This is the world's greatest wheelchair. Not only can it spin in place by balancing on just two wheels, but it can also go both up and down stairs. On top of that, there are some additional features that involve things like disco balls, train horns, spinners and dual mounted Nerf guns.
Because all the features for this wheelchair came from the brain of this kid right here. it was the His name is Cash. And Cash is quite possibly the toughest kid I've ever met.
You fell down? Yes! Let me see you recover.
Get up. Push off. Push off your wheel.
Now push off your bed right there. There you go. That’s what I’m saying boy!
I could help you, but you wouldn't know that you could do it on your own. You know what I’m saying? !
Yes! Sometimes in life you fall. But guess what?
What? You just pull yourself back up. Yeah.
Come on. Come on. Get up there.
Get up there, get up there. And it doesn't take long to realize he's got a good set of parents who are there for every challenge. When you get on that lip, you push with everything you've got.
Ready. Go. Go Pop your wheelie.
Pop your wheelie. There you go. Go, Go.
Don't fall back. Don't fall back. Go!
Push. Push! Both arms.
Push, push, push. And especially there for every triumph Push. Quit rocking it There you go.
There you go. THERE YOU GO! don’t go back– There you GO BOY!
! ! Yeah ha ha ha!
! That’s how you get it buddy! That’s how you get it baby!
In fact, Cash's story begins when his parents went in to get a routine pregnancy ultrasound and were told his spinal cord would never develop properly because he had a condition called spina bifida. And even though doctors said that 75% of the time pregnancies like these were terminated Cash's parents refused. And so that refusal to give up, despite the odds, has been his story since the very beginning.
and whether he’s fostering his diehard passion for basketball or just challenging himself by ripping out more pull-ups in a row than I've ever done. You’re a dawg! you quickly realize he just doesn't waste time with excuses.
So once I learned about Cash, I was so inspired by his attitude and resilience, I knew I had to make my way out to Texas to research what it would take to surprise him by building the wheelchair of his wildest dreams. And since the key to a good surprise is a good disguise we got right to work. This makes me want to pen a rock ballad I've now transformed into Roger from the wheelchair supply company.
It's very nice to meet you. All right, here we go. Well, hello there.
Hi. My name's Roger. I'm from the wheelchair Supply company.
It’s nice to meet you I'm doing research. How do you like this wheelchair? It's good.
There's no motor on that thing? Haha THESE! Okay!
Roger clearly had a lot to learn from Cash. Such as wheelchair dimensions. Wheelchair disembarkment.
Holy cow. How to bomb a rainmaker. Ohhh!
Yeah! Wow! And yes, even proper wheelchair motor size.
Three and a half. Not even Steven Curry has muscles that big. Stephen Curry Yeah, right there.
Steven Curry. He is Stephen. Stephen!
That’s right He's good at shooting a – what is it, a 4 pointer? Three! Oh three!
What are you talking about? Is there anything about your wheelchair you wish that it had that it doesn't have? Like a cup holder That makes sense.
And if he just stopped there this could have been my least expensive video ever. What if it could go upstairs? (gasps) That would be cool.
But we didn’t. And it didn't take much to really open the floodgates. Nerf guns.
Cool, glowing lights. Yeah, every day. Chocolate.
What's your favorite color? Purple. Would you want a train horn?
Yes! A CLOWN HORN! Or what if it was like a toot?
Huh? Like somebody passed gas? Or just stick with clown horn.
. . Yeah, of course.
That's poor taste. And with that, Roger decided not to push his luck any further. Seeing as Cash had already given us three months of work we'd have to compress down to a ten second build montage.
And so, a few months later, it was time. Just got word. They are 5 minutes away.
It's time to transform back into Roger, the wheelchair salesman for the big reveal. And Roger was practically my alter ego now, so I didn't need any makeup artist. Oh crud.
Kind of wanted one, though. Let's frickin do this. The family arrived at what the kids thought was Roger's wheelchair supply company.
And of course, it's designed to just be a boring old waiting room. But to Cash FISHES! Nothing is boring.
Oh he’s huge. I want to smile, but I can't. It was time for Roger to make an appearance.
If he could just keep his face on. My mustache is falling off but there was no time to readjust. Wait.
. . Oh she just found one of the cameras I just got to go.
Dad. There's a cam– Roger! Well hello there.
Good to see you again How are you? Good. What are you looking at over there?
That giant fish over there! You’re seeing a big fish? It looks like a lizard.
It was time for Roger to come clean. I'm just going to give you a tour of the wheelchair factory. Yes!
I also have something else to tell you. Okay. This isn't my real hair.
What! This isn't even my real mustache. What?
This isn't my real goatee. Huh? My name is actually Mark.
