@LukasDeem I know it takes a lot of dedication to finish a project like this, so as the creator of the original design, I'm really happy someone takes on the challenge. In the end that's why I shared the design.
Hi, I've been following videos on DIY Rover and I made a car myself. wildwillyrobots' car is very good and its design is beautiful. I noticed that a long time ago. But I think it has a defect, the axle of the wheel passes through the rocker arm and is connected with the steering gear fixed in the rocker arm, which makes me doubt its strength, after all, this is 3D printed, I want this car to have a certain strength, I wonder if you have any ideas on this aspect during the development process?
@@evesgf I think you are referring to the part at 4-25 in the assembly video ruclips.net/video/bXdt8hng2WM/видео.html It has a screw all the way to give it strength. The nut for the gear screw is below the head of the long screw (video 4-09), to avoid the top breaking of the part.
@@wildwillyrobots I have carefully reviewed the video and downloaded the STL file for assembly observation, and I think there are still some strength problems, but this is what I think, so I decided to make a part for testing. Anyway, thank you very much for your reply
Wow! Seriously thank you so much! I put a lot of work into these videos. I work full time and I'm a grad student. So it takes a lot for me to get these done. Comments like your help me maintain my motivation 🙂🙂🙂
MAN, the algorithm has been bringing some good stuff recently. Really love how many creators are starting to use their own original music. Absolute banger video!
Great Project! A few tricks on the DC-DC converters... For the servos, look into a BEC for an RC plane. Much smaller than the the DC-DC you used. For the Brushed DC motors, the voltage isn't the problem, it's the current. If you set the max current limit to below the max the motors can take, they can "Run at any voltage" (as the H-Bridge will protect them.) Also, you can just run the bridges off full voltage, but limit the max PWM to 50%, for half voltage. (The current limit would be another level of protection.) Last, look into Conformal Coating for all your PCB boards to make them water proof-ish. Dialetric grease in all the connectors (LOTS OF IT) is your friend.
I've had someone mention BEC before, I need to do some research on it. I would love to find ways to make my next project like this somewhat waterproof! Thanks for the ideas!
I am a computer science instructor at a small community college. We have started building this rover using your bill of materials. We are at the planning and purchasing stage. The students are excited about building this. Thanks for the BOM and code.
I cannot express, how much I love this video. As a CS student and future Space Engineer this video encouraged me to don't stop when it feels like is terribly hard/difficult. I know everything is possible, and your project demonstrates me this once more. Well Done!!! 👏
This is great man! I can totally relate to your excitement when it was finally driving around! Super cool! Looking forward to seeing more. Keep up the great work! I agree with others, the music is friggin fantastic.
Hey thanks so much! What this video didn't capture is the two months of struggles that I went through to get that thing working lol. I'm sure you can sympathize 😂😂. Thanks for the thoughtful comment ♥️
@@LukasDeemdude. The victory wouldnt be as sweet without it! Right?! Haha the Portal vibes with the tunes are inescapable. 😂. I wish I still had my podcast as I'd totally want to get you on there and talk shop! 😂
Hey, I'm a high school student who's an expert at designing robots and rockets. I strongly suggest that you take on a fin-guided rocket project, which I can help you with by providing the code and CAD. Trust me, it will be a challenging and rewarding project.
Hey, I'm a general multi-language developer and would love to learn more about the algorithms of these fields. Any open-source links to these type of projects would be gr8 to review and study the algorithm
Great tutorial! I'm a beginner in robotics and this video helped me understand how to integrate Raspberry Pi and Arduino. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
I'm about 30 seconds in and subscribed! I've been working on robots for fun for years now but never done a serious project like this. I also love all of the Mars rover footage (one of the two things that got me into tech and robotics in the first place), so I'm excited to see the rest of this!
Maaan this was soo cool!! As a recent Robotics engineering graduate, I think you're already an engineer even though you don't consider yourself as one yet.
I was just making my first thoughts of my first project and I saw this video you made and all I can say is you've just blown my mind the only thing I need to learn now is 3-D printing
I think the custom song is great. The only other person who does anything like this is RCtestflight. He has a friend who makes the songs for his channel. This video is great.
The RCtestflight ones are very tongue in cheek, all of these are super on the nose. I like them! Some unsolicited constructive criticism though, maybe not make nearly every (outside of narration) song one of the custom ones, just have some that are wordless beats.
Also, maybe in the future pick one or two genres of music to stick to that fits with the theme of the video, hopping around different kinds of music is... I dunno weird, not really bad, but it does not have as much flow between cuts when it switches up temp etc.
I was trying to gather details but there were not such videos related to how to make rover yours is a walllaaaaahhh loved it thankyou so much will try it now
What a fantastic production! Your presentation was professional level... The project was interesting... You had to 'learn as you went', and we learnt too... The pace was perfect... There was an element of suspense... We shared in your elation with the successes, and the pain of the failures... AND... The custom music soundtrack was out of this world! Congratulations, and thank you so much... Liked and Subscribed - looking forward to more of the same.
