This is spectacular. Can you show us the build of the main board in a video? How to order it. How to populate it. All the connectors, motor drivers, etc.?
Cutting the GPS antenna cable to the correct length actually boosts signal strength quite a bit! It also is not that hard to terminate the cut cable. Nice video!
Holy moly! I just subscribed less than five minutes ago after seeing the first OpenMower video. What impeccable timing you have! This is brilliant. I've been eyeing autonomous mowers for a while, but hacking them to my benefit hadn't even occurred to me. With the cost of this, it's certainly an enticing project.
I've decided to build one myself. I'm still evaluating what platform I want to base it off of, but your project is giving me great ideas and things to consider
Hello from Australia!! I am keen to start the build myself also. I own a hardware store that stocks yardforce items. I also have my own workshop at home that has a large scale 3d printer. CNC router. Lathe and laser cutter. I'm keen to have a go.
I plan on building one of these soon. I'm very excited! Thank you for making this project possible as well as making it open source. I wish you the best of luck on your endeavors.
I am so sad I did not look ind to this last year, I was 100% on board on making one and help the debugging effort, I am actually right now looking in to build LARGE area mowers with robot vision, gps ect. and fleet mowing for way less what is on the market today, becorse a lawnmover is not suppose to cost more than a Vw Golf 😂😅 but I am very interested in finding the latest videos on this 😁😊
I have on old Rl2000 as well. Not sure what is working and whats not. Do you plan do throw all oryginal robomow electronics away and leave just motors with body?
I was very excited to see the first video popup. The only drawback is that I'm in the US. There basically seems to be no options as far as cheap robot mowers to convert. :\
@@CncObsession None that come close to price compared to what the official project uses. The project is based off of a mower that would cost about $400. I'm only seeing Worx mowers here in the US that cost $1000 and up.
I've been thinking about this for years now, so excited that someone did it! Sooner or later, I will build my own. The thing with the USB cable makes sense: Red and black are 5V and ground respectively, and white and green are the two data wires. Essentially, you made the USB equivalent to an RS232 nullmodem cable. Also, if you can, I would recommend putting cards to the assembly videos at the end of the original viral one. Furthermore, your channels main page is pretty empty, maybe you should also do something about that.
Super interesting. My yard is about 1600m^2. Most robomowers are too small for that. I’m converting a 21” electric mower, with drive wheels, and may apply your electronics and software to the system.
Well done on your project. We are looking for a robotic mower that can do stripes but it also has to be able to climb a bank at least 40 degrees maybe more. Hope your project goes well. All the best.
Wow! What a great project!!! I am thinking to build one for my 2500m² garden here in the north of Austria. Thank you for your work! Loce to see more!!!
Your work is absolutely terrific! For the time being I have just subscribed to all your updates, but I believe that what you're doing has great potential. I can't help a lot with with the hardware part of things, I know very little about electronics, but I have created and contributed to HomeAssistant integration and if you want some help creating a integration for this project I could help with that. I think that the target people for this kind of DIY projects and the kind of people who use home assistant might intersect quite a bit, so I think that having both speak to each other could be a good way of getting even more attention to this project, and hopefully patreons. I only have two questions. Have you investigated how many changes this project would require to work on the worx landroid lineup? And the second one, since this project uses an ordered mowing path instead of bouncing randomly, have you observed that the lawn area that the robot can mow is significanly bigger than with the random algorithm or the (probably) greater power consumption makes things even? From where I stand, I have the feeling that following an structured pattern leads to a low more mowing capacity.
I build drones for a hobby. I have full intentions on building this. If you would like I can also make videos but I need to find a cheaper base here in the US
You're doing what robot mower manufacturers should have figured out long ago. I'll definitely be keeping track of your progress. Getting a house on 1.5 acres of land and I've decided to go with a robot mower. Just too bad your project isn't ready to be sold as a kit yet. Looks like I'll have to settle for whatever is for sale until this is ready.
This project has inspired me to create my own robotic lawnmower. I wonder if anyone has implemented an inductance charger rather than a physical contact connection?
3 hours ago I walked out of the bathroom, after a long thinking session on the toilet. I thought to myself, "Why don't I make myself a robotic lawn mower?" And here this video was suggested to me. I didn't do anything about the idea other than think about it. How uncanny.
I am very interested in this. I wasn't even aware of the RTKGPS stuff until your last video. My goal is to build my own robotic lawn mower, more or less from scratch, but the same concept. I got a motor drive assembly and batteries from an old shopping scooter, so now I need to build a chassis and steering assembly with a mowing deck. I've been considering trailer attachments for things like fertilizer and weed spray so it will apply more accurately (Not using a spreader, but using a dropper instead).
