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Can confirm EDL is an amazing company. The team Tomek assembled are incredibly talented and passionate about their work. It's was honestly a joy to spend time with them while shooting these videos. If you're serious, reach out to the team (I'm just the filmmaker who made this). You can find the contact info on their website - www.engdesignlab.com

Thanks a bunch, Riccardo! The team’s passion and general excitement about their work made my job significantly easier.

Thanks for taking the time to drop a comment!

Thanks for the feedback. I’ll have to up the toes-per-video count for the next one. I honestly can’t wait for the day I have my own studio space. Setting up and tearing down constantly is soooooo time consuming.

Stoked to hear you found it helpful! I'm an Australian currently living in Canada. Best of luck with your vids!

@@tristan_viney Thanx, the same to you! I'm in Cyprus and just talked to a stranger Australian about filming and lol he looked just like you!

@@pingpong7741 haha awesome! Australians are everywhere

Thanks Alex! I had the actual corporate shoot this week and the testing definitely paid off

Thanks mate! Right back at ya 🫡

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Cheers for the insight! I’ll pass it onto the EDL team 💪

@@tristan_viney But do not forget to tell them they do a great job too 🙂

Will do! We also just finished shooting another video together last week, so I'll be chatting to the team again soon :)

Oh interesting. How would this improve WAL-LE? Explain it to me like I’m a filmmaker 😂

@@tristan_viney improve handling crawling capabilities its best crawling driveline

Oh cool! I can see how that could be helpful. Thanks! (again, non engineer here) 🙌

@tristan_viney ye i guess im self schooled eng.

So glad to hear! The team did an awesome job. It was a lot of fun to film the process.

I think you're onto something with the rotating assembly. If you're going to embrace an industrial safety nightmare, you might as well be sure it works 😉

Thanks for taking the time to share this idea! I’ll pass it onto the EDL team who built WAL-LE 💪

@@tristan_viney My pleasure, look forward to seeing the vehicle progress :-)

No such thing as a testy Canadian 😂

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WAL-LE is too cute to go down in flames like that 😂🔥

​@@tristan_vineyFWIW, there are automatic extinguisher systems for UTVs, that might be a worthwhile inclusion or inspiration here.

That could be handy! I’ll pass it onto the team (I’m just a guy with a camera 😂)

Super interesting insights. I’ll let the team know 💪

​​​​​​@@tristan_vineyThat's a mighty kind response to a stranger grousing at you on the Internet 😊. Looking again, by the time the ice picks were installed, it appears they may have already addressed the issue of driving all the wheels... Maybe 😉... In the shot of it getting onto the rock, it looks like the fronts are maybe spinning in unison, but not faster than the rear 🤔 9:04 -ish: Tire pressure can make a difference, sure, but I really think the bigger issue was having too few driving wheels. It looked like the first test either didn't have the fronts driven at all, or maybe at the software level they had designed it to mimic open differentials instead of locked diffs. I would have been tempted to do an MVP / prototype by building floats onto an ATV. At least then the off-road functionality would be basically guaranteed as a baseline. Two more examples to look at, off the top of my head, are the Argo 6x6 and the Marsh Master. And for the ability to climb up onto things, I'd have to consider the triangular three-wheeled assemblies that some stair-climbing dollies use. (They look like big fidget spinners). It could even be a potential inspiration just for the ice axes. 💭💡

No worries! I didn’t take it personally. I’m a big fan of WAL-LE, but it’s not actually my creation - I’m just the guy who made the documentary. So all these ideas on how to improve the design are really interesting to see and I’ll pass onto the EDL team. Who knows, maybe there’ll be a WAL-LE 2.0 that can implement some of these awesome suggestions!

Thanks for checking out the doc. WAL-LE is pretty awesome, right? I’m no engineer (photographer/filmmaker here), but my understanding is that this 1/4 scale prototype is a proof of concept to transport people and cargo from ships to shore in the arctic - all controlled remotely.

Yeah, like "mule" UGVs 😊

Ah so THAT’S what a “mule” is 😂

Right!?

Well, electric means it can be charged by any source, which will probably sometimes be diesel - as well as solar, wind, power from the ship, power from bases, etc. If they were going to regularly use it somewhere, they could also deploy a solar (or diesel) charging stations, like those being done by Jeep, Rivian, Tesla, etc.

Great points! My understanding is the battery would be swapped or charged from the ship it would be deployed from. The arctic eco system, particularly the permafrost, is also very sensitive to pollution, which is why the EDL team built an EV prototype.

And you wouldn't want any implications of false positives or anything, if you're doing core samples to test for pollutants, carbon, etc.

Funnily enough, this is 1/4 scale version of WAL-LE. If the EDL team win the contract to put their prototype into production it will be big. Really big!

@@tristan_viney It wasn't clear from the video if it was a scale prototype. The only thing that indicated that it might be was the ability to fold into a container - it looked like it would fit as is.

@@Starfireaw11 Thanks for the feedback! Perhaps I should have placed a little more focus on that in the documentary

@@tristan_viney I strongly suggest they make two type, a drone one with like this and the bigger one. The drones is the future in warfare and I see this one as a perfect reconnaissance unit if they add a little flying drone with a charging base.

Thanks, brother! I’m from Australia and currently live in Canada.

Absolutely!

The great thing about sharing your work is that it tends to attract people with similar ideas, tastes, and sensibilities.

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Absolutely no excuse, but I planning to make this video after my first paid shoot. But then I kept booking jobs 😅 I’m still 100% trying to get into the routine of regularly creating content. I honestly don’t know how other creators manage it while also building a business. And I’m still chipping away at that 100 portrait session goal 💪

Thanks! It’s been so fun and interesting to photograph so many people. And (hopefully) this is just the beginning.

haha as soon as I left my apartment I immediately regretted my decision 😅

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Thanks! It was all Markus 😅👌

@@tristan_viney amazing work!

1000%, Jess! It's somewhat terrifying to put yourself out there and it's very easy to give yourself entirely sane and rational reasons why you shouldn't. (Which I'm going through working on my next video.) But there's also a tonne to be gained and loads of interesting people to meet by putting work out there and seeing who it resonates with :)

Me too, man! Those shooting day trips we used to take in and around Sydney were so much fun.

Cheers!! Love your positive win-win attitude.

Thanks Bob!!