As an Electrical engineer your explanation for PWM control over the servo is fantastic. It is concise and the visuals help a lot. I'll be using this material to teach a class , thank you so much.
Excellent. One of the best videos I've seen. I wish I had this video around when I was into RC model airplanes. In RC, we use either servo "testers" or some of the newer transmitters have a servo test feature built in. It is wild watching all of the servos move the control surfaces through their paces at one time without any intervention.
You should do a paid video once a month with lesser-known electronics info and tricks. The one on capacitors was informative, and well worth the .99 cents. Good job.
Holy shit Afro! Higno-chu here, from the old forums. Haven't heard about you or Pikachu for a long, long time. Really glad to see that your channel has grow so much! You are a pionner and deserve it. Congrats on the great work!
The things I liked most from such this tutorial video is that sometimes inserted a funny things. Here there are two funny things: voice of goat pertaining the horn and the last the woman brushing her teeth.
As if Arduino wasn’t already dumbed enough already...not sure if this is exciting or if the machines are about to take over...if/when XOD supports STM32ARM controllers the world will end. The machines win. Stoked your back brotha...thanks for all your years and I know it’s a labor of love because they money is shit!
Good to see you Aftrotechmods! Based on keywords like laser, turret, visual, I assumed I'd be an OpenCV like tutorial. Well, looks like my automatic aiming turret won't build itself, and nobody other, so I have to.. :D Probably this tutorial will be more useful for some of my friends than for me :)
Woah! I am honored. I like your channel a lot too. I don't know when I'd be able to fit in another production but definitely hit me up if you need advice on circuits and stuff for your videos!
Could one of you bang my wife, so I can have a great child to look after me financially!.... I say this as my dryers fucked and need to test what's broke
Afrotechmods I've been a software engineer for 19 years. I've been trying to get into electronics, but I've been struggling. I wonder if electronics would be easier to learn if we developed new terms (a new language, a new model) to describe everything we've learned so far over the centuries. You have it all modelled in your head just like I have software engineering modelled in my head. You can wire up your own proven sub circuits in your head and know why every component is needed in every sub circuit. You know what you can do. You can see it all in your mind's eye. What you see is more than the sum of it's parts. It's a solution. From your point of view now, do you think there could be a better, more organic way to understand electronics? Do you think we could change the language we use in order to help people learn electronics quicker?
I think it can certainly be taught better, and that's what I've been trying to do with this channel. But in terms of coming up with new ways of doing things... I can't come up with a better way. Most schematic symbols are a reasonable picture of what is being shown. (A resistor is a long winding wire and a capacitor is parallel plates etc). The difficulty that I think most people face is mentally visualizing voltage at different nodes in a circuit and how current flows, simultaneously. I like to do this by animating arrows on a circuit in operation. In my mind it is all happening in 4d. I have seen other youtubers try explain electronics with 3d animations using the height axis as an analog for voltage and some people like that style but personally I cannot grasp it at all. I think the main problem is the fact that we are trying to visualize the invisible. Electric and magnetic fields that our human bodies were never made to perceive. We can only measure them with test equipment or imagine them.
In Minecraft terms, XOD's interface is that of Steve's Factory Manager mixed with the functional dynamics of the Programmable RedNet Controller. I like it. Perhaps now is the time to get into Arduino...
Amazing video and unbelievably easy to understand, great work and thanks for making things much easier to understand for an absolute novice/noob to electronics etc.
Thank you! It's 'THE' clearest tutorial I'd come across...Sub & Liked :) Now waiting for the delivery of servo's to get started. Once again, a million thanks!!!
Insta like for the Metal Gear pun, I even laughted jut before you actually dropped the pun, however still everything was extremely educational, thanks.
*You have Golden Voice. Please tell me how you edit your voice. What effects you apply to your voice overs and by which software.* Great to hear you again. It's New Year gift for us.
Thank you. I have a nice microphone amzn.to/2ljnrpI and use Adobe Audition. There are no effects I just do a simple noise reduction. I'm actually shit at narrating so I spend a lot of time just cutting out all the mistakes and splicing together the good takes. That's it.
Thanks for replying. I always wanted to ask you this question and today finally got answer from you!! Your video ranks best in the world when it comes to Electronics. Thanks again and Happy New Year.
