Taking my Electronics to the Next Level!

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  • @izzieb
    @izzieb 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +95

    Who wouldn't want more tiny robots made? All great stuff in this video!

  • @Splarkszter
    @Splarkszter 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +39

    The fact that you teach us the how of your designs and that you give us the files is just incredibly awesome.
    I seriously thank you for the free, awesome and high-quality education you are giving to all of us.
    Thank you for making the world a better place.

  • @vorg_
    @vorg_ 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

    Sick. Congrats, Carl. This channel is one of the best of all time. True innovation.

  • @kevinb1594
    @kevinb1594 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    some other ideas: Haptics. Truly silent alarm clock. Neural trainer for commercial EEG devices.

  • @hakimka
    @hakimka 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks!

  • @tampatu
    @tampatu 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +51

    The reflective flapper could be useful in stage lighting. For some shimmering effect, water ripple, flat disco "ball", light glitter, flame flickering or just as a eye candy object (but that would need to be big)

    • @bearnaff9387
      @bearnaff9387 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      An addressable disco ball would be epic! Seeing patterns chase one another across the surface would be neat.

    • @whothefucktookmyalias
      @whothefucktookmyalias 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      what an amazing idea... now remove your comment, go out there and launch a startup before someone else does ;)

    • @bearnaff9387
      @bearnaff9387 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@whothefucktookmyalias Ideas are only worth what you pay for them. Also, I wouldn't want to found a company around manufacturing a device with less than 2-3K customers a year. Especially one with so much hand-assembly required.

  • @nomfg
    @nomfg 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    So awesome to see your ideas evolve!

  • @astroorbis
    @astroorbis 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    dude, I'm getting into PCB design and actual electronics and this is insane, i love it !! such an inspiration, thank you ^^

  • @azyfloof
    @azyfloof 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    I like the idea of them butterflies :D Imagine them as art installations or on clothing where they're subtly animated

  • @abdominablesnowman
    @abdominablesnowman 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Very excited about the directions you are going, good luck!

  • @arnavjain7564
    @arnavjain7564 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Maybe the 7 seg display would look better when changing numbers if the active pixels are the ones where the flap is not powered? So that there is no wobble for the pixels that are active.

  • @laiquocbao2565
    @laiquocbao2565 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Dont need to finish the video yet, Kudos!!!! All the best to you mate

  • @Moosems-pk8vc
    @Moosems-pk8vc 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Something that I haven’t seen made before is a thin rectangular microcontroller (say 10x20x5 mm). Would allow them to be put inside cylindrical objects or in spaces where it’s very narrow but there’s plenty of length.

    • @Moosems-pk8vc
      @Moosems-pk8vc 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Narrow microcontroller board*.

  • @marcoscabrera6751
    @marcoscabrera6751 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You rock Carl! It's great to see people still trying to innovate. Hoping to see more of your amazing work.

  • @5haun1
    @5haun1 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Congrats! Love your work, can't wait to see what you do!

  • @OranCollins
    @OranCollins 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    OMG AWESOME! Good luck on becoming a startup! stuff is super hard. you can do it!

  • @soviut303
    @soviut303 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    If you can make it reasonably quiet, the flap could be used to do low profile cooling in electronics that need active coolers.

    • @THEOGGUNSHOW
      @THEOGGUNSHOW 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Great idea 💡 👍

  • @TWISM1337
    @TWISM1337 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    On the topic of designing a latch for the flapper - you could feasibly add a third supporting arm with a slight kink for a super clean and simple solution, although I'm not sure how that would be manufactured...

  • @stanleyyyyyyyyyyy
    @stanleyyyyyyyyyyy 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Very nice work! As an embedded engineer with 20 years of experience I can only say - well done!

  • @hakajiru264
    @hakajiru264 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Pretty cool. The main challenge for running multiple of these will indeed be the power consumption. You can also add a i2c chip to make each module individually addressable, like smart rgb led strips, so wires are minimized. Maybe in the future this will be part of the h bridge itself, like the rgb leds are now. Best of luck with the startup!

  • @4.0.4
    @4.0.4 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love how it simultaneously looks like you have a clear goal and just goofing around.

  • @PeetHobby
    @PeetHobby 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Congrats! Best of luck with your brand.

