I am a 73 year old inventor with 12 patents who has stayed up to date with the latest technology... your work is very impressive, especially from someone of your age. Its kind of funny, but I started out repairing consumer electronics when the TV's ran on vacuum tubes. I own a 3D printer, CAD software and lots of test equipment. I wish I had been born during this time period of 3D printing and the Internet as my inventive life would have been much easier and faster. Good luck to you and stay creative and up to date. ;)
Even though the master/slave control concept has been around for some time, the uniqueness of this robotic arm is the impressive compact and aesthetically pleasing design, demonstrating the advantages of 3D printing technology. Great job!
I really would LOVE to see a step by step tutorial on just the fusion design aspect of this. Would be very cool to be able to follow along and build one myself. Great video!
Really cool. It would be a great addition to this robot adding a button that when pressed saves the current positoin of the motors (potmeters) and you can manually save multiple positions to replay them as a programmed animation. I did this with a hobby robot I built a few years ago
I am an engineering student who just bought a 3d printer. I was looking for a first project and i stumbled across this video. The idea for the controller is absolutely genius in my opinion. Other videos i have looked into felt so unapproachable with the amount of coding (also not my strong suit) but seeing how you dealt with that inspired me and i am going to attempt to build this myself. I also personally think that your arm moves much more organically compared to the others. keep it up! subscribed
@@kree5423sv06/sv06 plus if you're on a budget and p1s if you just want it to work but costs a bit more and if you just have money to throw around get an X1C it's literally foolproof
I love the approach you took to controlling the arm, I have always loved that design of having a mini version of it that you move to control the big version. When I first saw how some commercial submarines have a mini arm that you move to move the big arm i new I wanted to build something like that!
I was wondering why the arm felt so human in the beginning so when you revealed that the controller was a scaled down version that you adjust by hand my mind was blown and it all made sense. Such a fun and cool idea
Great stuff! Controlling the arm with a miniature version that has potentiometers in joints is actually quite ingenious. I am planning to incorporate something similar in my own arm for the ease of training it.
You will go a long way, a great future! And I need to also praise your parents for being supportive and surely encouraging you with your passion. Kudo to everyone. Good luck.
Dude, I just finished building your robot for our school project. We had some difficult times with the driver-board(that is because there are lots of boards using different parts such as (FET, capacitor etc.) customized by some companies for low budget costs with large income.We bought these boards and we had been troubled for weeks.After we got the right board,everything is doing welll with your explanation in the video. Thanks a lot for this amazing content❤ Keep doing your stuffs Sir!
Hey man, welcome to RUclips! What an awesome project to start with, I do some Arduino stuff too but I do a lot more coding than building so it was really cool to see such an awesome build! Congrats man
this is soo amazing! ive been building things like this out of lego and you are the only person i can find that does this. this deserves a subscribe from me.
This is a great video. I like how compact the design is, and the arm control. There have been FRC teams doing this arm control for a while (234 in 2001), but it's been a while since it's been done well.
The pot mapping to positioning is a neat idea if you’re getting started! If you’re looking to iterate Is recommend experimenting with cameras and getting back into the inverse kinematics
If you every get a chance it would be very helpful for you to add a document with a wiring diagram, that way we can roughly follow along. Thank you for sharing this with everyone, im going to take a shot at putting it together!
Why does this robotic arm moving look so much like the visual effects from the original Robocop (1987) movie? 😂 I think you absolutely nailed the "stop-motion" look!
Congratulations! I downloaded your project to try to replicate it here in Brazil. I haven't printed it yet because of the wrist gear. This is the biggest difficulty.
I really love the design you came up with for the arm, it has a really pleasing sorta industrial look which is really satisfying to watch while operating
Really great project dude! Gotta add that the video is very well made for the first video on your channel👌 I have also done some Arduino projects that I'm pretty proud of, but never could convince myself to put out a video like this. Now I might actually do it, so thanks for the inspiration.
you actually could probably print the arm in one print with print in place hinges. Wouldnt be the smoothest but its crazy you could take something off the build plate and having it work.
Thanks! I don’t currently have a schematic for the controller. However, the wiring is pretty straightforward. All potentiometer’s Ground and VCC pins are connected in a sequence of wires and each potentiometer’s output/signal (middle) pin run through the entirety of the arm individually to the plug. The potentiometer signal pins make up 4 of the 7 pins on the plug. Another pin on the plug is for the push button. The last 2 pins are the VCC and Ground pins. So, starting from the smallest joint with the push button, one pin from the push button is connected to the closest potentiometer’s ground pin and the other pin on the button goes independently throughout the arm and into the plug. Then, that potentiometer’s (closest to the button) ground and VCC pins are connected to the next closest potentiometer and so on, all the way to the base potentiometer. Then, the base potentiometer’s ground and VCC are wired directly to the plug. Hope this helps!