Thanks much for pointing out XOD pal. Just a few days ago I was trying to find some Arduino library/code to take a 'pattern' input to demo a camera pan/tilt setup. The only stuff I've found so far is some CNC G-code but this is too much overkill, so it looks like another DIY project. Currently I'm trying to think of a way to do a simple 'pattern' read via serial that might fit into Atmega328 EEPROM..
I saw a few different projects like this and im trying to combine them all. I'm trying to make a turret that can move a full 360 degrees, has a camera installed to look around, has a high powered burning laser inside and can have the lasers, camera zoom, movement and motors fully controlled by an android app I have figured out how it'll look. It will be a deep base (carrying the arduino and wiring and such) fed through a cylinder with a curve leading towards a rectangular encased platform having laser and camera inside Now I need to model everything, buy the parts, code the arduino and make the app Wish me luck!
Just looking into servos and found this video. Dude you are so fucking funny I had to subscribe and I don't even know if I'll ever watch another Servo video again!
Very late to see this but instead of hacking a controller joystick, you can also use a joystick module made for arduino that are now available online. Since it's just two potentiometers (x and y) and a button/switch (digital) So you can actually use the servos to be controlled by the joystick and the laser to be controlled by the digital button.
As an Electrical engineer your explanation for PWM control over the servo is fantastic. It is concise and the visuals help a lot. I'll be using this material to teach a class , thank you so much.
Very nice callout to the 555 at 5:55. Bravo ;)
Holy shit I didn't even see that! Total coincidence.
@@Afrotechmods wtf are you serious?😂😂
Well... now that this comment has 111 likes i'm not sure if i'm allowed to give it a like.
If you an electronic engineer student, you must be a close friend to 555 timer chip, lmao, that thing can do so much stuff
Hu
Excellent. One of the best videos I've seen. I wish I had this video around when I was into RC model airplanes. In RC, we use either servo "testers" or some of the newer transmitters have a servo test feature built in. It is wild watching all of the servos move the control surfaces through their paces at one time without any intervention.
Wow I didn’t know servos were different than regular electric motors...
You learn something new everyday. Thanks!
it`s very nice of you to explicitly mentions the common ground thing. lots of beginners don`t think about that
DUDE!!! I almost unsubscribed from your channel because I thought you quit making videos altogether. Glad I stuck it out for another great video.
This is probably the first maker tutorial I've seen that gave me the sense that I could actually do it myself. Excellent explanation.
nice to see you again
Thank you sir
Lasers pew pew
It's been a long time. Thumbs up....PEACE
we need more of your videos
Closed loop stepper motor
One of the best explanations of anything i have ever heard in my life. Man deserves an award
"! METAL GEAR yes they're solid " i died.
Oh god beavis and butthead sounds.
Horns AND pigtails? You are insane, there's no such creature...
Best electronics tutorials on youtube. Topics are interesting and explained well. I hope the videos never stop!
Wait, I knew almost everything about servos beforehand, but I watched the entire video. It is *so informative*!!!!
You should do a paid video once a month with lesser-known electronics info and tricks. The one on capacitors was informative, and well worth the .99 cents. Good job.
Standing here, I realize, you deserve a sub.
It's nice to see you again! wish you will made a lot of new videos. It's been a long time since you have gone.
Was gonna like anyway but still, you get a special like for that metal gear reference :p
I’m very happy that you’re back, we missed your videos.
HE’S BACK!!!
Discovered this channal 2 days ago, was sad that it wasnt active anymore... nice!
I was actually just starting to work with servos so this is extremely helpful
it's has been a long time, without a video, nice to see you again
Holy shit Afro! Higno-chu here, from the old forums. Haven't heard about you or Pikachu for a long, long time. Really glad to see that your channel has grow so much! You are a pionner and deserve it. Congrats on the great work!
My favorite electronic channel is back !!!!!
Man, this is another EXCELLENT video. Beavis would be proud!!! I m inspired to build something using servos. Thanks...
The things I liked most from such this tutorial video is that sometimes inserted a funny things. Here there are two funny things: voice of goat pertaining the horn and the last the woman brushing her teeth.
As if Arduino wasn’t already dumbed enough already...not sure if this is exciting or if the machines are about to take over...if/when XOD supports STM32ARM controllers the world will end. The machines win. Stoked your back brotha...thanks for all your years and I know it’s a labor of love because they money is shit!
