thank you! I want to give back to the world at this point. I have hoarded so many projects I made over the last 15 years! I am going to be remaking a lot of them and open sourcing with a video like this one :) I do wish a lot more projects out there were open sourced, especially at end of life!
kickstarters are not real, its just a way to promote a product and channel a lot of your own funds disguised as money from a lot of people supposedly interested, also even with a lot of your own funds your kickstarter will probably get zero page visits if not advertised in many other media
I want the same to be legislated for commercial products - as epitomised by the many devices that get bricked by the manufacturers when they stop supporting them.
What a kind move to open source your project. Failing to raise enough can hit you down, but having enough courage to improve the project before sending it is a real proof that you liked this one. I'm wishing you the best of luck for your future projects !
Totally agree with that! Open source has a lot to do with the progress we've made in the last 20-25 years. ut at the same time, creators and inventors need to be rewarded too.
I think the optimal strategy would have been to write a distance function on color space(a^2+b^2+c^2), iterate over all known actions in a (color, action) map, and see which has the smallest distance (within some margin of error).
@@SwiftyTheSword94 agreed. Or instead of color space (which I assume still means RGB ? ) convert to HSV so you can empirically play with the relative importance of Hue / Saturation / Value in the "error" function.
But at least he gets to slap AI on the box and ask for multi-million dollar VC funds. 🤣 I think both of your replies are still too complicated. The color sensor already indicates RGB. High values = white, low values = black, green is significantly higher than the other two = green. So it just becomes a simple switch/if-else statement.
Awesome idea! Bring back an updated Kickstarter version as well!! I’d love to just buy like a 4 pack with some hazards and barriers and still be able to 3D print car bodies and other obstacles!
Please, please reconsider making these as kits! Despite some Reasonable technical skills, sourcing all the components and making the pcbs is a step too far
Please just keep on doing more of this, your first video is top notch. Not a fan of the repetitive background music choice, though, but it's such a minor detail when you got almost everything right from the start. Looking forward to your next one.
criminally underrated video The projects seems so cool!! I suggest to sell a ready made version of this to people who wanna try this but don't wanna go through the hassle of soldering PCBs and all that stuff.
Thank you! Haha I could but turning it into an entire product is a different beast. I could potentially offer PCBs. Hey! If there is enough demand :) glad you liked it! And thanks for the kind words
There are companies in China that can crank out those cases and car parts real easy. They can machine the plastic injection mold need at a super low cost.
@@stuckatprototype My late dad started his 40 year electronics career by using the Bell & Howell kits in the 60's and early 70's. You built your own test equipment as lessons then used those built kits in learning how to design and troubleshoot components. He retired from GE Transportation Systems in 1992 after 30 years of working there.
Have you considered making a 3d printed wheel with a groove and putting a small O-Ring onto it? You would have a nice rubber surface that is probably quite round. Also more grip then just harder plastics. Everyone can get O rings and they would allow for more common printing techniques for the wheels!
thats an awesome idea! I actually did the opposite, I made the groove on the outside. i.e. for a tire that can wrap around it and I put clear heat shrink over it! its not clear in this video, but its on the back wheels :)
@@aspzx Depending on your filament printer it should work, too. Espacially with a smaller nozzle like 0.2 or 0.1mm I give it a try with my bambu x1c and a 0.4mm nozzle tomorrow. I found a great profile for small details with which they should work
It was great idea to open source it! After first minutes I had great hope I could recreate it... my dreams failed seeing such a great park of machines behind (even though you could simplify few things here and there - like wheels. take these failed PLA prints and put a rubber gaskets on it. hint: driller + sanding paper). Now is the time you kickstart it!
For some reason youtube is recommending me random chanels with 300-400 subs and looking at their peoduction quality it looks like it should be atleast 1M + Is youtube glitching or this guy really have 375 subs ?
@@fridolineckerd6135 😂while I dont have any more kickstarters to open source, I have a ton of cool projects that I am going to be making videos on! its been a wild day! unreal how well this video is doing
Offering your project as open source demonstrates great generosity on your part. Congradulations on your gesture; it has earned you a new member and close follower for your channel. 👍
This is brilliant: AI Neural Network But I love this: switch (colour_sensor_state) { case Sensor_Reads_Green: Make_car_Spin(); break; case Sensor_Reads_White: Make_car_go_Fast(); break; case Sensor_Reads_Black: Make_car_go_Slow(); break;
i think its for getting the color input kinda right. never programmed a color sensor, but my guess would be that changing light situations and color saturations are a nightmare to get correctly detected.
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@@stevenrichman7101 yes but you can get some ranges, specially if the colors are very different from each other.
