This is a pretty sweet build! Some thoughts: 1. One issue I noticed right away has to do with how the camera is mounted; to prevent parallax error, you will need to incorporate a nodal slide. Here is an explanation: fstoppers.com/education/beginners-guide-parallax-and-how-avoid-it-when-shooting-panoramas-485141 2. This would be *PERFECT* for photogrammetry as it will allow taking pictures from every possible angle, even sets of exposure-bracketed and focus-stacked images. Even better, with the addition of a simple projector on the side (www.thingiverse.com/thing:692318), you could do structured light scanning, using a filmstrip of gray code stripes. 3. For bright, high-quality lighting, you can use parts of a dead LCD monitor to put lights... anywhere, really. Matt has you covered for this: ua-cam.com/video/8JrqH2oOTK4/v-deo.html Does that make sense? P.S. Once you have the project wrapped up, be sure to send it to mailto:tips@hackaday.com as they *LOVE* stuff like this.
Awesome, Thanks for the info! I'm still amateur but I sort of made this setup with my camera in mind (G85) I had it setup almost right where the sensor sits in the frame on both rotating axis. I was trying to balance things out so the motors didn't have to work as hard ...AKA... could be smaller and lighter but it is a bit nose heavy still. That's an easy print to fix/test... There was one shot in the video (also jittery for other reasons) but I did a zoom pull in post which might have given a weird effect (wasn't using the focus motor at the time)
@@DoItWhenever I originally also pivoted around the sensor, but any point other than the nodal point will cause parallax errors. (I found out about it while trying to figure out why I couldn't take panoramas with objects closer in.)
Hey, theres this guy who built a crazy 8 axis ceiling mounted version, ua-cam.com/video/ZB5mL6vfh1o/v-deo.html perhaps its got some answers, cant seem to work it out myself , id love to see this, think he uses Dragon frame tho...
For the open-source control software: Use ROS and MoveIt. It calculates all the inverse kinematics of the arm and it lets you program complex multi-waypoint trajectories. That's what they use for industrial robot arms :)
Inverse kinematics was something I wanted to suggest. Since you already got a Pi, you could also slap a screen on there and give it a "teach mode" where you move it to specific locations and it repeats those. A of now, it would have to be powered up though, as you have got no encoder feedback. Maybe that could be a future idea? You could also take inspiration from professional cinema robots. Maybe talk to Steve Giralt about that? (In case you don't know him, he is the god of cinema robots)
I like that a 3d printer's mindset is like "How much is an automated boom arm for my camera? HOW MUCH? I ain't paying no stinking $25,000 for an automated boom arm; I have a damn 3d printer at home"
Filament is cheap if you can make it at home there are plenty of filament making machine tuts on the net the cost of plastic prime pellets are some about 2 $ to 3.5 $ per Kilogram if you buy a 25 kg bag ... The machine cost is not more than 500 $ if assemble @ home the extruding cost for plastic filament and labour together is not more than 30 cents per Kg,
Man, I like UA-cam. Out of nowhere there is cool guy with an amazing complex project, simple explanation and super fun edit. Like I have to watch the video 3 times just to get all the cool details. Also, nice strain relief at 5:13
So glad to see your recent comment. Greatly relieved that this isn't going to be vaporware. Have printed a few things, collected a few, sourced a few, waiting on the next two vids. Thanks for sharing your hard work!
The amount of ingenuity, skill and tenacity you have demonstrated here defies any description my clumsy wording could attempt to justify it with. If I could give this video a thousand likes I would. Instantly subscribed. I can’t wait to see what you do with this channel.....
Amazing! Always wanted to do this, just never had the means. I'm SUPER impressed!!!! This is beautiful. Thank you for sharing this. As a huge bonus, I had never heard of electrical slip rings, but always wondered how this was done. Industrial lexicon is often the biggest barrier to taking on new things, and now you've given me a new set of words to work with. THANK YOU!!!!!
It would be awesome if you could somehow record movements with the motors off and the replay the motion for organic yet precisely repeatable camera moves
@@DoItWhenever You may want to look at ODrive motors with built in encoders. That way you can have 'servo' like performance as well as read back positions. The encoders can be bought separately as well.
