have another kart in front of you and you used a shell power up it will slow down the kart in front of you. Also a banana peel power up, it does the same but to the kart behind of you

"And as much as I love hurting other people." Sadist confirmed

This new guy is awesome! Hilarious editing and great work on the build.

I’d absolutely LOVE to see you guys mount some sort of cameras to the car and then hook the controls up to some wireless controllers. Then have 4 people control the carts with the 4 “drivers” sitting in the carts just along for the ride almost like the game!

Absolutely LOVED this build! Brought me back to my childhood

0:23 bless you lads for using Waluigi Pinball as a soundtrack.

17:11 *Hits Banana peel* 17:22 Hits *same* Banana peel 17:28 Mario reveals he's *actually* Wario

you should try making items that instead of hurting you, slow you down for a bit more variety, and maybe even a kind of skid mechanic thing that will give you a boost for skidding, thay would be INCREDIBLE!!!

Anyone who's been watching this channel for a while would recognize James and his "that's freaking awesome"!!

Next video: *making the Oasis from Ready Player One*

Hook up parts from a laser tag set to get virtual turtle shells! Hook up a microcontroller to make the kart "fire" the shell, or "spin out" if it gets hit. put the sensors on the back/sides, and the laser on the front. This is so cool

You could do a blue shell that cuts the power of the lead cart for a moment. Not a simple thing to do, but not impossible for you all!

10:09 "so James, are you ready for a test drive?" *puts on Mario hat* "Let's a goa!"

"Oh I got a star, OH SH!T" I could hear that over and over

Love this idea and implementation, its super cool. Can't wait to see a Mario Kart track built outside or something with a team battle :D Maybe instead of vinyl, an actual paint job would be more aesthetically pleasing?

You should create the ODM gear from atrack on titan. The nice thing is in the show they have things showing mechanical stuffs, so i think it would be amazing if you created it.

This was amazing 🤩 imagine if you guys made an entire course with these karts

“Let’s a go!” They should’ve asked you to do Mario in the movie 😂

You should make red shells by making almost an RC car which drives towards karts. If it hits the kart, it automatically applies the brake.

one of the best cases of gamification I have ever seen! My mind melts at how good this is and how much more could be done with this, I can easily see there being professional businesses based on this because who wouldnt pay to do races like this??

The true mario kart experience: crashing into everything

Holy cow, the timing is so perfect! I'm making a backpack gokart, and I've been wondering what kind of wattage I should aim for; you guys just perfectly showed the kind of performance I want. Great project! I always love to watch your vehicle builds.

One thing you might do to enact negative powerups would be to connect the arduinos together with BTLE. that way you could do a negative speed boost to a random enemy. I like the idea of the infrared gun, but you'd have to do it in such a way that the user doesn't have to aim it... it seems like you already have your hands full just driving! Nice job!

I think these are great. I feel like I have a good idea for the red shell power-ups that could make these really like mario kart but safe. If you put a row of IR lights in the front of the kart and IR receivers in the back of them you could shoot your power ups like in the game. When the IR receiver detects a IR light from the kart behind it will apply the electrical brake or cut the motors for 1 second. This way people could use the red shell as a strategic offense and bring a bit more fun into them other than just boosts. You could probably bring the banana power up in as well if you put IR lights and receivers on the opposite but that might get complicated and cause interference when you use your own red shell 😅

Someone tell charles he looks good in that outfit lmao

I've been wanting to build a Go-Kart since I was a kid.

Love your videos, so creative, could you make Taskmasters backpack + helmet or maybe just the whole suit

Mario related video. Starlight zone from sonic 1 plays at 13:26

That's why all them hoverboards we're on that table in one of the previous videos 👌🏾

"I was born ready" Seconds later *crashes*

I'm Mario fan, so I can understand how amazing this is and I hope that in part 2 real Power-Ups are coming like the spike shell, banana peal or the classic red shell.

Hmm. A wireless connection between the karts that allow for green shell, which when activated will either hit or miss the nearest player at random. Or a red shell that automatically hits the nearest player. A hit will cause the kart to slow down for a few seconds like a reverse boost pad. And a banana peel will slow you down for five seconds like a reverse star. But you’d have to create a wireless kart server and stuff. Plus a deception for the kart in front of yours. That sounds like a lot of work. Just a thought. I love this stuff.

You should try to make zanes Shuriken’s from ninjago but they can freeze what ever they stick into

Bro u have inspired me to persue engineering and i would love to work as an intern in a few years. Love u hacksmith

Few ideas. Instead of colored tape, you could use leds and a distance sensor When someone drives over the device it would light up with a random color. This would be picked by the next driver's color sensor. One color would be equivalent to a banana, blocking the throttle for a few seconds

You guys 🥺 making all our childhood dreams come true! Nobody said you can touch our feels! You here me! Nobody 😭😭😭

Simply amazing. Can't wait for formula hack when you have 4 of them.

