I let people control this robot
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I built a giant Tentacle Robot and took it to EMF Camp, and then let everyone have a go on it. This tentacle robot uses giant oblique angled swivelling servo sections made from plywood and 3D printing to move it's body. On top is another tentacle operated by cables with the manipulator on the end. The whole things is wireless (for now) and controlled with ESP Now.
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I love the video's and I'm glad to be here 2 minutes after upload!
I’ve recently created a UA-cam channel (Innovasciences) and was wondering if you knew companies who could sponsor my next video (an AI security system), as I need 40€ worth of parts. I’ve already sent about 15 emails and only two companies have replied (and won’t sponsor me).
really? promoting flat earth? as someone smart enough to build a robotic tentacle and other projects?
Now coilnfiuze is gonna make that don't he??
You have gotten REALLY GOOD with your welding skills!!! I remember when you first started welding the aluminum and you were worried about how ugly they would be, but you do make some clean welds my man!!! (but it's been all aluminum.... I don't know how different welding steel really is, but I've heard man times that welding aluminum is a lot hard than steel... so that is AWESOME!)
No, James, one was a lot of work. Three is a massive effort. Three and all the rest is a mammoth project for a solo maker. Brilliant stuff and much hard work.
There is only one phrase to describe James' channel. "Pure, unfiltered, uncensored child-like joy at creating things."
I don't understand how you build bigger and bigger robots in the same time frame between videos, but this is pure awesomeness!
well it has been a few weeks
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I love the way James builds a giant 2.5m tall robot only to put a tiny gripper on the end of it! 😆
The tentacle arm skipped hand day XD
🎶 most 🎶 un 🎶 der 🎶 whelm 🎶 ing 🎶 grip 🎶 per 🎶 of 🎶 the 🎶 weeeeeeek 🎶
It's weirdly cute😂
My favorite part is where he said "it's chassis time!" And chassised all over the place.
was he wearing a chassis-ty belt? :D
*proceeds to chassis* insparational
haha, I ruined the 69 likes
@@makeyspace no you didnt
Yes or when he sang "most underwhelming gripper of the week" really took me off guard haha
I built a Skutter from Red Dwarf with my partner & took it to CFZ 2024, it has appeared in a few people UA-cam videos now. The parts that were expected to cause problems did but I was already prepared for that one. We used ESP NOW & it was flawless, funny thing was we were not the only ones to bring a robot, just bought the most complex robot.
The real question is how anyone could possibly go camping WITHOUT a giant tentacle?
Obviously only posers
On a robotics point of view, it's great, but.... should have put the disco ball at the tip of the tentacle!
OK. I think I'm seeing a pattern here.
When you say "Chassis time!" that's when we cue the heist-team assembly montage music. Well done!
😁
Lovely content James. And a nice documentation of EMFcamp. It's always so nice to see enthusiasts grouping together to do wonderful stuff.
I just realized I've been watching your videos for 12 years now, and I still go back to that 12-year old video about coating foam with resin for my own projects.
Lovely to see your journey dude!
13:28 thank you for being so open about your development challenges.
The shoes are perfect. Maybe you could make a robot follow you in the dark by looking for those.
The FTV footage makes it so extra worthwhile!
Gotta ❤this creature !
I sometimes go back to your old videos, just to hear that awesome music you never play anymore..
Me too, you know where it came from because I cant find its source...
Can we see a shop/house/Old Projects tour? And do you reuse components from old projects or do you buy new every time? Awesome stuff dude. Make On
I have been watching you for years, I really hope one day you could consider teaching others or upload some courses online
You are going to need to move into a warehouse if these creations get bigger! Looks like a fun camp.
I always wonder how much filament and printing hours go into each project. Would be so interesting to see!
I can't believe it took me so long to find your channel. You're so dang smart and seemingly very educated. And you bring that special English tone to your videos that I think is just plain delightful. This was extremely interesting. Thank you for doing what you do.
EMF camp looks sick. I love your shiny sweater too
Wow, best build yet!!! Loving it and what a great place to demo the machine
Love the idea of these camps where curious and supportive people come together to learn, share, and dance wildly!
The speed at which you upload is actually impressive.
3:54 oh man, i love chassis time!
This is one of the most insane things I've ever seen. I am shook to my core by how cool it is.
It's a GLADoS. Mount it to the ceiling! Cake!
You are an inspiration to me. You bring to life things that have been in my mind for years but never had the ambition to build. The build quality and time you take to make your projects is amazing. True brilliance.
The only question I have on a project like this, "Just how many skateboard bearings did you use?"
If it takes a sponsor for such a small part, you know it's a ton.
... yes
It's official James is practicing to become a super villain.
I heard he is making a super weapon, something along the lines of manipulating gravity and creating a singularity. Rumors say that he is wanting to achieve it by placing together all the 3D prints he has.