I make YouTube videos. I saw your boxes. You’ve seen CrunchLabs boxes?
Yeah! We have even cooler stuff here than the fish. Ready to have some fun today?
Let’s go! And Cash wasted no time Whoa. in kicking off a self-guided tour.
There he goes. Welcome to CrunchLabs Yeah! Flex those biceps.
You remember how big they were? Probably 19 inches. Whoa a bit of inflation!
Come in here, pal. Whoa. This is the world's largest Nerf gun.
This is like a pool noodle and a toilet plunger. Aw what are you getting? Basketball You went right to that thing, didn’t you?
And the tour was going great First try. Give me some. until we hit a snag that allowed us to get down to business.
I think it'd be fun if we had a Nerf battle. The only thing is we'll have to go up those stairs. My dad will have to carry me.
Wouldn't it be cool if your wheelchair could go up those stairs? Yes. Can I show you something?
Okay, I want you to stay. Move that bookshelf. One, two, three.
Move that bookshelf! Okay you stay here, pal! May I proudly present.
Oh my gosh This 4 foot tall gyroscopically stabilized marvel of engineering with two self-balancing wheels and a cupholder AKA The Wheelchair of Cash's Drams Who's driving that? A ghost? A ghost, I guess.
Don't move. Donut! Donut!
You see the back what it says? Cash Cab! because that right there?
that's yours. (gasps) Wanna go test it out? Yeah, It was safety always coming.
Yes! With safety always coming first it was important we started slow. You ready to go forward?
Yes Ooh. Good. Mama I was about to run you over!
I know! But before long, Cash found his confidence. Okay.
All right, all right, all right. Easy! Now in addition to the custom purple under-lighting and the blinged out wheel-spinners sporting the colors of his favorite basketball team, we cooked up three different modes he could switch between by simply sliding a different module down our custom rack hot swap system.
The first was party mode, where flipping the toggle switch activates a linear actuator raising the disco ball for maximum visibility while the green button really gets the party started. The second mode is for the days when you need to navigate a crowd because now the green button will activate the train horn. Here we go.
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This mode also includes a P. A. system.
You roll up to school and you want to let everyone know you're there. Got a new wheelchair! Yeah!
as well as a soundboard hooked up to the loudspeaker so we could play any custom sound, which would of course include the clown horn. But that's not all. Push that one.
Awww that’s low-brow. Sorry. That should not be on there.
But then don't catch yourself sleeping on the number one requested feature a custom 3D printed purple cup holder. Hey, sis! .
Bring me a drink of water! What's the magic word? Please!
There you go. And that cupholders the perfect spot to hold a glass of milk. He could pair with the contents of the secret under-seat hidden stash spot.
CHOCOLATE! And as for Cash’s verdict on Feastables? You got lucky, Jimmy He likes it.
And so before I introduce him to the third and final module, appropriately named Battle Mode I had a demonstration for him. Ready to see it go upstairs? Yes!
! I've seen this done, but I wanted to wait till you were here to do it for the first time myself and I might want to put on my seatbelt just in case Safety first. Okay, now all I do is hit this stairs button, and when I do that, a set of tracks which are connected to the wheels via a chain drive are lowered into place by a linear actuator.
And then you just tank-tread your way up any set of stairs. Peace You’re going! You’re going!
And, while I'll take the blame for the most ridiculous modifications of his wheelchair, including the fart speaker and some others you’ll see here in a minute I'm going up the stairs, buddy. Check me out. I want to shout out the incredible engineers at Scewo who spent the last decade perfecting the technology required to make a stair-climbing self-balancing wheelchair Buddy, I did it!
You made it! They've had so many setbacks and failures and challenges along the way just like my buddy Cash. I could help you, but you wouldn't know that you could do it on your own.
But also, just like my buddy Cash, they've had the resilience to push through and ultimately succeed in making a positive impact on the world. And to me, that's what it means to think like an engineer. I got my Nerf gun.
WHOA that is big! In fact, it's why I named the toy company I started that has the expressed goal of teaching kids to think like engineers: CrunchLabs it’s because things are supposed to crunch and break and fail along the way. All right, here I go.
Not gonna lie, this is a little bit terrifying but, you know what, I trust in good engineering. And so if I can get them to do more than just watch a video and build something along side me while pushing through those setbacks, as I talk about the physics of what's going on, then the principles will really sink in. So if you want to have a ton of fun while building up that resiliency muscle in your brain' so you can be more like my buddy Cash, It works!
head to CrunchLabs. com or use the link in the video description. It's a little nerve wracking at first.
I'm not going to lie, but then you get pretty comfortable with it and now I'm back down. Is that cool? Yeah.
While I was coming back, I noticed something, though. I can't be shooting the Nerf gun and driving at the same time. And that is exactly where the third and final mode comes into play.
