@LukasDeem I know it takes a lot of dedication to finish a project like this, so as the creator of the original design, I'm really happy someone takes on the challenge. In the end that's why I shared the design.
Hi, I've been following videos on DIY Rover and I made a car myself. wildwillyrobots' car is very good and its design is beautiful. I noticed that a long time ago. But I think it has a defect, the axle of the wheel passes through the rocker arm and is connected with the steering gear fixed in the rocker arm, which makes me doubt its strength, after all, this is 3D printed, I want this car to have a certain strength, I wonder if you have any ideas on this aspect during the development process?
@@evesgf I think you are referring to the part at 4-25 in the assembly video th-cam.com/video/bXdt8hng2WM/w-d-xo.html It has a screw all the way to give it strength. The nut for the gear screw is below the head of the long screw (video 4-09), to avoid the top breaking of the part.
@@wildwillyrobots I have carefully reviewed the video and downloaded the STL file for assembly observation, and I think there are still some strength problems, but this is what I think, so I decided to make a part for testing. Anyway, thank you very much for your reply
Wow! Seriously thank you so much! I put a lot of work into these videos. I work full time and I'm a grad student. So it takes a lot for me to get these done. Comments like your help me maintain my motivation 🙂🙂🙂
Great Project! A few tricks on the DC-DC converters... For the servos, look into a BEC for an RC plane. Much smaller than the the DC-DC you used. For the Brushed DC motors, the voltage isn't the problem, it's the current. If you set the max current limit to below the max the motors can take, they can "Run at any voltage" (as the H-Bridge will protect them.) Also, you can just run the bridges off full voltage, but limit the max PWM to 50%, for half voltage. (The current limit would be another level of protection.) Last, look into Conformal Coating for all your PCB boards to make them water proof-ish. Dialetric grease in all the connectors (LOTS OF IT) is your friend.
I've had someone mention BEC before, I need to do some research on it. I would love to find ways to make my next project like this somewhat waterproof! Thanks for the ideas!
I cannot express, how much I love this video. As a CS student and future Space Engineer this video encouraged me to don't stop when it feels like is terribly hard/difficult. I know everything is possible, and your project demonstrates me this once more. Well Done!!! 👏
MAN, the algorithm has been bringing some good stuff recently. Really love how many creators are starting to use their own original music. Absolute banger video!
Hey, I'm a high school student who's an expert at designing robots and rockets. I strongly suggest that you take on a fin-guided rocket project, which I can help you with by providing the code and CAD. Trust me, it will be a challenging and rewarding project.
Hey, I'm a general multi-language developer and would love to learn more about the algorithms of these fields. Any open-source links to these type of projects would be gr8 to review and study the algorithm
Great tutorial! I'm a beginner in robotics and this video helped me understand how to integrate Raspberry Pi and Arduino. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
I think the custom song is great. The only other person who does anything like this is RCtestflight. He has a friend who makes the songs for his channel. This video is great.
The RCtestflight ones are very tongue in cheek, all of these are super on the nose. I like them! Some unsolicited constructive criticism though, maybe not make nearly every (outside of narration) song one of the custom ones, just have some that are wordless beats.
Also, maybe in the future pick one or two genres of music to stick to that fits with the theme of the video, hopping around different kinds of music is... I dunno weird, not really bad, but it does not have as much flow between cuts when it switches up temp etc.
Maaan this was soo cool!! As a recent Robotics engineering graduate, I think you're already an engineer even though you don't consider yourself as one yet.
I was just making my first thoughts of my first project and I saw this video you made and all I can say is you've just blown my mind the only thing I need to learn now is 3-D printing
Hey! Instead of suing buck converter to drop down the voltage to 6v, you could lover max duty cycle of the pwm signals coming to h-bridge to 50%.. this would essentially result in the same voltage drop :) you could also drop the arduino entirely and use something like adafruit 16 channel PWM/Servo controller that also connects with i2c, but it's far easier to manage (as it's doesn't need separate arduino code). these both improvements would get you much much space to work with under the hood :) Besides that! cool one!!
Hey! I need to look more into this idea of lowering the duty cycle. I actually have extra pwm servo boards lying around, I didn't even think of that. I think I wanted to use the Arduino to off board some of the logic required to run the motors.
You would likely have better results with a 2S lipo battery. I know the motors say 6 V but they would be fine with the 7-8.4 V of a 2S lipo, especially if you limit the PWM duty cycle. That way you could get rid of the large buck converter. You can also get smaller motor drivers and since your motors are quite small and have gearboxes you shouldn’t need much current anyway. Edit: piling the electronics in, even just for testing is how you end up with a short. Also you shouldn’t need the router, the pi should be able to create its own wifi network that you can connect the laptop too. Overall it is a good project.
Totally agree and this was quite the learning experience for me including these comments 😁. So the whole reason that I did the router in the first place was because I wanted to give control to people over the internet. I was actually able to get that working but the latency was pretty bad so I didn't include it in the video 😅
@@LukasDeem people controlling it over the internet is definitely interesting, I have seen it done once before on reddit where someone had built some robots and a website for them for people to take turns controlling them but i don't think it was that great either. In regards to latency the latency over just a local network isn't great either. Maybe the pi isn't powerful enough to handle the video streaming although it probably should be. Was it a pi zero or pi zero 2? Did you compress the video? Either that or lowering the resolution could help. Maybe doing it as a website is just adding too much overhead, I wonder if creating a non website GUI that runs on the laptop and just streaming the video to it instead could help. It is quite a steep learning curve to get into robotics and there isn't a definitive right way to do things either. For a first robotics project this was definitely a good and well made project. I'm very interested to see what you make next.