It's being a while .
I almost thought some one was playing me when a notification popped up.
Nice to hear from you again.
Have a great 2018
Good to see you Aftrotechmods!
Based on keywords like laser, turret, visual, I assumed I'd be an OpenCV like tutorial.
Well, looks like my automatic aiming turret won't build itself, and nobody other, so I have to.. :D
Probably this tutorial will be more useful for some of my friends than for me :)
This is legit my favorite channel and the beavis and butthead part had me in tears!
Glad you're back. And with a perfect tutorial at the right time for me. Thank you!
Earned my subscription with the metal gear pun. Plus all this torque about motors twisted my arm and forced my hand.
Nice to see, you're still alive. Loved the video. Very well done.
Please please come back.. I miss your videos so much
Didnt see that metal gear thing coming at all. You're pretty good
always loved your videos man, its so much well put together than some of the videos out there. glad to see you back
AFROTECHMODS RETURNS 😍😎
Didn't know XOD yet, thanks, that will open up some stuff for me and the kids!
do you want to do a collab video sometime? Whether you do, or don't, keep up to great work! your one of most informative youtubers i've come across :)
Woah! I am honored. I like your channel a lot too. I don't know when I'd be able to fit in another production but definitely hit me up if you need advice on circuits and stuff for your videos!
Thank you so much! Will do!
Afrotechmods wow nice man
Could one of you bang my wife, so I can have a great child to look after me financially!.... I say this as my dryers fucked and need to test what's broke
keystone would be here. you're too busy these days to livestream anymore.
Afrotechmods I've been a software engineer for 19 years. I've been trying to get into electronics, but I've been struggling. I wonder if electronics would be easier to learn if we developed new terms (a new language, a new model) to describe everything we've learned so far over the centuries.
You have it all modelled in your head just like I have software engineering modelled in my head. You can wire up your own proven sub circuits in your head and know why every component is needed in every sub circuit. You know what you can do. You can see it all in your mind's eye. What you see is more than the sum of it's parts. It's a solution.
From your point of view now, do you think there could be a better, more organic way to understand electronics? Do you think we could change the language we use in order to help people learn electronics quicker?
I think it can certainly be taught better, and that's what I've been trying to do with this channel. But in terms of coming up with new ways of doing things... I can't come up with a better way. Most schematic symbols are a reasonable picture of what is being shown. (A resistor is a long winding wire and a capacitor is parallel plates etc). The difficulty that I think most people face is mentally visualizing voltage at different nodes in a circuit and how current flows, simultaneously. I like to do this by animating arrows on a circuit in operation. In my mind it is all happening in 4d. I have seen other youtubers try explain electronics with 3d animations using the height axis as an analog for voltage and some people like that style but personally I cannot grasp it at all. I think the main problem is the fact that we are trying to visualize the invisible. Electric and magnetic fields that our human bodies were never made to perceive. We can only measure them with test equipment or imagine them.
I really wasn't expecting that Metal Gear pun... Well played good sir.
I love your jokes! “Metal gear?? Yes it’s very solid “ “I’m not enemies with Spider-Man “
welcome back king of project
Love it! Metal Gear and Bevis and Butthead. Nice to see you're posting again. Your videos are by far the best.
He protec
He attac
But most importantly,
He bac
Great tutorial, well presented and structured. Enough detail without slowing the pace!
That Metal Gear Solid pun is the most engineer joke i have ever heard
we miss you
For a total novice i am well impressed, great tut
Awesome, nice to "see" you again. My favorite electronics channel.
welcome back sir really nice to see you
That perfectly timed Beavis and Butthead sample ....had me in bits. Brilliant video! thanks and Happy New year in advance.
@Rose 25 y.o - check my vidéó how about fuck off
Instant like for that MGS reference.
Instant like for that Simpsons reference.
This is the best informative video I have ever seen. Subscribed! So excited to see your other videos!
Thanks!
Welcome back dave!
It is amazing to see a new video from you...
Oh my gosh you still alive!
Nice to see my favorite youtuber again :3
oh no it's ladder logic for 'duinos! :) Seems pretty cool actually. Much more accessible for some people and good for training. Thanks!
In Minecraft terms, XOD's interface is that of Steve's Factory Manager mixed with the functional dynamics of the Programmable RedNet Controller. I like it. Perhaps now is the time to get into Arduino...
