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Botmatrix Youtube Channel
Hi Guys & Gals!
I wanted to let you all know that after a long hiatus I'm spinning up my Youtube channel again! I'm shifting over to my new alias: Botmatrix. From here on in the channel will be dedicated to this awesome community and will continue to be a place where I share my electronics and robotics side projects. The content will be mostly hardware related with a lot of ARC & ARC (mobile) interaction.
I have a number of Project Showcases in the queue that I'd like to share and a few tutorials I'd like to do (I still owe someone an RGB LED tutorial ;D ). I'm very open to requests and ideas for videos if you have any suggestions. Also, if you'd like to be added as a featured channel, please let me know! I've already added ez-robot and a few of our community members to the list.
The link to my channel is: Here
Please subscribe and comment if you're interested!
I'm working toward to getting a custom URL for the channel, A new logo design, and a few other changes. I'll update this thread once the changes start happening.
P.S. I won't be able to get this channel going again without your support and involvement. There are too many distractions out there for me. This community is where I belong and where I receive the most genuine satisfaction, and I really desire to be more involved.
@Justin, naw you haven't exceeded the switch current rating in the body until you have servos or other peripherals that are combined in drawing more than 6A. The servos on JD and other robots don't normally draw remotely close to 6A (sustained draw). If you wanted to be safe you could use a 6A switch on each battery, that would likely be more than sufficient for any scenario.
Thank you Jermie and Richard for setting me straight!
@Jeremie how is Voltron coming along?
Voltron is in the process of being upgraded to all HDD servos. He had a hard time walking with HD servos + the weight of all the 3D printed plastics. I'm pretty confident that the HDD servos will remedy this problem. Thanks for asking @Justin
I just upgraded Data's arms to all HDD servos to, but I still have not connected them all. The HD servos struggled abit with his longer arms, but the HDD servos are very nice!
How many active projects do you Jermie?
I have Data, Spock JD, the dream of an EZ-J5 and the parts to make a life size ez-robot controlled Halloween talking pirate skeleton.
Oh man, my active project list is much too long for my liking.
I have the following on the go:
@Justin definitely share some pictures of your bots in progress. I'll try and do the same!
@Jeremie,
wow 11 projects!
Which one will be finished first do you think?
Just checked out Freedom555bot, so cute with that little battery in there and sounds cool as.
Robot fridge magnet who would have thought!
@Newagetomy Yeah it's a bit embarrassing how many I have on the go that aren't completed. lol
Optimus Prime, Rhinobot & Robobrrd will likely be done first. They are all fully built but just need animations and videos done.
I really like the Robot fridge/whiteboard magnet idea, it's not an original idea but I did do something a little different than most. Robots of this sort usually use a large rare earth magnet under the body to make the robot stay on ferrous surfaces, they keep the rubber wheels. I instead opted for round rare earth magnets attached to servo horns with thin rubber bands or hot glue treads. This way my robot could navigate around a bent metal surface like a deep freeze, pole, modern art, or lamp post.
One day I would like to place a camera on it and drive it up a lamp post and film a street hockey match or a skateboarding session from above. As a safety mechanism I'd like to have a accelerometer/gyro (free fall detection) and small parachute to deploy if it ever fell from the top of the lamp post. I feel that a Camerabot on a lamp post would last much longer than an aerial drone or someone holding a pole to get those top-down shots.
That's an awesome idea, and btw i wouldnt be embarrassed by the number of projects, rather the opposite.
I spent around 3 months on my first project, but after rebuilding it twice its not the same as it once was and sadly i have lost all motivation to complete it.
Had a funny hiccup with a second project, i was using the wrong motors for the H-bridges i had and was wondering why i never got them going haha...robotics has been a huge and humbling learning curve thats for sure.
Love the magnet idea, i watched how the bot went around the side of the fridge, that was great to see.
Looking forward to seeing Optimus Prime, but must admit hanging to see Voltron up and running, he's the one who inspired me to build my own.