Hacksmith: I really want to play Mario Kart Me: Same, ill get the switch. Hacksmith: who said we need a switch ;)

"Speed isn't your friend in this game" Yeah, sure, maybe for those who don't like winning

18:27 You can see that madness in his eyes. ^^

“yeah why dont we just make go kart”

The look of determination on Princess Peach’s face in the intro…

Y’all should make a awesome drone fvp

This is so cool. When I went to Coco Beach in Florida there was a Mario Kart race track that also give you power ups but they used something else to identify the items. They had more items like coins and other stuff that makes your opponents slow down. It would be cool to see how you guys would implement that into your Mario Karts especially because the ones I tried weren’t all that great but the idea was cool.

Looks dope, but the vinyls could've been done a lot better

With James’ Mario voice they should fire Chris Pratt and bring in James

These Mario karts are so cool and accurate.

You should make it so you can get shell power ups which when used have a chance of causing the other cart to spin out

Your just pursuing all of our childhood dreams...

4:50 How it feels when you burn out instead of getting a Speed Boost in Mariokart.

3:03 so they’re just going to replace motor, wheels, batteries, and speed controls - so all they’re keeping is steering and the shell then! 3:17 spoke too soon: “everything that isn’t bolted down has to go, and everything that is bolted down also has to go”! 😂

If you want to make these corner faster I highly recommend making the wheelbase wider; these go karts are clearly made for kids.

My dad's a god at mairo cart he beats me every time hes 1st I'm secent every single time

I love how happy James is about breaking his phone. Guess he’s wanted an upgrade but not had an excuse to get one.

The testing of those carts was so chaotic, it was me laugh almost uncontrollably 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

What would happen if the Hacksmith collaborated with Mark Rober? Glitterbomb 4.0? Orbeez Waterslides? A Marvel/Star Wars mashup-themed squirrel maze cranked up to 11?

I just wish I could be able to build something like this

Please know that your “these are mounted from the top joke was awesome!

Gotta say, those carts look a bit small, and kid sized deadlines happen for sure, but I am surprised ya'll didn't make them a little larger. Good luck with the hacksmith cup though! Looking forward to seeing that

A real life mario cart with items and weapons does exist. It works with a projected racing track and projected effects, that could slow down your cart and is called "battle carts" for example.

“ah much as i like hurting people” ._.

Why didn’t you use the NineBot Segway go kart as a platform instead? It would’ve better accommodated your size

Could of also done the electrical one that stops everyone else's karts, red shells can just slow the person in front or stop them for a bit, doesn't have to cause harm to people but you could do way more.

When he said MarioKart wasn’t all about speed, that depends what game you’re playing. In Mario Kart 8, mini turbo is much more important than speed, but in Mario Kart Wii, speed is the most important stat by far.

Keep up the great work!

he should make a real fully functional iron man suit

I love this video, and seeing how things work and how they're built and what the end effect is of the modifications! This channel piques my sense of curiosity and I love it

You should incorporate the shells too. The way I see this being possible is; connect all the cars via some sort of radio control. Have the yellow squares give the options for Red or Blue shells also. If someone gets a blue shell and "shoots" it, then the car in first place loses power for 1 second. This will simulate the spin out. If you select the Red Shells and "shoot", the next car in front of you would get the loss of power, similar to how the shell finds the next car in the game. Great build as always.

There's Colin Furze, who just makes stuff the jank way, as a one-man show, and then there's the Hacksmith Channel, which makes similar things, but much safer, and in a fraction of the time, with an entire crew. The two different ends of the spectrum.

The “resident” Mario kart expert forgot to mention that sometimes it’s better to be in 2nd or to drop back into 2nd because the items you get from the mystery boxes are better when you’re in 2nd place.

If they added more of a computer, they could have each cart talk to each other and design some offensive power-ups, too. Shells, fireballs, and the like could all engage the brake on whatever cart they talk to via Bluetooth.

Absolutely amazing work. As i was watching your video i came up with some ideas for additional special items you could create. Maybe some kind of a red shell. If you get one of these you may can send a signal to the next car which activates a Countdown. If the Player dont have a banana (technically onscreen) he will be braked or even stoped (if its possible he could rotate or sth like that). This would be the contra-items against the boosts. Bananas could also virtually got placed. Maybe if the cart drops a colorful mark therefore. Overall i like your idea and im exited to see your progress. Have a nice day

Hacksmith is looking like Chris Evans..

As an above average person in mk8dx watching them play Mariokart at 6:10 was very painful….

That looks like so much fun. Reminds me of the drift carts we used to race on the shamrock. Whenever it snowed, we would put nubby bolts on them and make a whole day of it until the PVC tires just broke off. Great vid guys!

This is the difference between someone who has a good idea, but doesn't know how to accomplish it (me), and someone who has the same idea and the resources to do it.

My dream is becoming a engineer one Day .

Claim your “here within an hour” ticket right here

4:33 200 ccm vs 50 ccm

The side pods on the carts could've house lasers that could act like green shells and if you hit the other cart it would stop the same length as getting hit in game and for red shells you could've sent out a signal that would stop the other cart after "tracking" like the red shell (same as the spikey shell for first place)....you could even do for the lightning like an emp that halves all of the other carts speed