  • @Unique-Concepts
    @Unique-Concepts 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I really like your videos. I got an idea, I want share with you. First of all Thank you for making these nano electronics videos, they are so cool.
    IDEA: Take a party ballon, make tiny Mechatronics system that control the nozzle opening/closing. Launch the balloon into the air by controlling it's nozzle geometry, it will start propel.Finally it is ballon rocket, add some more ballon along x and y axes, like thrusters to control orientation and positioning of ballon in space. Try to land the ballon like VTVL with that tiny Mechatronics system. That's all and I don't know if this work, but this actual experiment validate the status of micro electronics and their vast capabilities.
    Finally for me your videos are really inspiring. I will try to make this project in the future, but it is still beyond scope of my knowledge. Thank you

  • @309electronics5
    @309electronics5 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Congrats on the website and the starting company! I wish you succes and i am looking forward fo the future products/projects and i am definitly going to try some products

  • @oneil9615
    @oneil9615 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Awesome, I can't wait to see what's coming

  • @Mister.BreadBoard
    @Mister.BreadBoard 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Very happy for you ❤️❤️❤️ best of luck. Looking forward to more amazing things 🎉🎉🎉

  • @bitsRboolean
    @bitsRboolean 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Super excited to see what you're working on. I jumped out of my chair when you said "flip-dots" though. I just can't get enough of them

  • @mortyforty8404
    @mortyforty8404 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    some old scifi cartoons and movies had this thing happen where when the computer was asked to do something and it would start typing itself on the screen, the effing physical keyboard would start typing too by itself. well with this tech we actually might make it a reality

  • @tetraquark2402
    @tetraquark2402 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    All the best wishes for your new venture

  • @TheMrPopper69
    @TheMrPopper69 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Congrats on the starting the company, look forward to seeing what you produce, hopefully the Adafruit of flexi and micro pcbs

  • @gsestream
    @gsestream 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    flap is a pulse ac fan, also if you want state locking, use the magnet coil pad as magnet turn-off, yep sideways turning magnet pair

  • @livdbest2942
    @livdbest2942 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Good Luck Carl super projects!! Keep up the good work and congrats for the robotic startup!!👏👏

  • @timshort3220
    @timshort3220 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Can you use a polarized filter in front of the little flappers to make it darker?

  • @dr_fish
    @dr_fish 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Have you see the "Bitzee" toy? My daughter got one for Christmas and as soon as I saw it I thought it looked very familiar...

    • @CarlBugeja
      @CarlBugeja  10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Hi :) I will address this in an upcoming video

  • @atrumluminarium
    @atrumluminarium 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    An ornithopter would be a good application for the flapper if you can make a tiny flight controller.
    I think the only challenge would be how to power it because of the weight of batteries. Maybe an RF antenna could harvest enough energy if flown close enough to a radio source?

  • @TheEvilGlassRectangle
    @TheEvilGlassRectangle 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is huge, congrats! I can’t wait to get my hands on some of this

  • @nickphillips2797
    @nickphillips2797 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Excited to see what you'll do with this new challenge I'm sure it'll be ingenious as always.
    Seeing the flapping part with the shiny surface and the wobbling it inherently has from resonating when it turns on I wonder if you could do some resonance compensation/cancelation like what 3D printers have started doing with input shaping. Just to get it smoothly transitioning from the 2 states. Prolly depends how quickly you could switch it on and off with the driver but maybe?

  • @AlwaysCensored-xp1be
    @AlwaysCensored-xp1be 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    You could try heat forming some "veins" on the wings to add some stiffeners.

  • @muse208
    @muse208 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It would be interesting to let the users customize their own butterfly wings...or maybe even provide wing stencils to cut out with paper that can attach to the pcb. I could see it as an electronics kit where parents (or teachers) and children can create together.

  • @killsalot78
    @killsalot78 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    love seeing the progress!

  • @molomono9481
    @molomono9481 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    If the goal of the flaps is having multiple discrete states. Then potentially a bistable mechanical latch can be designed into the pcb in the form of a flexure. This could allow states to be held in different positions without the actuator using power to maintain the off nor on state.
    Given the precision of the actuator and manufactering you could add more stable states. And in the end designing it to have flappyness in the on and off state is possible.
    But this would drop the power usage drastically, of course depending on how often switching occurs.

  • @jeffkthompson
    @jeffkthompson 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Super cool! I wonder if lenticular prints might work as the pixels. They’re plastic so lightweight and could show two totally different colors

  • @miked5444
    @miked5444 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great work as always!
    On the display one would a fresnel lens with a black and white striped pattern behind. Should be light enough and increase contrast further.
    Was also wondering about it being on a bi-stable switch to only use power to change state.

  • @mikeselectricstuff
    @mikeselectricstuff 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Have you seen the Bitzee toy, which uses a POV RGB flex display?

    • @CarlBugeja
      @CarlBugeja  10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I did 🙂 I will address this in an upcoming video

  • @zyeborm
    @zyeborm 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Good luck mate❤

  • @ihopeusteponlego1614
    @ihopeusteponlego1614 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    @CarlBugeja Just an idea, but maybe interesting for you to test out. If the flappiness could be more deterministic and controllable, you could try to make a laser galvometer using two flappers.

