I think the work you're doing on your channel is really well done and legitimately important. You're exposing a lot of people to an intersection of mechanical and electrical engineering that they have probably never considered. Thank you for all the work that goes into making these videos, you should be proud of yourself.
I love how you document your process and share with us the failures and wrong decisions along the way. I think that by you sharing openly we learn much more from your experience. Thank you for your courage.
Since the day you released the first pcb motor video I have been waiting for this. It is indescribably satisfying to see this finally come to life. Amazing work as always Carl
Favourite tech youtuber, and I am not joking, you combine all the tech related things I watch, programming, mechanics, new never seen projects, and much more. I love seeing your videos, keep making these cool projects.
You're so creative and are great at solving niche problems that could also be applied in real world applications beyond this one. I'm so excited to see where you end up
Too cool! Seeing it roll across the workshop floor helps to put the tiny scale into perspective, astounding all that's packed into that little of a space. But I love the fact that it's literally a one-PCB robot. Not a robot with only one PCB, a robot that _is_ only one PCB. Motors, chassis, and all. Just wow.
You are amazing! Love your content and the way you push the limits of what can be done with just a PCB manufacturer. You are truly an inspiration to many engineers in electronics
It'll probably be difficult to fit in that tiny wheel, but have you tried using a Halbach array for the magnets? If you can fit it in, it might just give you the torque you need to really get it moving the way you want.
this is SOOOOO COOOOOL CARL! i'm really glad you'll continue to work on it! can't wait to see where it goes. maybe you can find some off the shelf rubber bands or gaskets for the tyres that might be be more grippy and lightweight while being simpler and cheaper for you.
When I was a kid, we had these magazines that had the latest news about cartoons or movies for kids. At the end of each magazine was a thin cardboard with cut outs and instructions to build a small paper robot. I hope for a day when kids can have the joy I had building small paper robots while also actually learning about circuits with the things they make especially since your project has a capability to be used for early STEM classes
I like the way you are exposing your videos: from concept, through design, assembly and final testing. And how you finally make it work after a lot of struggle 😂.
Great stuff - very thin flexible 'fingers' or flaps on the tires would increase traction on rough surfaces I think - also the extra weight of the double lipo probably helped traction (but required more torque - trade off). Keep up the awesome work.
I'm constantly impressed and inspired by the creativity here, really love this project. One thing I was was thinking about was why you continued to make the wheels more or less solid when you scaled them up (I'm assuming they aren't solid infill but still). I think to get the benefit of surface area but maintain low weight you could pocket out the design and see a reasonable improvement or just print them with little to no infill. That said, I don't think that's a "cure-all". Really excited for the next video!
Fantastic!!! Congrats Carl on reaching this milestone!! Incredible seeing this come to fruition after all the effort you have put in over the years. Overcoming that torque hurdle will unlock even more possibilities. Way to go and keep going!
I just don't understand why this channel is not the most subscribed EE channel! Your designs are so innovative and your videos are so interesting. Maybe it's the thick accent? Whatever it is, you are doing amazing stuff, keep it up!
Excellent educational video, you're definitely exploring the boundaries of using BLDC motors, one suggestion if I may, is to explore if possible to use a combination of BLDC and dc motors i.e. instead of using magnets try to use another pcb connected to the M board with brushes (if you can find that small) in that way you can reduce the weight & cost of the motor + Possibly achieving more torch by switching this new pcb with different voltage polarity and phase angle. Again great to see another Maltese having a top notch RUclips channel. Proset
I’ll say it again, I miss Malta so much!!! I’m English, although learned to speak Maltese while I was living there. It has a special place in my heart!! Ye Eya habib! Keif arna! Metied choon lest il champila!! Hamaru soda lol😂 Chow he!! Foot il bait, ichta. il wara, bara. Hamoro ir simenta! Le, ma reach Obviously I’m spelling it as I’m hearing it, but you get the gist lol😊
Very cool. Thought maybe it was going to independently fold itself into shape, maybe for transportation purposes. Maybe that can be a next phase. So cool having flexible boards. Imagining the possibilities
This is awesome! You have just blown my mind! Here are a few ideas for V2: - Larger body to accommodate larger motors and bigger batteries - Larger wheels to improve ability to navigate rough terrain and climb obstacles - 6 wheel design to overcome thermal constraints on motors - Small fan to improve thermal performance and allow higher voltages If anyone else has any ideas, feel free to like and comment below so he sees! :)
I feel like adding even really bad suspension would help a lot. The fact that it's 4 wheel drive doesn't help if less than 4 wheels are touching the ground at the same time. Super sickkk idea though. Very exciting work.