Hi, Please help us to answer a few questions in regards to this video: 1: What was one of the requirements for the Rover project mentioned in the text? A. To use an Arduino Uno B. To integrate a camera C. To use a Raspberry Pi D. To have 8 wheels 2: Which software was used to sketch out the possible motions of the Rover? A. AutoCAD B. SolidWorks C. Figma D. Tinkercad 3: What was used to drop the voltage from 12 volts to 6 volts for the DC motors? A. Breadboard B. Buck converter C. H-Bridge driver D. Arduino Mega 4: What was the main challenge faced during the project according to the text? A. Coding the Python script B. Fitting all the electronics inside the Rover C. Assembling the wheels D. Testing the motors 5: Which component was accidentally damaged during the project? A. Arduino Mega B. Raspberry Pi Camera C. DC Motors D. H-Bridge Servo driver board 6: What was used for controlling the Rover over the web? A. HTML website B. Arduino Uno C. Raspberry Pi Camera D. Figma software 7: Which component allowed serial communication between the Raspberry Pi and Arduino Mega? A. Buck converter B. Raspberry Pi Camera C. SDA and SCL pins D. H-Bridge driver board 8: What was the purpose of the prototyping board in the Rover? A. To control the motors B. To solder power distribution C. To host the web server D. To connect the wheels 9: What was the final outcome of the outdoor test with the Rover? A. It did not work at all B. It worked perfectly with no issues C. There were some mishaps but it worked overall D. The Rover got damaged during the test 10: What was the main lesson learned from the Rover project according to the text? A. Always order extra parts B. Complex projects are not manageable C. Raspberry Pi is not suitable for robotics projects
Scrap the massive 6V buck converter and power the motor driver directly from a 2S lipo or li-ion battery. You will only need a small 6V (maybe 3A) buck converter for the servo motors.
Great video. This is great. Trouble is I have no 3D printer or CAD experience. I've messed around with Pi and Arduino but loose the plot with the programing. So My thinking is there is always a different way to do the same thing. 1: Big plastic box to hold components. 2: Married to an existing remote control vehicle. 3: For a camera I could use one of those cheaper WiFi security cameras. 4: learn CAD (FreeCad) to make some parts to marry to the control box. I did turn a wiper motor into a a servo with some grunt once, and controlled it by modifying a remote control unit from a cheap toy car. I, as they say am on the case. Thanks.
Thank you so much for sharing! my freind gave me his old Swampy Rover and i've fixed it up, but now i want to make a robot myself. You've given me hope
@@LukasDeem not sure if You Tubewill let me do this but.,.. this is the old one after I fixed it . But yes, I will! thank you th-cam.com/users/shortsit0jKVa3QGg?si=ZkBH18MvBxmeNVQ-
@@deanallenjones you delivered!! I think it's hilarious that in my video the test was going over a block of wood and in yours it was going over a brick lol 🤣🤣
I was trying to gather details but there were not such videos related to how to make rover yours is a walllaaaaahhh loved it thankyou so much will try it now
Not sure what you've set the voltage in the step down converter to, but keep in mind, that with the bipolar transistors on the L298Ns H-Bridges you get a voltage drop of about 1.4V, so you might get a little more power out of your motors by increasing the voltage of the stepdown converter to 7.4V, in order to give the motors 6V, if you've not already done that. You could also check the voltage drop by measuring the voltage on one of the Outputs of your Motordrivers on fullspeed
Hey so yeah and some of my first outdoor test I saw that it was going super slow and I knew that I needed to up the voltage. I ended up bumping it up to 7.1v thanks for the tip on how to measure the output voltage I think I need to go back and do that and see what I'm actually getting at the output of the motor drivers.
@@LukasDeem if you have the option to measure the motors voltage with an osziloscope you can even measure it at any pwm setting, as you can read the voltage during the on time.depending on the load you can actually go a bit higher than the rated voltage as well, but therefore you should measure the current through the motors under load to have a reference. You dont want the motor to get to hot
I have been thinking about doing this for a bit using an ESP32 and LoRa so that I can remotely traverse the hundreds of square miles of desert I live right next to.
It would have been great if you had made a separate video detailing the electronic and power sub-assemblies. Are you connecting the battery to a terminal block to feed power to all the different components? Radio communication would be more efficient than wireless-a future upgrade--?? Nice work!
Well the reason I used Wi-Fi is because I originally wanted to set this up so that somebody could control it remotely over the internet. I actually did get that working but because of the latency I had I decided not to use it in the video. As for the power supply I soldered everything to a small prototyping board to distribute the power to all the motors. Probably not the best way to do it but it worked 🤷♂️
@@phaniraja9104 thanks for the reply. When I make these videos I struggle to decide how detailed to get. I've even considered having a short video and then the long in depth videos. 😃
damn that's so cool, great job man. you can use a PCB printing service to put your microcontroller, buck converter and PWM controllers all on the same board. might be cool to add some hall-effect sensors to calibrate your motors, the problem with awesome projects like this is they never end, you're on to the next version once you're "done" :)
This is great man! I can totally relate to your excitement when it was finally driving around! Super cool! Looking forward to seeing more. Keep up the great work! I agree with others, the music is friggin fantastic.