@@stuckatprototype You are missing one important feature: RGB leds in the top shell of the car *AND* the controller. Why? So that each player can use the buttons on the controller to set their controller and car colour to tell them apart when a half-dozen are racing around. ...and you should binge on 'micro rc' build videos. Those folks can get up to some pretty crazy stuff. One neat trick to making tires that they use is to clamp an o-ring on a nut & bolt, then chuck it on a drill and run it against an emery board to shape the o-ring into a proper tire. Cheers!
most of the college goes just bluntly do their course for a degree without realizing its depth, instead of fearing over AI taking their job people should be focus more on making cool fun projects. your channel is a great motivation for those who want to do it for projects.
you can use "fuse holder" soldered directly on the PCB so the motor can clip into them. So no need of 3D printed part! Check this one for example FC-203 BRIGHT TIN
@@svgPhoenix I do not understand your concern? Torque will be apply no matter the mechanical device holding the motors. If you are concerned about mechanical stress on the PCB components we should not be building RC cars for kids that bumps into things 😅😆
if you want to make it at least partial kids safe you would need some kind of enclosure anyway, so those holders don't make much of a difference. I guess you could use heatwrap or something similar but than you would need to do cutouts after
I'm a software engineer with a bit over 20 years experience. I would like to jump into electronics as a hobby, I bought myself a home lab for that ex: hako soldering station, a quick 861DW and some flux / solder. I have a bit of arduino experience play but it stops there. I hope to learn a lot from this channel. ** Subscribed **
nice!!! welcome to the embedded world!! I hope you get a lot of value from the project! I highly recommend getting on an ESP32, they are super fun and super cool to work with! Thanks for the support!
thank you for making this open source! for the many who don't have a 3D printer, or PCB building skills, it would be great if you can have your own store and sell kits! pre-assembled or for assembly...
I am glad this project is able to see the light of day again :) for now no plan for kits, but I am working on updating the necessary bill of materials, etc. that way anyone can make it! thanks!
Great project! Thank you for taking the time to open-source it, while also improving on your previous work. This would be a great setup to have at home and play with friends.
Really cool project! Its so cool to see creators with small followinga demonstrating such high production quality. The only nitpick I'd recommend would be the sound mastering. Tone down the music and SFX slightly, and we'll be able to focus on your awesome content better
You could have made this into a mini series with episodes of each part, the wins, the struggles. I would have watched everyone. I still crave more on each part right now. Man you're a genius and I'm glad you are sharing your work. thanks and looking forward to future videos. Subscribed
I have an n-scale model rail road. its slightly visible in the shots when making the car :) and I have thought about it! maybe one day ill venture that path again
3 idea for videos 1. An extended version of this one, with details on pcb, etc. 2. Your home pcb machine, pro and cons with examples. 3. Use and example of 1 pixel color sensors.
Thank you very much to putting so much effort into a failed project to give it a second life and hopefully much joy for all the great and small kids! ;) What I'd like to see is a way to buy the ready PCBs for the car and the remote so i could tinker around with only modeling some funny car tops to print on my printer or programming some logic for funny gameplay. I hope to see some more things going n on this funny project! Greetings!
Awesome project! Imagine adding a tiny camera to this car and having a vision through fpv goggles. It would be a hell of a multiplayer racing game! Also the colour detection and actions based on that is great! I would recommend cutting them in shapes more relevant to what function they provide. The oil splash is already a perfect shape for slow down, but for boosters maybe cut it is double forward arrow shape and ring shape for the spin-out green, so that the players can clearly visualize what they are running over :)
thanks for the support!! the biggest problem with my printer is the precision. the circle was more of a octagon! one day, if I am able to make money from this I will be pouring it all into my lab! I have so many cool ideas I want to make, I cannot wait to share them!
you probably could get it working with an 0.4 on a good printer like an bambu. Espacially if the wheels get modified to take o rings, than it wouldn't even matter if it isn't 100% round :)
Wow, what black belt skills you have, I would love to see a video about your production/prototype setup. Seems like you got everything very well selected.
Thanks so much! I am going to make some more shorts about my lab, so much to show and tell. I have been slowly building it up over the last 15 years :)
You could have sold it to hot wheels. But genuinely a great project. This shows not only you are a great engineer but an awesome loving dad. You did for fun that's so nice.
oh my god, this is amazing. It reminds me sooooo much of the old MicroSizers. Thanks for sharing this great project with us! Imagine it had little swappable motors like the MicroSizers did.
I really love following prototyping channels like stuffmadehere and Mark rober. This project and channel has similar potential. I hope people realize the enormous time and money put into this project AND the fact that you on top of this effort place such potent and fun project in open source is just super cool. Also really like the channel name.
nice. It would have helped to have shown the segment @11:10 at the beginning of the video. I had no idea the entire time what differentiated this rc toy car from the hundreds of other similar ones out there.
This is AMAZING. Dude, you're criminally undersubscribed. I thought you had at LEAST 60k subscribers with the quality of video and topic. Make it big, I'm on board for this!
Thanks so much! it means a lot to me! I am super excited with the way its going, I absolutely did not think I would be getting this much attention. Thanks so much for your support!
eh, it depends how you define optimal, the neural network lets you adjust what color it's working on without editing any code, by training it in the environment you plan to use it in, so that instead of looking for an estimated color you programmed it to look for, it's looking for a color it found in the environment
@@d3str0i3r the definition of optimal is unique. There is a direct formula for it. You can adjust it for your colours more easily than you would adjust the network.
Awesome engineering effort (prologue, requirements, simplifying, doing) with full marks for the video editing! A supercut of designing the board schematics or layout could be useful. You surely remember those labors, but for the viewer it's like you made a list of requirements and then the boards magically materialized. Not so simple in reality ;)
Thanks, I appreciate the feedback on the editing and I totally agree that a schematic and layout timelapse would have been cool. I’ll throw in snippets for the next video :)
I am confused on what the purpose of the AI is for detecting the different colors? Could this not have been achieved with basic color thresholding, perhaps even YCbCr?