It is always wonderful watching years of work/knowledge distilled into a convenient 20 minute video. Wonderful tutorial video, great project and great editing on that video.
Interesting project. Unfortunatly my garden has two levels (bout 80cm height difference) and only a stair between them... Else this would be a nice project to rebuild.
This is awesome and I would love to build one but unfortunately the only compatible mower that will work with Openmower is the one featured, the Yard Force Classic 500 which you cannot seem to buy in the united states for some reason. Even so, thank you for all your work on this.
I look very much forward to the next episodes as this project matures. I would love to see a hedgehog avoidance addon! Then maybee I finally can convince my wife on getting a automatic mower.
Respect for your work but there is a reason why other robot mowers use that chaotic pattern. Since they are running several times a week (on my lawn daily) they create noticable tracks if they run the same way every time. My neighbour has such track patterns on his lawn. Can't post photos here but it really looks dumb.
I got a Grizzly MR1000 where i guess the board is fucked. I get a reboot and it doesn't detect that the power button is turned on anymore. Maybe I'll one day get the mood and try this mod there. :) Amazing job!
I would like to apply this smart gps to my self propel slasher . I wonder if robot will ve able to drive 700 x 500meter with such accuracy? How it may cost electronics?
@ Clemens, is there any benefice in performance or lower power to use Ubuntu for the Pi4 OS instead of Raspian ? What motivates this choice ? Thanks ! Fantastic work !
The github page mentions this is expensive. Is there a rough cost, and also can we get the boards built and prepopulated by jlpcb or a similar service?
If you made a version that ran on a standardized Arduino board that people could just buy and drop-in, that would greatly accelerate your adoption. Of course that would leave out the GPS, the biggest feature in this project. Maybe a branch to focus on would be a GPS add-on board that can be easily connected to an off-the-shelf Arduino. The cost of the GPS itself is still rather prohibitive to a lot of folks. That's a whole other barrier to overcome.
This is brilliant. I'm looking at a similar project. I need to build an unmanned gritting machine. Obviously it's.goingnto need to carry significantly more weight due to the grit salt and batteries. But I was worried about developing the software. Would it be possible to have the system triggered by temperature? So if the team drops to say -1c it starts the cycle?
Wow, nice project. I don't know if you could use robot vacuum software (like Valetudo) for some functionality. They essentially do the same just instead of sucking the mower cuts. ;)
I realize this is a year old video so might not be relevant anymore, but here goes. Did i miss how the original sesors are handled? Like the bump sensor and liftsensor?
This is really great. I am looking forward to having a bit of fun with this over the summer. My yard is 3 acres though, how do you think that will impact the project? Time of course, but what about connectivity? Does the robot need wifi access for the duration? Great work by the way. I am following your progress closely.
Wow! This video, as well as the first video, are extremely helpful and informative! Thank you for everything you do! This company called "botbot robots" are selling something like this, id love to know what you think.
I love this project sooo much. We have a classic robotic mower, and this cable is just horror... Does your robot also dynamically avoid hitter obstacles?
I have been looking for a project like this for over a year and just stumbled into "open mowers". Your project looks great! Coming from an old time CNC programming background, I found it puzzling why there were no commercial vendor implementing a back and forth mowing pattern with in a virtual boundary, with avoidance areas. Your Project is good stuff. I eagerly await a plug and play version as I have zero electronic hardware skills, limited software skills, but many mechanical skills (retired Mechanical Engineer). Being Old and Slow could you direct me to a BOM so I can figure costs and start figuring out haw I can build one??
This is spectacular. Can you show us the build of the main board in a video? How to order it. How to populate it. All the connectors, motor drivers, etc.?
Yes Iv asked the same, no response? It's the perfect project, but missing some info
Cutting the GPS antenna cable to the correct length actually boosts signal strength quite a bit! It also is not that hard to terminate the cut cable. Nice video!
Can't wait for a plug and play kit and hopefully home assistant integration! So exciting to watch the progress!
Me 2
Same here
Looks great. I'm trying to keep myself from immediately jumping into building one, but hopefully soon 😊
If you can even find Raspberry Pi’s
For such an early stage project the production value is crazy good
Came here to say the same! I'm only about 3 min in but the snap release animation is a great touch!