Hey thanks so much! What this video didn't capture is the two months of struggles that I went through to get that thing working lol. I'm sure you can sympathize 😂😂. Thanks for the thoughtful comment ♥️
@@LukasDeemdude. The victory wouldnt be as sweet without it! Right?! Haha the Portal vibes with the tunes are inescapable. 😂. I wish I still had my podcast as I'd totally want to get you on there and talk shop! 😂
I'm about 30 seconds in and subscribed! I've been working on robots for fun for years now but never done a serious project like this. I also love all of the Mars rover footage (one of the two things that got me into tech and robotics in the first place), so I'm excited to see the rest of this!
Great project! I did a quick google and I found that you should be able to use your PC to host a wifi network much like if you've ever set up a wireless printer or something like that. So you shouldn't need to have to bring your router out into the field with you. Theoretically these instructions should work, good luck. For Windows 10/11: Open Settings -> Network & Internet -> Mobile hotspot. Toggle on Share my Internet connection with other devices. You can also customize the network name and password by clicking on the Edit button.
What a fantastic production! Your presentation was professional level... The project was interesting... You had to 'learn as you went', and we learnt too... The pace was perfect... There was an element of suspense... We shared in your elation with the successes, and the pain of the failures... AND... The custom music soundtrack was out of this world! Congratulations, and thank you so much... Liked and Subscribed - looking forward to more of the same.
Wow! As an aspiring TH-cam creator this is the best comment I could receive. I really appreciate your kind words. I'm doing this projects while working full time and going to grad school. Sometimes it's hard to find the motivation, so comments like these can really give me a boost! Thank you!
About the chosen hardware: Why didn't you use a standard arduino uno with the standard arduino motor modules (4 DC motors and a few servos per modules, and they are stackable, so two should be enough) And about the voltage: Why didn't you just max out the pwm signal as an alternative to use this big step down converter? (For example: you have 6V DC motors, but a 12 V DC power source: you can directly use the 12 V, if you limit the pwm to 50%. (or 24 V with 25% max pwm).The higher voltage doesn't harm and if the total energy is the same they don't burn/overheat. As long the difference don't get to crazy (like 3V to 48V) this should work very well.)
Honest truth is because I'm a beginner and I didn't know any of these things 🙃. This is exactly why I post this stuff on TH-cam so that I can get comments like yours to help me learn, so thank you!😁
As an aspired robotic engineer, I love this so much especially the designs, wireless controls and also the music🤩. If it is possible could we work together on the next project of yours. I noticed you faced issues with space. I could handle the PCB designing part of the next upcoming project so we get rid of those cables flying around. I will be glad to connect with you. I love working on real world problems.
Cool! Next up: Analogue controls (looks like everything's on/off now) and then, integration, a single board to rule it all :) PS: And LoRa(WAN), so that you can save some power and increase the transmission distance quite a bit
Suggestion You could add led to know standby , boot up and off mode Power button would be better outside And probably a charge port too Have you considered RF,I'd like to see that too
Cool tip you may want to know about is Windows comes with a cool SLT util called 3D Builder which allows you to modify STL. I use it all the time. Using 3D builder you can add the camera hole and more important add needed vents.
@@LukasDeem yeah same here. But for fast modifications it is really cool. As well, if any errors are found in the STL files, the util will fix them. Very fun and simple modification tool that all should have. I myself use it at times to simply add custom supports.
I like that the shell is 3d printed but cant you use some sort of kit that makes the insides all pre assembled to make this evennmore easier and modular?
So I think for the electronics the best thing would be solid PCB but I haven't learned how to do that. Wild Willy included a design file called a Gerber file for a PCB but I don't even know how to use that yet 🤣🤣
Never seen this channel before,i think youtube is wildly recommending this vedio,The number of veiw of this vedio is going to sky 🚀. Anyway i like the each theme song of each section,made it something unique.
This is very cool. Have you already tried using a PS4 controller to maneuver the rover? That simplifies the steering and opens up opportunities for more features like toggling in thermal or infrared imaging. There are a lot of cool things to do with a project like this. I wish I had seen this video sooner!
Oh man, I can't believe that didn't come up in my research! I'll have to look into that. Does that mean I could connect my phone to it in the field without brining a router 🤣🤣
@@LukasDeem yep loop up terms like WIFI AP mode and raspberry pi wifi server its a bit of work but very worth it. if you run into any problems ill be glad to help.
Next add a drone that charges off your rover and can fly around and land back on it so it can do it multiple times. After that, send the whle thing to Mars. /s. Very impressive project. Fun to watch.
Hi, I've been following videos on DIY Rover and I made a car myself. wildwillyrobots' car is very good and its design is beautiful. I noticed that a long time ago. But I think it has a defect, the axle of the wheel passes through the rocker arm and is connected with the steering gear fixed in the rocker arm, which makes me doubt its strength, after all, this is 3D printed, I want this car to have a certain strength, I wonder if you have any ideas on this aspect during the development process?
i built a webinterface controlled pizero robot with camera as well, using python and an explorer hat. mine is much more limited with just 2 motors for motion and 1 for rotaion of the body part. you've done a great job,especially the camera. mine only handles a few frames/sec.