  • @killroy42
    @killroy42 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What I'd love to see is something lightweight I could stick to the leaves of a plant to make it "shiver" :) Or perhaps even move leaves into sunlight!

  • @SarahKchannel
    @SarahKchannel 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    A polarizing filter might help, most likely the illumination source would have to be polarized too, but still the effect could be optimized.

  • @KavyaKhare-g8m
    @KavyaKhare-g8m 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I would love to have a flexible pcb butterfly as a decoration! I would really like to see how to use FlexAR for more organic motion - like possibly, a robotic blooming flower. I'm very interested where microbots is headed next!

  • @markgreco1962
    @markgreco1962 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Nice work

  • @Everflamen
    @Everflamen 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Put a polarization filter in front of those reflectors

  • @versys-research-vietnam
    @versys-research-vietnam 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    When I see your coils, I was very interested in that. The coil can be use on PCB for the laser glavo mirror, along with some kind of sensor. Im design and testing one rn :D

  • @RPrice_OG
    @RPrice_OG 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wow, some exciting stuff. You have already inspired me to do some custom controller boards as small as possible but now I want micro insects. I'm sure my wife, daughter, grand kids and dog won't be quite so excited, heheheHEhehe.

  • @bananasba
    @bananasba 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    you could probably use polarized tape/film

  • @DerekWoolverton
    @DerekWoolverton 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wonder if you could do two flaps in a see-saw to make a bi-stable reflector, so it doesn't have to stay powered.

  • @alessiodimaria3320
    @alessiodimaria3320 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    thats cool!

  • @KevinHorecka
    @KevinHorecka 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Man, your channel is such a whirlwind of cool things! Keep up the great work! Also, for the butterfly, it seems to me you might want to balance the wing size or stiffness a bit against the actuator size to get a less "floppy" effect. It would probably be a small change but fiddling with those parameters for a more bio realistic result could really elevate the project. Also imagine dozens or hundreds of those enough to create a slight breeze. Could call it the Butterfly Effect!

  • @AzaB2C
    @AzaB2C 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great video. So many cool projects! I built and shared design files for a servo based Wood Tile display, also based on Daniel Rozin's work. Created as part of Mark Rober's creative engineering course. Cheers!

  • @Incommensurabilities
    @Incommensurabilities 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is awesome, looking forward to more updates :)

  • @FloydMaxwell
    @FloydMaxwell 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What about that butterfly as part of a nightlight ? The light is on at night, but has a sensor to detect movement, triggering the flapping.

  • @lucasvisser3864
    @lucasvisser3864 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    4:29 *tap*
    PCB: AAAAAA~

  • @treugolinik
    @treugolinik 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    on one of mine projects I used magnet sensetive foil, so you can try that instead of flapping the aluminum foil 😊

  • @MrVyxx7
    @MrVyxx7 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Butterflies have 4 wings, add more tiny motors!
    I love all these things.

  • @AlmusFallow
    @AlmusFallow 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Those flaps can definitely be a midi board of some kind

  • @partyroekel9426
    @partyroekel9426 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    looking forward to the motors

  • @svengaefgen5909
    @svengaefgen5909 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Super projects, I love them.

  • @ratchetlin
    @ratchetlin 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Will the thrust increase if the coils are arranged in a Halbach array?

  • @User-ec2bh
    @User-ec2bh 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Any chance your actuators are strong enough to move a segment of a 3d printed 7 segment clock? Solenoids and normal linear actuators are just way too loud.

  • @GeoffHou
    @GeoffHou 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I would like to know what kind of voltages and currents the drivecell can cope with.

  • @SavalioProductions
    @SavalioProductions 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Cool stuff man! I always thought that it would be nice to be able to purchase your small PCB motors

  • @drewgi7543
    @drewgi7543 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    For the thin flat flap, could you make something similar to a piezoelectric fan?

  • @EnergeticAdvantage
    @EnergeticAdvantage 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Using a comms protocol like WS2812 LEDs might make the bigger arrangements easier to set up

  • @yugalsharma13
    @yugalsharma13 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Man! You're the revolutionary creator 🎉🎉

  • @planckstudios
    @planckstudios 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This started so strong

  • @MarinusMakesStuff
    @MarinusMakesStuff 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I think you would be the perfect person to design a revolutionary type of distance sensor that is really precise in the micrometer scale. Or maybe it's just wishful thinking and I need such a sensor for an affordable price. We'll never know! Anyway, congratulations with your new business! :)

  • @oeq0616
    @oeq0616 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    In stead of a flat actuator why not a cylinder? so like a tendent for longer areas

  • @emertonom
    @emertonom 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    A question--are the coincells addressable? It would be really cool if they incorporated a tiny microcontroller the way addressable RGB LEDS do, so they could share not only power and ground, but also a data bus line instead of individual inputs. That would greatly simplify the development of things like the flip dot displays, which could be adapted from existing WS2812 libraries. It may already be set up this way, but I wasn't able to tell that from the video or indeed the website.
    I keep wondering if something like this could be miniaturized further to act as a haptic output, a little like that hackaday Braille output project. Probably not, but it sure would be cool if it could.