You should consider adding some encoders to each joint. That would allow you to manually move the camera (while pressing your motor disable) to different poses and record each. Interpolating motion between those keyframes is pretty straight forward kinematics and could be do ne in software. Then you would have a super fast "teach pendant" mode of programming the robot. Just move to multiple poses, press a button to record each, then choose a speed and press play. Would make this thing incredibly handy. If you wanted to get really fancy, You could replace each stepper with a BLDC motor (anaheim sells nema 17 sized drop in replacements). Other than smoother motion, the benefit would be the ability to control them in current mode or torque mode, and program some software controlled compliance to each joint, making manual operation super smooth. Good work, this thing is super kickass, can't wait to see where you go with the project and channel. Subbed, good luck!
I agree, take a look at the robots on James Bruton's UA-cam channel. Some robot's have beside encoders in the joint also pressure sensors, so he can detect if the joint is moving manually.
Stunned!! Thank you for this you genius. I’ve been looking for something like this to hang from the ceiling for an in studio camera and mic solution. 3 of these for multiple angles. ‘’Not difficult just a lot of steps” how many hours? This thing is so COOL!👍👍👍 interesting. I’m grateful for your schematics. 😁🕊
Thanks, I don't know how it would hold up ceiling mounted though... It's sort of designed for movement in the current orientation... The turret bearing might not support everything if turned upside down and you'll lose travel in the arm position unless mounted quite low off the ceiling.
It would be extremely interesting to see and hear your reasoning for various failing solutions, why they didn't work out, and then what you tried next. The whole process.
I've just stared making my own camera motion controller. I'm just starting with a slide for now. specifically, I want mine to be controlled via DMX, which is the same thing that theatrical moving lights use. I already know how to program a light board, so I figure I could use one to control my robot. It might be something to look into for you. Some of them do offer sort of timeline editor as well. Basically you assign each motor an address that'll be at a value between 1 and 255. mapping that to your max and your min values (or your max and min speeds) should give you easily programable and repeatable results.
the control side is where things get really fun. I haven't even explored all the options...half of which might be out of my wheelhouse to program or code. I love all the ideas coming though!
As for the software you were talking about may i recommend looking at Stephen Hawes camera slider build. He used blender and a custom script inorder to generate the gcode for his slider :)
I'll have to check the blender option... I've seen a bunch of different ways to control the steppers, but one thing that tends to be a limiting factor was controlling 6 axis... My coding skills are the least developed :)
@@DoItWhenever That whole intro was what go me dangling on the tip of my chair for the full 25 minutes. Yes ... I had to watch this 3 times in order to capture all the details you have in here 👍
What I was thinking while watching this, If there was position feedback. Encoders maybe. So that you could manually perform some motions and have them recorded, then converted to G code. Great project. I hope that I could find the time to make it, or a derivative.
Yeah, watching this reminded me of the auto-calibration features of the Hangprinter¹ project (massive room-scale delta FFF 3D printer). The auto-calibration² uses Mechaduinos³ - stepper motors with add-on boards to give position feedback and closed-loop control - to allow calibration of the Hangprinter by setting the motors to a special "torque mode", then dragging the extruder assembly to various positions, with the Marlin firmware tracking the position. At least, that's my understanding! I've not built a Hangprinter (yet!) and I'm not following the project super closely; I've just had a quick read of the documentation. So I'm wondering if similar hardware & software could be useful for this project - which looks super impressive, btw! :) The Mechaduino is US$65 for a NEMA17 and the control board⁴, so that'll quickly add up and become quite pricey for this project. There exist cheaper clones/similar devices from various Chinese 3D printing-related manufacturers that may or may not be compatible/reliable. I don't like advertising clones of anything, however, even if it's open source hardware, like the Mechaduino (CC-BY-SA), so please do support the Mechaduino creators if you're able
Not at all... I saw your rig long before I made mine that thing is so freaking cool... Yours has so much awesome engineering and professional... Mine is like a kid's toy compared to yours :)
Dude, this is amazing. Im looking into printing one of this but im a noob in terms of coding, i'll wait until the comunnity makes some kind of software like dragonframe. Awesome, you won my sub and like
I just saw this on thingiverse and I was mindblown after watching the video. I guess it's time for me to learn about electronics as well! I'll definitely try it if I ever get the skills to assemble everything without causing a fire
Ya know those videos that say MUST WATCH or THE ULTIMATE... or THE GREATEST...? Well this is the first one I've seen that lives up to the hype. Add in a wicked good production value for free and you sent my brain into overload. Thanks for he adrenalin rush.
I love that project! I did a motorized 3d-printed pan-tilt-slider to use for my dragonframe projects and i spent hours and hours for that. I can't imagine how long you were tinkering to get this awesome thing done!