It was clear when he started to make omnydirectional vehicles. This things radiates villain vibes!
Very abstract and cool. Form over function can be legitimately inspiring.
one day, one of your projects will become a revolutionary new way to move people & things while forever being cemented in history. Keep up the research!
you build and get it working (sort of) so quick . it must give a lot of joy . being a bit of a perfectionist and suffering from low budgets syndrome , I think watching you is making up for a lot of mis out's . my projects mostly happen on the tabletop in a very famous abs pre fab components . kudos !
Neat. I especially loved that you welded a frame for it. I'd love it if you incorporated welded frames into more of your robots for some extra sturdiness.
Take a shot every time James says "bearings"
😮😅
15 times?
It's more fun if you pretend he's saying “bear rings”
or “1.2mm nozzle”
Your robot looks like a doctor who prop. Just needs something to cover it so it looks like there could be an alien or something inside.
That not a tentacle, it’s a genticle.
I just had to make the futurama reference. Okay I’ll see myself out.
"Okay I'll see myself out" HAHAHA.
🦀🦀🦀🦀Hooray, people are paying attention to me! 🦀🦀🦀🦀
Watching and thinking what it needs is a chair on the end and there’s only one man to ride it: Colin Furze. Seems James beat me to that thought!
Brilliant project and loved the night footage :)
I wish I had the time and money to build something like this. Its amazing how quick you produce these massive projects. You could cover each section with a tarp or something like that to make it have some skin. Very cool project.
This was a great James vid. It had an extensive build, it had the british flair for useless things, and then he took it to a nerd camp. Awesome. This is such a strong bot.... something tells me james should treat this like Caterpillar does an excavator, and put different kinds of tools on it. If you buy a caterpillar excavator, you can put a bucket, a skinny bucket, a jackhammer, a bucket that swivels around for the best angle, but it has hydraulics at the end of the boom, so you can do anything with it. What can James come up with to put on the end of his new tentacle? I think he could put more LED's on it and turn it into a rave bot. James could put an attachment on it, and teach it to sweep his room. I don't know, but the opportunities are endless
So much electronics! Wish I knew at least 5% of his knowledge.
You should definitely do a "Behind the scenes" type of video episode where you show which projects you kept and which ones you dismantled for parts for newer projects.
Even if you have a workshop, or if you do this at home. May be interesting for us who subscribe to your channel. Even if you have any exchange with other UA-camrs in the UK or other countries
I will never understand how you manage to have such incredible output. This is SO MUCH EFFORT, and SO COOL
Brilliant project! I was laughing because as soon as you were talking about the idea of putting a chair on it, I immediately thought of Colin Furze and then you said it. LOL!
ELRS is definitely the way to go for an RC link, it's as solid as your amazing builds! 😊
All I gotta say is that I'm glad you use your powers for good, and not evil.
Glad to see you used the strongest shape to build your robot.
What a beaut. This robot (with some rgb leds) would fit so well into the VIVID Sydney light festival...
1:26 1.2mm nozzle!! That's some impressive hot end and extruder on that printer!
I would LOVE to be able to go to EMF Camp!!! It looks like LOADS of fun!!! But even more I would LOVE to be able to go to Maker Fest this week :'( But I am unable to :( there are SOOOO MANY of my FAVORITE youtubers there, and SO MANY COOL PROJECTS I would LOVE to see in person!!! And honestly I would LOVE to meet you ion person James, Just so I can shake your hand and Thank You for Keeping Nerding Cool!!! If I had a 3D Printer (and a TON of filament... and apparently TONS and TONS of BEARINGS lol) I would be trying to make cool gadgets and robots, and it's all because I discovered your channel and you have shown me what's possible and just how easy it is to get to making!!!
And of course there are a TON of other makers there that I would love to meet to... like SOOOOOOO MANY!!!! Oh you're so lucky you're there!! It looks like a real blast! HAVE FUN and BE SAFE!!!
Gotta love when brilliant people have fun. I hope you can do this forever Mr. Burton!
(tentacle-style end effectors are available off the shelf these days eh. maybe a giant clone using bladders made from pool toys. could even attach sucker feet at that scale, heh heh. rainy day idea, cheers)
"A DJ with... Owls? on his helmet making music with this pig some how without touching it" I laughed for way too long at that line
you should try building a ridable walking robot next, the 1.2 mm prints seem strong enough
See that one that just did a 5K? Imagine a saddle on that!
Those are much harder than you'd think: folks tend to underestimate the leverage involved in the legs. I've experienced it firsthand :D
He made an omnidirectional riding robot last time he went to this camp.
i so love it seeing all the symetrical wire loom that are wrapped and all neat in his remote control.
Respect for the flickering light warning, and great project!
The shoes fit the project surprisingly well lol
Would the omniwheel work for amphibious transportation? Like driving through high water/tide by having the width of the wheels aligned with the water flow while the secondary wheels roll the vehicle across the body of water...say there is a flooded street with rapid flowing water and you needed to help someone on the other side.
