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Androofroo
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Приєднався 22 жов 2006
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tl;dr
My name is Andrew Frueh but muh channel name is Androofroo. I work with digital media, robotics, and performance art. My work focuses on exploration of systems and autonomy. I am interested in how agents behave and effect each other and their environment. I like to collect impressions using audio and video. I like to build things. I like to teach. Also, I have Tourette Syndrome and loads of co-morbid learning disabilities, so sometimes my work is about that.
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tl;dr
My name is Andrew Frueh but muh channel name is Androofroo. I work with digital media, robotics, and performance art. My work focuses on exploration of systems and autonomy. I am interested in how agents behave and effect each other and their environment. I like to collect impressions using audio and video. I like to build things. I like to teach. Also, I have Tourette Syndrome and loads of co-morbid learning disabilities, so sometimes my work is about that.
big robot arm with just the tip
Here again I am playing in the studio with this string pulley mechanic robot arm for performance art puppetry. I have attached a big plastic finger tip to the end just to see if it can carry the weight and it can so that's good. All the parts are 3D printed and using steel cable with play mechanics.
All of these components are part of the powder of Life framework...
github.com/andrewfrueh/PowderOfLife
All of these components are part of the powder of Life framework...
github.com/andrewfrueh/PowderOfLife
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Відео
string pulley mechanics test
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This is me in the studio testing out a mechanical robot arm what type of linkage with string pulley mechanics. Everything is 3D printed and I use steel wire and aluminum crimp beads. And sometimes the robot hurts me. #powderoflife #performanceart #mechanicalengineering
String pulleys for robot arm mechanics update
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String pulleys for robot arm mechanics update
AI on Woodson v Grant and race in America
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magnetic absolute encoder AS5600 and a little knob
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Building robust connections for your project
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an automatic drawing created with a #buzzbot (not sped up)
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String pulleys for robot arm mechanics
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This 3D printer ASMR is not illegal (anymore)
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Voltage regulation with cheap buck converters for your robotics projects
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Ultrasonic vs IR sensors for proximity detection with Arduino servo motor robotics
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How to connect wires and components without solder
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Upgrade your Arduino servo knob project!
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Good Builds, Bad Builds: Reacting to Arduino servo knob projects
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I can’t tell if bro invented a new type of ASMR or torture
both
Have you tried using the digital output? (I2C)
@@evgeniic I have not yet. And from what I was reading online it seemed that the output was still fairly noisy... and I've been satisfied with the analog output so far so I haven't bothered to try it.
Thank you very much for this video. I didnt know, that for use Output pin is necessary connect VCC and GPO pin. Now it working well.
@@ThePerseus32 you bet! Thanks for the note 😁
UA-cam randomly recommended it to me and it looks so funny. Actually kind of sick.
I guess sometimes the algorithm does something good after all 🤣. Thanks for your note. Glad you enjoyed it!
What in the freaktron 2000 did you just make Dr. Diddy?
I hate it when my robotic finger touches me
i dont know what this is but you need to stop and get therapy
weirdo
so creative!! this just made me smile 😂❤
no, your comment just made ME smile 😁
thats awesome dude
how strong is it? Can this be used to lift things?