Wow! As an aspiring RUclips creator this is the best comment I could receive. I really appreciate your kind words. I'm doing this projects while working full time and going to grad school. Sometimes it's hard to find the motivation, so comments like these can really give me a boost! Thank you!
damn that's so cool, great job man. you can use a PCB printing service to put your microcontroller, buck converter and PWM controllers all on the same board. might be cool to add some hall-effect sensors to calibrate your motors, the problem with awesome projects like this is they never end, you're on to the next version once you're "done" :)
Thank you so much for sharing! my freind gave me his old Swampy Rover and i've fixed it up, but now i want to make a robot myself. You've given me hope
@@LukasDeem not sure if You Tubewill let me do this but.,.. this is the old one after I fixed it . But yes, I will! thank you ruclips.net/user/shortsit0jKVa3QGg?si=ZkBH18MvBxmeNVQ-
@@deanallenjones you delivered!! I think it's hilarious that in my video the test was going over a block of wood and in yours it was going over a brick lol 🤣🤣
You would likely have better results with a 2S lipo battery. I know the motors say 6 V but they would be fine with the 7-8.4 V of a 2S lipo, especially if you limit the PWM duty cycle. That way you could get rid of the large buck converter. You can also get smaller motor drivers and since your motors are quite small and have gearboxes you shouldn’t need much current anyway. Edit: piling the electronics in, even just for testing is how you end up with a short. Also you shouldn’t need the router, the pi should be able to create its own wifi network that you can connect the laptop too. Overall it is a good project.
Totally agree and this was quite the learning experience for me including these comments 😁. So the whole reason that I did the router in the first place was because I wanted to give control to people over the internet. I was actually able to get that working but the latency was pretty bad so I didn't include it in the video 😅
@@LukasDeem people controlling it over the internet is definitely interesting, I have seen it done once before on reddit where someone had built some robots and a website for them for people to take turns controlling them but i don't think it was that great either. In regards to latency the latency over just a local network isn't great either. Maybe the pi isn't powerful enough to handle the video streaming although it probably should be. Was it a pi zero or pi zero 2? Did you compress the video? Either that or lowering the resolution could help. Maybe doing it as a website is just adding too much overhead, I wonder if creating a non website GUI that runs on the laptop and just streaming the video to it instead could help. It is quite a steep learning curve to get into robotics and there isn't a definitive right way to do things either. For a first robotics project this was definitely a good and well made project. I'm very interested to see what you make next.
As an aspired robotic engineer, I love this so much especially the designs, wireless controls and also the music🤩. If it is possible could we work together on the next project of yours. I noticed you faced issues with space. I could handle the PCB designing part of the next upcoming project so we get rid of those cables flying around. I will be glad to connect with you. I love working on real world problems.
Never seen this channel before,i think youtube is wildly recommending this vedio,The number of veiw of this vedio is going to sky 🚀. Anyway i like the each theme song of each section,made it something unique.
Hey! Instead of suing buck converter to drop down the voltage to 6v, you could lover max duty cycle of the pwm signals coming to h-bridge to 50%.. this would essentially result in the same voltage drop :) you could also drop the arduino entirely and use something like adafruit 16 channel PWM/Servo controller that also connects with i2c, but it's far easier to manage (as it's doesn't need separate arduino code). these both improvements would get you much much space to work with under the hood :) Besides that! cool one!!
Hey! I need to look more into this idea of lowering the duty cycle. I actually have extra pwm servo boards lying around, I didn't even think of that. I think I wanted to use the Arduino to off board some of the logic required to run the motors.
Why not put a WiFi router on board. Optimise you gui website for mobile and then serve the ui form the pi. Connect your phone to the WiFi on the robot and it’s a controller
Suggestion You could add led to know standby , boot up and off mode Power button would be better outside And probably a charge port too Have you considered RF,I'd like to see that too
This is very cool. Have you already tried using a PS4 controller to maneuver the rover? That simplifies the steering and opens up opportunities for more features like toggling in thermal or infrared imaging. There are a lot of cool things to do with a project like this. I wish I had seen this video sooner!
It would have been great if you had made a separate video detailing the electronic and power sub-assemblies. Are you connecting the battery to a terminal block to feed power to all the different components? Radio communication would be more efficient than wireless-a future upgrade--?? Nice work!
Well the reason I used Wi-Fi is because I originally wanted to set this up so that somebody could control it remotely over the internet. I actually did get that working but because of the latency I had I decided not to use it in the video. As for the power supply I soldered everything to a small prototyping board to distribute the power to all the motors. Probably not the best way to do it but it worked 🤷♂️
@@phaniraja9104 thanks for the reply. When I make these videos I struggle to decide how detailed to get. I've even considered having a short video and then the long in depth videos. 😃
Not sure what you've set the voltage in the step down converter to, but keep in mind, that with the bipolar transistors on the L298Ns H-Bridges you get a voltage drop of about 1.4V, so you might get a little more power out of your motors by increasing the voltage of the stepdown converter to 7.4V, in order to give the motors 6V, if you've not already done that. You could also check the voltage drop by measuring the voltage on one of the Outputs of your Motordrivers on fullspeed
Hey so yeah and some of my first outdoor test I saw that it was going super slow and I knew that I needed to up the voltage. I ended up bumping it up to 7.1v thanks for the tip on how to measure the output voltage I think I need to go back and do that and see what I'm actually getting at the output of the motor drivers.
@@LukasDeem if you have the option to measure the motors voltage with an osziloscope you can even measure it at any pwm setting, as you can read the voltage during the on time.depending on the load you can actually go a bit higher than the rated voltage as well, but therefore you should measure the current through the motors under load to have a reference. You dont want the motor to get to hot
Hey thanks! Hopefully you have better luck figuring out how to power that clock than I did 😅😅. I would suggest you read through the comments on that video there were tons of good suggestions on how to improve the design.