Inspirational! Use the same pcb coils but remove the wheels and use rubber band pulleys to gear down to smaller wheels for more torque. Could use lego to attach to your bot to a small wheel platform prototype.
I envy your dedication and consistency in exploring these sub-optimal designs, because most of them have very niche, if any, uses. However, there is no way forward and no innovation without considering non-obvious solutions.
Growing up, we had little cars called Stompers. Loved the. They ran on a single AA battery, and they were fun. Not fast by any stretch, but fun. This reminded me of them.
You could have the roof flap house extra pcb motors to layer up the motors to a thickness you can use. With a more clam shell design you could use pins again to add rigid to center with help of Aluminum Standoffs. A plugable pi cam, would be cool. As would passthough holes big enough to mount a pin on ethier side for the battery. Love the designs, i wonder if a boat would work. You got my like.
Absolutely great work. I think the 3D printed tires are to stiff and slippery, making the from a softer material like rubber will increase the traction.
I think the work you're doing on your channel is really well done and legitimately important. You're exposing a lot of people to an intersection of mechanical and electrical engineering that they have probably never considered. Thank you for all the work that goes into making these videos, you should be proud of yourself.
Those motors are trash, no matter how you put it. Cool experiment but it is just not viable.
just use conventional BLDC motors.
@@shyne2643 I think you miss the point.
@@shyne2643 the point is to see what’s possible, not to replace off the shelf BLDC motors.
@@conorstewart2214 He made like 10videos on that and the conclusion of each is that they're just bad.
@@shyne2643 so just because something isn't as good as other solutions it just shouldn't be tried? What an awful attitude to have.
Absolutely genius!
I love how you document your process and share with us the failures and wrong decisions along the way. I think that by you sharing openly we learn much more from your experience.
Thank you for your courage.
Since the day you released the first pcb motor video I have been waiting for this. It is indescribably satisfying to see this finally come to life. Amazing work as always Carl
Awesome.. V2 will be self folding ;-) !
Can we launch our own rover to mars as a community?
And powered (or at least rechargeable) by a solar cell
@@GouneshA little late, but you can technically get any payload up (provided it won't put the mission at risk), it's just rather expensive...
Awesome what you have achieved with these pcb motors.
It is phantastic to see this.
Very cool. Can't wait to see what you have in mind for the next version. Keep up the great work!
@Mr. Carl, please add the cam module for esp, if possible 🤞 So cool project 😎👌
Such a mad man Carl! I've never seen this type of electronic engineering in my life and you've just mastered it from true trial and error.
Favourite tech youtuber, and I am not joking, you combine all the tech related things I watch, programming, mechanics, new never seen projects, and much more. I love seeing your videos, keep making these cool projects.
You're so creative and are great at solving niche problems that could also be applied in real world applications beyond this one. I'm so excited to see where you end up
im currently very stressed because of life, and watching youtube actually helps me relax. nice video mate
as a student that is interested in electrical engineering, your channel is one that I love to watch!
Too cool! Seeing it roll across the workshop floor helps to put the tiny scale into perspective, astounding all that's packed into that little of a space.
But I love the fact that it's literally a one-PCB robot. Not a robot with only one PCB, a robot that _is_ only one PCB. Motors, chassis, and all. Just wow.
Thanks!
You are amazing! Love your content and the way you push the limits of what can be done with just a PCB manufacturer. You are truly an inspiration to many engineers in electronics
This is awesome. I saw a project like this done by JPL researching small space probes/rovers using flex PCBs to fold it like origami .
It'll probably be difficult to fit in that tiny wheel, but have you tried using a Halbach array for the magnets? If you can fit it in, it might just give you the torque you need to really get it moving the way you want.
That seems interesting. Because halbach is stronger mag field, that would increase torque?
Excuse if that is obvious. Still a little zonked from days of relatively tough travel recently.
@@THE_BUDDHA : Yes, that would increase the torque.