It's all about learning and having fun! That's awesome! I think mine came out pretty well I just wish I knew how to design a PCB so I could have a custom board instead of all those parts inside 😅
@@LukasDeem kicad can be used. I designed a pcb for a shift register ic so I could read multiple switches using a minimum of io ports on the pi, but a breadboard (prototyping board) is handy for checking that the design works before comitting to pcb.
As an engineering student, watching this was a joy!
Ayyy! I think you are my target audience lol 🤣.
Which type of Engineer you are?
@@LukasDeem Can you mass produce that, or make it a kit or something? I'm sure there's a ton of people who would love to get one
@LukasDeem I know it takes a lot of dedication to finish a project like this, so as the creator of the original design, I'm really happy someone takes on the challenge. In the end that's why I shared the design.
Hey! I'm honored that you saw my video. Thanks so much for sharing your design!
The point when everything thing looks right and nothing works right is the most frustrating 💔
Hi, I've been following videos on DIY Rover and I made a car myself. wildwillyrobots' car is very good and its design is beautiful. I noticed that a long time ago. But I think it has a defect, the axle of the wheel passes through the rocker arm and is connected with the steering gear fixed in the rocker arm, which makes me doubt its strength, after all, this is 3D printed, I want this car to have a certain strength, I wonder if you have any ideas on this aspect during the development process?
@@evesgf I think you are referring to the part at 4-25 in the assembly video th-cam.com/video/bXdt8hng2WM/w-d-xo.html It has a screw all the way to give it strength. The nut for the gear screw is below the head of the long screw (video 4-09), to avoid the top breaking of the part.
@@wildwillyrobots I have carefully reviewed the video and downloaded the STL file for assembly observation, and I think there are still some strength problems, but this is what I think, so I decided to make a part for testing. Anyway, thank you very much for your reply
Man the video quality is insane and the buildquality as well... i am impressed and then i saw only 4k subs... man i found a hidden gem here
Wow! Seriously thank you so much! I put a lot of work into these videos. I work full time and I'm a grad student. So it takes a lot for me to get these done. Comments like your help me maintain my motivation 🙂🙂🙂
The music was so spot on haha. Man! The effort you put in this video is incredible! Great job Lukas!
Ayyy!!! Thanks so much :-D Your support means a lot! :) :)
Did you use Suno AI for the music?
@@notbenparisi yep!!
the music was so funny XD
@@ianchan2624 thanks! I'm planning to post a video later today about how I made these custom songs 🤣
Great Project!
A few tricks on the DC-DC converters...
For the servos, look into a BEC for an RC plane. Much smaller than the the DC-DC you used.
For the Brushed DC motors, the voltage isn't the problem, it's the current. If you set the max current limit to below the max the motors can take, they can "Run at any voltage" (as the H-Bridge will protect them.)
Also, you can just run the bridges off full voltage, but limit the max PWM to 50%, for half voltage. (The current limit would be another level of protection.)
Last, look into Conformal Coating for all your PCB boards to make them water proof-ish. Dialetric grease in all the connectors (LOTS OF IT) is your friend.
I've had someone mention BEC before, I need to do some research on it. I would love to find ways to make my next project like this somewhat waterproof! Thanks for the ideas!
you mean the Adafruit 16-Channel Servo Driver?
Great Job! thanks for being transparent about the mechanical design coming from WildWilly
Yes of course! 😄
I cannot express, how much I love this video. As a CS student and future Space Engineer this video encouraged me to don't stop when it feels like is terribly hard/difficult. I know everything is possible, and your project demonstrates me this once more. Well Done!!! 👏
MAN, the algorithm has been bringing some good stuff recently. Really love how many creators are starting to use their own original music. Absolute banger video!
Hey man thanks! I was inspired by @prestongoes his videos are super creative and he writes his own music.
Lukas complains about bad wifi and latency.
Nasa: Please... we had 20 minutes of communication time delay to the mars rover.
Hahaha! So true 😅😅😅. Seriously though I was able to drop the quality of the stream and it improved a lot 🫡
Hey, I'm a high school student who's an expert at designing robots and rockets. I strongly suggest that you take on a fin-guided rocket project, which I can help you with by providing the code and CAD. Trust me, it will be a challenging and rewarding project.
By Fin guided, I'm assuming you are meaning that the fins are articulated by motors to control the trajectory of the rocket?
@@LukasDeem yup that's right fins control using the servo motor. That's a interesting project.
Hey, I'm a general multi-language developer and would love to learn more about the algorithms of these fields. Any open-source links to these type of projects would be gr8 to review and study the algorithm
Adding the SUNO music was genious... The lirycs are cracking me up 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I don't know why a video like this one hasn't had millions of views 😢
Great tutorial! I'm a beginner in robotics and this video helped me understand how to integrate Raspberry Pi and Arduino. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
Hey of course! Glad I could help 😃😃
Do upu have a video or guide on how you prgrammed the pi and arduino?
Hey! I posted my code on GitHub github.com/Lukas2233/Rover-Project
came for the rover, stayed for the music
Ayyyyy! Thanks I'm glad you like it honestly when I was making the video I thought I might have overdone it a little bit 😅
@@LukasDeem Naah, it's perfect. Awesome job sir.
Something he could do is turn the raspberry pi into a travel router, but doing that it would have to be bigger
great video - i love the use of Suno for background tunes. adds character to the overall production. Working on my own rover too
I think the custom song is great. The only other person who does anything like this is RCtestflight. He has a friend who makes the songs for his channel. This video is great.