Cool tip you may want to know about is Windows comes with a cool SLT util called 3D Builder which allows you to modify STL. I use it all the time. Using 3D builder you can add the camera hole and more important add needed vents.
@@LukasDeem yeah same here. But for fast modifications it is really cool. As well, if any errors are found in the STL files, the util will fix them. Very fun and simple modification tool that all should have. I myself use it at times to simply add custom supports.
Thank god i've been into microcontrollers and IoT lately, I came across this wonderful gem of a channel as a result. How are you doing the songs? Are they original pieces? It's so funny to observe the background music. Had me do double takes so many times! 😂
Great video. This is great. Trouble is I have no 3D printer or CAD experience. I've messed around with Pi and Arduino but loose the plot with the programing. So My thinking is there is always a different way to do the same thing. 1: Big plastic box to hold components. 2: Married to an existing remote control vehicle. 3: For a camera I could use one of those cheaper WiFi security cameras. 4: learn CAD (FreeCad) to make some parts to marry to the control box. I did turn a wiper motor into a a servo with some grunt once, and controlled it by modifying a remote control unit from a cheap toy car. I, as they say am on the case. Thanks.
Great job with the rover and the music! I'm building a different version with the rocker-bogie design similar to yours except there are only 6 motors - the wheels don't turn like yours. I have to admit the coding is kicking my butt, good for you to get through that. I'm using an ESP32 camera module, Arduino Uno and laptop with a python client. The Serial communications between the Uno and ESP32 is the hardest part of the whole project so far.
Yeah i struggled with that part too with the pi and Arduino. I found out that I was scanning for the wrong serial address and that's what was preventing communication 🤣
I like that the shell is 3d printed but cant you use some sort of kit that makes the insides all pre assembled to make this evennmore easier and modular?
So I think for the electronics the best thing would be solid PCB but I haven't learned how to do that. Wild Willy included a design file called a Gerber file for a PCB but I don't even know how to use that yet 🤣🤣
Could you say a bit more about how you distributed the power supply? I understand that the Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and motors are powered by a Lipo Battery through a DC Buck Converter?
Yep so I use the buck converter to drop the voltage down to 6 volts. Then I took that output and tied it into a prototyping board where I just took over a power rail on the side of the prototyping board to distribute the 6 volts. I soldered the motor power wires directly to that power rail. I'm sure there's a bad a million ways to do this better but this is how I did it 🤣
Hi, Please help us to answer a few questions in regards to this video: 1: What was one of the requirements for the Rover project mentioned in the text? A. To use an Arduino Uno B. To integrate a camera C. To use a Raspberry Pi D. To have 8 wheels 2: Which software was used to sketch out the possible motions of the Rover? A. AutoCAD B. SolidWorks C. Figma D. Tinkercad 3: What was used to drop the voltage from 12 volts to 6 volts for the DC motors? A. Breadboard B. Buck converter C. H-Bridge driver D. Arduino Mega 4: What was the main challenge faced during the project according to the text? A. Coding the Python script B. Fitting all the electronics inside the Rover C. Assembling the wheels D. Testing the motors 5: Which component was accidentally damaged during the project? A. Arduino Mega B. Raspberry Pi Camera C. DC Motors D. H-Bridge Servo driver board 6: What was used for controlling the Rover over the web? A. HTML website B. Arduino Uno C. Raspberry Pi Camera D. Figma software 7: Which component allowed serial communication between the Raspberry Pi and Arduino Mega? A. Buck converter B. Raspberry Pi Camera C. SDA and SCL pins D. H-Bridge driver board 8: What was the purpose of the prototyping board in the Rover? A. To control the motors B. To solder power distribution C. To host the web server D. To connect the wheels 9: What was the final outcome of the outdoor test with the Rover? A. It did not work at all B. It worked perfectly with no issues C. There were some mishaps but it worked overall D. The Rover got damaged during the test 10: What was the main lesson learned from the Rover project according to the text? A. Always order extra parts B. Complex projects are not manageable C. Raspberry Pi is not suitable for robotics projects
Great project and great video! Any reason you went wifi instead of bluetooth? I imagine hooking up a BT controller would be easier than bringing a laptop and a router outside
Totally agree and it's something I want to do in the next one. The reason why I did it over the internet on this one was because I wanted to give remote control to someone who's not physically located nearby. I ended up cutting that from scope
Great project! I did a quick google and I found that you should be able to use your PC to host a wifi network much like if you've ever set up a wireless printer or something like that. So you shouldn't need to have to bring your router out into the field with you. Theoretically these instructions should work, good luck. For Windows 10/11: Open Settings -> Network & Internet -> Mobile hotspot. Toggle on Share my Internet connection with other devices. You can also customize the network name and password by clicking on the Edit button.
Scrap the massive 6V buck converter and power the motor driver directly from a 2S lipo or li-ion battery. You will only need a small 6V (maybe 3A) buck converter for the servo motors.
Just a question, would not sourcing 12v motors of similar rpm not have been easier than having the buck converter? It's pretty much just comes down to the windings arrangements inside the motor itself at the end of the day.. With using the increased voltage, your amp draw would be lowered also, so may even be able to get away with smaller H bridge boards.
