Cool Stuff: Some Of The Magic Of Captain America’s Shield Made A Reality With Electromagnetics
By Ethan Anderton/May 13, 2016 8:30 am EST
Find out how electromagnets help complete a real Captain America shield below.
Here’s the video of how The Hacksmith made a real Captain America shield:
Even though there’s not some kind of smart chip or hover technology that allows the shield to figure out perfect angles mathematically to end up back in this guy’s hands, an electromagnet arm bracer allows him to catch it easily. Plus, as you can see in the video, he can also throw it from the arm brace as well. So how did he do it? Here’s a brief explanation if you don’t have time to watch the whole video right now:
We made this awesome electromagnet arm bracer for the Replica Captain America shield, just in time for Captain America: Civil War. It uses a set of lithium-polymer batteries from Hobby King running in series at 72V. This produces 720kg of magnetic force at each electromagnet. That’s over 3000lbs of magnetic lifting force together!
As for the shield itself, that wasn’t made from scratch. It was made by Machinaprops on Etsy, but it doesn’t appear to be available for purchase right now. There is a cool Marvel Legends version you can get right now though.