I dig his channel 💯💯. So I just an AI tool, all I had to do was come up with lyrics 😌
@@LukasDeem And you did a great job on the first song, very appropriate. The later songs were awesome too!
The RCtestflight ones are very tongue in cheek, all of these are super on the nose. I like them! Some unsolicited constructive criticism though, maybe not make nearly every (outside of narration) song one of the custom ones, just have some that are wordless beats.
Also, maybe in the future pick one or two genres of music to stick to that fits with the theme of the video, hopping around different kinds of music is... I dunno weird, not really bad, but it does not have as much flow between cuts when it switches up temp etc.
Awesome work on this! I want to build one now. This robot has all the movement features I need for my own project.
Maaan this was soo cool!! As a recent Robotics engineering graduate, I think you're already an engineer even though you don't consider yourself as one yet.
Hey thanks so much! I feel like Im missing some fundamentals such as the math behind how to design safe and strong structures for example.
The music had me rolling 😂hahaha! What an awesome project!!
Ayyy! Had a ton of fun making those songs 😆😆😆
I’m half way through a just realized the songs are custom. 😮😂
I believe they were all generated by Suno AI. Pretty cool tech!
@@notbenparisi every song with lyrics was AI. The background music in some places came from epidemic sound
I was just making my first thoughts of my first project and I saw this video you made and all I can say is you've just blown my mind the only thing I need to learn now is 3-D printing
the production value in this video was insane, keep up the great work
This is literally the best compliment 😸. I put a lot of time into this one 😎
Why does this not have more views
Hey thanks! I hope people like it 🙀
Hey!
Instead of suing buck converter to drop down the voltage to 6v, you could lover max duty cycle of the pwm signals coming to h-bridge to 50%.. this would essentially result in the same voltage drop :)
you could also drop the arduino entirely and use something like adafruit 16 channel PWM/Servo controller that also connects with i2c, but it's far easier to manage (as it's doesn't need separate arduino code).
these both improvements would get you much much space to work with under the hood :)
Besides that! cool one!!
Hey! I need to look more into this idea of lowering the duty cycle. I actually have extra pwm servo boards lying around, I didn't even think of that. I think I wanted to use the Arduino to off board some of the logic required to run the motors.
You would likely have better results with a 2S lipo battery. I know the motors say 6 V but they would be fine with the 7-8.4 V of a 2S lipo, especially if you limit the PWM duty cycle. That way you could get rid of the large buck converter.
You can also get smaller motor drivers and since your motors are quite small and have gearboxes you shouldn’t need much current anyway.
Edit: piling the electronics in, even just for testing is how you end up with a short.
Also you shouldn’t need the router, the pi should be able to create its own wifi network that you can connect the laptop too.
Overall it is a good project.
Totally agree and this was quite the learning experience for me including these comments 😁. So the whole reason that I did the router in the first place was because I wanted to give control to people over the internet. I was actually able to get that working but the latency was pretty bad so I didn't include it in the video 😅
@@LukasDeem people controlling it over the internet is definitely interesting, I have seen it done once before on reddit where someone had built some robots and a website for them for people to take turns controlling them but i don't think it was that great either.
In regards to latency the latency over just a local network isn't great either. Maybe the pi isn't powerful enough to handle the video streaming although it probably should be. Was it a pi zero or pi zero 2? Did you compress the video? Either that or lowering the resolution could help. Maybe doing it as a website is just adding too much overhead, I wonder if creating a non website GUI that runs on the laptop and just streaming the video to it instead could help.
It is quite a steep learning curve to get into robotics and there isn't a definitive right way to do things either. For a first robotics project this was definitely a good and well made project. I'm very interested to see what you make next.
@@conorstewart2214 awesome advice! Yeah I played around with the camera stream quality and it certainly helped. I used just a basic pi zero 😅😅
Hi, Please help us to answer a few questions in regards to this video:
1: What was one of the requirements for the Rover project mentioned in the text?
A. To use an Arduino Uno
B. To integrate a camera
C. To use a Raspberry Pi
D. To have 8 wheels
2: Which software was used to sketch out the possible motions of the Rover?
A. AutoCAD
B. SolidWorks
C. Figma
D. Tinkercad
3: What was used to drop the voltage from 12 volts to 6 volts for the DC motors?
A. Breadboard
B. Buck converter
C. H-Bridge driver
D. Arduino Mega
4: What was the main challenge faced during the project according to the text?
A. Coding the Python script
B. Fitting all the electronics inside the Rover
C. Assembling the wheels
D. Testing the motors
5: Which component was accidentally damaged during the project?
A. Arduino Mega
B. Raspberry Pi Camera
C. DC Motors
D. H-Bridge Servo driver board
6: What was used for controlling the Rover over the web?
A. HTML website
B. Arduino Uno
C. Raspberry Pi Camera
D. Figma software
7: Which component allowed serial communication between the Raspberry Pi and Arduino Mega?
A. Buck converter
B. Raspberry Pi Camera
C. SDA and SCL pins
D. H-Bridge driver board
8: What was the purpose of the prototyping board in the Rover?
A. To control the motors
B. To solder power distribution
C. To host the web server
D. To connect the wheels
9: What was the final outcome of the outdoor test with the Rover?