Even with lighting conditions you can adjust the lookup based on light detected outside a magnetic area. Okay and even if there were a neural net there it has three scalar inputs and a max of what like 5 perceptions max? lol. Whatevs still a really cool project 😀
yes! definitely could! but it was a really good excuse to learn more about neural networks! :) for the kickstarter, I had a simple range checking, problem came down to lighting. but definitely could have used a different approach! this approach was a bit more fun ;) plus... I like to complicate my life haha
cool that youre open sourcing it. in turn this could be a opportunity for local 3D Print enthusiasts to sell to fund their hobby which could bring a bunch of projects down the road
Its a really, really good video. One thing thought. You should mention what the project actually is. If you would have said the one scentence, which is in the descrition box it would have helped to understand what this is all about....
Looks interesting. I'd like to get started by building one or two for myself, but I'm having difficulties figuring out the exact parts to order. For example, what is the part number for the motors? A complete Bill_Of_Materials/Parts_List would be useful. Also, consider providing as a PCBWay project. That way I can easily order bare boards or partially assembled boards. I'd also be able to select an option where the author gets 10%.
I'm also stuck on which exact parts to order, Seems like it'd make most sense to make 5 right? as that's usually the amount of pcb's you get when ordering?
I would have said it was more like Super Sprint than Mario Kart. But I'm old and many people don't know what Super Sprint is. Great video. Keep up the good work.
RUclips recommended this channel and with 13.3k subs at the time of writing, to know this is your first video is amazing, great content keep it up bud. Earned a sub from me ❤️
A friend/colleague and I have been talking about the problems around indie product development. If the product is valuable and marketable, it's expensive to try to make a living off of it, whether it's selling them to people or getting a patent on it, and you have to sell as many as you can before someone in China steals the design, mass produces it, and sells it for pennies on the dollar on Amazon or eBay. Unfortunately she doesn't have much faith in open sourcing a project when the business viability isn't there, though I do understand where she's coming from with that. So I applaud your innovation and your willingness to give back to the community. Love the design BTW. I have some bad memories of trying to develop a BLE app in Android, but I'm sure you've done a way better job at this than I have. Also love that you're designing the PCB like the Adafruit Feather series and adding the battery charger right on the board.
its really hard to bring a product to market, thats for sure. I know how your friend feels! I sat on this project for years!! I am so glad I decided to make it open sourced. The feeling of giving back and people loving the project is very fulfilling. :) Thanks for the kind words and the support!
This is a great project! Thank you for turning it open source. Have you considered using wheels from HotWheels cars? You can buy packs of 50 (or more) for cheap, and it wouldn't be that difficult to fit them into the electric motor chaft. Besides, you'd also steer away from resin printing.
Fun project! I love this sort of thing, I made a lot of arduino things a few years ago, mostly to do with rc planes and telemetry sensors, it really opened my eyes as to what we can do with these things.
Thank you. I originally wanted to share a long comment but that'd just be a fancy way of saying thanks. Can't wait to see your channel grow. No doubt you'll be back in a year with another cool kickstarter if you want, this time with an audience that will market for you!
Thanks so much!! I do not plan on having a kickstarter any time soon. If I can make a living one day making projects and sharing them with the world, oh man. thats a dream come true. I wish to expand my lab and to dedicate my full days to working on cool projects like this one. for now, its only a night time and weekend ordeal! one day -- I hope! Thanks so much for your support!
@@az6433 Oh I guess I should have asked which pick-and-place it was but I ended up on an adventure looking at home options and ultimately that's a bit outside of my current price range. I mean I'm not facing that kind of bottleneck anyway but it would have been neat to have.
if you stuck a fan on it you could get it to stick to and travel on walls and ceilings. and you have an insect/spider that can travel anywhere. thanks for these ideas - we will have to build one!
Cool project! I was in very similar position with iot for beekeepers 10 years ago where product was selling in too low numbers to keep the company running so I closed it and moved to different topics. Now I am working on it as hobby to prepare it for open sourcing with updated main mcu and other components.
that much of a dedication and work for a youtube video and still getting 8.8k subs and 120k views in two days thats not fair. subscribed, liked and turn the notifications on . man i need more content like this. love it.
good thing you open sourced it because otherwise it would have been a total waste... I don't see any commercial value in this, but huge value in dev community
Hey, this is an amazing project! The fact that is open source is even better! Also, your video y definitely underrated and deserve much more subs. Well done!!!
I would have 100% thought that this was a huge channel I somehow missed if it weren't for the other comments giving the truth away. I'm happy I found you as soon as I did, especially considering that you're definitely going to blow up if you maintain this level of quality. My mind is already racing with additions that the open sorce community could make. Such as a finish line/lap counter, ofcorce custom shells, and a way for the cars to communicate with and locate each other for combat, kinda like in anki overdrive. I definitely plan to keep up with this project in the future. Thanks for making this project opes source.
thanks so much! I am humbled by how positive the community has been! i never expected this to blow up this much! and yes! I am super excited to see where others take this. super fun
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you have my unfailing respect for open sourcing it. I want this to be the norm for eol projects in some form or another.
thank you! I want to give back to the world at this point. I have hoarded so many projects I made over the last 15 years! I am going to be remaking a lot of them and open sourcing with a video like this one :) I do wish a lot more projects out there were open sourced, especially at end of life!