Cool! Next up: Analogue controls (looks like everything's on/off now) and then, integration, a single board to rule it all :) PS: And LoRa(WAN), so that you can save some power and increase the transmission distance quite a bit
About the chosen hardware: Why didn't you use a standard arduino uno with the standard arduino motor modules (4 DC motors and a few servos per modules, and they are stackable, so two should be enough) And about the voltage: Why didn't you just max out the pwm signal as an alternative to use this big step down converter? (For example: you have 6V DC motors, but a 12 V DC power source: you can directly use the 12 V, if you limit the pwm to 50%. (or 24 V with 25% max pwm).The higher voltage doesn't harm and if the total energy is the same they don't burn/overheat. As long the difference don't get to crazy (like 3V to 48V) this should work very well.)
Honest truth is because I'm a beginner and I didn't know any of these things 🙃. This is exactly why I post this stuff on RUclips so that I can get comments like yours to help me learn, so thank you!😁
@LukasDeem I know it takes a lot of dedication to finish a project like this, so as the creator of the original design, I'm really happy someone takes on the challenge. In the end that's why I shared the design.
Hey! I'm honored that you saw my video. Thanks so much for sharing your design!
The point when everything thing looks right and nothing works right is the most frustrating 💔
Hi, I've been following videos on DIY Rover and I made a car myself. wildwillyrobots' car is very good and its design is beautiful. I noticed that a long time ago. But I think it has a defect, the axle of the wheel passes through the rocker arm and is connected with the steering gear fixed in the rocker arm, which makes me doubt its strength, after all, this is 3D printed, I want this car to have a certain strength, I wonder if you have any ideas on this aspect during the development process?
@@evesgf I think you are referring to the part at 4-25 in the assembly video ruclips.net/video/bXdt8hng2WM/видео.html It has a screw all the way to give it strength. The nut for the gear screw is below the head of the long screw (video 4-09), to avoid the top breaking of the part.
@@wildwillyrobots I have carefully reviewed the video and downloaded the STL file for assembly observation, and I think there are still some strength problems, but this is what I think, so I decided to make a part for testing. Anyway, thank you very much for your reply
As an engineering student, watching this was a joy!
Ayyy! I think you are my target audience lol 🤣.
Which type of Engineer you are?
@@LukasDeem Can you mass produce that, or make it a kit or something? I'm sure there's a ton of people who would love to get one
The music was so spot on haha. Man! The effort you put in this video is incredible! Great job Lukas!
Ayyy!!! Thanks so much :-D Your support means a lot! :) :)
Did you use Suno AI for the music?
@@notbenparisi yep!!
the music was so funny XD
@@ianchan2624 thanks! I'm planning to post a video later today about how I made these custom songs 🤣
Man the video quality is insane and the buildquality as well... i am impressed and then i saw only 4k subs... man i found a hidden gem here
Wow! Seriously thank you so much! I put a lot of work into these videos. I work full time and I'm a grad student. So it takes a lot for me to get these done. Comments like your help me maintain my motivation 🙂🙂🙂
Great Job! thanks for being transparent about the mechanical design coming from WildWilly
Yes of course! 😄
MAN, the algorithm has been bringing some good stuff recently. Really love how many creators are starting to use their own original music. Absolute banger video!
Hey man thanks! I was inspired by @prestongoes his videos are super creative and he writes his own music.
Great Project!
A few tricks on the DC-DC converters...
For the servos, look into a BEC for an RC plane. Much smaller than the the DC-DC you used.
For the Brushed DC motors, the voltage isn't the problem, it's the current. If you set the max current limit to below the max the motors can take, they can "Run at any voltage" (as the H-Bridge will protect them.)
Also, you can just run the bridges off full voltage, but limit the max PWM to 50%, for half voltage. (The current limit would be another level of protection.)
Last, look into Conformal Coating for all your PCB boards to make them water proof-ish. Dialetric grease in all the connectors (LOTS OF IT) is your friend.
I've had someone mention BEC before, I need to do some research on it. I would love to find ways to make my next project like this somewhat waterproof! Thanks for the ideas!
you mean the Adafruit 16-Channel Servo Driver?
Do upu have a video or guide on how you prgrammed the pi and arduino?
Hey! I posted my code on GitHub github.com/Lukas2233/Rover-Project
I am a computer science instructor at a small community college. We have started building this rover using your bill of materials. We are at the planning and purchasing stage. The students are excited about building this. Thanks for the BOM and code.
I cannot express, how much I love this video. As a CS student and future Space Engineer this video encouraged me to don't stop when it feels like is terribly hard/difficult. I know everything is possible, and your project demonstrates me this once more. Well Done!!! 👏
This is great man! I can totally relate to your excitement when it was finally driving around! Super cool! Looking forward to seeing more. Keep up the great work! I agree with others, the music is friggin fantastic.
Hey thanks so much! What this video didn't capture is the two months of struggles that I went through to get that thing working lol. I'm sure you can sympathize 😂😂. Thanks for the thoughtful comment ♥️
@@LukasDeemdude. The victory wouldnt be as sweet without it! Right?! Haha the Portal vibes with the tunes are inescapable. 😂. I wish I still had my podcast as I'd totally want to get you on there and talk shop! 😂
@Geeksmithing that's a huge compliment! I'm a total newbie but I really enjoy this stuff and haven't having a blast learning!
this was honestly amazing to watch! it felt like it was just 5 minutes long... i know i will be binge watching your channel tonight!
Ayyy! That's the best compliment ever! Let me know what you like most so I can keep making good stuff 😂.
great video - i love the use of Suno for background tunes. adds character to the overall production. Working on my own rover too
Lukas complains about bad wifi and latency.
Nasa: Please... we had 20 minutes of communication time delay to the mars rover.