A. It did not work at all
B. It worked perfectly with no issues
C. There were some mishaps but it worked overall
D. The Rover got damaged during the test
10: What was the main lesson learned from the Rover project according to the text?
A. Always order extra parts
B. Complex projects are not manageable
C. Raspberry Pi is not suitable for robotics projects
Scrap the massive 6V buck converter and power the motor driver directly from a 2S lipo or li-ion battery. You will only need a small 6V (maybe 3A) buck converter for the servo motors.
I had a feeling that buck converter was way too big 😂
Good job, great effort 👍👏
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Cheers 💐
This is very cool, well done! Next I would like you to upgrade it by using a cellular network instead of Wi-Fi.
coolest project with a raspberry pi that i ever seen
Hey thanks!! It was my first time using one 🙃
this was honestly amazing to watch! it felt like it was just 5 minutes long... i know i will be binge watching your channel tonight!
Ayyy! That's the best compliment ever! Let me know what you like most so I can keep making good stuff 😂.
Great video.
This is great. Trouble is I have no 3D printer or CAD experience. I've messed around with Pi and Arduino but loose the plot with the programing.
So My thinking is there is always a different way to do the same thing.
1: Big plastic box to hold components.
2: Married to an existing remote control vehicle.
3: For a camera I could use one of those cheaper WiFi security cameras.
4: learn CAD (FreeCad) to make some parts to marry to the control box.
I did turn a wiper motor into a a servo with some grunt once, and controlled it by modifying a remote control unit from a cheap toy car.
I, as they say am on the case.
Thanks.
Thank you so much for sharing! my freind gave me his old Swampy Rover and i've fixed it up, but now i want to make a robot myself. You've given me hope
Do it! Post a video about it 😀😀
@@LukasDeem not sure if You Tubewill let me do this but.,.. this is the old one after I fixed it . But yes, I will! thank you th-cam.com/users/shortsit0jKVa3QGg?si=ZkBH18MvBxmeNVQ-
@@deanallenjones you delivered!! I think it's hilarious that in my video the test was going over a block of wood and in yours it was going over a brick lol 🤣🤣
I was trying to gather details but there were not such videos related to how to make rover yours is a walllaaaaahhh loved it thankyou so much will try it now
Hey! I'm glad I could help! Make sure you check out Wild Willy robotics Assembly video that helped me a ton.
Not sure what you've set the voltage in the step down converter to, but keep in mind, that with the bipolar transistors on the L298Ns H-Bridges you get a voltage drop of about 1.4V, so you might get a little more power out of your motors by increasing the voltage of the stepdown converter to 7.4V, in order to give the motors 6V, if you've not already done that. You could also check the voltage drop by measuring the voltage on one of the Outputs of your Motordrivers on fullspeed
Hey so yeah and some of my first outdoor test I saw that it was going super slow and I knew that I needed to up the voltage. I ended up bumping it up to 7.1v thanks for the tip on how to measure the output voltage I think I need to go back and do that and see what I'm actually getting at the output of the motor drivers.
@@LukasDeem if you have the option to measure the motors voltage with an osziloscope you can even measure it at any pwm setting, as you can read the voltage during the on time.depending on the load you can actually go a bit higher than the rated voltage as well, but therefore you should measure the current through the motors under load to have a reference.
You dont want the motor to get to hot
Awesome project, looking to forward to more of your projects!
Hey thanks! I'm still brainstorming on my next video idea. Any suggestions are welcome 🙃
@@LukasDeema drone like nasa’s drone
This SCREAMS for a GSM module!
Or 5G!
I was thinking 5G, but now I gotta google what a GSM module is 🙃
Great first iteration! Lets see some refinement. Nice over all job.
Thanks so much! The main thing I want to change is I want to learn how to use a PCB instead of a bunch of components 😂
Very cool, your wife seemed very excited for the progress too! Subscribed! 👍
Thanks so much!! 😸
I have been thinking about doing this for a bit using an ESP32 and LoRa so that I can remotely traverse the hundreds of square miles of desert I live right next to.
Oh man that would be super cool! I was thinking about upgrading to 5G network at some point so I can in theory control it from anywhere with service.
Its really lovely to see the work & effort put into a job finally work. amazing video 👌
Hey thanks a time this one was definitely a challenge for me 🤣
It would have been great if you had made a separate video detailing the electronic and power sub-assemblies. Are you connecting the battery to a terminal block to feed power to all the different components? Radio communication would be more efficient than wireless-a future upgrade--?? Nice work!
Well the reason I used Wi-Fi is because I originally wanted to set this up so that somebody could control it remotely over the internet. I actually did get that working but because of the latency I had I decided not to use it in the video. As for the power supply I soldered everything to a small prototyping board to distribute the power to all the motors. Probably not the best way to do it but it worked 🤷♂️
Remove the filters completely, add a few IR diodes and you have night vision! Will look a bit weird in daylight but hey
Night vision would be super cool!! I was actually thinking about just putting really bright LEDs on it 🤠
Very nice project!
Thanks!!