I agree! Let's pump the algo with more comments. This dude deserves so many more subs!
kickstarters are not real, its just a way to promote a product and channel a lot of your own funds disguised as money from a lot of people supposedly interested, also even with a lot of your own funds your kickstarter will probably get zero page visits if not advertised in many other media
I want the same to be legislated for commercial products - as epitomised by the many devices that get bricked by the manufacturers when they stop supporting them.
@@stuckatprototypebetter host it on codeberg
Dude just pulled out 3d design, embedded design, and Machine learning into just one project. That take 3 engineering degree. Great Work bro.
To be fair as a data scientist you no longer need a degree to do ML. Plenty of smart high schoolers do ML projects now
Damn I thought you were some major diy tech channel but you are really underrated i need more of these videos
thank you!! I am making more, thanks for your support!
@@stuckatprototype This a fact that i went to the channel looking for more videos then saw that this was the first video then watched all the shorts
@@YashKumar-be9sz Thank you!!! that means a lot to me! I am glad you enjoyed my videos! I am making more :) Thanks for the support!
Not gonna lie. Exact same thing happened… Amazing work dude.
It's his first long form, and he has a big audience realitively speaking. Keep up the good quality video, and he'll make it.
What a kind move to open source your project. Failing to raise enough can hit you down, but having enough courage to improve the project before sending it is a real proof that you liked this one. I'm wishing you the best of luck for your future projects !
Much appreciated! Its humbling how well received this has been! thanks for the support!
@@stuckatprototypePlease, please, drop the LOUD repetitive music, it's infuriating!!! 👺
8:33 😮😂@@stuckatprototype
Wow ! It's great! You people who are open-sourcing "anything" are literally contributing to humankind.......... ☺
Totally agree with that! Open source has a lot to do with the progress we've made in the last 20-25 years. ut at the same time, creators and inventors need to be rewarded too.
A new electronics tech channel is born! I can’t wait to see what awesome projects you make 😁
thank you! I have a lot planned! next one will be the one that wins the vote in the community post :)
@@stuckatprototype Can't wait to check out your next video! Just don't stop making
Neural network to map RGB to 3 actions seems just a tiny bit excessive XD but the rest of the project is nicely executed. Well done sir
IMHO it is overkill here. But for fun project it is okay while you have fun)
Thats what I was thinking 😂
I think the optimal strategy would have been to write a distance function on color space(a^2+b^2+c^2), iterate over all known actions in a (color, action) map, and see which has the smallest distance (within some margin of error).
@@SwiftyTheSword94 agreed. Or instead of color space (which I assume still means RGB ? ) convert to HSV so you can empirically play with the relative importance of Hue / Saturation / Value in the "error" function.
But at least he gets to slap AI on the box and ask for multi-million dollar VC funds. 🤣
I think both of your replies are still too complicated. The color sensor already indicates RGB. High values = white, low values = black, green is significantly higher than the other two = green. So it just becomes a simple switch/if-else statement.
Awesome idea! Bring back an updated Kickstarter version as well!! I’d love to just buy like a 4 pack with some hazards and barriers and still be able to 3D print car bodies and other obstacles!
Please, please reconsider making these as kits! Despite some
Reasonable technical skills, sourcing all the components and making the pcbs is a step too far
Absolutely nobody needs a new app. I am, however, very in need of a nap.
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hahaha while I don't like naps, I do need some sleep one of these days ;) thanks for the support! I am glad you liked it!
Please just keep on doing more of this, your first video is top notch. Not a fan of the repetitive background music choice, though, but it's such a minor detail when you got almost everything right from the start. Looking forward to your next one.
thanks for the feedback and thanks for subscribing!! I need to work on the audio, thats what I am going to improve in the next one. Thanks again!! :)
I agree. The video was great but the music got pretty repetitive, but I'm sure you'll fix that over time. Subscribed 😁
criminally underrated video
The projects seems so cool!!
I suggest to sell a ready made version of this to people who wanna try this but don't wanna go through the hassle of soldering PCBs and all that stuff.
Thank you! Haha I could but turning it into an entire product is a different beast. I could potentially offer PCBs. Hey! If there is enough demand :) glad you liked it! And thanks for the kind words
Depending on the price I'd be very likely to buy at least two pcbs. @@stuckatprototype
There are companies in China that can crank out those cases and car parts real easy. They can machine the plastic injection mold need at a super low cost.
@@stuckatprototype My late dad started his 40 year electronics career by using the Bell & Howell kits in the 60's and early 70's. You built your own test equipment as lessons then used those built kits in learning how to design and troubleshoot components. He retired from GE Transportation Systems in 1992 after 30 years of working there.
@@stuckatprototype Would you be able to sell kits with the battery motors pcb and maybe 3d printed parts?
Have you considered making a 3d printed wheel with a groove and putting a small O-Ring onto it? You would have a nice rubber surface that is probably quite round. Also more grip then just harder plastics.
Everyone can get O rings and they would allow for more common printing techniques for the wheels!
thats an awesome idea! I actually did the opposite, I made the groove on the outside. i.e. for a tire that can wrap around it and I put clear heat shrink over it! its not clear in this video, but its on the back wheels :)
@@stuckatprototype I was thinking of maybe using lego wheels since I don't have an SLA printer. Would that be possible?