Another great video.
Nice hearing frim you again.
Amazing video and unbelievably easy to understand, great work and thanks for making things much easier to understand for an absolute novice/noob to electronics etc.
We need more of you man
good tutorial! you still missed one thing -- the vapor generator
Glad you're back. And with a perfect tutorial at the right time for me. Thank you!
King is back!!!!
And now, he's gone
:-/
That metal gear joke was pretty slick😎
The Metal Gear reference alone got this video an instant like 🐍
I missed your vídeos, thanks for posting!
Thank you! It's 'THE' clearest tutorial I'd come across...Sub & Liked :) Now waiting for the delivery of servo's to get started. Once again, a million thanks!!!
Rediscovering how much I like electronics. Very informative. Thumbs up and subscribed.
I was starting to think you were dead... BTW, I see you've got a new power supply!
Great to see you upload again.
im glad he's back
You are really good at this, man!
Very good, your voice is perfect, the instructions are clear, i'm impressed. Thank you !
Insta like for the Metal Gear pun, I even laughted jut before you actually dropped the pun, however still everything was extremely educational, thanks.
I really enjoyed this video ! I got to get off my but and buy an arduino. And did not know about XOD. Pretty cool, that some good programming.
Ive been looking for a visual Arduino programmer. Thanks!
Glad to see you back
Really nice! And glad you're back! :D
You only forgot about servo testers. ;)
*You have Golden Voice. Please tell me how you edit your voice. What effects you apply to your voice overs and by which software.*
Great to hear you again. It's New Year gift for us.
Thank you. I have a nice microphone amzn.to/2ljnrpI and use Adobe Audition. There are no effects I just do a simple noise reduction. I'm actually shit at narrating so I spend a lot of time just cutting out all the mistakes and splicing together the good takes. That's it.
Thanks for replying. I always wanted to ask you this question and today finally got answer from you!! Your video ranks best in the world when it comes to Electronics. Thanks again and Happy New Year.
I wonder how many got that Beavis and Butthead thing... :)
Upvoted purely for that... ;)
Thanks much for pointing out XOD pal.
Just a few days ago I was trying to find some Arduino library/code to take a 'pattern' input to demo a camera pan/tilt setup.
The only stuff I've found so far is some CNC G-code but this is too much overkill, so it looks like another DIY project.
Currently I'm trying to think of a way to do a simple 'pattern' read via serial that might fit into Atmega328 EEPROM..
Thank you so much for showing me XOD! I suck at programming
I saw a few different projects like this and im trying to combine them all. I'm trying to make a turret that can move a full 360 degrees, has a camera installed to look around, has a high powered burning laser inside and can have the lasers, camera zoom, movement and motors fully controlled by an android app
I have figured out how it'll look. It will be a deep base (carrying the arduino and wiring and such) fed through a cylinder with a curve leading towards a rectangular encased platform having laser and camera inside
Now I need to model everything, buy the parts, code the arduino and make the app
Wish me luck!
I'm like is this guy smoking like Rod Sterling during a Twilight Zone narration. Great 👍 video
Shoutout to mixing rechargeable and non-rechargeable batteries, that’s hardcore.
I live dangerously.
Afrotechmods :) great video as always sir!
Great to see you’re back!
Just looking into servos and found this video. Dude you are so fucking funny I had to subscribe and I don't even know if I'll ever watch another Servo video again!
Excellent Video! Thank you for all the great videos over the years! Happy New year!
Bravo! Best TH-cam how-to video ever!
love your videos as always,,
watching her in PHILIPPINES😊😊
Very late to see this but instead of hacking a controller joystick, you can also use a joystick module made for arduino that are now available online.
Since it's just two potentiometers (x and y) and a button/switch (digital)
So you can actually use the servos to be controlled by the joystick and the laser to be controlled by the digital button.
Very nice demo as usual! thanks and have a nice New Year's
The master has returned !! 😆
Absolutely amazing video!
Thank you this is a really great way to end 2017 hope we get more vids in 2018
What the hell, you're alive!?
And he is back
Superman playing with xod.
Kneel before XOD!
HES ALIVE
Really enjoyed this. Is the resulting XOD code human readable and editable (for minor tweaks at least) or do you need to consistently use the IDE?