Hahaha! So true 😅😅😅. Seriously though I was able to drop the quality of the stream and it improved a lot 🫡
Hey, I'm a high school student who's an expert at designing robots and rockets. I strongly suggest that you take on a fin-guided rocket project, which I can help you with by providing the code and CAD. Trust me, it will be a challenging and rewarding project.
By Fin guided, I'm assuming you are meaning that the fins are articulated by motors to control the trajectory of the rocket?
@@LukasDeem yup that's right fins control using the servo motor. That's a interesting project.
Hey, I'm a general multi-language developer and would love to learn more about the algorithms of these fields. Any open-source links to these type of projects would be gr8 to review and study the algorithm
the production value in this video was insane, keep up the great work
This is literally the best compliment 😸. I put a lot of time into this one 😎
Great tutorial! I'm a beginner in robotics and this video helped me understand how to integrate Raspberry Pi and Arduino. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
Hey of course! Glad I could help 😃😃
I'm about 30 seconds in and subscribed! I've been working on robots for fun for years now but never done a serious project like this. I also love all of the Mars rover footage (one of the two things that got me into tech and robotics in the first place), so I'm excited to see the rest of this!
Ayyy! I appreciate it! I feel the same way. As a kid I was so inspired by the rover projects 🤣🤣.
Maaan this was soo cool!! As a recent Robotics engineering graduate, I think you're already an engineer even though you don't consider yourself as one yet.
Hey thanks so much! I feel like Im missing some fundamentals such as the math behind how to design safe and strong structures for example.
Adding the SUNO music was genious... The lirycs are cracking me up 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Awesome work on this! I want to build one now. This robot has all the movement features I need for my own project.
I was just making my first thoughts of my first project and I saw this video you made and all I can say is you've just blown my mind the only thing I need to learn now is 3-D printing
Awesome video. The audio quality and video quality were very nice. Keep it up!!
Hey thanks a ton I really appreciate it!
Great video! Going to put together a rrover project with some friends and this was super helpful. Liked the music too lol
Awesome project, looking to forward to more of your projects!
Hey thanks! I'm still brainstorming on my next video idea. Any suggestions are welcome 🙃
@@LukasDeema drone like nasa’s drone
The music had me rolling 😂hahaha! What an awesome project!!
Ayyy! Had a ton of fun making those songs 😆😆😆
I’m half way through a just realized the songs are custom. 😮😂
I believe they were all generated by Suno AI. Pretty cool tech!
@@notbenparisi every song with lyrics was AI. The background music in some places came from epidemic sound
Very cool, your wife seemed very excited for the progress too! Subscribed! 👍
Thanks so much!! 😸
came for the rover, stayed for the music
Ayyyyy! Thanks I'm glad you like it honestly when I was making the video I thought I might have overdone it a little bit 😅
@@LukasDeem Naah, it's perfect. Awesome job sir.
Crushing it dude! Keep it up!
I loved the custom songs XD
Ayyy! Thanks man! 😁
Thanks for all your work here.
Quality content, man. Keep them coming
Thanks so much! I'm trying my best out here ☺️☺️
I think the custom song is great. The only other person who does anything like this is RCtestflight. He has a friend who makes the songs for his channel. This video is great.
I dig his channel 💯💯. So I just an AI tool, all I had to do was come up with lyrics 😌
@@LukasDeem And you did a great job on the first song, very appropriate. The later songs were awesome too!
The RCtestflight ones are very tongue in cheek, all of these are super on the nose. I like them! Some unsolicited constructive criticism though, maybe not make nearly every (outside of narration) song one of the custom ones, just have some that are wordless beats.
Also, maybe in the future pick one or two genres of music to stick to that fits with the theme of the video, hopping around different kinds of music is... I dunno weird, not really bad, but it does not have as much flow between cuts when it switches up temp etc.
Dude! Subbed immediately. This is insane
I was trying to gather details but there were not such videos related to how to make rover yours is a walllaaaaahhh loved it thankyou so much will try it now
Hey! I'm glad I could help! Make sure you check out Wild Willy robotics Assembly video that helped me a ton.
What a fantastic production! Your presentation was professional level... The project was interesting... You had to 'learn as you went', and we learnt too... The pace was perfect... There was an element of suspense... We shared in your elation with the successes, and the pain of the failures... AND...
The custom music soundtrack was out of this world!
Congratulations, and thank you so much... Liked and Subscribed - looking forward to more of the same.
Wow! As an aspiring RUclips creator this is the best comment I could receive. I really appreciate your kind words. I'm doing this projects while working full time and going to grad school. Sometimes it's hard to find the motivation, so comments like these can really give me a boost! Thank you!
damn that's so cool, great job man. you can use a PCB printing service to put your microcontroller, buck converter and PWM controllers all on the same board. might be cool to add some hall-effect sensors to calibrate your motors, the problem with awesome projects like this is they never end, you're on to the next version once you're "done" :)
Truer words have never been spoken 😂. I really want to learn PCB design but I haven't had time to dive into it yet. It's on my list 🙃
@@LukasDeem you can use easyeda for this...this is a very beginner friendly software and you can easily design a PCB with it.
Thank you so much for sharing! my freind gave me his old Swampy Rover and i've fixed it up, but now i want to make a robot myself. You've given me hope
Do it! Post a video about it 😀😀
@@LukasDeem not sure if You Tubewill let me do this but.,.. this is the old one after I fixed it . But yes, I will! thank you ruclips.net/user/shortsit0jKVa3QGg?si=ZkBH18MvBxmeNVQ-
@@deanallenjones you delivered!! I think it's hilarious that in my video the test was going over a block of wood and in yours it was going over a brick lol 🤣🤣
Great production value, love the rover work and songs! Subbed!