Would be a cool platform for some sort of programmable mobile artillery. You send a firing instruction containing some coordinates to the tentacle, it automatically drives out into the open, unfurls, moves into range, calculates trajectory and arm angle and launches some sort of projectile.
23:39 omg Harry Hill's TV Burp reference 😂 I feel like this is a very niche british pop culture reference only a handful of people will get so it makes me very happy 😆
EMF camp looks like a lot of fun. I wish I could be there!
It was great seeing you at emf again! Cool robot tentacle thing!
James, your voiceovers sound exactly like the science tv programmes we were made to watch at school in the 80s.😂✌🏼
Oohh, nice seeing the lego video getting a larger scale adaptation.
On a side note, I remember making a rig in Blender3D using inverse kinematics to determine the rotation. Also remember running into an issue where it would snap middle segments 180° between 2 frames. The target flat would have barely moved though, so in the sense of calculating the target positions it worked quite well. It just ignored physics.
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I don't understand how you are this productive 😅
I can’t believe it only took you a month to make this, literally insane
Fantastic work done James 👍
"...an umbilical, which is just a posh word for a bit of wire." I like this guy already. ;)
Once I saw the shoes I couldnt unsee them :P - Great job on the tentacle too :D
Got to love the random 'Harry hill tv burp' reference 😂😂😂
Such a tremendous amount of work and knowledge!!!!!!!
You’ve really excelled yourself with this one.
Love it dude so cool! Great flashback to Mark's video.
This is very good robot , well done!!
man the work and trubole james goes though all for our enterteainment
Having one of these constructions work In The Field (literally) for days and days, instead of just enough for a couple of videos, is *amazing*. I'm curious what the inverse-kinematics equations look like for the full build, especially given that it's still hard for *humans* to control...
I'd love to see you make a transforming tent that can walk between campsites! =)
legs would have probably been better in the mud
I chose to take a drink of water right as the video ended. My screen came very close to getting an impromptu shower.
Go with 2 mm nozzle and 2.85mm filament (or 3) and get a slicer that allows you differential printing (that is to say, allows you to print certain areas in one regime and other areas in another) so you can print the filling and non vital surfaces in speed and the vital ones slowly and with more definition. Also, the smush, set it with a credit card for maximum layer adhesion. That should give you a very strong part.
I would love to see a video of you modeling theese kind of things. So. Many. Components. And I feel overwhelmed when I try to design a 4 part thing xD
So I would love to see your approach for modeling. Thanks for great content!
(this is for your last video, with the screw bike) GET RID OF THE TOGGLE SWITCH IDEA
make a single forward reverse toggle, and then make left handle do a right rotation, and right handle do left rotation, like those zero-turn lawnmowers with the handles. to go forward (or backwards) twist both!
i see you're bringing the funk out for chassis time
Awesome robot!
Instead of a bunch of sticks, dials, switches etc, it would've made more sense to have a more waldo-style controller, like the one you demonstrated with Mark in the beginning; but doing some trig translation so you can use a simpler 6dof rig controller instead of having to replicate the full mechanism of the robot for the waldo. That's for the tentacle itself; something like a Spacemouse kinda thing would make sense to control the wheels though.
Like maybe like a backpack kinda thing, with the tracking rig for the right arm with a squeeze thing at the end for the gripper, and a classic jetpack style arm-rest with the spacemouse for the left arm.
1:56 less than 2 minutes in and the scale makes you look like a mad scientist building a robot to take over the world.
I've been working on a mini version of this as a tentacle for halloween. But I've got side-tracked by a new design for an infinitely variable transmission. One day I will finish something.
Presumably you've all seen the three-tentacled MARM bot from Italy? I think it's supposed to go to the ISS for testing as its outdoor repairer. There's at least one video on here about it. It looks very effective. Each leg/arm can function as either. Cool stuff. :-)
looks to me like the worlds most elaborate spliff passing machine
I think you need more batteies, or putt independent batteries in each stage, for only the systems in that stage.
I'm an old sub, but that hurt my brain. WTF‼🤠
Electronics and Drum n Bass, sounds exactly like my kind of event :D
man, that camp looks like a fun time
Amazing! I can never figure out how you can create all these projects in such short amounts of time. Do you ever sleep?
I did not read "tentacle" when i glanced across the video title....and i'll be honest "giant Testicle robot" would have been funnier! 🤣
Brilliant well done mate
Remember, every time you're sitting on your bed watching youtube... James is building robots...
I must learn how to do this! I think that robot is beautiful. And I want to perfect it.😮
Love it! Thank you for this.
24:40 bros got the silver victor soto fit.
James, you're going to need to upgrade to a proper shop if you keep building bigger things! Would be awesome to see that you could get up to with more space.