Wish this was a whole series
Hey! Do you mean you want more detail on this specific build? Or just more videos similar to this one? 😸
Specific build like code
@@phaniraja9104 thanks for the reply. When I make these videos I struggle to decide how detailed to get. I've even considered having a short video and then the long in depth videos. 😃
damn that's so cool, great job man. you can use a PCB printing service to put your microcontroller, buck converter and PWM controllers all on the same board. might be cool to add some hall-effect sensors to calibrate your motors, the problem with awesome projects like this is they never end, you're on to the next version once you're "done" :)
Truer words have never been spoken 😂. I really want to learn PCB design but I haven't had time to dive into it yet. It's on my list 🙃
@@LukasDeem you can use easyeda for this...this is a very beginner friendly software and you can easily design a PCB with it.
you definitely can tell you're and aspiring engineer and not a gardener :) grass has seen better days
Haha well the grass dies here in the winter 🤣. It's looking much better now!
what you mean lack of excitement? the fact the robot can even go over that with low bounce is exciting!
This is great man! I can totally relate to your excitement when it was finally driving around! Super cool! Looking forward to seeing more. Keep up the great work! I agree with others, the music is friggin fantastic.
Hey thanks so much! What this video didn't capture is the two months of struggles that I went through to get that thing working lol. I'm sure you can sympathize 😂😂. Thanks for the thoughtful comment ♥️
@@LukasDeemdude. The victory wouldnt be as sweet without it! Right?! Haha the Portal vibes with the tunes are inescapable. 😂. I wish I still had my podcast as I'd totally want to get you on there and talk shop! 😂
@Geeksmithing that's a huge compliment! I'm a total newbie but I really enjoy this stuff and haven't having a blast learning!
Quality content, man. Keep them coming
Thanks so much! I'm trying my best out here ☺️☺️
As an actual engineer, I enjoyed your vid!
Wow thank you so much!!!
Dude u are totally an engineer, great work, loved it
Oh wow thanks! 😄😄
Lot of commitment good job. All I can think of is how much that Bambu X1C shakes that stand it’s on lol.
I'm about 30 seconds in and subscribed! I've been working on robots for fun for years now but never done a serious project like this. I also love all of the Mars rover footage (one of the two things that got me into tech and robotics in the first place), so I'm excited to see the rest of this!
Ayyy! I appreciate it! I feel the same way. As a kid I was so inspired by the rover projects 🤣🤣.
Great project! I did a quick google and I found that you should be able to use your PC to host a wifi network much like if you've ever set up a wireless printer or something like that. So you shouldn't need to have to bring your router out into the field with you. Theoretically these instructions should work, good luck.
For Windows 10/11:
Open Settings -> Network & Internet -> Mobile hotspot.
Toggle on Share my Internet connection with other devices.
You can also customize the network name and password by clicking on the Edit button.
Oh sick! Thanks for the tip!! 😄
What a fantastic production! Your presentation was professional level... The project was interesting... You had to 'learn as you went', and we learnt too... The pace was perfect... There was an element of suspense... We shared in your elation with the successes, and the pain of the failures... AND...
The custom music soundtrack was out of this world!
Congratulations, and thank you so much... Liked and Subscribed - looking forward to more of the same.
Wow! As an aspiring TH-cam creator this is the best comment I could receive. I really appreciate your kind words. I'm doing this projects while working full time and going to grad school. Sometimes it's hard to find the motivation, so comments like these can really give me a boost! Thank you!
About the chosen hardware: Why didn't you use a standard arduino uno with the standard arduino motor modules (4 DC motors and a few servos per modules, and they are stackable, so two should be enough) And about the voltage: Why didn't you just max out the pwm signal as an alternative to use this big step down converter? (For example: you have 6V DC motors, but a 12 V DC power source: you can directly use the 12 V, if you limit the pwm to 50%. (or 24 V with 25% max pwm).The higher voltage doesn't harm and if the total energy is the same they don't burn/overheat. As long the difference don't get to crazy (like 3V to 48V) this should work very well.)
Honest truth is because I'm a beginner and I didn't know any of these things 🙃. This is exactly why I post this stuff on TH-cam so that I can get comments like yours to help me learn, so thank you!😁
As an aspired robotic engineer, I love this so much especially the designs, wireless controls and also the music🤩. If it is possible could we work together on the next project of yours. I noticed you faced issues with space. I could handle the PCB designing part of the next upcoming project so we get rid of those cables flying around. I will be glad to connect with you. I love working on real world problems.
Thanks so much I just replied to your email. 💯💯💯
Great video! Going to put together a rrover project with some friends and this was super helpful. Liked the music too lol
this is awesome.. this is awesome ....u r awesome
Cool! Next up: Analogue controls (looks like everything's on/off now) and then, integration, a single board to rule it all :)
PS: And LoRa(WAN), so that you can save some power and increase the transmission distance quite a bit
Yes yes and yes! 😄😄
Suggestion
You could add led to know standby , boot up and off mode
Power button would be better outside
And probably a charge port too
Have you considered RF,I'd like to see that too
Yes I totally need to add a power switch to this thing so I don't have to use a screwdriver to start it 🤣🤣🤣
Great production value, love the rover work and songs! Subbed!
Hey thanks so much!! I really appreciate the support. I put a lot of work into these videos, kind words like these make it worth it! 💯
The custom robot soundtrack though! :D
Well done. I'm also a fan of Wild Willy. Perhaps I'll follow in your "footsteps."
Hey thanks!! Do it! He has some other awesome projects on his page as well!
The Robot Friend song is hilariously great. Nice project.
That's my favorite one!! 🤣🤣
How about adding onboard ultrasonic sensors for emergency break so it's not hit the wall?