I would think some wheels from "Hot Wheels" toys would be simpler. There must be a ready source of replacement ones for people restoring old ones.
@@aspzx Depending on your filament printer it should work, too. Espacially with a smaller nozzle like 0.2 or 0.1mm
I give it a try with my bambu x1c and a 0.4mm nozzle tomorrow. I found a great profile for small details with which they should work
It was great idea to open source it! After first minutes I had great hope I could recreate it... my dreams failed seeing such a great park of machines behind (even though you could simplify few things here and there - like wheels. take these failed PLA prints and put a rubber gaskets on it. hint: driller + sanding paper).
Now is the time you kickstart it!
According to these people you were at 300 only 13 HOURS AGO??? You need to be WAY higher!! Theres no way you're below MINIMUM 750k. Subscribed!!
The support has been incredible! I am glad you enjoyed the video! Thanks for subscribing!
over 13.000 now - its incredible!
@@PixelSheep 26k subs after 2 weeks
For some reason youtube is recommending me random chanels with 300-400 subs and looking at their peoduction quality it looks like it should be atleast 1M +
Is youtube glitching or this guy really have 375 subs ?
Im at my humble beginning! Glad you like it!! Thanks!!
well the number of subs doubled just two hours later. So i guess he will get there if he has a few more kickstarters to opensource, up his sleve
Same here, subscribed right away, this should be higher! :)
@@fridolineckerd6135 😂while I dont have any more kickstarters to open source, I have a ton of cool projects that I am going to be making videos on! its been a wild day! unreal how well this video is doing
@@JevKuznetsov thank you!! :)
Offering your project as open source demonstrates great generosity on your part. Congradulations on your gesture; it has earned you a new member and close follower for your channel. 👍
This is brilliant:
AI Neural Network
But I love this:
switch (colour_sensor_state) {
case Sensor_Reads_Green:
Make_car_Spin();
break;
case Sensor_Reads_White:
Make_car_go_Fast();
break;
case Sensor_Reads_Black:
Make_car_go_Slow();
break;
Well pointed out!! 😆 I hate the BS Hype use of the term "AI" lol
i think its for getting the color input kinda right. never programmed a color sensor, but my guess would be that changing light situations and color saturations are a nightmare to get correctly detected.
@@stevenrichman7101 yes but you can get some ranges, specially if the colors are very different from each other.
Even though I probably won't make one myself, I appreciate your open-sourcing it. I wish this would become the norm rather than an outlier.
thank you! I am glad you like it. and thanks for subscribing!
This man went from
He's at 17k now
It was a wild ride for sure! and everyone has been super supportive. Thanks!!
All failing projects deserve to go open-source. You have my respect!
Those kids are sure lucky to have a dad like you. Thanks for your creations and hardworks!
Thank you so much for the kind words!
@@stuckatprototype You are missing one important feature: RGB leds in the top shell of the car *AND* the controller. Why? So that each player can use the buttons on the controller to set their controller and car colour to tell them apart when a half-dozen are racing around.
...and you should binge on 'micro rc' build videos. Those folks can get up to some pretty crazy stuff. One neat trick to making tires that they use is to clamp an o-ring on a nut & bolt, then chuck it on a drill and run it against an emery board to shape the o-ring into a proper tire.
Cheers!
most of the college goes just bluntly do their course for a degree without realizing its depth, instead of fearing over AI taking their job people should be focus more on making cool fun projects. your channel is a great motivation for those who want to do it for projects.
your kickstarter may have failed but your inspiration continues to grow! Awsome project
Thank you so much! I am glad you liked it! and thank you for the kind words!
you can use "fuse holder" soldered directly on the PCB so the motor can clip into them. So no need of 3D printed part! Check this one for example FC-203 BRIGHT TIN
But then you're applying torque directly to the PCB.
@@svgPhoenix I do not understand your concern? Torque will be apply no matter the mechanical device holding the motors. If you are concerned about mechanical stress on the PCB components we should not be building RC cars for kids that bumps into things 😅😆
The little motors have very little torque. With a big enough solder pad, they will hold just fine. However, I suspect the longevity will suffer
if you want to make it at least partial kids safe you would need some kind of enclosure anyway, so those holders don't make much of a difference. I guess you could use heatwrap or something similar but than you would need to do cutouts after
@@ized88 the idea of fuse holder is about ease of manufacturing. There is no need of 3D printer. You receive the PCB assembled. Then clip the motors.
I'm a software engineer with a bit over 20 years experience. I would like to jump into electronics as a hobby, I bought myself a home lab for that ex: hako soldering station, a quick 861DW and some flux / solder. I have a bit of arduino experience play but it stops there. I hope to learn a lot from this channel. ** Subscribed **
nice!!! welcome to the embedded world!! I hope you get a lot of value from the project! I highly recommend getting on an ESP32, they are super fun and super cool to work with! Thanks for the support!
I'm a software guy as well but there's something deeply satisfying about building hardware. The ESP32 is a great chip to get started.
Absolutely respect your creation and open-sourcing of it.
thank you for making this open source! for the many who don't have a 3D printer, or PCB building skills, it would be great if you can have your own store and sell kits! pre-assembled or for assembly...
I am glad this project is able to see the light of day again :) for now no plan for kits, but I am working on updating the necessary bill of materials, etc. that way anyone can make it! thanks!