Nice project, it looks really nice. The only 2 thing I would add is an encoder at each motor so that you can save the position while manipulating it by hand. The other is add a hook to add weight to better the balance
The whole back unit is the counterweight! about 10 pounds on my rig...the counterweight slides as well so you can get a perfect balance...... kinda like an old school scale at the doctors office
A killer feature would be adding encoders to every axis, and being able to save different positions as keyframes and writing some software to connect the dots. That would take it from impressive to absolutely insane.
I envy you, not just for your amazing engineering skills and your will to succeed, but also for the amount of time that you have taken to get this far. Well done! 👍
You are creating something epic!!! I'm sure you already know that given the amount to energy and time you have invested in this amazing project. Looking forward to watching your progress. Thank you for sharing your skills with the world.
are u kidding me....i thought i've seen all overbuild camera arms out there.... this is some next level ironman jarvis business going on here. hats off, that must have been a monstrous project
Man!! What have you done?!? This simply looks incredible and trust me, you could be changing lives with this project. It opens to a lot of opportunities for people who can't afford a robotic arm(like Bolt) and want to have fun or increase their project value. Looking forwad for the next videos, keep it up man, congrats and thank you!😀
That's ... awesome! My only concern is PLA plastic usage, that's the last plastic I will use if we are talking about about durabilitiy, UV and 60C+ temperature resistance, etc. Otherwise -- wow!
I would agree, but PLA is actually not a bad choice considering a huge factor is rigidity. You cant use it at 12pm in the sahara lol .... I agree PLA has a few drawbacks but overall stiffness is a higher value target worth the compromises.
Awesome. I make models all the time and would love one of these to photograph them in a cooler way for presentation. This seems like an affordable option. Now I just need to find the time to make it in my spare time. Maybe a real hobby going forward with a goal in mind. Thanks for sharing.
Impressive commitment, progress, and perseverance! 👏 Of all the DIY handheld gimbal orgys, this simply outdoes that entire discussion. I can see how many hackers will contribute, and I can already see the RPi with onboard AI happening relatively soon.
Great project! Would be awesome if you would combine the manual motion mode with a "record position" button to just record a bunch of positions and to generate the gcode from that. Easy and no software required. Would require some additional encoders though.
Not going to lie. This is one of the coolest projects I've seen in a long time. Bravo sir, BRAVO! You have earned this subscription. Excited to see your future projects.
Once all the motion control work is done, it would be fun to program this arm to do long-exposure astrophotography, as well as long exposure 3d pans and such.
Iv watched this video 10 times, so excited, can't wait to start building your creation. It has been a dream of myn to have something like this to help tell story's. Thank you so much for your generosity in sharing this information.
@@SglTurner I'm doing the electronics video now and followed by the assembly video... It's taking me a bit longer than I wanted to I've been pretty busy with my day job :(
@@DoItWhenever How's it going Bud? Just wanted to let you know that I am still watching your video and eager for your next, hope you are keep well. Regards Shane
This looks great. It would be great, if I could manualy setup the position and movement and let the rig "remember" the settings and movements and then show me them and allow for manual tuning the timing etc. for those movements. I will need something like this next march, and for now this looks by far the best dyi rig i have seen.
cool project. I don't like all the cut scene stuff, but the project and your self imposed open source limitations are very cool. I'm doing my design work with freecad and have run into some of your same problems (it looks like). I especially liked how you showed the frustration of things not working, which is something that everyone just glosses over. It's nice to see that I'm not the only one who needs to do things over and over to get right.
SUBSCRIBED! That idea of just printing once and nail it... yea I still some times make the mistake of believing that myself, when reality is more a question of how many failed prints it’ll take until I’m satisfied... :)
Wow, very well done! For the programming of this Camera rig: a few days ago I started to plan a motorized slider with pan and tilt function, so it's only 3DOF instead of the 6DOF of your rig, but maybe you could also use a similar technique. I am planing to use two joysticks to control the slider. The idea is to start at specific point and then press "record" and move the slider to the desired position with the joysticks. All of the inputs are then saved to a log file and can be repeated as often as you like. With a few potentiometers you can then speed up or slow down the movement and have a repeatable result. By using Joysticks with a Twist Axes, you could use just two joysticks to control all 6-Axes. While this will probably need some time to get used to it, I think it should be possible to control. Personally I like the idea, that you can just try out different movements and directly see how it behaves and then later on be able to repeat the same movement.