Haha yes that would be an excellent addition 😁😁
Awesome video. The audio quality and video quality were very nice. Keep it up!!
Hey thanks a ton I really appreciate it!
I like this kind of project
Cool tip you may want to know about is Windows comes with a cool SLT util called 3D Builder which allows you to modify STL. I use it all the time. Using 3D builder you can add the camera hole and more important add needed vents.
Ayyy! I had no idea. I've been trying to learn fusion 360 😄
@@LukasDeem yeah same here. But for fast modifications it is really cool. As well, if any errors are found in the STL files, the util will fix them. Very fun and simple modification tool that all should have. I myself use it at times to simply add custom supports.
@@LukasDeem I need to move to Fusion 360 yet can't get myself to stop using FreeCAD lol
Great production and project! nice work.
Hi,
Amazing project ⚡️.
I am wondering if there was a reason you had to use the Arduino for motor control instead of the raspberry pi directly?
Which 3D printing material did you use? I'm struggling to decide which one I should use for projects like this.
This might just blow up!
Haha that's the dream! I put a lot of work into this vid 😅😅
Yes, I liked it a lot, very good job. This would be very enjoyable doing it as a team and with a trillion in funding
Haha I know right!? 🚀
this might be my next video project ..... nice video
its great watching your project come to fruition, can this be used for something useful like mowing grass or spread weedcontroller etc.
I would love to have a weed whacking robot that's actually hilarious and something I might have to do now 🤣🤣🤣🤣
This is awesome! I need to try this!
Go for it! The design of the rover provided by wild Willy is great! The electronics choices I made leave room for improvement 🙃
" now let's drive this rover over some wood...." 🤣 9:25
The lyrics in the music are cracking me up..
Beautiful rover. Nicely done 👍🏾✅
Thanks so much!!
Looks nice!! I love it
Hey thanks so much!! The look of it is my favorite part 🤣🤣
sick! playing this for my students now! Thank you : )
Hey that's awesome just be aware that there are some censored cuss words in it 😅😅
Replace the voltage regulator with a LM7806 .
I like that the shell is 3d printed but cant you use some sort of kit that makes the insides all pre assembled to make this evennmore easier and modular?
So I think for the electronics the best thing would be solid PCB but I haven't learned how to do that. Wild Willy included a design file called a Gerber file for a PCB but I don't even know how to use that yet 🤣🤣
Never seen this channel before,i think youtube is wildly recommending this vedio,The number of veiw of this vedio is going to sky 🚀. Anyway i like the each theme song of each section,made it something unique.
Hey thanks so much! I'm doing my best to make interesting stuff🤠
Nice how you have every music for every section of the video 🎉😊❤
Hey thanks so much!!! I had a lot of fun using suno.com 🙃
If you keep doing stuff like this you'll be big very soon
Ayyy!!! Thanks so much! I'm currently trying to figure out what project to do next. I'm open to suggestions 😂
Excellent 🎉and good luck brother 🍀
Project is cool ,amazing and fantastic one ......big up , am a robotic lover
I also love robots 🫡
This is very cool. Have you already tried using a PS4 controller to maneuver the rover? That simplifies the steering and opens up opportunities for more features like toggling in thermal or infrared imaging. There are a lot of cool things to do with a project like this. I wish I had seen this video sooner!
Hey! Yes I can't wait to make it remote controlled 😁😁
you should be able to set the pi up as a AP/WIFI router. to connect the pc to directly. cool vid!
Oh man, I can't believe that didn't come up in my research! I'll have to look into that. Does that mean I could connect my phone to it in the field without brining a router 🤣🤣
@@LukasDeem yep loop up terms like WIFI AP mode and raspberry pi wifi server its a bit of work but very worth it. if you run into any problems ill be glad to help.
Nice project and great job on the video
Hey thanks so much! 😄
This would make a nice perimeter robot in a larger model
You can use a 2 axis gimbal for the camera
That would be awesome! Do they make them that small? Or should I try to build my own?
Next add a drone that charges off your rover and can fly around and land back on it so it can do it multiple times. After that, send the whle thing to Mars. /s.
Very impressive project. Fun to watch.
Haha now that would be awesome 😎
Hi, I've been following videos on DIY Rover and I made a car myself. wildwillyrobots' car is very good and its design is beautiful. I noticed that a long time ago. But I think it has a defect, the axle of the wheel passes through the rocker arm and is connected with the steering gear fixed in the rocker arm, which makes me doubt its strength, after all, this is 3D printed, I want this car to have a certain strength, I wonder if you have any ideas on this aspect during the development process?
That was pretty impressive. The video also. Very interesting and entertaining.
Hey thanks so much! That's my goal "edutainment" 🤣
i built a webinterface controlled pizero robot with camera as well, using python and an explorer hat. mine is much more limited with just 2 motors for motion and 1 for rotaion of the body part. you've done a great job,especially the camera. mine only handles a few frames/sec.
It's all about learning and having fun! That's awesome! I think mine came out pretty well I just wish I knew how to design a PCB so I could have a custom board instead of all those parts inside 😅
@@LukasDeem kicad can be used. I designed a pcb for a shift register ic so I could read multiple switches using a minimum of io ports on the pi, but a breadboard (prototyping board) is handy for checking that the design works before comitting to pcb.
Hello @LukasDeem, is there a platform where I can connect with you and the audience? Also, how can I get updates?
Please make one
Love the music!