This is a project that I never knew about but always wanted to do! Looking forward to the next version!
this is SOOOOO COOOOOL CARL! i'm really glad you'll continue to work on it! can't wait to see where it goes. maybe you can find some off the shelf rubber bands or gaskets for the tyres that might be be more grippy and lightweight while being simpler and cheaper for you.
When I was a kid, we had these magazines that had the latest news about cartoons or movies for kids. At the end of each magazine was a thin cardboard with cut outs and instructions to build a small paper robot.
I hope for a day when kids can have the joy I had building small paper robots while also actually learning about circuits with the things they make especially since your project has a capability to be used for early STEM classes
its really interesting following along with what you're doing with these flexible PCBs
I like the way you are exposing your videos: from concept, through design, assembly and final testing. And how you finally make it work after a lot of struggle 😂.
Something I like about your channel is that you share your experience with us
Thank you so much for your video ♥️
Been a electronics bussiness man your project has an incredible amount of work and (re) engineering design. Congrats!
Great stuff - very thin flexible 'fingers' or flaps on the tires would increase traction on rough surfaces I think - also the extra weight of the double lipo probably helped traction (but required more torque - trade off).
Keep up the awesome work.
This is amazing! I'd enjoy seeing the two side panel motors as rigid PCBs with full thickness layers.
I'm constantly impressed and inspired by the creativity here, really love this project. One thing I was was thinking about was why you continued to make the wheels more or less solid when you scaled them up (I'm assuming they aren't solid infill but still). I think to get the benefit of surface area but maintain low weight you could pocket out the design and see a reasonable improvement or just print them with little to no infill. That said, I don't think that's a "cure-all". Really excited for the next video!
Turning ordinary into extraordinary-this DIY inspiration is top-notch!
Absolutely great Idea!
I didn’t know about the 3D PCB design in Altium.
Man you literally come with an invention every video:)
Fantastic!!! Congrats Carl on reaching this milestone!! Incredible seeing this come to fruition after all the effort you have put in over the years. Overcoming that torque hurdle will unlock even more possibilities. Way to go and keep going!
I just don't understand why this channel is not the most subscribed EE channel! Your designs are so innovative and your videos are so interesting. Maybe it's the thick accent? Whatever it is, you are doing amazing stuff, keep it up!
Ridiculously amazing work. It's incredible to see one guy have all this knowledge and drive to build a miniature little marvel. Very cool!
You have a unique mind. Great job.
Improving day by day great work. Best idea for electronic projects 🎉❤❤❤
Excellent educational video, you're definitely exploring the boundaries of using BLDC motors, one suggestion if I may, is to explore if possible to use a combination of BLDC and dc motors i.e. instead of using magnets try to use another pcb connected to the M board with brushes (if you can find that small) in that way you can reduce the weight & cost of the motor + Possibly achieving more torch by switching this new pcb with different voltage polarity and phase angle. Again great to see another Maltese having a top notch RUclips channel. Proset
give this thing network access and a phone speaker, never have to show up to the office again.
10 years later he became a multi billionare
PCBWay is by far my favorite RUclips advertiser. If those guys ever turn off the taps, RUclips will jump the shark.
Great work, Carl. Thanks for sharing your design development with us.
good demo with very nice ideas and perfect implementation. Thank you for this adventure of troubleshooting !
Always ends up surprising us with such engineering intricacies! Amazing work!!
You have mastered the niche of flex and rigid flex PCB. Congratulations👏
Omg i have been waiting for this moment ever since you started doing PCB motors
REally cool video....I think no body will do such creative ideas in such samller sizes.....Keep impressing us with your work....
So cool!
Excellent! Engineering is as much about the journey towards a solution as the solution itself! Good to see the successes and not-quite-successes.
This is my favourite project of yours so far
your the first person i see to bake boards so casually, your the MVP
I’ll say it again, I miss Malta so much!!! I’m English, although learned to speak Maltese while I was living there.
It has a special place in my heart!!
Ye
Eya habib! Keif arna! Metied choon lest il champila!!
Hamaru soda lol😂
Chow he!!
Foot il bait, ichta. il wara, bara.
Hamoro ir simenta!