Wow, amazing work! That’s how all research and development projects go. The success is so much sweeter at the end. If you use motors with encoders, you program it by creating a record by hand feature, move by hand, it and then replaying that motion. Less programming gcode, and use this method to generate gcode to tweak later.
Hola world, I hope you enjoy the latest DIW Project
Hey can you send me an email? michael@nerdtronic3d.com
This is a pretty sweet build! Some thoughts:
1. One issue I noticed right away has to do with how the camera is mounted; to prevent parallax error, you will need to incorporate a nodal slide. Here is an explanation: fstoppers.com/education/beginners-guide-parallax-and-how-avoid-it-when-shooting-panoramas-485141
2. This would be *PERFECT* for photogrammetry as it will allow taking pictures from every possible angle, even sets of exposure-bracketed and focus-stacked images. Even better, with the addition of a simple projector on the side (www.thingiverse.com/thing:692318), you could do structured light scanning, using a filmstrip of gray code stripes.
3. For bright, high-quality lighting, you can use parts of a dead LCD monitor to put lights... anywhere, really. Matt has you covered for this: ua-cam.com/video/8JrqH2oOTK4/v-deo.html
Does that make sense?
P.S. Once you have the project wrapped up, be sure to send it to mailto:tips@hackaday.com as they *LOVE* stuff like this.
Awesome, Thanks for the info! I'm still amateur but I sort of made this setup with my camera in mind (G85) I had it setup almost right where the sensor sits in the frame on both rotating axis. I was trying to balance things out so the motors didn't have to work as hard ...AKA... could be smaller and lighter but it is a bit nose heavy still. That's an easy print to fix/test... There was one shot in the video (also jittery for other reasons) but I did a zoom pull in post which might have given a weird effect (wasn't using the focus motor at the time)
@@DoItWhenever I originally also pivoted around the sensor, but any point other than the nodal point will cause parallax errors. (I found out about it while trying to figure out why I couldn't take panoramas with objects closer in.)
Hey, theres this guy who built a crazy 8 axis ceiling mounted version, ua-cam.com/video/ZB5mL6vfh1o/v-deo.html perhaps its got some answers, cant seem to work it out myself , id love to see this, think he uses Dragon frame tho...
For the open-source control software: Use ROS and MoveIt. It calculates all the inverse kinematics of the arm and it lets you program complex multi-waypoint trajectories. That's what they use for industrial robot arms :)
Thanks, I'll check it out
Inverse kinematics was something I wanted to suggest. Since you already got a Pi, you could also slap a screen on there and give it a "teach mode" where you move it to specific locations and it repeats those. A of now, it would have to be powered up though, as you have got no encoder feedback. Maybe that could be a future idea? You could also take inspiration from professional cinema robots. Maybe talk to Steve Giralt about that? (In case you don't know him, he is the god of cinema robots)
Sweet baby jesus... this project is epic! Subscribed and cant wait to see the next parts.
Thanks! it's super neat that people like this rig :)
Uncle Jessy brought me here !
Nice!
Looks like the algorithm is doing gods work tonight. The real question is, am I prepared to tackle this
It is incredible!!
“Not difficult, just a bunch of steps” basically describes life
You caught my sarcasm. :) but if you can build lego... you can build this.... it's just the millennium falcon of kits :)
i giggled hard xD
Wow, what have you done... Great job! And oh yeah, you can be the next Stuff Made Here! :) Keep it up!
Awesome! Thanks :)
How to Mechatronics, your camera slider project was pretty awesome too. Gave me some inspiration for my own rig.
Just need acceleration and deceleration.
I want a tutorial on camera bolts
I like that a 3d printer's mindset is like "How much is an automated boom arm for my camera? HOW MUCH? I ain't paying no stinking $25,000 for an automated boom arm; I have a damn 3d printer at home"
Pretty much the story of my life :)
Exactly. I'd rather pay $30000 in filament costs and R&D.
@@tamurhaq 😂 people act like 3d printing is free
Filament is cheap if you can make it at home there are plenty of filament making machine tuts on the net the cost of plastic prime pellets are some about 2 $ to 3.5 $ per Kilogram if you buy a 25 kg bag ... The machine cost is not more than 500 $ if assemble @ home the extruding cost for plastic filament and labour together is not more than 30 cents per Kg,
@@PabzRoz please, explain the cost of the alternatives. I'll wait.
