When one stops and thinks about the hole project, just designing it for a limited 3d printer is challenging enough! then add to the mix, all the motors and controllers, all of them to do exactly what you want them to do, along with being able to fine tune them all. Your accomplishments are truly fantastic James. most of us would of given up along time ago due to lack of knowledge. And lets not forget you are filming and editing it all with a exceptional quality that makes us forget all the hard work ,and let's us enjoy the build. Bravo Sir.
It is great that you are not just rushing to have it finished as soon as possible but taking your time to perfect your current design. You've made some nice improvement this week.
Another enjoyable episode! Bb-8 is really starting to come to life, even with that little paint cap stuck on, it has so much personality. I actually really like the way the head wobbles, I think it adds character to the droid. I can't wait for another episode! I wish I had the resources and could build my own bb-8. Version three is turning out to be awesome, the stability of it has definitely improved from version two. Love your videos so much!
At last you smoothed that bloody ball out. Been buggingme for weeks. Must be the most rewarding couple of hours you ever spent. Nice Barnet cut also :)
Great video James! A little tip i picked up while working at an autobody shop, for your final sand of the ball, try spraying the whole ball with a light coat of spray paint that contrast the surface, sand all the paint off and naturally it will make the job as smooth as you can get.
+Finn human To Clarify, the paint helps you see where you have and havent sanded. Also! i am aware that you are probably way past this point in the project and have probably already started on the skins, just thought it would be a useful piece of advice for future projects! keep up the good work.
Awesome work James. Take on more sponsors and do this full time so I can watch one of your videos every day!!! 1 or 2 of these quality vid's a week is VERY impressive though! P.S You are seriously the inspiration for me owning a 3D printer and a whole bunch of Arduino's and components, and have learned(ish) coding and electronics! So if that is your goal to inspire us to become geeks like you , then you have accomplished it! :D
James, I started watching your Hulkbuster series originally because I thought 3d printing was kind of cool. I am not a scif or comic booki fan (I havent even seen 2 of the Iron Mans or Age of Ultron). I also think cosplaying is kind of weird, but hey, to each his own. That said, I have watched every one of your Hulkbuster, BB-8, Alien Xenomorph and Animatronic Ultron videos. You are incredibly good at explaining and your designs and solutions to problems continue to impress me. You are by far and away my favorite youtube channel. Thanks for all the good times! :)
Oh God thank you. Those subtle ridges on the ball were driving me CRAYYYYYYYYZEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. I probably would have taken a rasp / chisel / emory paper / lathe / ANYTHING! to them within a few milliseconds of seeing the completed ball. Hey, I never said OCD is easy to live with... :P
It's looking fantastic James. Once you have finished the main build, you could add some autonomous activities to it for when you have not touched the remote control for 30secs or so. Such as rotating the head randomly, flashing lights, beeping and rotating on the spot. This would really add to the sense of it being alive.
So I watched the making of BB-8 feature on the Force Awakens DVD, I think your robot could pretty well do many of the functions of a few of the BB-8 props they had, this is some amazing work.
A fantastic episode again. I LOVE it. I really hope you will show a lot of driving around when it is fully finished as that is what I missed in version two a bit. This is by far my most favourite series on youtube and it always makes me happy to see another episode. Thank you very much. I am ancious to see you build a fully autonomous standup walking robot like asimo. I am kind of thinking you can match that whole asimo team by yourself :) I have a vacuum robot running around in my house and allready like its "personality". Wouldn't it be great to construct some kind of autonomous robot being a vacuum cleaner with its most effective shape but also being able to drive under an extension(and have it auto on top) and then do other things like being a TV or a driving fridge or little cubbort? I am sure you could do it :) [edit added] Stupid me, I just noticed that you are already building a real walking partly autonomous robot with the Ultron project. How very kel. I am gonna watch all episodes right now and then follow what will happen there :) [end edit]
13:20 - there is something so adorable about when BB-8 falls over and it/he is trying to get back up... maybe I'm just a jerk though? I mean, it wouldn't be funny to see a human in that situation, but with the droid moving around trying to get back up and failing, it's just strangely charming as it (unintentionally) emulates life. Aside: I have NOT seen TFA or TLJ, and yet I find it fascinating watching your process as you built v2 and v3.
