Curiosity teardown: cheap "robot" vacuum cleaner
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- Опубликовано: 12 июн 2024
- Remember that cheap "robot" vacuum cleaner I got in the last mailbag?
Y'know, the one that didn't actually work when I opened it?
Let's open it up, see if it's fixable, and find out if it sucks or not.
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This isn't the only way to do it.
It's probably not the best way to do it.
But it's how I did it. 
Наука
The battery that you popped the protective cover on is an SLA battery. Maybe you can mod this thing to be a little more useful intelligent floor sweeper???
Stunned that it actually picked anything up! So you can't really give it an F, perhaps a D- grade?
This was hilarious, thank you Mr O'Stuff.
I was surprised that it got anything too. I suppose dog hair isn't that much of a challenge, though.
That battery looks like a 4v lead-acid battery. You can see the battery have vents. That's incredible how they cut on costs using exactly zero silicon on it 😅
New advertising on their box: “…a fragile piece of shit…” Mr Stuff! Thank you for taking the hit on this so we don’t have to. 👍😀
It's a sacrifice, but one I'm willing to make 😎
It's a technical term. We use to say it all the time in the test lab at uni'. 😉😆
The steering mechanism is the same as those 'bump and go' toys of the past.
To summarize: Yes, it sucks. But on so many levels.
The fake autonomous navigation is similar to the old Dingbot toy from Tomy
Same drive mechanism i think.
Am I the only one to get the Big Clive reference? "One moment please..." 6:30
I find myself saying “One moment please” in Clive’s voice all the time. The guy’s an influencer! 😂
Indeed he is.
As much as I try not to say it that way, sometimes I just can't restrain myself.
It's alive. After some work
That was way more impressive than I was expecting. It's still crap though. LOL.
I bought one of these to play with. Putting a power bank on top so that it is continuously 'on charge' really extends the run time. I can see it being useful as a cheap cat toy - although i dont have a cat to test this theory.
No-one ever has a cat, the cat has you 😸
Nice No.1 Safety Boots. I didn't know they came in white and flesh.😉
hah, i have one in my shop, it works fairy well, I added magnets to catch and round up screws that I have lost
"Bump and go" is the loose term for those drive wheels that change the direction of the "Smart" robot...!
I remember a lot of toys from the late 90s and early 2000s that had these kinds of drive. Especially things with lots of sound and flashing lights. It's strange that you've never seen them.
My toy experience was a few decades before that.
@@pileofstuff Sorry, unfortunately there was a translation error. I corrected it earlier.
yes it was worth every bit of 10 minutes.
the trouble with robot sweepers like that and the better ones is you have to keep the floor space free of obstacles something that is not going to happen around here any time soon
A few years ago I picked one similar to that one except it held six C size batteries. I picked it up because it was cheaper then buying the six cells separately and I needed the batteries for a flash light. it had about the same suck Shone power as yours, until I wired it uo with 24volt nicads. It really sucked then and I ran it until the motors started getting real hot. I let it cool down while I rewired the battery pack (20 rechargeable AAAs) by adding 10 more cells all on a long lead, this I hocked up in reverse polarity. It actually lifted off the ground for a couple of inches and hovered for about 15 seconds until the magic Smole came out of the motors.
Looks like $10 for some 3-5v DC motors, a handful of plastic gears , a couple wheels and a battery. Perhaps not the best haul but not likely the worst
Honestly, it's not bad for the price. You could easily spend the same amount on a crappy broom.
I'm still unsure as to whether or not the far more expensive ones are worth the money.
worth $10 just for the parts salvage. Might work in those tiny NYC 'apartments'!
Yeah, the motors and gears might come in handy
I am a little disappointed it isn't one with a spy camera that would be sending images back to the mothership in China. Then everyone there would be aware of your safety conscious, workshop footware.
Or it does not even connect to your wifi network and send back 3.5tb of data per second to the mothership
On the plus side, it seemed to like you.
Yeah, it was everything one might expect at the price, the only surprise was the failure modes. I didn’t see the mis-installed switch coming nor the self-breaking wire. It’s not really even good for parts.
Soo clearly.... just a simple lead-acid-battery (casing)... so no regulators needed... for the size a couple of minutes 'running-time'.
Replace with at least 6 V battery-pack or get it on 8 Volts or above.
Yes the battery is a small two cell lead acid, at least it won't burst into flames or explode, even if charging to 5 volt would be overcharging.
Great for turning into a robot Arduino or Raspberry pi
Only Chinese robot cleaners can suck that much without actually cleaning anything off the floor. 🤔😂
I am not sure that battery is Lithium Ion. It almost looks like a Lead Acid battery given the caps it has on the top........
that is a 2 cell lead acid battery
Well, apart from adding the brushes, its as useless as there version I brought.
I bought one of these and also tore it down. The thing does function on a couple surfaces but for the most part its bad
Perhaps a joint operation of you adding sensors and someone else adding the intelligence to the hardware upgrades too make this Smart.
That looks rubbish, but it would make a good robot.
Steal all the useable stuff out of it , throw the rest..
I bought one of these for like $5 just to mess about with. Yeah they are just garbage. That said it's amusing to shove a USB battery bank on top of it and watch it attempt to clean for a 12 hour run
Maybe we could go full PhtonicInduction and hike the voltage and current to all the motors!
I don;t think it would take much to pop this one.
Probably wouldn't even be slightly spectacular.
@@pileofstuff You won't know for sure until you hook it up to the 12kV primary lines.
The battery is a lead acid battery
That seems to be the consensus. First time I've encountered one in this form factor.
Now aside from this "fragile piece of shit" being just that but able to somewhat vacuum, tell me the truth and let us know what you were thinking when it was on the floor. Did you want to just step on it, and crush it to pieces? Lol