Dude your skill set is stacked. I'm so glad I got here at the start of your channel. Can't wait to see where you take it!
thank you!!! I cannot believe how positive the response has been, I have so many fun projects planned. I cannot wait to share them!
Great project! Thank you for taking the time to open-source it, while also improving on your previous work. This would be a great setup to have at home and play with friends.
thanks for the support! I am glad you liked it!
Once your kids grow older, they will love you even more for going through all this to make them smile :)
Really cool project! Its so cool to see creators with small followinga demonstrating such high production quality.
The only nitpick I'd recommend would be the sound mastering. Tone down the music and SFX slightly, and we'll be able to focus on your awesome content better
thanks for the advice! thats actually something I have been trying to learn. 90% of editing is sound design! Will do for the next video! cheers! :)
You could have made this into a mini series with episodes of each part, the wins, the struggles. I would have watched everyone. I still crave more on each part right now. Man you're a genius and I'm glad you are sharing your work. thanks and looking forward to future videos. Subscribed
This would be awesome for the hobby train crowd, having micro automated cars
I have an n-scale model rail road. its slightly visible in the shots when making the car :) and I have thought about it! maybe one day ill venture that path again
3 idea for videos
1. An extended version of this one, with details on pcb, etc.
2. Your home pcb machine, pro and cons with examples.
3. Use and example of 1 pixel color sensors.
thanks for the ideas! :)
@@stuckatprototype Yes curious about the home pick and place
Legendary youtube channel in the making. I'm here for it!
thank you!!! I am at my humble beginnings :) this means a lot to me!
Thank you very much to putting so much effort into a failed project to give it a second life and hopefully much joy for all the great and small kids! ;)
What I'd like to see is a way to buy the ready PCBs for the car and the remote so i could tinker around with only modeling some funny car tops to print on my printer or programming some logic for funny gameplay.
I hope to see some more things going n on this funny project!
Greetings!
Super impressive! Love the creativity of using magnetic sensors and color sensor to make it more fun!
thank you!! I love to spice things up a bit, this one was a fun one for sure! :) glad you liked it!
Commenting because I want the algorithm to show me more things like this.
Creative, productive, techie. Very cool!!!
Somehow, the scamming kickstarter raise the huge fund and the real ones don't
i suck at marketing! but thats ok :) thanks for watching!
@@stuckatprototype I think maybe it's the Kickstarter system false
Because they promise the impossible and real engineers don't , it needs a special breed of marketing people to do that level of deceptive marketing
@@awdhootkanawade true! there have been a few examples in the tech space lately.. but that's a different story!
@@stuckatprototype somehow we need to open source the marketing too
Awesome project! Imagine adding a tiny camera to this car and having a vision through fpv goggles. It would be a hell of a multiplayer racing game!
Also the colour detection and actions based on that is great! I would recommend cutting them in shapes more relevant to what function they provide. The oil splash is already a perfect shape for slow down, but for boosters maybe cut it is double forward arrow shape and ring shape for the spin-out green, so that the players can clearly visualize what they are running over :)
The spinout green is looking like 3 green bananas with too little details :)
But yeah for boost i would go yellow arrows or red flames, too
super cool. I hope you get a million views. Thanks for sharing this! I want to make some for my family!
I really appreciate that! I hope you enjoy it! and if you make it I hope you share it :)
This is the internet made for! You sir deserve high praise for the quality of your work!
Thanks, I really appreciate it! :)
Awesome project, thank you for open sourcing it!
You might be able to print the wheels using FDM with a 0.2mm nozzle
thanks for the support!! the biggest problem with my printer is the precision. the circle was more of a octagon! one day, if I am able to make money from this I will be pouring it all into my lab! I have so many cool ideas I want to make, I cannot wait to share them!
you probably could get it working with an 0.4 on a good printer like an bambu.
Espacially if the wheels get modified to take o rings, than it wouldn't even matter if it isn't 100% round :)
ESP32?? That's a win, thank you so much for open sourcing this, you are a hero good Ser!!
tbh i missed the kickstart and i'm sorry about that, i would have backed, even with the old microcontroller, also i love the PCB.
Thank you so much! I am glad you liked it!
Wow, what black belt skills you have, I would love to see a video about your production/prototype setup. Seems like you got everything very well selected.
Thanks so much! I am going to make some more shorts about my lab, so much to show and tell. I have been slowly building it up over the last 15 years :)
Thank you so much for open sourcing this wonderful project, you've earned my subscription.
I am glad you like it and thanks for your support!
form ~400 to 4.64k subs in 14 hours your flying up, grate project man!
up to 4.7k after I reloaded the page...
Thanks! It's been amazing to see the response. :)
You could have sold it to hot wheels.
But genuinely a great project. This shows not only you are a great engineer but an awesome loving dad. You did for fun that's so nice.
Thank you! I am glad you liked it!
Dude where have you been hiding, I love your content and style!
I was playing the most extreme game of hide and seek hahaha. thanks so much for the support!!
Awesome video find. You nailed this on so many levels. Best of luck with your projects and campaigns dude.
Thank you! :)
What a cool project! You should submit it to the OSHwA directory
I didnt think about this. Love it! I will! glad you like it!
oh my god, this is amazing. It reminds me sooooo much of the old MicroSizers. Thanks for sharing this great project with us! Imagine it had little swappable motors like the MicroSizers did.