This was a great episode, the sanding part made me think of something though. If you plan to continue using printed segments for round surfaces, a powered palm sander might be a good investment.
Coming along nicely! Have you though about using plastic body filler to smooth the surface? You could 3d print a few simple tools, like a portion of a sphere as a sanding backer with thin foam between the spherical shell and the sandpaper. Even without the filler, such a tool would allow you to true up the surface. On cars we call it blocking down, I guess on this you'd call it balling :)
Great job... as always! Take this suggestion with a grain of salt... if you load the flywheel adding more weight on both sides of it, your BB-8 should spin much better. I guess with all the IMU units you have installed, the flywheel will adjust itself even if it's not perfectly balanced... but, again, it's just my suggestion.
Hi James, love your channel and amazed at the solutions you come up with. Can't wait to see the final bb8. Will you be talking about the bb8 footage from the Blu-ray release of star wars today? Do you think it will inform any of your version 3 build?
will you be putting the small lights in this one around his body and the small drawer that the plans were in? or are you just focusing on the look? are you SW celebration this year?
Had you considered mounting the ball upside down and holding on to the internals while having the motor run, so you could sort of lathe is smooth? I can't remember if the flywheel is gravity set, or would cause problems if it were inverted. Anyway, nicely done considering you did it all by eye with a saw-file!
thank you for smoothing out the exterior, that was annoying me so much! :) Also, HAIR! This is an amazing project. I can't believe you're starting the trip with £50 a pack of smokes and half a tank of gas... how could you know all that stuff would fit in there? Are you an engineer by training? Great work. Love watching this. Started watching casually for the hulk buster, but now GLUED to your channel for the real robot stuff. It's inspiring.
This is turning out amazing! I always look forward to watching these episodes. There are a couple of things I was wondering that I hope you can answer. I really like thinking about this and coming up with ideas to make it EVEN better, so don't take it as critique :) Now that the ball is smoothed out, the movement is a lot less wobbly, but I think there is still a bit of shake. Could that be because the drive wheels still run on the unsmoothed inside? Also, I was wondering if it would be possible to make the side-to-side stabilization a bit quicker by overcompensating for the first correcting actions and then switching back to your undercompensating controller to make sure it doesn't tip over. I'm just throwing around some ideas here: When turning the ball by using the side-to-side motion, as the ball picks up speed, its weight wants to throw it in the other direction, making it turn the wrong way. Perhaps one way to solve this could be to couple the ball's longitudinal speed to the side-to-side motion. That way, when the ball picks up speed, its insides will lean more. To make sure there is enough resolution to compensate for the speed, you could limit the maximum amount of side-to-side motion at slow speeds and limit the maximum speed of the ball while using the side-to-side motion to turn. Again, you are doing an amazing job with this and I bet it will turn out amazing when it's finished! Your attention to detail is really nice to see. Keep up the great work!!!
You could have side to side stabilization active while moving forward, till the stick got moved enough for a turn and do the same for front to back, when you stop moving or reduce stick input that it adds some stabilization too.
I'd love to see you use some of the motors from ServoCity, I hope they have stock in the UK because their planetary gear motors are absolutely gorgeous, the price on them helps too
Just a suggestion but I can think of some situations where you'd want to move faster so maybe coding one of the buttons or switches to toggle fast or slow speed, granted a slider type thing would be better for speed control but that'd require modifying the controller so just a speed toggle would be fine, just a thought, keep doing what you are doing and being awesome.
In version 2 you had to turn off the stabilizing accelerometers because of EMF interference from turning the flywheel. This meant that you couldn't use the flywheel while driving. Is that the case with this version as well?