Hey thanks so much!! I really appreciate the support. I put a lot of work into these videos, kind words like these make it worth it! 💯
Its really lovely to see the work & effort put into a job finally work. amazing video 👌
Hey thanks a time this one was definitely a challenge for me 🤣
so much good stuff in this video - glad I found ya !
Hey thanks I appreciate it!! I have a few more videos in the works right now! 😃
You would likely have better results with a 2S lipo battery. I know the motors say 6 V but they would be fine with the 7-8.4 V of a 2S lipo, especially if you limit the PWM duty cycle. That way you could get rid of the large buck converter.
You can also get smaller motor drivers and since your motors are quite small and have gearboxes you shouldn’t need much current anyway.
Edit: piling the electronics in, even just for testing is how you end up with a short.
Also you shouldn’t need the router, the pi should be able to create its own wifi network that you can connect the laptop too.
Overall it is a good project.
Totally agree and this was quite the learning experience for me including these comments 😁. So the whole reason that I did the router in the first place was because I wanted to give control to people over the internet. I was actually able to get that working but the latency was pretty bad so I didn't include it in the video 😅
@@LukasDeem people controlling it over the internet is definitely interesting, I have seen it done once before on reddit where someone had built some robots and a website for them for people to take turns controlling them but i don't think it was that great either.
In regards to latency the latency over just a local network isn't great either. Maybe the pi isn't powerful enough to handle the video streaming although it probably should be. Was it a pi zero or pi zero 2? Did you compress the video? Either that or lowering the resolution could help. Maybe doing it as a website is just adding too much overhead, I wonder if creating a non website GUI that runs on the laptop and just streaming the video to it instead could help.
It is quite a steep learning curve to get into robotics and there isn't a definitive right way to do things either. For a first robotics project this was definitely a good and well made project. I'm very interested to see what you make next.
@@conorstewart2214 awesome advice! Yeah I played around with the camera stream quality and it certainly helped. I used just a basic pi zero 😅😅
Nice project and great job on the video
Hey thanks so much! 😄
Great production and project! nice work.
This is very cool, well done! Next I would like you to upgrade it by using a cellular network instead of Wi-Fi.
This video made me feel so happy for you!
Hey thanks so much!!! It's the biggest project I've taken on yet 🤣
As an aspired robotic engineer, I love this so much especially the designs, wireless controls and also the music🤩. If it is possible could we work together on the next project of yours. I noticed you faced issues with space. I could handle the PCB designing part of the next upcoming project so we get rid of those cables flying around. I will be glad to connect with you. I love working on real world problems.
Thanks so much I just replied to your email. 💯💯💯
Great and thanks for sharing.
The custom robot soundtrack though! :D
Well done. I'm also a fan of Wild Willy. Perhaps I'll follow in your "footsteps."
Hey thanks!! Do it! He has some other awesome projects on his page as well!
coolest project with a raspberry pi that i ever seen
Hey thanks!! It was my first time using one 🙃
Something he could do is turn the raspberry pi into a travel router, but doing that it would have to be bigger
Never seen this channel before,i think youtube is wildly recommending this vedio,The number of veiw of this vedio is going to sky 🚀. Anyway i like the each theme song of each section,made it something unique.
Hey thanks so much! I'm doing my best to make interesting stuff🤠
this might be my next video project ..... nice video
Hey!
Instead of suing buck converter to drop down the voltage to 6v, you could lover max duty cycle of the pwm signals coming to h-bridge to 50%.. this would essentially result in the same voltage drop :)
you could also drop the arduino entirely and use something like adafruit 16 channel PWM/Servo controller that also connects with i2c, but it's far easier to manage (as it's doesn't need separate arduino code).
these both improvements would get you much much space to work with under the hood :)
Besides that! cool one!!
Hey! I need to look more into this idea of lowering the duty cycle. I actually have extra pwm servo boards lying around, I didn't even think of that. I think I wanted to use the Arduino to off board some of the logic required to run the motors.
I don't know why a video like this one hasn't had millions of views 😢
Why not put a WiFi router on board. Optimise you gui website for mobile and then serve the ui form the pi. Connect your phone to the WiFi on the robot and it’s a controller
This is awesome! I need to try this!
Go for it! The design of the rover provided by wild Willy is great! The electronics choices I made leave room for improvement 🙃
sick! playing this for my students now! Thank you : )
Hey that's awesome just be aware that there are some censored cuss words in it 😅😅
Suggestion
You could add led to know standby , boot up and off mode
Power button would be better outside
And probably a charge port too
Have you considered RF,I'd like to see that too
Yes I totally need to add a power switch to this thing so I don't have to use a screwdriver to start it 🤣🤣🤣
This is very cool. Have you already tried using a PS4 controller to maneuver the rover? That simplifies the steering and opens up opportunities for more features like toggling in thermal or infrared imaging. There are a lot of cool things to do with a project like this. I wish I had seen this video sooner!
Hey! Yes I can't wait to make it remote controlled 😁😁
Dude u are totally an engineer, great work, loved it
Oh wow thanks! 😄😄
Great Job, way to stick with it till the end.
It would have been great if you had made a separate video detailing the electronic and power sub-assemblies. Are you connecting the battery to a terminal block to feed power to all the different components? Radio communication would be more efficient than wireless-a future upgrade--?? Nice work!