Battle mode, where the toggle switch now communicates with a microcontroller that activates two 150 kilogram high torque servos swinging yourself into action at which point the green button declares war. It goes on, yeah. Then when you're done, just flip to toggle switch back.
Okay abort! Abort! Whoa.
Like nothing ever happened. And so, like any good engineers would. .
. Starting line up for the Battle: Daddy Me And Mark Rober! Heck yess!
We put the whole system to one final test. Let’s go! Let’s go!
Yeah! Okay, okay, pause pause! Ow!
Let’s go yes. We won! Yes!
We won! Did one of you guys hit me in the ear? Charli.
. . Was that you?
Can you handle any more surprises? Yes. Can you handle one more surprise?
YES! Okay! Okay!
! Come over here. And this was hands-down the biggest surprise so far introducing the Cash Cannon.
Because the Cash Cannon is not only a custom turret we designed which foreshadows a huge announcement in my next video but by using the iPad on his chair he's instantly connected to a private live-feed of CrunchLabs from anywhere in the world giving him the ability to remotely aim the Cash Cannon until he finds me in the crosshairs. So whenever he's with his friends at school and he wants some street cred by terrorizing Mark Rober real time with an overclocked Nerf cannon, Ah! Cash!
No! that's just the thing he can do, now. Man, CrunchLabs, is not going to be safe from here on out.
Unbeknownst to cash, hidden right under his seat was my one final mega surprise. But before I unveil that, we took a little break, Jump! had a little lunch and did a little science.
Whoa! Ten out of ten. And that earned science bob more than just a simple round of applause.
And how about a round of Nerf guns? This is what you do for ten out of ten? And not only can this chair more easily travel off the beaten path than a typical wheelchair and easily slide into the back of a car using any kind of simple board as a ramp.
But it has a tall mode which enables you to reach all those higher spots or finally dunk on your dad. Yeah! Let’s go!
And so as I let him get in on a little driving practice ahead of the final massive surprise hiding here, his dad let me in on a little secret. He wants to be the greatest basketball player there ever was whether that's Paralympian or able bodied. And while admittedly that seemed insanely ambitious to me at first, as he talked further, I realized if anyone was going to do it, it would be Cash.
The motto for him, from us is "My resilience is greater than my resistance", so we don't really have any resistance because if there is any we're going to atleast attempt. If we fail okay but we'll get right back at it. Well buddy, I got to tell you, you know how I said that was the last surprise?
Yes. We actually have one more surprise. Remember when I was at your house, you had two bobbleheads on the shelf.
Stephen Curry and Lebron So, sis open the pouch, see what's in there. I looked up to see who- Tickets to a Warriors game! ?
Who else are they playing? The Lakers! !
The Lakers! It’s today! !
It’s today! So after we leave we need to go to this game! Thank you Mr Mark!
All right, buddy! Let’s go! C’mon!
So we headed into the arena, booted up in party mode so Cash could attend his first real life warriors game in style. I want that disco ball. And we were turning heads left and right.
Whoa! Dude! Hey I need one of those.
But the biggest reaction of all came from Cash when he saw his favorite player for the very first time. CURRY! CURRY!
Oh there he is! Curry! Curry!
And sitting next to Cash was by far the most fun I've ever had watching a basketball game ever. And not just because in the end. .
. He’s coming to get it! Let’s go!
Steph triumphed over LeBron in a hard fought battle. And as we were leaving the game I realized Cash turns heads no matter how he gets around because he's one of those rare humans with such an infectious enthusiasm for life who openly embraced the tough challenges as an opportunity to get stronger. And so as we said goodbye, I found myself feeling equal parts grateful I could experience his incredible attitude of resilience firsthand and hopeful he'd go easy on me with the Cash Cannon.
My favorite thing about this wheelchair is how the incredible engineers at Scewo used the superpower of engineering to literally will something into existence that is now improving so many lives And as it says on the box, my goal with CrunchLabs is to get you to think like an engineer. That means you know how to think critically and break a problem down into manageable steps. Thinking like an engineer makes you a better soccer player or piano practicer or math studier because just like Cash you’re resilient and you know the importance of failing a bunch before you finally hit that breakthrough.
So the way it works is every month a really fun toy comes in a box like this, and when you open it, there's a link to a video where you not only build it alongside me, but I teach you all the juicy physics principles behind how the toy works. And the best part of all is each month we randomly select one box. To slip in a platinum ticket.
And if it happens to be your box, CrunchLabs! then you're coming out right here to CrunchLabs to design with me and my team for a day So if you want to unlock the superpower of learning how to create and build whatever you can dream up just go to Crunchlabs. com or use the link in the video description and order your build box subscription today.
Thanks for watching.