Yours is one of the only channels i check dayly for new video's. Your 3 bb8 and R6 series where verry enjoyable. Any idea what kind of robot comes after this? Btw i bought some rear view camera rx tx and a cctv camera for like 15 dollars which can run of a 5v usb powerbank. Would it not be great to have fpv in your bb8?
This is going fantastically well, but there is one little thing. Lubrication, whenever it rolls there is a horrible squeaking sound which can't be good. I know the bearings probably won't wear out any time soon but lubricating them will extend their life and make it less annoying to listen to.
Maybe make a program to combine all three functions with a little bit of AI. Seems it might be a little difficult to remember/be able to use all three functions at this point, you do only have two thumbs! Love the work man, keep it up!
+James Bruton (XRobots) It wouldn't really fit now, but one way that the spinning could have been made more controllable would be to have two flywheels with the same rotational inertia that were counter-rotating. That would allow for them to ramp up almost instantly without recoil, and then, by slowing one down relative to the other, to turn.
1/2 way through the video but thought I would make a quick comment on the smoothness of the ball. If you get a good quality glazzing putty (bondo type stuff) from a autobody supply store you could smooth out the ball with 'minimal' work. A more expensive glazzing putty will cure better and gum up sand paper less. A cheaper one will be slightly tacky until you hit it with sand paper. Once you get the initial tack off it sands hard dry and smooth. Good stuff for a litter container is $35-50. Stinks and makes dust so do it outside. A paper mixing board is also handy, has lots of sheets of thick paper to mix the stuff on. Peel off a used layer for a fresh. About $8 or so. If I were doing the body work on that it would take me 2-4 hours.
I know you arent finished with this one, but are you going to make a version 4? quite frankly, it woulndt be required: this one seems to turn out perfectly :) great work!
+James Bruton (XRobots) okay anyways, building these droids must be expensive! again great work! its amazing to see it move around, even if it is still not completed. looking forward to see it completed :)
I know I'm almost six years late to the party, and I have not seen any episodes after this one, so I'm commenting purely as if this was current content, but it would be awesome to program one of the buttons to do a prepragrammed 180. Slowly spin the flywheel, then do a full-speed pulse in opposite direction.
As rotating with the fly wheel works better if you started with the opposite way and suddenly turn the way you want have you thought about implement this in your code? You could make it turn the opposite way for the amount of time it needs to work (I let you determine this amount of time) and then turn the way you want. That would even work better than doing it with your controller because it would be an instant change. I don't know... It is just an idea. BTW I love your videos! It really makes me happy when I see on my TH-cam page that you posted a new one. Because of you (and because I wanted one for 3 years now) I ordered a cheap chinese 3D printer. I can't wait to tune it and make all the projects that are waiting for plastic parts on my desk. Thank you for your work!
+James Bruton (XRobots) Ok! Anyway with the sides put on, people wont be able to tell if you are doing it or not. If you planned to put some electronics in the head have you thought about linked the arduino in the head with the one in the body using RF? This way you could put some sensors in the head and make it follow people automatically or even just be able to control some stuff in the head with your bluetooth remote. Again just an idea ;)
When one stops and thinks about the hole project, just designing it for a limited 3d printer is challenging enough! then add to the mix, all the motors and controllers, all of them to do exactly what you want them to do, along with being able to fine tune them all. Your accomplishments are truly fantastic James. most of us would of given up along time ago due to lack of knowledge. And lets not forget you are filming and editing it all with a exceptional quality that makes us forget all the hard work ,and let's us enjoy the build. Bravo Sir.
It is great that you are not just rushing to have it finished as soon as possible but taking your time to perfect your current design. You've made some nice improvement this week.
true dat son
Great progress this week. So satisfying.
Dead impressed when the fly wheel spun up for the first time! This is quite the project!
Amazing! The turn from a stop looks so much better on this version and the bank turning makes it come alive. Very cool droid.
There isn't enough words to explain how cool this is , brilliant robot brilliant series thanks again
This is called brilliance and dedication.. remember this kids.