Well the reason I used Wi-Fi is because I originally wanted to set this up so that somebody could control it remotely over the internet. I actually did get that working but because of the latency I had I decided not to use it in the video. As for the power supply I soldered everything to a small prototyping board to distribute the power to all the motors. Probably not the best way to do it but it worked 🤷♂️
Wish this was a whole series
Hey! Do you mean you want more detail on this specific build? Or just more videos similar to this one? 😸
Specific build like code
@@phaniraja9104 thanks for the reply. When I make these videos I struggle to decide how detailed to get. I've even considered having a short video and then the long in depth videos. 😃
Not sure what you've set the voltage in the step down converter to, but keep in mind, that with the bipolar transistors on the L298Ns H-Bridges you get a voltage drop of about 1.4V, so you might get a little more power out of your motors by increasing the voltage of the stepdown converter to 7.4V, in order to give the motors 6V, if you've not already done that. You could also check the voltage drop by measuring the voltage on one of the Outputs of your Motordrivers on fullspeed
Hey so yeah and some of my first outdoor test I saw that it was going super slow and I knew that I needed to up the voltage. I ended up bumping it up to 7.1v thanks for the tip on how to measure the output voltage I think I need to go back and do that and see what I'm actually getting at the output of the motor drivers.
@@LukasDeem if you have the option to measure the motors voltage with an osziloscope you can even measure it at any pwm setting, as you can read the voltage during the on time.depending on the load you can actually go a bit higher than the rated voltage as well, but therefore you should measure the current through the motors under load to have a reference.
You dont want the motor to get to hot
Dud this is awesome. Keep going at it. Going to be building your clock next month.
Hey thanks! Hopefully you have better luck figuring out how to power that clock than I did 😅😅. I would suggest you read through the comments on that video there were tons of good suggestions on how to improve the design.
Project is cool ,amazing and fantastic one ......big up , am a robotic lover
I also love robots 🫡
" now let's drive this rover over some wood...." 🤣 9:25
The lyrics in the music are cracking me up..
YOU inspired young scientist!!!
this is awesome.. this is awesome ....u r awesome
The Robot Friend song is hilariously great. Nice project.
That's my favorite one!! 🤣🤣
The music choices clutch and outro was awesome. Another killer video bro!
Thanks man!! I used AI to create custom songs 😆
@@LukasDeem Suno?
@@kindaovermyhead that's right!
Great work!
Im not im favour of Arduino, can I replace it with another comtroller?
I’m gonna give this a try. Hopefully, I get to add some more functionality, such as data collection.
Cool tip you may want to know about is Windows comes with a cool SLT util called 3D Builder which allows you to modify STL. I use it all the time. Using 3D builder you can add the camera hole and more important add needed vents.
Ayyy! I had no idea. I've been trying to learn fusion 360 😄
@@LukasDeem yeah same here. But for fast modifications it is really cool. As well, if any errors are found in the STL files, the util will fix them. Very fun and simple modification tool that all should have. I myself use it at times to simply add custom supports.
@@LukasDeem I need to move to Fusion 360 yet can't get myself to stop using FreeCAD lol
Great first iteration! Lets see some refinement. Nice over all job.
Thanks so much! The main thing I want to change is I want to learn how to use a PCB instead of a bunch of components 😂
Why does this not have more views
Hey thanks! I hope people like it 🙀
Thank god i've been into microcontrollers and IoT lately, I came across this wonderful gem of a channel as a result. How are you doing the songs? Are they original pieces? It's so funny to observe the background music. Had me do double takes so many times! 😂
Ayyyy! Thanks so much! I used suno.ai I'm actually going to post a video about it soon 🫡
@@LukasDeem Oh right on! What a wonderful channel you have here. Thanks for making such fun content.
@@Roxomus thanks so much!! I'm having fun connecting with the community and making projects 🙂🙂
Great video.
This is great. Trouble is I have no 3D printer or CAD experience. I've messed around with Pi and Arduino but loose the plot with the programing.
So My thinking is there is always a different way to do the same thing.
1: Big plastic box to hold components.
2: Married to an existing remote control vehicle.
3: For a camera I could use one of those cheaper WiFi security cameras.
4: learn CAD (FreeCad) to make some parts to marry to the control box.
I did turn a wiper motor into a a servo with some grunt once, and controlled it by modifying a remote control unit from a cheap toy car.
I, as they say am on the case.
Thanks.
Great job with the rover and the music! I'm building a different version with the rocker-bogie design similar to yours except there are only 6 motors - the wheels don't turn like yours. I have to admit the coding is kicking my butt, good for you to get through that. I'm using an ESP32 camera module, Arduino Uno and laptop with a python client. The Serial communications between the Uno and ESP32 is the hardest part of the whole project so far.
Yeah i struggled with that part too with the pi and Arduino. I found out that I was scanning for the wrong serial address and that's what was preventing communication 🤣
I like that the shell is 3d printed but cant you use some sort of kit that makes the insides all pre assembled to make this evennmore easier and modular?
So I think for the electronics the best thing would be solid PCB but I haven't learned how to do that. Wild Willy included a design file called a Gerber file for a PCB but I don't even know how to use that yet 🤣🤣
Could you say a bit more about how you distributed the power supply? I understand that the Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and motors are powered by a Lipo Battery through a DC Buck Converter?