Holy moly! I just subscribed less than five minutes ago after seeing the first OpenMower video. What impeccable timing you have!
This is brilliant. I've been eyeing autonomous mowers for a while, but hacking them to my benefit hadn't even occurred to me. With the cost of this, it's certainly an enticing project.
Tip: DO NOT twist the wire when you crimp the JST connectors - as you crimp, it cuts the strands if they are not parallel to the connector lugs.
This is relevant for all types of crimped connectors. Explains why I've had so many problems with bad crimps when making stepper motor connectors.
@@bogmaerke Yes, me the same, until Big Clive pointed it out! I wondered why my crimps were falling apart!
Thank you. I now know why lol. Makes sense now that I think about it.
I buy them in a kit with precrimped wires on amazon nowadays
@@embededfabrication4482 Good idea - makes it much easier!
I've decided to build one myself. I'm still evaluating what platform I want to base it off of, but your project is giving me great ideas and things to consider
Hello from Australia!! I am keen to start the build myself also. I own a hardware store that stocks yardforce items. I also have my own workshop at home that has a large scale 3d printer. CNC router. Lathe and laser cutter. I'm keen to have a go.
This is one insanely good tutorial. Excellent quality and insights. Can't wait for more!
I plan on building one of these soon. I'm very excited! Thank you for making this project possible as well as making it open source. I wish you the best of luck on your endeavors.
Hi Clemens. Many thanks for uploading this second video of your project. I appreciate it a lot 😎👌
I am so sad I did not look ind to this last year, I was 100% on board on making one and help the debugging effort, I am actually right now looking in to build LARGE area mowers with robot vision, gps ect. and fleet mowing for way less what is on the market today, becorse a lawnmover is not suppose to cost more than a Vw Golf 😂😅 but I am very interested in finding the latest videos on this 😁😊
Great job! I would like to integrate this with an old Robomow RL2000, which is basically indestructable and capable of mowing a much larger area.
I have on old Rl2000 as well. Not sure what is working and whats not. Do you plan do throw all oryginal robomow electronics away and leave just motors with body?
I was very excited to see the first video popup. The only drawback is that I'm in the US. There basically seems to be no options as far as cheap robot mowers to convert. :\
Worx has US sellers.
@@CncObsession None that come close to price compared to what the official project uses. The project is based off of a mower that would cost about $400. I'm only seeing Worx mowers here in the US that cost $1000 and up.
US yards are larger, so I’m looking into converting a 21” electric to drive motors and autonomy.
I have been dying for someone to start a project like this. Keep up the great work man!
Wish you luck. Desaign is good, wish you to start crowdfunding soon, coz on that product it would be posible to build nice company like Prusalab :)
Fantastic video! I can't wait for chip prices to get a little better, I want to try this so bad!
I've been thinking about this for years now, so excited that someone did it!
Sooner or later, I will build my own.
The thing with the USB cable makes sense: Red and black are 5V and ground respectively, and white and green are the two data wires. Essentially, you made the USB equivalent to an RS232 nullmodem cable.
Also, if you can, I would recommend putting cards to the assembly videos at the end of the original viral one.
Furthermore, your channels main page is pretty empty, maybe you should also do something about that.
Ich warte noch ein bisschen dann will ich das Projekt nachbauen. Super bitte weiter so. Bin gespannt auf die ersten Tests.
There is plenty of compliment in the comments here, but I will add one more - this was beautiful! I loved every second of the video. Well done!
Great project!! Greetings from Germany🌝
I am so interested in this. I'm in America though so getting that mower might be a pain. Can't wait to see where it goes.
Amazon Germany will deliver it to the US, total cost currently about $550.
Omg omg omg!!! This is awesome! I want MORE! finally there's someone capable taking control!
Yup! This is a great project. I think the robot mower companies will take notice as you go through R&D.
looks super simple! cant wait till the control board is available. Yardforce will be up in sales because of this mod
I would love to see the continuation of these series!
Brilliant! Gotta build one when I get a house 😄
Super interesting. My yard is about 1600m^2. Most robomowers are too small for that. I’m converting a 21” electric mower, with drive wheels, and may apply your electronics and software to the system.
Finally a mower that mows in straight lines!!
This project is GREAT!!
Hi Clemens,
Nice project, i'm really lookin forward to build one myself!
Super cool ;-)
Cheers
Evel
Outstanding project and very well described. Thank you for contributing.
Well done on your project. We are looking for a robotic mower that can do stripes but it also has to be able to climb a bank at least 40 degrees maybe more. Hope your project goes well. All the best.