Finally, I could have done something James did. I know I could have done the sanding of the seams. Never thought the day would come.
yet another use for the incredible Shinto saw rasp
+CSGuitars Going to have to get one of those.. that thing looks like a beast of a material remover. :)
That sped up sanding sound is a really interesting noise. I kinda like it.
The spinning flywheel works so much better on this one than the last!!
I am totally enjoying your channel, and your BB8's are my favorite videos. I am in awe of your expertise and creativity! Thank you for all you do.
Another enjoyable episode! Bb-8 is really starting to come to life, even with that little paint cap stuck on, it has so much personality. I actually really like the way the head wobbles, I think it adds character to the droid. I can't wait for another episode! I wish I had the resources and could build my own bb-8. Version three is turning out to be awesome, the stability of it has definitely improved from version two. Love your videos so much!
Really coming together now James. Looking really good!
nice episode!! it became a daily routine to wake-up, see if there's a episode. and watch the video on school! it's really fun!
Thank you so much for all the work you put into these, its my favorite thing on the internet!
At last you smoothed that bloody ball out. Been buggingme for weeks. Must be the most rewarding couple of hours you ever spent. Nice Barnet cut also :)
These are always so much fun to watch. Just got a fresh cup of coffee, lets gooo!
Looking great, as always! :) Loved seing it move around, makes it seem much more life-like already! Can't wait to see it with the skins on. Thanks!
Great video James! A little tip i picked up while working at an autobody shop, for your final sand of the ball, try spraying the whole ball with a light coat of spray paint that contrast the surface, sand all the paint off and naturally it will make the job as smooth as you can get.
+Finn human To Clarify, the paint helps you see where you have and havent sanded. Also! i am aware that you are probably way past this point in the project and have probably already started on the skins, just thought it would be a useful piece of advice for future projects! keep up the good work.
+Finn human maybe clear lacquer would help, wet sand in between coats. sets hard after a week.
This is looking bloody amazing! Really great work!
Awesome work James. Take on more sponsors and do this full time so I can watch one of your videos every day!!! 1 or 2 of these quality vid's a week is VERY impressive though! P.S You are seriously the inspiration for me owning a 3D printer and a whole bunch of Arduino's and components, and have learned(ish) coding and electronics! So if that is your goal to inspire us to become geeks like you , then you have accomplished it! :D
Amazing! Excellent work James
Great build !!! I would LOVE to do or see a "Hello. It's James!" compilation, using clips from many of these videos.
Nice job, rotating like a champ.
James, I started watching your Hulkbuster series originally because I thought 3d printing was kind of cool. I am not a scif or comic booki fan (I havent even seen 2 of the Iron Mans or Age of Ultron). I also think cosplaying is kind of weird, but hey, to each his own. That said, I have watched every one of your Hulkbuster, BB-8, Alien Xenomorph and Animatronic Ultron videos. You are incredibly good at explaining and your designs and solutions to problems continue to impress me. You are by far and away my favorite youtube channel. Thanks for all the good times! :)
Oh God thank you. Those subtle ridges on the ball were driving me CRAYYYYYYYYZEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. I probably would have taken a rasp / chisel / emory paper / lathe / ANYTHING! to them within a few milliseconds of seeing the completed ball. Hey, I never said OCD is easy to live with... :P
Looking really good James
Impressive.... most impressive!
I love forgetting your channel and then having all these videos to watch. 😄😁
Also you should really use a hand held electric sander.
It's looking fantastic James. Once you have finished the main build, you could add some autonomous activities to it for when you have not touched the remote control for 30secs or so. Such as rotating the head randomly, flashing lights, beeping and rotating on the spot. This would really add to the sense of it being alive.
Hey James, are you planning on doing a video comparing V.2 and V.3?