  • @excitedbox5705
    @excitedbox5705 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    for the display, why not make a pcb with a giant pad on the front and then polish it to mirror shine after nickel plating? Then I would add coils to each corner and a flexible pedestal centered on the back. That way you can tilt in 4 directions. If you used an X shaped flex pcb you could even fold the "legs" under and solder them down giving you a "parachute" shaped pixel that can tilt in 4 directions and not need the pedestal.

  • @NCPFunK
    @NCPFunK 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hey, How about a V shape instead of round would'nt that be better for Gang-ing and better tensile strength ?

  • @ripper132212
    @ripper132212 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    have you seen the disney holotile floor? maybe a small version of something like that as a demo lol

  • @RolandsKanal
    @RolandsKanal 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great projects!

  • @datawolk
    @datawolk 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Nice steps for the future and good luck!
    Question: Is it possible to manipulate a hall effect current sensor reliable with your coil pcb's? I need to make some other product think it draws x current but don't need/want to draw this x amount of current through the hall effect sensor.

  • @samocooper9070
    @samocooper9070 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I've really enjoyed the coil series but I think you have more potential looking at other new projects

  • @critical_always
    @critical_always 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Try to point a focused spot light or laser beam at your flapper array and treat it as a dlp.

    • @RandomBogey
      @RandomBogey 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I was thinking one of the dot grid ones, like the holiday decoration things or how some laser pointers come with a filter cap that splits the one beam into a grid of dots, and focus it so each dot aligns with a flap. At the very least, it would look wild with a fog machine

  • @osmanpasha_diy
    @osmanpasha_diy 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Did you check H-bridges from other manufacturers, like CJDR9111? It's even smaller, cheaper and has leads (only 6V though).

  • @chopper3lw
    @chopper3lw 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You might experiment with a polarizer film in front of the flipdot.

  • @likewisepro
    @likewisepro 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Only one startup company? With so many products? We are facing the same issue. Great work.

  • @kevinb1594
    @kevinb1594 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My guy, if your flappy thing are able to attract a small amount of ferrofluid, would this allow you to float things on ferrofluid, paper, or copper? I'm thinking some sort of variable friction applications.

  • @SarahKchannel
    @SarahKchannel 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You know the privacy screen protector films for mobile devices, that allow you to only seen the screen at special angles ? such a film on your 'DLP' devices would create much stronger contrast ratios and presumably cheap, since they are a mobile mass product.

    • @SarahKchannel
      @SarahKchannel 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      multimedia.3m.com/mws/media/1881148O/3m-advanced-light-control-film-alcf-p-abr0-75050141441-pdf.pdf

  • @Jandodev
    @Jandodev 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'm running a startup too :) Its a stressful but rewarding time! If you ever need any coding automation I'd love to have you using some of my tech too! I was able to program an entire small web-server on a esp-s3 through the esp-idf automatically not a line written using a tool I made at my startup!

  • @Raddlesnakes000
    @Raddlesnakes000 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    it'd be great to be able to power one of these actuators with a little solar cell

  • @badao8277
    @badao8277 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    If u can, can you put a light under the flap, 0-1 would be easier to recognize

  • @carolynhudson6858
    @carolynhudson6858 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    For the flap display maybe try a lenticular film so that in one position one image or color is shown and another in the second. Also could you put each pixel on a thin shared axle with a tiny magnet on each edge and position a bit of perpendicular iron behind each for the magnets to stick to and a small electromagnetic coil attached to the bar such that a h-bridge chip could repel the stuck magnet on one end and attract the other.

  • @TechyBen
    @TechyBen 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The flaps, can they generate air flow? They might be cool as a solar powered fan solution? Though as you say, power draw is high.

  • @ghostmantagshome-er6pb
    @ghostmantagshome-er6pb 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    maybe resonating halteres ?

  • @nathanruiz3424
    @nathanruiz3424 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What if, for the butterfly, you used nitinol as a muscle, add two paths so it can flap back and forth, and alternate the voltage in each one at a high frequency. Is this 3d printable?

  • @darthPixel
    @darthPixel 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    wouldn't it be good to fold the butterfly wings so they would become stiff(er)?

  • @karpakis
    @karpakis 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    hey carl. why dont you polish graphite powder on sheets?

  • @lateexe1113
    @lateexe1113 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    make the butterfly's wings flexible pcbs with copper traces for rigidity

  • @peter360adventures9
    @peter360adventures9 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Awesome