Your channel name speaks to my soul :D
thank you!!! love this, and makes me want to keep going more than ever!
I really love following prototyping channels like stuffmadehere and Mark rober. This project and channel has similar potential. I hope people realize the enormous time and money put into this project AND the fact that you on top of this effort place such potent and fun project in open source is just super cool. Also really like the channel name.
Thanks so much for the super kind words! I’m humbled how well this has been received!
trust me man, soon in less than a month you will have more than 1k follower. You are so underrated
oh man, this is like a dream come true. I didn't expect this video to blow up the way its going. thanks so much for the support!
Give it a few days not a month
@@_Miner *hours
nice. It would have helped to have shown the segment @11:10 at the beginning of the video. I had no idea the entire time what differentiated this rc toy car from the hundreds of other similar ones out there.
Thats a fair point! thanks for the tip!! :)
Major major respect for open sourcing, this is amazing
thank you!!! it actually took a lot of weight off my shoulders! Its now finally after a long time a success instead of a failure! :)
This is AMAZING. Dude, you're criminally undersubscribed. I thought you had at LEAST 60k subscribers with the quality of video and topic.
Make it big, I'm on board for this!
Thanks so much! it means a lot to me! I am super excited with the way its going, I absolutely did not think I would be getting this much attention. Thanks so much for your support!
Subscribed thank you very much sir for outsourcing this fun project ❤ I appreciate your time spent on it
Cheers from Saudi
Nice but using a neural network for colour classification is such an overkill. There are existing metrics that would give optimal results.
100% overkill and you are right! It was really fun to learn though!
eh, it depends how you define optimal, the neural network lets you adjust what color it's working on without editing any code, by training it in the environment you plan to use it in, so that instead of looking for an estimated color you programmed it to look for, it's looking for a color it found in the environment
@@d3str0i3r the definition of optimal is unique. There is a direct formula for it. You can adjust it for your colours more easily than you would adjust the network.
Awesome engineering effort (prologue, requirements, simplifying, doing) with full marks for the video editing! A supercut of designing the board schematics or layout could be useful. You surely remember those labors, but for the viewer it's like you made a list of requirements and then the boards magically materialized. Not so simple in reality ;)
Thanks, I appreciate the feedback on the editing and I totally agree that a schematic and layout timelapse would have been cool. I’ll throw in snippets for the next video :)
I am confused on what the purpose of the AI is for detecting the different colors? Could this not have been achieved with basic color thresholding, perhaps even YCbCr?
Yeah i though the same, something like a conversion from RGB to HSV (where Hue is the only wanted value)
Lighting conditions!
Even with lighting conditions you can adjust the lookup based on light detected outside a magnetic area. Okay and even if there were a neural net there it has three scalar inputs and a max of what like 5 perceptions max? lol. Whatevs still a really cool project 😀
This would be a perfect place to just use the euclidean distance. There are even already some nice arduino libraries for it
yes! definitely could! but it was a really good excuse to learn more about neural networks! :) for the kickstarter, I had a simple range checking, problem came down to lighting. but definitely could have used a different approach! this approach was a bit more fun ;) plus... I like to complicate my life haha
dude thank you so much for make it safe for kids, i will create this awesome project with my son
Cool!
Eagerly waiting for your next project!
Thank you so much! I have really cool plans for next project :)
I can't believe the quality of the video, the technology discussed, and the opensourcing of the files. You deserve a lot of subs. Subscribed!
thanks so much!! and thanks for subscribing!
3:15 My pkcell...
🔋
This is incredible, thank you for open sourcing! Could be a stand alone product of its own
Can you sell the kit?
cool that youre open sourcing it. in turn this could be a opportunity for local 3D Print enthusiasts to sell to fund their hobby which could bring a bunch of projects down the road
I watched it all thinking "why haven't I seen his videos before?". Like everybody else, I'm surprised about your production quality
thanks so much!!! oh man, and to think that I almost didnt post this. I am glad you liked it! and thanks for the kind words, it means a lot to me!
@@stuckatprototype keep up the good work:)
Its a really, really good video. One thing thought. You should mention what the project actually is. If you would have said the one scentence, which is in the descrition box it would have helped to understand what this is all about....
Looks interesting. I'd like to get started by building one or two for myself, but I'm having difficulties figuring out the exact parts to order. For example, what is the part number for the motors? A complete Bill_Of_Materials/Parts_List would be useful. Also, consider providing as a PCBWay project. That way I can easily order bare boards or partially assembled boards. I'd also be able to select an option where the author gets 10%.
I'm also stuck on which exact parts to order, Seems like it'd make most sense to make 5 right? as that's usually the amount of pcb's you get when ordering?
I added a bom :) also that’s a really good idea. I’ll look into it!
I would have said it was more like Super Sprint than Mario Kart. But I'm old and many people don't know what Super Sprint is.
Great video. Keep up the good work.
thanks!!
Reminds me a little of Zip Zaps
haha yes! those were fun
Love this, my recommendation is to ad wireless charging like f zero racing. Keep up the amazing work!