Perhaps one of the tests could be a BB8 drag race :D
So I watched the making of BB-8 feature on the Force Awakens DVD, I think your robot could pretty well do many of the functions of a few of the BB-8 props they had, this is some amazing work.
cool james , all of your droids are amazing.👍
A fantastic episode again. I LOVE it. I really hope you will show a lot of driving around when it is fully finished as that is what I missed in version two a bit. This is by far my most favourite series on youtube and it always makes me happy to see another episode. Thank you very much. I am ancious to see you build a fully autonomous standup walking robot like asimo. I am kind of thinking you can match that whole asimo team by yourself :) I have a vacuum robot running around in my house and allready like its "personality". Wouldn't it be great to construct some kind of autonomous robot being a vacuum cleaner with its most effective shape but also being able to drive under an extension(and have it auto on top) and then do other things like being a TV or a driving fridge or little cubbort? I am sure you could do it :)
[edit added]
Stupid me, I just noticed that you are already building a real walking partly autonomous robot with the Ultron project. How very kel. I am gonna watch all episodes right now and then follow what will happen there :)
[end edit]
+James Bruton (XRobots) not on May the fourth?
+James Bruton (XRobots) excellent I'll be there
+James Bruton (XRobots) kewl :) is there any chance you will be in The Netherlands or Germany west middle side with BB8 and r2d2 someday?
perfection at it's best
These are always interesting, thanks for another great vid!
13:20 - there is something so adorable about when BB-8 falls over and it/he is trying to get back up... maybe I'm just a jerk though? I mean, it wouldn't be funny to see a human in that situation, but with the droid moving around trying to get back up and failing, it's just strangely charming as it (unintentionally) emulates life. Aside: I have NOT seen TFA or TLJ, and yet I find it fascinating watching your process as you built v2 and v3.
This was a great episode, the sanding part made me think of something though. If you plan to continue using printed segments for round surfaces, a powered palm sander might be a good investment.
@11:28 James, I'm glad to say that you have passed your driving test. :)
I think this is just like beginning to drive any new complicated thing. after a lot of practice what seems hard now will become second nature
Oh he is really stable!
Definitely looking much more expressive than version 2.
Your stuff is awesome quip the good work.
This one will actually be quite quick!
Coming along nicely! Have you though about using plastic body filler to smooth the surface? You could 3d print a few simple tools, like a portion of a sphere as a sanding backer with thin foam between the spherical shell and the sandpaper. Even without the filler, such a tool would allow you to true up the surface. On cars we call it blocking down, I guess on this you'd call it balling :)
As allways! Great episode! BUT YOU REALLY NEED SOME POWERTOOLS!:D
Great job... as always!
Take this suggestion with a grain of salt...
if you load the flywheel adding more weight on both sides of it, your BB-8 should spin much better.
I guess with all the IMU units you have installed, the flywheel will adjust itself even if it's not perfectly balanced...
but, again, it's just my suggestion.
I wonder if you could have used some sort of concave sanding disk on a power drill to do the smoothing of the ball.
Excellent Work. The fully functional 3 axis movement is a nice feature. I want to know if is in your plans add a camera on the head of this BB8?.
That is _freaking_ cool! =)
Love this project!
Been waiting for this video!!!!
doing well dude love watching this project pull together, have you thought about sanding the barrel segment lightly to minimize the bumps and ruts?
i did :) i wasn't picking at it just an idea i would love to do something like that
that part slipped my mind i'm mesmerized by how all the internals work hehe
do keep up the good work too :D
Hi James, love your channel and amazed at the solutions you come up with. Can't wait to see the final bb8. Will you be talking about the bb8 footage from the Blu-ray release of star wars today? Do you think it will inform any of your version 3 build?
will you be putting the small lights in this one around his body and the small drawer that the plans were in? or are you just focusing on the look? are you SW celebration this year?
great video!
Had you considered mounting the ball upside down and holding on to the internals while having the motor run, so you could sort of lathe is smooth?
I can't remember if the flywheel is gravity set, or would cause problems if it were inverted.