Man, I like UA-cam. Out of nowhere there is cool guy with an amazing complex project, simple explanation and super fun edit. Like I have to watch the video 3 times just to get all the cool details. Also, nice strain relief at 5:13
lol NICE!
Designs are never final. You just get to the point where the flaws are small enough that they can wait until V2.
Amazing job, man.
Thanks!
holy F, well done
thanks!
So glad to see your recent comment. Greatly relieved that this isn't going to be vaporware. Have printed a few things, collected a few, sourced a few, waiting on the next two vids. Thanks for sharing your hard work!
Sorry its takin so long :) I'm definitely workin on the new vids... I'll probably have others after these, that cover other questions and features
@@DoItWhenever Excellent! Thanks again.
The amount of ingenuity, skill and tenacity you have demonstrated here defies any description my clumsy wording could attempt to justify it with.
If I could give this video a thousand likes I would. Instantly subscribed. I can’t wait to see what you do with this channel.....
Thanks! I really appreciate that
Amazing! Always wanted to do this, just never had the means. I'm SUPER impressed!!!! This is beautiful. Thank you for sharing this. As a huge bonus, I had never heard of electrical slip rings, but always wondered how this was done. Industrial lexicon is often the biggest barrier to taking on new things, and now you've given me a new set of words to work with. THANK YOU!!!!!
It would be awesome if you could somehow record movements with the motors off and the replay the motion for organic yet precisely repeatable camera moves
Thanks! This project is definitely in its infancy... I can easily see that that's a possibility
Came here to say this as well.
@@DoItWhenever You may want to look at ODrive motors with built in encoders. That way you can have 'servo' like performance as well as read back positions. The encoders can be bought separately as well.
Just 1 word to describe your job:
AWESOME!!!!
Thanks a lot.
thanks a bunch!
You should consider adding some encoders to each joint. That would allow you to manually move the camera (while pressing your motor disable) to different poses and record each. Interpolating motion between those keyframes is pretty straight forward kinematics and could be do ne in software. Then you would have a super fast "teach pendant" mode of programming the robot. Just move to multiple poses, press a button to record each, then choose a speed and press play. Would make this thing incredibly handy. If you wanted to get really fancy, You could replace each stepper with a BLDC motor (anaheim sells nema 17 sized drop in replacements). Other than smoother motion, the benefit would be the ability to control them in current mode or torque mode, and program some software controlled compliance to each joint, making manual operation super smooth. Good work, this thing is super kickass, can't wait to see where you go with the project and channel. Subbed, good luck!
I agree, take a look at the robots on James Bruton's UA-cam channel. Some robot's have beside encoders in the joint also pressure sensors, so he can detect if the joint is moving manually.
You could also have a mode where you sample the positions at let's say 30hz and store the smooth motion for later replay.
Manually moving to and recording poses/framings would be so great!
Came here to say exactly this!
Stunned!! Thank you for this you genius. I’ve been looking for something like this to hang from the ceiling for an in studio camera and mic solution. 3 of these for multiple angles. ‘’Not difficult just a lot of steps” how many hours? This thing is so COOL!👍👍👍 interesting. I’m grateful for your schematics. 😁🕊
Thanks, I don't know how it would hold up ceiling mounted though... It's sort of designed for movement in the current orientation... The turret bearing might not support everything if turned upside down and you'll lose travel in the arm position unless mounted quite low off the ceiling.
Then again if the arms were shortened a bunch I don't see why you couldn't have a small mobile ceiling mounted camera
Dude, this is epic... Imagine this mounted to the ceiling instead of the tripod....
The SKYNET is the limit! :)
@@DoItWhenever And some epic bullet time type shots too...
The effort put into the intro made me like the video instantly
lol Thanks :)
It would be extremely interesting to see and hear your reasoning for various failing solutions, why they didn't work out, and then what you tried next. The whole process.
there were so many issues :) I'm trying to make light of them in the other 2 build videos to help others avoid wasted time and plastic :)
Dude, well done! I have half of those parts laying around.....now to get printing. This thing is seriously awesome.
Have fun!
I've just stared making my own camera motion controller. I'm just starting with a slide for now. specifically, I want mine to be controlled via DMX, which is the same thing that theatrical moving lights use. I already know how to program a light board, so I figure I could use one to control my robot. It might be something to look into for you. Some of them do offer sort of timeline editor as well.
Basically you assign each motor an address that'll be at a value between 1 and 255. mapping that to your max and your min values (or your max and min speeds) should give you easily programable and repeatable results.
the control side is where things get really fun. I haven't even explored all the options...half of which might be out of my wheelhouse to program or code. I love all the ideas coming though!