Magnetic switch is divine inspiration
the mighty magnet! :)
RUclips recommended this channel and with 13.3k subs at the time of writing, to know this is your first video is amazing, great content keep it up bud. Earned a sub from me ❤️
Thanks and welcome
This guy is such a gigachad for open sourcing this. You dropped this, king. 👑
A friend/colleague and I have been talking about the problems around indie product development. If the product is valuable and marketable, it's expensive to try to make a living off of it, whether it's selling them to people or getting a patent on it, and you have to sell as many as you can before someone in China steals the design, mass produces it, and sells it for pennies on the dollar on Amazon or eBay.
Unfortunately she doesn't have much faith in open sourcing a project when the business viability isn't there, though I do understand where she's coming from with that. So I applaud your innovation and your willingness to give back to the community.
Love the design BTW. I have some bad memories of trying to develop a BLE app in Android, but I'm sure you've done a way better job at this than I have. Also love that you're designing the PCB like the Adafruit Feather series and adding the battery charger right on the board.
its really hard to bring a product to market, thats for sure. I know how your friend feels! I sat on this project for years!! I am so glad I decided to make it open sourced. The feeling of giving back and people loving the project is very fulfilling. :) Thanks for the kind words and the support!
You can do it
Thank you!!!
This is a great project! Thank you for turning it open source. Have you considered using wheels from HotWheels cars? You can buy packs of 50 (or more) for cheap, and it wouldn't be that difficult to fit them into the electric motor chaft. Besides, you'd also steer away from resin printing.
I look your video over 1:30 and still don't know what's your project about. Would be cool if you could give and introduction.
did you read the description?
Very interesting and innovative project. For the video review: do your best to divide the pros & cons.
please somebody make the same but for hotwheels body.
Fun project!
I love this sort of thing,
I made a lot of arduino things a few years ago, mostly to do with rc planes and telemetry sensors, it really opened my eyes as to what we can do with these things.
Hey man what's that pick n place machine you've got there 1:00?
CHM-T36 :)
@@stuckatprototype Why this random Chinese creation instead of some open source machine.
Thank you.
I originally wanted to share a long comment but that'd just be a fancy way of saying thanks.
Can't wait to see your channel grow. No doubt you'll be back in a year with another cool kickstarter if you want, this time with an audience that will market for you!
Thanks so much!! I do not plan on having a kickstarter any time soon. If I can make a living one day making projects and sharing them with the world, oh man. thats a dream come true. I wish to expand my lab and to dedicate my full days to working on cool projects like this one. for now, its only a night time and weekend ordeal! one day -- I hope! Thanks so much for your support!
What is that machine at 0:36?
Pick-and-place robot that places all the small components on the PCB.
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@@az6433 Oh I guess I should have asked which pick-and-place it was but I ended up on an adventure looking at home options and ultimately that's a bit outside of my current price range. I mean I'm not facing that kind of bottleneck anyway but it would have been neat to have.
There are ways/options for P&P that are cheaper but still helpful, like little vacuum tools and vacuum tools on a gantry
Looked at Lumen PNP? Or is it called Opulo now? Not 100% sure. @@FlakAttack0
if you stuck a fan on it you could get it to stick to and travel on walls and ceilings. and you have an insect/spider that can travel anywhere. thanks for these ideas - we will have to build one!
Cool project!
I was in very similar position with iot for beekeepers 10 years ago where product was selling in too low numbers to keep the company running so I closed it and moved to different topics. Now I am working on it as hobby to prepare it for open sourcing with updated main mcu and other components.
Thats amazing! whats the project? do you mind sharing?
man i really hope this kind of projects get a lot of support.
Wow! The sound design is so good, I would be apalled if you told me you just put it in the background start to end on loop. Great first video!
Fantastic project!! Thanks for sharing with us. This has got the creative juices flowing, my grandson is going to be gobsmacked.
I'm glad you enjoyed it; that's the purpose of this video! :)
that much of a dedication and work for a youtube video and still getting 8.8k subs and 120k views in two days thats not fair. subscribed, liked and turn the notifications on . man i need more content like this. love it.
thanks so much!!! I honestly never expected it to do this well! Its been a wild ride. Thanks so much for your support!
@@stuckatprototype keep working someday everything will be returned more than you effort.
Terrific project ! Well done. Crazy that you've got your own pick & place machine indeed !
good thing you open sourced it because otherwise it would have been a total waste... I don't see any commercial value in this, but huge value in dev community
Hey, this is an amazing project! The fact that is open source is even better! Also, your video y definitely underrated and deserve much more subs. Well done!!!
Thank you so much! that means a lot. I never expected this to blow up this much!
I would have 100% thought that this was a huge channel I somehow missed if it weren't for the other comments giving the truth away. I'm happy I found you as soon as I did, especially considering that you're definitely going to blow up if you maintain this level of quality. My mind is already racing with additions that the open sorce community could make. Such as a finish line/lap counter, ofcorce custom shells, and a way for the cars to communicate with and locate each other for combat, kinda like in anki overdrive. I definitely plan to keep up with this project in the future. Thanks for making this project opes source.
thanks so much! I am humbled by how positive the community has been! i never expected this to blow up this much! and yes! I am super excited to see where others take this. super fun
Really cool project and fantastic presentation. I am so sorry to hear that it failed with Kick starter. You are exceptional!!
Thank you! I'm glad you like it! It's been an awesome journey! Thanks for your support :)
You are on the good side of modern inventions…have everything I can give you: my time, effort, a like and sub. Hope to see great things!
Appreciate the support!