Yep so I use the buck converter to drop the voltage down to 6 volts. Then I took that output and tied it into a prototyping board where I just took over a power rail on the side of the prototyping board to distribute the 6 volts. I soldered the motor power wires directly to that power rail. I'm sure there's a bad a million ways to do this better but this is how I did it 🤣
@@LukasDeem Thank you!
Hi, Please help us to answer a few questions in regards to this video:
1: What was one of the requirements for the Rover project mentioned in the text?
A. To use an Arduino Uno
B. To integrate a camera
C. To use a Raspberry Pi
D. To have 8 wheels
2: Which software was used to sketch out the possible motions of the Rover?
A. AutoCAD
B. SolidWorks
C. Figma
D. Tinkercad
3: What was used to drop the voltage from 12 volts to 6 volts for the DC motors?
A. Breadboard
B. Buck converter
C. H-Bridge driver
D. Arduino Mega
4: What was the main challenge faced during the project according to the text?
A. Coding the Python script
B. Fitting all the electronics inside the Rover
C. Assembling the wheels
D. Testing the motors
5: Which component was accidentally damaged during the project?
A. Arduino Mega
B. Raspberry Pi Camera
C. DC Motors
D. H-Bridge Servo driver board
6: What was used for controlling the Rover over the web?
A. HTML website
B. Arduino Uno
C. Raspberry Pi Camera
D. Figma software
7: Which component allowed serial communication between the Raspberry Pi and Arduino Mega?
A. Buck converter
B. Raspberry Pi Camera
C. SDA and SCL pins
D. H-Bridge driver board
8: What was the purpose of the prototyping board in the Rover?
A. To control the motors
B. To solder power distribution
C. To host the web server
D. To connect the wheels
9: What was the final outcome of the outdoor test with the Rover?
A. It did not work at all
B. It worked perfectly with no issues
C. There were some mishaps but it worked overall
D. The Rover got damaged during the test
10: What was the main lesson learned from the Rover project according to the text?
A. Always order extra parts
B. Complex projects are not manageable
C. Raspberry Pi is not suitable for robotics projects
Great project and great video! Any reason you went wifi instead of bluetooth? I imagine hooking up a BT controller would be easier than bringing a laptop and a router outside
Totally agree and it's something I want to do in the next one. The reason why I did it over the internet on this one was because I wanted to give remote control to someone who's not physically located nearby. I ended up cutting that from scope
Very nice project!
Thanks!!
Great project! I did a quick google and I found that you should be able to use your PC to host a wifi network much like if you've ever set up a wireless printer or something like that. So you shouldn't need to have to bring your router out into the field with you. Theoretically these instructions should work, good luck.
For Windows 10/11:
Open Settings -> Network & Internet -> Mobile hotspot.
Toggle on Share my Internet connection with other devices.
You can also customize the network name and password by clicking on the Edit button.
Oh sick! Thanks for the tip!! 😄
Excellent 🎉and good luck brother 🍀
This is so GOOD!
Oh hey PCBWay! This project is a prime candidate for a PCB, I'm planning to learn how to create my own soon! 🫡
@@LukasDeem Get the ball rolling, Lukas!! We just can’t wait to see your next one!
Lot of commitment good job. All I can think of is how much that Bambu X1C shakes that stand it’s on lol.
I like this kind of project
Scrap the massive 6V buck converter and power the motor driver directly from a 2S lipo or li-ion battery. You will only need a small 6V (maybe 3A) buck converter for the servo motors.
I had a feeling that buck converter was way too big 😂
Looks nice!! I love it
Hey thanks so much!! The look of it is my favorite part 🤣🤣
Just a question, would not sourcing 12v motors of similar rpm not have been easier than having the buck converter?
It's pretty much just comes down to the windings arrangements inside the motor itself at the end of the day..
With using the increased voltage, your amp draw would be lowered also, so may even be able to get away with smaller H bridge boards.
Yes 100%. I wanted to follow the instructions posted by Wild Willy, however now in retrospect this would have been a good adjustment 😅
its great watching your project come to fruition, can this be used for something useful like mowing grass or spread weedcontroller etc.
I would love to have a weed whacking robot that's actually hilarious and something I might have to do now 🤣🤣🤣🤣
What a work of art, amazing
Wow thanks I really appreciate it! 😄
Nice project. You can use a Raspi4 or 5 directly rather than raspi zero + Arduino right? They have more pins that pi zero
Cool! Next up: Analogue controls (looks like everything's on/off now) and then, integration, a single board to rule it all :)
PS: And LoRa(WAN), so that you can save some power and increase the transmission distance quite a bit
Yes yes and yes! 😄😄
Really impressive!
damn bro! thats amazing :D much better than buying spot tbh
Haha thanks 🤠
I love your content that is awesome lukas🤩
About the chosen hardware: Why didn't you use a standard arduino uno with the standard arduino motor modules (4 DC motors and a few servos per modules, and they are stackable, so two should be enough) And about the voltage: Why didn't you just max out the pwm signal as an alternative to use this big step down converter? (For example: you have 6V DC motors, but a 12 V DC power source: you can directly use the 12 V, if you limit the pwm to 50%. (or 24 V with 25% max pwm).The higher voltage doesn't harm and if the total energy is the same they don't burn/overheat. As long the difference don't get to crazy (like 3V to 48V) this should work very well.)
Honest truth is because I'm a beginner and I didn't know any of these things 🙃. This is exactly why I post this stuff on RUclips so that I can get comments like yours to help me learn, so thank you!😁