Le, ma reach
Obviously I’m spelling it as I’m hearing it, but you get the gist lol😊
In the future, we're gonna have cars that transforms into a house
This project is really complex to build, and you’ve done it! Flex body, pcb motor, all wireless : amazing work Carl 👏
Probably the cutest robot I’ve ever seen… Also very cool design!
Very cool. Thought maybe it was going to independently fold itself into shape, maybe for transportation purposes. Maybe that can be a next phase. So cool having flexible boards. Imagining the possibilities
Nice Engineering work and thinking. Congratulations.
Love your channel, the projects you make are always so interesting.
nice work
our student engineers in embedded systems really like your method of solving problems
Well done, You work is beautiful and great job.
This is super cool, I'm glad you kept in the debugging procees
yeyyyy, nice 1 Mr Bugeja.....BIG up the Maltese massive!!
Hello Carl,
Beautiful channel and nice tutorials.
Amazing work. Nicely done.
This is wild! Can see that as a turning point for self assembling robots and smart sand!
This is awesome! You have just blown my mind! Here are a few ideas for V2:
- Larger body to accommodate larger motors and bigger batteries
- Larger wheels to improve ability to navigate rough terrain and climb obstacles
- 6 wheel design to overcome thermal constraints on motors
- Small fan to improve thermal performance and allow higher voltages
If anyone else has any ideas, feel free to like and comment below so he sees! :)
Love how creative your ideas are!
Vera inspirazzjoni bro!
@CarlBugeja you are THE Electronics God. 🙌🏻🙌🏻
great concept, great documentation, and great presentation. 👍
no jokes the coolest thing ive found all week, keep em coming
I feel like adding even really bad suspension would help a lot. The fact that it's 4 wheel drive doesn't help if less than 4 wheels are touching the ground at the same time. Super sickkk idea though. Very exciting work.
I have no clue what im talking about yet i still do. Maybe scaling everything up by like 10 to 30% could make many things easier.
Inspirational!
Use the same pcb coils but remove the wheels and use rubber band pulleys to gear down to smaller wheels for more torque. Could use lego to attach to your bot to a small wheel platform prototype.
I envy your dedication and consistency in exploring these sub-optimal designs, because most of them have very niche, if any, uses. However, there is no way forward and no innovation without considering non-obvious solutions.
I love these videos❤
Awesome. Can't wait to see more.
This was very interesting and satisfying to saw building a Foldable Rover.😊 Great work Carl.💯👌
Your PCB design-style is so impressive
Love your work with micro motors and robotics.
Great work! I've enjoyed seeing these pcb motors evolve
So neat that you can get a foldable PCB back like that. Nice job.
This is great mate!! keep it up
WOW! you really outdid yourself in this one!...i LOVE IT!
Maybe adding a little elastic material to wheels for grip helps. It can help have better traction with the surface and reduce slip..
Growing up, we had little cars called Stompers. Loved the. They ran on a single AA battery, and they were fun. Not fast by any stretch, but fun. This reminded me of them.
Very creative! Congrats
Great example of engineering thinking. Keep it up!
Great Work Carl.. 👍
Flashed up. Dropped in. Watched and wow 👍. Especially when I’m old enough to remember when things were mostly Clockwork 🏴
You could have the roof flap house extra pcb motors to layer up the motors to a thickness you can use. With a more clam shell design you could use pins again to add rigid to center with help of Aluminum Standoffs. A plugable pi cam, would be cool. As would passthough holes big enough to mount a pin on ethier side for the battery. Love the designs, i wonder if a boat would work. You got my like.
this is legitimately incredible, bravo
Very cool
Maybe more motors could be added to increase the torque. You can perhaps put them next to the existing motors using zig-zag bends?
This is so cool. I Love the process!
Awesome project! Very inspiring video.
Cool idea with sharing CLK+DATA lines... I wonder why it ended up not working.
Your work is just so cool man, every video is better than the last
Really awesome project!!
Hardwork+smartwork ❤🎉
Your PCB motor has serious potential! Keep it up
I'd like to see a collaboration with a (swiss) clock maker for some geared hub motors with your pcbs.
Man trying to find his way to NASA! Don't stop the videos please, love them!
Absolutely great work. I think the 3D printed tires are to stiff and slippery, making the from a softer material like rubber will increase the traction.
i bet pcbway is having a blast designing these crazy pcbs
I liked the video before even started, I knew it is going to be awesome .