Thanks! If I receive enough requests, I will certainly make this arm open source! I’ll let you know if/when I decide to release the files. (By the looks of it, I most likely will)
Super cool. I would love to see someone try to implement haptic feedback and a way for the arm to sense if it is facing too much resistance (like the Kuka arm).
I may make an in-depth video of all the parts, wiring, and assembly sometime in the future, but for now I’d like to focus on building other projects and releasing more content for those. Thanks for your interest!
That's wonderful! How were you able to design such a compact robot? I mean it certainly is possible, but it still surprises me that how can one person design a complete mechanical model. It doesn't really look like much at first, but as someone who actively tried to design a robotic arm from scratch, I know how difficult and frustrating can this be. I really need to know how to overcome this burden of CAD designing, cuz as a electrical engineering student, I don't have much experience with Fusion360 or SolidWorks or any other mechanical CAD software. Once again, hats off to this seamless design! Looks soooo elegant!
Congratulations, your project is amazing! Could you please add the list of components? Which servo motors did you use and everything else? I understand that you are currently focusing on other things, but it is very important to provide the opportunity for those who are interested to be able to reproduce it. This way, new possibilities and the ability to improve it both on the hardware and software side open up!
Very cool project to be proud of, man, can you put up a wiring diagram of the servo motor with driver board and arduino and potentiometer? Or can you take a picture of the physical wiring diagram? It's easier to reproduce for newbies. Thanks a lot!
Amazing video. Not only does the arm function great, but it looks awesome too. Looks like something Tony Stark would make! Keep up the great work pal 👍
Congratulations on the launch of your channel and the impressive arm design. I have a suggestion for a potential future video. Have you considered scaling up the motor and arm size? Given that you have already designed and shared the model, and have assembled it numerous times, this should be a straightforward endeavor. It is worth noting that the majority of DIY robotic arms featured on RUclips tend to have protruding cables, and the production arms such as cobots tend to be limited in size, rendering them impractical for most use cases.
I am a 73 year old inventor with 12 patents who has stayed up to date with the latest technology... your work is very impressive, especially from someone of your age. Its kind of funny, but I started out repairing consumer electronics when the TV's ran on vacuum tubes. I own a 3D printer, CAD software and lots of test equipment. I wish I had been born during this time period of 3D printing and the Internet as my inventive life would have been much easier and faster. Good luck to you and stay creative and up to date. ;)
Couldn't agree more!
Great
Sir do u know anyone who’s worked on universal washing machine PID based speed controller plz give me any reference
Glad to have you around @mindtekzone! There's still time to invent, follow your passions and happy building.
@@guyconiglio8223 Still designing ... passing it on to the next generation. I have identical twin grandsons and teaching them by building robots. ;)
Dude this deserves way more attention, amazing work! This is sick!!
Even though the master/slave control concept has been around for some time, the uniqueness of this robotic arm is the impressive compact and aesthetically pleasing design, demonstrating the advantages of 3D printing technology. Great job!
I really would LOVE to see a step by step tutorial on just the fusion design aspect of this. Would be very cool to be able to follow along and build one myself. Great video!
Using a scale model as a controller is such a genius but simple idea. Well done all around.
This is the best parking design for a robot I have ever seen.
Really cool. It would be a great addition to this robot adding a button that when pressed saves the current positoin of the motors (potmeters) and you can manually save multiple positions to replay them as a programmed animation. I did this with a hobby robot I built a few years ago
I am an engineering student who just bought a 3d printer. I was looking for a first project and i stumbled across this video. The idea for the controller is absolutely genius in my opinion. Other videos i have looked into felt so unapproachable with the amount of coding (also not my strong suit) but seeing how you dealt with that inspired me and i am going to attempt to build this myself. I also personally think that your arm moves much more organically compared to the others. keep it up! subscribed
same lol
Bro what 3D printer do you suggest?
@@kree5423sv06/sv06 plus if you're on a budget and p1s if you just want it to work but costs a bit more and if you just have money to throw around get an X1C it's literally foolproof
i suggest the ender 3 v2 because it is basically open source if something breaks
@@j-hi1jisv06 is open source and better build
I love the approach you took to controlling the arm, I have always loved that design of having a mini version of it that you move to control the big version. When I first saw how some commercial submarines have a mini arm that you move to move the big arm i new I wanted to build something like that!
I was wondering why the arm felt so human in the beginning so when you revealed that the controller was a scaled down version that you adjust by hand my mind was blown and it all made sense. Such a fun and cool idea
Great stuff! Controlling the arm with a miniature version that has potentiometers in joints is actually quite ingenious. I am planning to incorporate something similar in my own arm for the ease of training it.
Good idea.