Wow! Amazing done! Looking forward to see more vidoes! 🙌🇩🇰
Nice project! Did you design the mainboard electronics yourself? And what motor driver boards do you use?
Wow!
What a great project!!!
I am thinking to build one for my 2500m² garden here in the north of Austria.
Thank you for your work!
Loce to see more!!!
Hallo! Habe den Mäher schon bestellt und bin gespannt wie sich das Projekt entwickelt! Das ganze hat viel Potential! Weiter so!
Bin gespannt ob’s dir Platinen auch zu kaufen gibt oder man mal ne sammebestellung aufgeben kann mit den Source Daten 👌🏻
Your work is absolutely terrific! For the time being I have just subscribed to all your updates, but I believe that what you're doing has great potential. I can't help a lot with with the hardware part of things, I know very little about electronics, but I have created and contributed to HomeAssistant integration and if you want some help creating a integration for this project I could help with that. I think that the target people for this kind of DIY projects and the kind of people who use home assistant might intersect quite a bit, so I think that having both speak to each other could be a good way of getting even more attention to this project, and hopefully patreons.
I only have two questions. Have you investigated how many changes this project would require to work on the worx landroid lineup? And the second one, since this project uses an ordered mowing path instead of bouncing randomly, have you observed that the lawn area that the robot can mow is significanly bigger than with the random algorithm or the (probably) greater power consumption makes things even? From where I stand, I have the feeling that following an structured pattern leads to a low more mowing capacity.
Omg, did u said home assistant integration?
Completely agree, there should definitely be a Home Assistant integration!
You'll never get a response this is some kind of distraction technique
I build drones for a hobby. I have full intentions on building this. If you would like I can also make videos but I need to find a cheaper base here in the US
Looks amazing. I will very likely give this a shot once I get a bit of time. Just hope the robot doesn't go out of stock by that time.
You're doing what robot mower manufacturers should have figured out long ago. I'll definitely be keeping track of your progress. Getting a house on 1.5 acres of land and I've decided to go with a robot mower. Just too bad your project isn't ready to be sold as a kit yet. Looks like I'll have to settle for whatever is for sale until this is ready.
Subbed for future videos, great that you're doing a step by step build vid. Thanks for all your efforts
Ein geniales Projekt
That's awesome. Gives me hope I can bring new life to my Robomow when its board finally dies.
Great project, cool idea. But as you said, much money, much time
I will follow your channel for sure but probably don’t start it myself
Sauber! Ich bin angefixt. Tolles Projekt und hab gerade nix anderes auf der Werkbank...🤔😉
This project has inspired me to create my own robotic lawnmower. I wonder if anyone has implemented an inductance charger rather than a physical contact connection?
3 hours ago I walked out of the bathroom, after a long thinking session on the toilet. I thought to myself, "Why don't I make myself a robotic lawn mower?" And here this video was suggested to me. I didn't do anything about the idea other than think about it. How uncanny.
I am very interested in this. I wasn't even aware of the RTKGPS stuff until your last video. My goal is to build my own robotic lawn mower, more or less from scratch, but the same concept. I got a motor drive assembly and batteries from an old shopping scooter, so now I need to build a chassis and steering assembly with a mowing deck. I've been considering trailer attachments for things like fertilizer and weed spray so it will apply more accurately (Not using a spreader, but using a dropper instead).
It is always wonderful watching years of work/knowledge distilled into a convenient 20 minute video. Wonderful tutorial video, great project and great editing on that video.
Verry Cool Project👍
Looks Great
Awesome work and great project, cant wait for more info!!
Thanks!!
Einfach nur geil! Wir warten schon ewig auf sowas!
Interesting project. Unfortunatly my garden has two levels (bout 80cm height difference) and only a stair between them... Else this would be a nice project to rebuild.
I was looking into building a similar project. It looks like you are a few steps ahead! Great job. Subscribed!
Aaaaawesome! Thanks for the detailed tutorial. Became a Patreon. You deserve it. Totally!
amazing job man, i hope to see more of this project, i would like to do it too.
Your first thumbnail was very very good!
This is awesome and I would love to build one but unfortunately the only compatible mower that will work with Openmower is the one featured, the Yard Force Classic 500 which you cannot seem to buy in the united states for some reason. Even so, thank you for all your work on this.
Greetings from NZ. Awesome project.
amazing... great job!
Good Job Clemens!
I look very much forward to the next episodes as this project matures. I would love to see a hedgehog avoidance addon! Then maybee I finally can convince my wife on getting a automatic mower.