Not very strong unfortunately. It mostly lifts its own weight.. I have been able to attach big sheets of chipboard that are painted and it's able to lift those. But I think you hit the limit pretty quick
One of your main issues with your assembly is rigidity. Your improved tensioning system has assisted in this, but the material and shape of the arm itself is doing you few favors in that regard. The V3 pulley assembly itself is tall, but immediately connects to a significantly thinner arm section. While you get enhanced leverage, you also end up with an underbuilt arm connection for said leverage. Inherently speaking, the larger the arm, the more weight you sling around AND the larger moment of inertia, both working against you. Solutions: 1. optimize models -> cut weight on the arms and pulleys, lowering moment of inertia and weight to improve responsiveness, ease of control, and stability. 2. improve arm moment of area -> in the same way an I-beam gains efficiency per weight in terms of preventing bending, you can make your arm geometry more efficient for a specific axis, improving its efficacy in certain directions. Your rectangle setup works, but could be improved for additional effectiveness 3. supplement arm leverage -> Your arm segments are acted on by the small connector at the end of the pulley. To improve stability, consider extending that connector's length and rigidity. Additionally, you may consider using a wire assembly outside of your pulley to act as another method of rotation transfer, similar to what you have already, except arm segment to segment instead of assembly to assembly. I'm working on some files for you, but I need the following: 1. diameter of wire sheaths 2. length and diameter of your bolts (I use M4x6x6 threaded inserts and 12mm grub screws, for example) 3. pulley diameter 4. arm segment width and height 5. pulley connector dimensions (the part that slots into the next arm right at the end of your pulley) As of now, I have ideas for improved generic arms (similar in function to yours, with weight savings that hopefully lead to improved responsiveness and lower slop), as well as specialized arm geometry (larger footprint than your current ones, pick based on the arm section's purpose) for lifting type loads (alongside the pully direction, such as for when your arm goes up and down a lot or needs to move a heavy object), torquing loads (forces that do not line up with the pulley but instead try to twist the joint sideways, like if you extended your finger and then pushed against the side of your nail), and both (essentially just a larger arm segment with good geometric stability). Your pulley assembly is mostly fine, I have yet to investigate its internal wire pathing to see if sharp corners exist, but other than some weight savings you can add, the pulley seems alright. The fork is less than ideal for stability, but you lack good options without increasing the footprint significantly, and/or utilizing larger connections at the rotation points.
As always, an amazing assessment and very thorough. It'll take me a minute to digest all of this 😅 but thank you for taking the time give me such good feedback.
Ask for the numbers..... that build uses M3 Hardware throughout. No M4 in the design currently.... but possibly in future designs. The wire sheath is PTFE tubing for 3D printing so it's something like 2 mm ID but it's the stuff they sell on Amazon. The cable is something like 1 mm stainless steel. The internal police are I think 10 mm diameter.
@androofroo M4 was an example. I like multiples of 4 due to geometric relations, the strength of M4 inserts are significantly above M3 for a similar size, and M4 bits are the largest bits still considered small scale for most applications (such as for use with pen screwdrivers). I did not intend to suggest that you utilize it yourself, though i would suggest using a larger rod for your pulley. I am looking into 8mm brass rods that work well with 608RS (Forgive me if I misremember their designation) bearings, perhaps look into similar as well? On an unrelated note since we are now both sharing information, would you perhaps know anything about low cost vacuum chambers and/or arc deposition? I am designing a low cost TiN deposition device and the more information the better. High voltage arc generators are high on my priority list if you know much about them.
@@Gaaaaaame I'm printing up a new version today actually that uses M4 pulleys for the internal wire Channel because I like that profile better.... even though I think it's going to add a little weight. And yes indeed as for the Axel of the police I hate riding on that M3 Bolt. My new version which I have not made any videos of yet has a ring bearing instead of a bolt... it seems quieter and more stable.
@@Gaaaaaame as for the vacuum chamber thing... oof, I do not. I don't currently have any kind of welding setup but I'd love to have oxyacetylene again at some point in the future. Maybe if we had more square footage LOL
Excellent! The improvement from the larger pulleys is obvious. Well... it is now you have so clearly demonstrated it! 👍 😜 How are you going to explain the bruising and lacerations on the hospital A&E admission form? 🥴 Looking forward to future iterations... Like & Subscribed.
@@PiefacePete46 Thanks! I'm hoping it never does 🤞, but if the inevitable hospital visit does arrive I will know I brought it on myself 😅
@@androofroo : Or the "Ghost in the Machine"? 😱
@@PiefacePete46 maybe... waiting for me... emergent behavior 😲
Thank you.
@@that_guy8893 happy to share
great job. cheers from Saudi Arabia.