Anyway, nicely done considering you did it all by eye with a saw-file!
thank you for smoothing out the exterior, that was annoying me so much! :) Also, HAIR! This is an amazing project. I can't believe you're starting the trip with £50 a pack of smokes and half a tank of gas... how could you know all that stuff would fit in there? Are you an engineer by training? Great work. Love watching this. Started watching casually for the hulk buster, but now GLUED to your channel for the real robot stuff. It's inspiring.
Looking forward to version 9.
This is turning out amazing! I always look forward to watching these episodes. There are a couple of things I was wondering that I hope you can answer. I really like thinking about this and coming up with ideas to make it EVEN better, so don't take it as critique :)
Now that the ball is smoothed out, the movement is a lot less wobbly, but I think there is still a bit of shake. Could that be because the drive wheels still run on the unsmoothed inside? Also, I was wondering if it would be possible to make the side-to-side stabilization a bit quicker by overcompensating for the first correcting actions and then switching back to your undercompensating controller to make sure it doesn't tip over.
I'm just throwing around some ideas here: When turning the ball by using the side-to-side motion, as the ball picks up speed, its weight wants to throw it in the other direction, making it turn the wrong way. Perhaps one way to solve this could be to couple the ball's longitudinal speed to the side-to-side motion. That way, when the ball picks up speed, its insides will lean more. To make sure there is enough resolution to compensate for the speed, you could limit the maximum amount of side-to-side motion at slow speeds and limit the maximum speed of the ball while using the side-to-side motion to turn.
Again, you are doing an amazing job with this and I bet it will turn out amazing when it's finished! Your attention to detail is really nice to see. Keep up the great work!!!
11:35 Speaks a lot to the strength of that magnetic coupling...
...ouch! But not as much as at 13:13!
you know what I am so excited for the new ultron project so cool when will the next episode be up
I know it's such a minor detail but are you going to look into getting rid of that squeak it makes when diving around?
some WD-40 might be needed as well, I heard the squeek but it's looking really good man!
You deserve more subs
he is fucking underrated
What about lowering the mass on the head. It seems to me that it would have less impact on the wobble
How could anyone dislike this video?
You could have side to side stabilization active while moving forward, till the stick got moved enough for a turn and do the same for front to back, when you stop moving or reduce stick input that it adds some stabilization too.
How well is the fly-wheel working while driving?
what did you study to get this good
I'd love to see you use some of the motors from ServoCity, I hope they have stock in the UK because their planetary gear motors are absolutely gorgeous, the price on them helps too
13:23 James got a haircut since the start of the episode lol
Just a suggestion but I can think of some situations where you'd want to move faster so maybe coding one of the buttons or switches to toggle fast or slow speed, granted a slider type thing would be better for speed control but that'd require modifying the controller so just a speed toggle would be fine, just a thought, keep doing what you are doing and being awesome.
Maybe you could add some kind of "auto head mode" that tilts the head automatically, when you steer, to assist with turning.
In version 2 you had to turn off the stabilizing accelerometers because of EMF interference from turning the flywheel. This meant that you couldn't use the flywheel while driving. Is that the case with this version as well?
Yours is one of the only channels i check dayly for new video's. Your 3 bb8 and R6 series where verry enjoyable. Any idea what kind of robot comes after this? Btw i bought some rear view camera rx tx and a cctv camera for like 15 dollars which can run of a 5v usb powerbank. Would it not be great to have fpv in your bb8?
I feel the awesome !
Have you finished the Xenomorph yet? Or is it still a work in progress?
Awesome
This is going fantastically well, but there is one little thing. Lubrication, whenever it rolls there is a horrible squeaking sound which can't be good. I know the bearings probably won't wear out any time soon but lubricating them will extend their life and make it less annoying to listen to.
Hey James, I was just curious what infill percentage you print the wheel at for proper interior strength.
+James Bruton (XRobots) that's what I figured, I just wanted to confirm. Thank you for responding! I'll be starting my BB-8 tonight!