Cool project
Would be really nice to 3D print one from scratch! (not waterproof tho) Design could be iterated and improved at the speed of the internet
Excellent work! Good luck with the channel, really enjoyed the process you described :)
Nice Job!
This is a fantastic project. Great work!
Respect for your work but there is a reason why other robot mowers use that chaotic pattern. Since they are running several times a week (on my lawn daily) they create noticable tracks if they run the same way every time. My neighbour has such track patterns on his lawn. Can't post photos here but it really looks dumb.
Super. Jeep going..
I got a Grizzly MR1000 where i guess the board is fucked. I get a reboot and it doesn't detect that the power button is turned on anymore.
Maybe I'll one day get the mood and try this mod there. :) Amazing job!
A huge work! thanks for share.
I would like to apply this smart gps to my self propel slasher . I wonder if robot will ve able to drive 700 x 500meter with such accuracy? How it may cost electronics?
@ Clemens, is there any benefice in performance or lower power to use Ubuntu for the Pi4 OS instead of Raspian ? What motivates this choice ? Thanks ! Fantastic work !
this is awesome
Nice project! Well done!
Is it really necessary to use a raspberry pi4 for a MOWER instead of an ESP32 (found one in a vaccuum robot).
The github page mentions this is expensive. Is there a rough cost, and also can we get the boards built and prepopulated by jlpcb or a similar service?
I have built an RC controlled mower which can utilize this cool project and make it automatic.
Looks great, but it doesn't seem that Yard Force is available in the US. Is it offered here under a different brand name?
you could make it safer as well by using an automatically fed strimmer like head instead of the blades. as they sheer when they hit something hard.
More please 🎉
We need base hardware selection for USA people. That model is unobtainable in the USA as far as I can see at this time.
Really cool idea! But the thought of robots with spinning blades running around kinda terrifies me 😅
If you made a version that ran on a standardized Arduino board that people could just buy and drop-in, that would greatly accelerate your adoption. Of course that would leave out the GPS, the biggest feature in this project.
Maybe a branch to focus on would be a GPS add-on board that can be easily connected to an off-the-shelf Arduino.
The cost of the GPS itself is still rather prohibitive to a lot of folks. That's a whole other barrier to overcome.
That is true, but without the GPS the mowing behaviour is basically the same as in the stock unit. There would be no point in modifying it, then.
This is brilliant. I'm looking at a similar project. I need to build an unmanned gritting machine. Obviously it's.goingnto need to carry significantly more weight due to the grit salt and batteries. But I was worried about developing the software. Would it be possible to have the system triggered by temperature? So if the team drops to say -1c it starts the cycle?
Wow, nice project. I don't know if you could use robot vacuum software (like Valetudo) for some functionality. They essentially do the same just instead of sucking the mower cuts. ;)
this is so inspiring
I realize this is a year old video so might not be relevant anymore, but here goes.
Did i miss how the original sesors are handled? Like the bump sensor and liftsensor?
This looks pretty similar to a Tango. I wonder how feasible it would be to operate a JD tango with this?
great project! congrats! I would also like to ask you why nobody uses a lidar, like the ones from vacuum cleaners
This is really great. I am looking forward to having a bit of fun with this over the summer. My yard is 3 acres though, how do you think that will impact the project? Time of course, but what about connectivity? Does the robot need wifi access for the duration? Great work by the way. I am following your progress closely.
Wow! This video, as well as the first video, are extremely helpful and informative! Thank you for everything you do! This company called "botbot robots" are selling something like this, id love to know what you think.
I love this project sooo much. We have a classic robotic mower, and this cable is just horror...
Does your robot also dynamically avoid hitter obstacles?
I have been looking for a project like this for over a year and just stumbled into "open mowers". Your project looks great! Coming from an old time CNC programming background, I found it puzzling why there were no commercial vendor implementing a back and forth mowing pattern with in a virtual boundary, with avoidance areas. Your Project is good stuff. I eagerly await a plug and play version as I have zero electronic hardware skills, limited software skills, but many mechanical skills (retired Mechanical Engineer). Being Old and Slow could you direct me to a BOM so I can figure costs and start figuring out haw I can build one??
Please just drink some water or don't use so oversensitive microphone :)
Subscribed and liked! I'm watching all videos one by one :)
hope you will find a Sponser in the future for this Robolawnmover
Where do we get the PCB that the raspberry pi, gps receiver and motor control modules plug into?