@@Alxhadi Thanks! Cheers back at ya
Here to see your most up-to-date progress on this. If you wish for a use case, I'd suggest looking into ways to transfer human scale movement into smaller scales. If you have a miniature arm with a gripper, for instance, then a full scale one that you wear, so long as you do not twist your arm too much, you can significantly increase the precision of your movements. This can have benefits when drawing (replace gripper with pen), precision assembly, etc. Just be sure to make the pulley ratio the same (else your 90 degree arm rotation could transfer to multiple full rotations on smaller pulleys at the other end). If you scale things down, consider using a bolt with fishing wire wrapped around it, simply wrap the excess slack around a small bolt and screw it down, that will remove the tension and secure the wire. I have not looked into its creep factor, however, which may be a concern.
@@Gaaaaaame I love this suggestion, it reminds me of something MC Escher writes about in terms of the limitations of our own precision ( he built a stack of magnifying lenses to enhance his precision at tiny scales for woodcuts so now I am picturing Escher with a robotic arm).... also, LOL... everyone else wants me to go the other direction and build a mech
@androofroo mechs are overrated (source: insufficient funding to produce my own at the current time) Jokes aside, string mechanisms are one of the more effective ways to assist body motion on an exoskeleton, lightweight and low cost. People have been itching for it online for a while now, as "true" mechs are immensely difficult to design due to control (how do you follow body movements properly), weight, cost, and sources of control (good luck matching muscle strands on the body in terms of mobility options, this is why mechs are stiff compared to humans). Making a puppeted mech is doable, but unlikely to work if free to move due to the significant wire connections, limited movement options, and lack of feedback for the operator.
Also worth noting that the piezoelectric market is steadily growing, I wrote a paper on it last year and it appears to be something worth looking into if you wish to assist human motion in the coming years. Their primary issue is heat dissipation and low relaxation speed if I recall correctly, perhaps best suited for situations already covered by hydraulics for heavy loads, though less likely to damage the user on failure and able to fit smaller form factors with less piping overhead.
@@Gaaaaaame 🙌 my thoughts every time I hear the request
Something to note: you do not appear to have any fillets in your parts. The pulleys especially suffer from this. Fillet the ends for what amounts to free additional durability, as those sharp angles are going to lead to stress concentrations. Also, your wire force appears to go mostly into the channel walls or into the tensioning area, this will lead to rapid wear and induce failure under high loads, as the majority of your pulley surface is not utilized, also having sharp turns in your wire where they transfer forces inside that pulley will lead to fatigue. Instead of this, try to get friction across the wire length, such as perhaps with an outer disc on your pulley that can have its radius reduced. Also consider using a helical structure instead of a flat pulley, though be warned that shrinking this structure is easy (and works well due to exponential friction with multiple windings on the pulley), but will cause rapid fatigue of steel wire if the radius is too small, be sure to not go below the minimum pulley radius for your wire diameter, and consider using string with a low stretch factor instead to shrink your transfer pulley as the wire is not the limiting strength factor in your design. Edit: upon reading another comment, you mentioned that shrinking your pulley makes the tension mechanism hard to fit. Consider raising the height of your pulley with a second portion that you can rotate independent of the first. This "upper" portion of the pulley will be able to hold the wire ends. You can attach the wires, then twist the upper portion and glue to the main pulley, holding the tension. I find that hot glue on PETG works well, use some glue channels on the tension pulley for a flush fit.
@@Gaaaaaame wow a lot of good info here. Thanks for the comprehensive notes -- good for future reference 👍 And yeah this is a constant problem in building the various components in this larger framework github.com/andrewfrueh/PowderOfLife ... getting into so many domains simultaneously always seems to carry the risk that I'm missing critical domain specific information, so thanks again.
@@Gaaaaaame also, do you have any recommendations for good low stretch string or cord? I've tried waxed polyester but I have a hard time finding something that has the power transfer of Steel cable. I'd love a recommendation
@androofroo i know of one but forgot its name. Ill attempt to find the name of it, keep in mind that it is not the easiest to find unless you are in europe based on what i have heard, but it is still attainable in the US. Ill check out your github, links are often scrubbed from comments on youtube, so if you have an email address that isn't listed on your channel, providing me with one here will allow me to throw some part files your way. Also do tell me what file types you can open, as i operate using sldprt but can export to several others.