What potentiometers did you use?
i have been building an Arduino robotic arm for a school project and this video has helped a lot, keep up the fantastic work
You will go a long way, a great future! And I need to also praise your parents for being supportive and surely encouraging you with your passion. Kudo to everyone. Good luck.
Go Kelton!! This is so impressive. Love all the description of your design process.
One of the sleakest robot arms I have ever seen, well done!
Hell yeah man! One of the first videos like this I’ve seen that finds the right balance between info and entertainment
Dude, I just finished building your robot for our school project. We had some difficult times with the driver-board(that is because there are lots of boards using different parts such as (FET, capacitor etc.) customized by some companies for low budget costs with large income.We bought these boards and we had been troubled for weeks.After we got the right board,everything is doing welll with your explanation in the video. Thanks a lot for this amazing content❤ Keep doing your stuffs Sir!
This is the coolest manual control method that I've seen for a robot arm, great job!
That's neat. It's kinda cute. I like the sound it makes too.
The tiny arm for controlling is SO adorable xD
Potentiometer control is genius. I might build this one looks fun
Great to see something unique in the homemade robot arm space. The control system looks so cool and futuristic to watch. Awesome job!
Congratulations for the great visual design it's a major success factor these days !👌
This is really great - you did an exceptionally good job!
Hey man, welcome to RUclips! What an awesome project to start with, I do some Arduino stuff too but I do a lot more coding than building so it was really cool to see such an awesome build! Congrats man
this is soo amazing! ive been building things like this out of lego and you are the only person i can find that does this. this deserves a subscribe from me.
wow! i aspire to make stuff like this someday. keep up the amazing work and great content :)
This is a great video. I like how compact the design is, and the arm control. There have been FRC teams doing this arm control for a while (234 in 2001), but it's been a while since it's been done well.
The pot mapping to positioning is a neat idea if you’re getting started! If you’re looking to iterate Is recommend experimenting with cameras and getting back into the inverse kinematics
If you every get a chance it would be very helpful for you to add a document with a wiring diagram, that way we can roughly follow along. Thank you for sharing this with everyone, im going to take a shot at putting it together!
This is so awesome, love the potential of Arduino's!
The controller is amazing 😳 nice project, is really inspiring!
YOU EARNED YOURSELF A NEW SUBSCRIBER!!!!
10/10 would watch again
Your presentation style is quite chilling ❤
Great job. Request for the 3d print files. Thanks
Wow. This is simply amazing. Very good
Awesome video and project Like many others I would love to see this open sourced!
Why does this robotic arm moving look so much like the visual effects from the original Robocop (1987) movie? 😂 I think you absolutely nailed the "stop-motion" look!
Was about to say that lol it looks really cool
Thank you for the inspiration, I used this for my first robotics project!
Congratulations! I downloaded your project to try to replicate it here in Brazil. I haven't printed it yet because of the wrist gear. This is the biggest difficulty.
people don't understand how good voxelab is 😀 also that controller design is beautiful.
I really love the design you came up with for the arm, it has a really pleasing sorta industrial look which is really satisfying to watch while operating
This rules. The controller is so clever.
Dude you did an amazing job with this one ! You inspired me.
very impressive young man. keep it up. you're going places
Really great project dude! Gotta add that the video is very well made for the first video on your channel👌
I have also done some Arduino projects that I'm pretty proud of, but never could convince myself to put out a video like this. Now I might actually do it, so thanks for the inspiration.
could you post your cad and code i would love to build this maybe tweak it and get reverse kinematics running
CAD and code coming in the next week!
@@buildsomestuff yessssssss
All CAD, STL, and Code files are now available!! Check video description for details!
That's great, good job man!
This is sweet! I love the scalable design I might build one with longer grippers
I love it, that robot voodoo controller is cool too!
You're so young and doing such cool stuff!
Impressive skills. At that age i played with barbies. you have a promsing future. Keep up the great work 👍💪.
Great job! I'm also making my own robotic arms, you can learn so much with projects like this!
you actually could probably print the arm in one print with print in place hinges. Wouldnt be the smoothest but its crazy you could take something off the build plate and having it work.
Neat project! It's inspiring me for some camera motion control things I want to do
Go for it!
I made a camera control system last month using a Arduino and some motors. It uses a different concept but I have a video showing it on my channel.
@@makergiovanni Oh yeah! I saw your video from an article. I definitely have it saved for later reference.
@@declanb6985 yes it was published on Instructables.
Bruh, you are super smart!!
Great work a very good idea, it would be nice to have a tutorial to assemble the robotic arm
Noted!
Dude, this is your first video? :o
You just earned a new subscriber!
Bro that's so clever!!!
Wow! This is amazing - would love to see a full tutorial of this to be able to do it myself
Wow man, your work it's amazing!
Amazing. Respect for the incredible work. And that price tag...Geesh...
