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**Title:** Spooktacular Halloween Episode - Building a Pumpkin Hovercraft
**Objective:** Create a pumpkin hovercraft to compete in a combat robot competition (1.5 hours away) within a tight 12-hour deadline.
**Key Events:**
1. **Initial Failure:** The team struggles with a corded vacuum cleaner (instead of the intended cordless one) and encounters issues with the motor's voltage compatibility.
2. **Pumpkin Preparation:** They attempt to hollow out a pumpkin to house the vacuum motor, but face difficulties with the carving process.
3. **Design Flaws:** The team identifies inherent design flaws (weight and height issues) that hinder the hovercraft's performance.
4. **Iterative Improvements:** After multiple setbacks, they make adjustments (e.g., adding a skirt, swapping to a more rigid pumpkin carcass) to achieve a partially functioning hovercraft.
5. **Conclusion:** Although the final product is underwhelming, the team acknowledges that "it kind of works" and pokes fun at their efforts.
**Tone:** Light-hearted, humorous, and self-deprecating, with a focus on the team's creative problem-solving and banter.
Here are the extracted key facts, each with a number and in short sentence form, excluding opinions:
1. The project is to build a pumpkin hovercraft for a combat robot competition.
2. The competition is an hour and a half drive away and starts in 12 hours from the project's beginning.
3. Initial materials include a vacuum cleaner, a pumpkin, and propellers.
4. The initial vacuum cleaner found was a corded version, not a cordless one as intended.
5. The project location is a garage, which is described as a disaster and a work in progress.
6. The team discovers the vacuum motor might run on DC power via a bridge rectifier.
7. The motor is not wired for the intended voltage, posing a risk of explosion.
8. A different type of pumpkin is typically eaten, distinct from the one used for the project.
9. The team decides to purchase a cordless vacuum cleaner to obtain a lower voltage motor.
10. The new vacuum cleaner lacks a self-contained duct, requiring modification.
11. The project, "Pumpkin Bot," faces numerous challenges, including design flaws.
12. The hovercraft's skirt is intended to provide an air cushion, a common feature in hovercraft designs.
13. Typical hovercraft are wider than they are tall, contrasting with the project's initial design.
14. The team iterates the design, creating "Pumpkin Bot 2.0" with a new, more rigid pumpkin carcass.
15. The final version of the pumpkin hovercraft achieves some level of functionality.
16. The project's outcome is discussed in the context of effort vs. application importance.
17. The video concludes with an announcement of a Patreon link for support and a giveaway winner, Nick Tanya.