Rope notes: Paracord creep factor is high "DM20" (which I believe stands for Dyneema m20) has extremely good creep factor but is hard to find outside of Europe Vectran is not terrible but weakens and loosens over time.
You have action at a distance, now throw a ghost on the end for *spooky* action at a distance.
@@Gaaaaaame 👻
Exhaustion from Fighting the fickle finger of fate ? ❤
Dystopian-esque
I’m not dirty minded, I’m not dirty minded, I am dirty minded 😭
Art hmmmm na mental illness mm yea
illness ❎️ ... disability ✅️
pure retardium
Wtf!😂
Controlling chaos… fight on. 💪
holy effin shhhh! what an amazing video! keep 'em coming! just discovered your channel and I love it!
m(_ _)m ... and many thanks! I'm starting to find my legs with shooting things like this, and I actually kind of hate being on camera, so I really appreciate the encouragement
@@androofroo keep on doing it! It's really awesome seeing this mechanism! And the evaluation you did and everything! Would love to see you tackle some big project like a rover or robot. And you look good on camera too, don't be shy
@@gazorbpazorbian 😁
Always striving ❤
👏👏👏❤️
Ok cool but I think you can offset that with smaller pullies in more of cherry block system You might also line the rolling joints video Rolling contact joints Rolling joint gives different kind of vid lol
Yeah it would be interesting to have a block with multiple pulleys and yeah of course that would help with mechanical advantage for sure but the extra complexity makes me wince a little so I think I'll stick with the single pulleys for now. Also, yeah I searched rolling joint system... 😂
@ that was my thought as well I was considering trying and was like nope pain in the butt When I was doing this I made module That could use to interface with other things
@@preppertechnicianee6013 indeed modular component architecture is the best
Shadow play❤
I would be curious if bicycle shifting cable housing could work even better? The shifting housing has an inner lined tube for low friction and then the outer wall has small, stiff wires embeded in it running the length. The shifter housings are very stiff as opposed to brake cable housing which are made to squish down a bit to reduce the bite of the brakes. Bought in bulk, I wonder if the cable housing could be cost-effective too? Neat project! And it's fun to see the evolution of it!
Thanks for that suggestion! Yeah I really need to look into bike parts as I'm sure they have much tougher tubing I could leverage. I just happen to do a lot of 3D printing and Fabrication so PTFE was my go-to LOL. Thanks for the note (*^ω^)ノ
@androofroo of course!
Super nice project, thumbs up and keep us on par.
Thanks for the note I'm enjoying the process
This is amazing! That seems to work really well. Shame that human arms have so many degrees of freedom, I kinda wanna see (or make if I had the time) one that could copy a human shoulder+elbow+wrist and do some juggling exercises..!
Thanks for that! and yeah I'm with you I would love to do a full body manually powered mech 🤘... I'm sure at some point there's diminishing returns with this system... so maybe not that, but it is going to keep getting more complex.
@@DanielSimu plus I checked out your channel... of course you would suggest juggling LOL
@@androofroo Yeah, every joint adds a bit of slop and play.. but 6 axis may be achievable, if your system is modular?
@@DanielSimu indeed it is. In fact it's part of a larger framework which is entirely modular including the software components... it's grown so quickly it's kind of a hot mess actually so half my work is clean up
this could be nested inside a CV joint to add axial rotation maybe?
Seeker. ❤
Cool description and demonstration ❤️
Stranger in a strange land ❤
He's going to trip get hurt
@@Woodcrafts59 I'll try not to 😉
And the fight goes on❤
Reaching for freedom? Or just contemplation.❤
Onward and upward💪
Fighting the good fight💪❤️
Facing danger bravely 👏💪
Tf are u talking about?
Art lies in the eyes of the beholder, but sometimes there's just nothing to see.
That looks like something else
Keep fighting the good fight💪🤜💥
what?...
He’s baaaaack 😮
Wtf 😂
I found your video while trying to figure out why the default analog output mode wasn't giving me an output. Pulling gpo high sorted me out. Thanks.
Sure thing. Glad it helped!
....effective but,not strong enough..!
Agreed.... I'll be happy when it can break my arm