Great video, would love to give a try. Was wondering if you could post the schematic for the wiring of the small arm.
Thanks! I don’t currently have a schematic for the controller. However, the wiring is pretty straightforward. All potentiometer’s Ground and VCC pins are connected in a sequence of wires and each potentiometer’s output/signal (middle) pin run through the entirety of the arm individually to the plug. The potentiometer signal pins make up 4 of the 7 pins on the plug. Another pin on the plug is for the push button. The last 2 pins are the VCC and Ground pins. So, starting from the smallest joint with the push button, one pin from the push button is connected to the closest potentiometer’s ground pin and the other pin on the button goes independently throughout the arm and into the plug. Then, that potentiometer’s (closest to the button) ground and VCC pins are connected to the next closest potentiometer and so on, all the way to the base potentiometer. Then, the base potentiometer’s ground and VCC are wired directly to the plug. Hope this helps!
Great work, neat and efficient design.
very interested. Thank you so much
😀
Great work, nice design! 👍
A thing of beauty!
When the assembly video is coming?
The controller is dope !
Damn this is impressive, hope to reach your skills level one day!
This is pretty awesome. Thank you for sharing!!
This is highly impressive. Any plans to release the part files?
Thanks! If I receive enough requests, I will certainly make this arm open source! I’ll let you know if/when I decide to release the files. (By the looks of it, I most likely will)
I am looking forward to it 👻
@@buildsomestuff Request!
I am also in. The community should also be able to help with the inverse kinematics.
yup i wanna build this
Super cool. I would love to see someone try to implement haptic feedback and a way for the arm to sense if it is facing too much resistance (like the Kuka arm).
The Dinosaur Input Device (an instrumented stop motion armature) was used for some of the CG animation in the original Jurassic Park. Same vibe.
Nice work!
Very nice dude! But will you release full video about how to put this all together?That would be cool!
I may make an in-depth video of all the parts, wiring, and assembly sometime in the future, but for now I’d like to focus on building other projects and releasing more content for those. Thanks for your interest!
@@buildsomestuff Thank you!
@@user125username Still no tutorial yet, but I've added links to all the parts in the video's description! Hopefully that helps!
Really well done
Epic man well done
I think it would be great to use a ServoEasing library for smoother arm movement
Whaaat! Robot Arm & Arduino - SUBBED!
That's wonderful! How were you able to design such a compact robot? I mean it certainly is possible, but it still surprises me that how can one person design a complete mechanical model. It doesn't really look like much at first, but as someone who actively tried to design a robotic arm from scratch, I know how difficult and frustrating can this be. I really need to know how to overcome this burden of CAD designing, cuz as a electrical engineering student, I don't have much experience with Fusion360 or SolidWorks or any other mechanical CAD software. Once again, hats off to this seamless design! Looks soooo elegant!
Congratulations, your project is amazing! Could you please add the list of components? Which servo motors did you use and everything else? I understand that you are currently focusing on other things, but it is very important to provide the opportunity for those who are interested to be able to reproduce it. This way, new possibilities and the ability to improve it both on the hardware and software side open up!
Thanks! All components are now linked in the video's description!
This is amazing! Keep up the good work!
Excellent work young sir! Liked and subscribed.
Nice!
Consumer level servos tend to overheat in continuous work, but maybe this could really do something.
goo job , just downloaded the files from the drive , i will check em out and try to build this arm . great work aprreciate youre time .
Very impressive both project and video.
daymn this is really cool!
Really great job! Keep the videos coming!
Great job for your age, congragulations
I love it. Great work, I would love to make this for my grandson.
That's awesome! If you decide to, I've added links to all the parts in the video's description.
Cool arm! Awesome project, It would be fun to try and write with it or something like that
Definitely gonna build this
Very nice 👍🏼 For next version, attach a memory card and you can start recording movement and automate things. Thanks for sharing 👍🏼
Very cool project to be proud of, man, can you put up a wiring diagram of the servo motor with driver board and arduino and potentiometer? Or can you take a picture of the physical wiring diagram? It's easier to reproduce for newbies. Thanks a lot!
Amazing video. Not only does the arm function great, but it looks awesome too. Looks like something Tony Stark would make!
Keep up the great work pal 👍
AMAZING PLEASE SHOW MORE
Congratulations on the launch of your channel and the impressive arm design. I have a suggestion for a potential future video. Have you considered scaling up the motor and arm size? Given that you have already designed and shared the model, and have assembled it numerous times, this should be a straightforward endeavor. It is worth noting that the majority of DIY robotic arms featured on RUclips tend to have protruding cables, and the production arms such as cobots tend to be limited in size, rendering them impractical for most use cases.
A scaled up version would be neat!
Man, that driver board would get a German patriot going XD
Cool project!