Maybe make a program to combine all three functions with a little bit of AI. Seems it might be a little difficult to remember/be able to use all three functions at this point, you do only have two thumbs! Love the work man, keep it up!
James - Just curious if anyone from Disney any other production company has contacted you with a job offer?
It's a liveeeeeeeeeeeee...Awesome
Now that you are approaching the end of BB8 do you pre-plan how many videos are left?
+James Bruton (XRobots) comment est il possible de construire une magnifique chose pareils !
+James Bruton (XRobots) vous avez travailler a google
What effect does spinning the flywheel while moving in a straight line have? It looks much more fluid now. Excellent work!!
+James Bruton (XRobots) It wouldn't really fit now, but one way that the spinning could have been made more controllable would be to have two flywheels with the same rotational inertia that were counter-rotating. That would allow for them to ramp up almost instantly without recoil, and then, by slowing one down relative to the other, to turn.
+James Bruton (XRobots) Oh well, just a thought.
after you compleat it could you do a full control over view?
cool it's coming along nicely :)
I know there is a documentary on how they made BB-8 in The Force Awakens Blu-Ray. You should check it out.
can you start with the head with panels and side on so i cant do fall over
Do you think you would get a better result if the fly wheel was made of ninja flex. That way it be like a rumber tire for better grip.
Sorry I don't mean the fly wheel, I mean the outer shell wheel.
D you think it could be possible to make a radio controlled metroid prime morph ball
1/2 way through the video but thought I would make a quick comment on the smoothness of the ball. If you get a good quality glazzing putty (bondo type stuff) from a autobody supply store you could smooth out the ball with 'minimal' work. A more expensive glazzing putty will cure better and gum up sand paper less. A cheaper one will be slightly tacky until you hit it with sand paper. Once you get the initial tack off it sands hard dry and smooth. Good stuff for a litter container is $35-50. Stinks and makes dust so do it outside. A paper mixing board is also handy, has lots of sheets of thick paper to mix the stuff on. Peel off a used layer for a fresh. About $8 or so. If I were doing the body work on that it would take me 2-4 hours.
James can challenge japan over robotics. he is a one man robot industry....
He won't havr enough budget then xD
Mujtaba Ibrahim
James where have you been?
I know you arent finished with this one, but are you going to make a version 4? quite frankly, it woulndt be required: this one seems to turn out perfectly :) great work!
+James Bruton (XRobots) okay
anyways, building these droids must be expensive! again great work! its amazing to see it move around, even if it is still not completed. looking forward to see it completed :)
I know I'm almost six years late to the party, and I have not seen any episodes after this one, so I'm commenting purely as if this was current content, but it would be awesome to program one of the buttons to do a prepragrammed 180. Slowly spin the flywheel, then do a full-speed pulse in opposite direction.
curious.... what does something like this project cost
Oh james! Why didn't you use an electric sander? ^_^ Much respect for the amount of work anyway! Edit on the end of the video: wow it rolls perfectly!
As rotating with the fly wheel works better if you started with the opposite way and suddenly turn the way you want have you thought about implement this in your code?
You could make it turn the opposite way for the amount of time it needs to work (I let you determine this amount of time) and then turn the way you want. That would even work better than doing it with your controller because it would be an instant change.
I don't know... It is just an idea.
BTW I love your videos! It really makes me happy when I see on my TH-cam page that you posted a new one.
Because of you (and because I wanted one for 3 years now) I ordered a cheap chinese 3D printer.
I can't wait to tune it and make all the projects that are waiting for plastic parts on my desk.
Thank you for your work!
+James Bruton (XRobots) Ok! Anyway with the sides put on, people wont be able to tell if you are doing it or not.
If you planned to put some electronics in the head have you thought about linked the arduino in the head with the one in the body using RF? This way you could put some sensors in the head and make it follow people automatically or even just be able to control some stuff in the head with your bluetooth remote.
Again just an idea ;)
What?! Two days ago?? How in the world did I miss it..