Summer 2018 Made In My Lab - Tape, Cable Sorter, Battery Condition, Learn Robotics Programming
While writing my new book, I did make some recordings. This is a compilation of some videos I made then. * Adapting a box to store cables. * Testing different distance sensors, and using flask to make a menu server. * Checking the freshness of metal hydride batteries. * Answering a viewers question about why I have so many kinds of tape in my lab. * And some more information about my book Learn Robotics Programming: https://www.packtpub.com/hardware-and-creative/learn-robotics-programming
After giving a tour of the robot cupboard in my last video, I had suggested there would be some video from the electronics cupboard and my 3d printing/CnC corner.
The hand written signs were made by my daughter and lab helper Helena. The chips and components boxes include stuff like a collection of 74 series and 4000 series logic chips, stuff pulled from ancient dead 8 bit computers and parts harvested from printers or scanners.
This is a follow up to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i3bSW3xsgA
The CnC machine is a cheap thing from China - see more of it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb6-HwbN3JM
The 3D printer is the ReprapPro Ormerod 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr66ORXc7eQ
The esp8266/nodeMCU projects are related to Bounce - see here for more info on that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uelfYQEbfZA
Other "random kickstarter projects" included The Gravity Light and The spare parts for the uArm (now part of Armbot).
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqE5O2QciSA
Following my previous video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2R1TG9Ku_kg - a few small changes make this into a recording light for when my lab (ahem living room) is being used for recording. Battery powered, wifi and usable from a phone.
Rest of the Orionrobots esp8266 series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXxP0FUTG0Fm4TeORqiYne44PhnMHKMDG
Previous Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2R1TG9Ku_kg - Esp 8266 Web/Phone Controlled Led
Next Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbCKPT93_w4 - Ws2812 Neopixel Led Strip With Esp 8266 And Nodemcu
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcXD9HL3CRc
This Piwars robot, a Raspberry Pi toy hack, is attempting to autonomously navigate a tiny course I set. I've not quite got turning circle vs distance right, but with grippy treads, this had amusing consequences.
In a take I didn't have the camera rolling, it even manages to tip back enough to eject the batteries.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cNYVqxZdiI
The feet on these scales had fallen off and been lost. I decided to try a simple set of replacement feed made in Tinkercad, sliced in Cura and printed on my Reprappro Ormerod 2 3d printer.
The result looks rough, but kind of works.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqyQpo1Uv-M
In todays drawer, I find two parts of. beam sensor - a beam emitter and detector. We connect this up to the Raspberry Pi Pico and build a few games to play with it. We then use the sensor to tap out a tune. using the musical library.
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Music:
Me - vtest,
Press Fuse (Youtube library) - French Fuse.
Clowning around - by Jason Shaw on https://audionautix.com, released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aEUiqQZ25c
This is the twelfth day with this electronic Sound Advent Calendar. This solderless breadboard kit builds component-by-component into an electronic synthesizer circuit. It suggests there is a new electronics experiment each day. This time I bring in an oscilloscope
I open the twelfth window in the calendar, then build the circuit and test it, but this time, through the oscilloscope and look at some of the wave shapes at different locations in this little circuit.
Expect bleepy noises!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C1lF-54nOU
My lab helper and son Jon assists me in another robot build - building the 4tronix Unotron - a robot with one drive wheel and a steering servo. We use an Elechouse 15a Driver board with an Arduino Nano on board.
More info on the 4tronix Unotron:
http://www.4tronix.co.uk/arduino/4tronix-Unotron.php
Link to info on the ElecHouse 15a Driver board:
https://goo.gl/8akuOV (Elechouse.com)
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Music Used:
* Intro Music - myself
* Bell - myself
* MakingSomething - myself
* Adventures - A Himitsu
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Music provided by Audio Library https://youtu.be/MkNeIUgNPQ8
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Tonight I'm fixing a CnC board - it's turned out to have more problems than originally expected. The board is from Lee Lipinski and has yet to be seen working by either of us. My cnc has been fully functional, although I've dismantled the control box to test Lee's board.
There were questions about 3d printing, and a close look at the mods I made integrating grbl into my cnc with an arduino Uno.
Original cnc unboxing video (which Helena forgot being camera girl for) : https://youtu.be/MrDIu_dOczg
Video on the grbl conversion of the cnc: https://youtu.be/dL2rBP5c4qs and https://youtu.be/MmxsdWPjTtQ
When I blew up my cnc: https://youtu.be/5dG0UPwRt30
My current and only 3d printer : https://youtu.be/Jr66ORXc7eQ (a kit form Reprappro Ormerod 2).
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo0OdpegvjI
The CNC 3020 machine I got came with poor fitting nuts for jobholding - they didn't go smoothly, or even without some serous force into the T-Slot. You can't ignore problems with jobholding. I explain why, and that a trip to the DIY shop was the easy solution. Measure the t-slot you have, get nuts that will go in fairly easily - and tighten them down.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8m5mvBT41I