Wow! Speechless! So many awesome details and then holistically. Then open source!?! Awesomeness. Thanks for sharing!
Wow, thank you!
As for the software you were talking about may i recommend looking at Stephen Hawes camera slider build. He used blender and a custom script inorder to generate the gcode for his slider :)
I'll have to check the blender option... I've seen a bunch of different ways to control the steppers, but one thing that tends to be a limiting factor was controlling 6 axis... My coding skills are the least developed :)
There were at least 3 points where I wanted to stop and like the vid only to realize I already did earlier. Great project!
Nice :)
I can't believe you did that whole intro just for the gimbal joke. Most excellent.
lol It's so ridiculous, probably cost me a few views :)
@@DoItWhenever That whole intro was what go me dangling on the tip of my chair for the full 25 minutes.
Yes ... I had to watch this 3 times in order to capture all the details you have in here 👍
@@Rob_65 lol Awesome!
Very sweet! With your talent, and other talents out there, it would be cool to have a button to press to record manually manipulated camera movements.
Thanks!
Hahahahaha that was the best intro I've seen a while. Couldnt figureout where that was going at first.... *Gimble
Lol it's so ridiculous.... I'm glad somebody else saw the humor.... I'm just lucky the project is cool enough to carry it through my silly edits
Gimbal*
That is super cool, I like the manual override
2:10 “What is my purpose?” “You move my camera”
You created a way cheaper way to have access to these. And made everything open source. I love that. I cant wait to see your future projects
Awesome! Thank you!
What I was thinking while watching this, If there was position feedback. Encoders maybe. So that you could manually perform some motions and have them recorded, then converted to G code.
Great project. I hope that I could find the time to make it, or a derivative.
That would be awesome!
I just had the same idea while watching.... some quadrature encoders and maybe a psoc or similar.
Yeah, watching this reminded me of the auto-calibration features of the Hangprinter¹ project (massive room-scale delta FFF 3D printer).
The auto-calibration² uses Mechaduinos³ - stepper motors with add-on boards to give position feedback and closed-loop control - to allow calibration of the Hangprinter by setting the motors to a special "torque mode", then dragging the extruder assembly to various positions, with the Marlin firmware tracking the position.
At least, that's my understanding! I've not built a Hangprinter (yet!) and I'm not following the project super closely; I've just had a quick read of the documentation.
So I'm wondering if similar hardware & software could be useful for this project - which looks super impressive, btw! :)
The Mechaduino is US$65 for a NEMA17 and the control board⁴, so that'll quickly add up and become quite pricey for this project. There exist cheaper clones/similar devices from various Chinese 3D printing-related manufacturers that may or may not be compatible/reliable. I don't like advertising clones of anything, however, even if it's open source hardware, like the Mechaduino (CC-BY-SA), so please do support the Mechaduino creators if you're able
This is amazing. I’m getting into 3D printing and this project checks all the boxes.
Awesome!
This man is about to blow up! This thing is a masterpiece. You got a new subscriber :D
Thanks!
The best 3D printed project I’ve seen!
Looks amazing! can´t wait for more! I will defneatly try to build one. Just got done building my own CNC router and was looking for an new project.
Awesome! I need to build I nice stout cnc router. so many possibilities
It's a great job. I worked really hard to make something similar, but you did it more easily and clearly.
Not at all... I saw your rig long before I made mine that thing is so freaking cool... Yours has so much awesome engineering and professional... Mine is like a kid's toy compared to yours :)
If you made all your design open source, you definitely are different from AvE or Stuff made here. Better
Cool video regardless
Wow, thanks!
The craziest feature of this rig is how it somehow got on the subscribe button clicked on.😁
Looking forward to the deep dive.
Hey, Merry Christmas!
Welcome aboard!
Dude, this is amazing. Im looking into printing one of this but im a noob in terms of coding, i'll wait until the comunnity makes some kind of software like dragonframe.
Awesome, you won my sub and like
Same boat! I'll have that other video up to explain it....it's pretty simple and all plug and play on the software and hardware
It is nice to see smart people on UA-cam
“Awesome” does not not even begin to cover this thing!!!
Thanks!
True we Bill!
I just saw this on thingiverse and I was mindblown after watching the video. I guess it's time for me to learn about electronics as well! I'll definitely try it if I ever get the skills to assemble everything without causing a fire
It's pretty much all off the shelf stuff nothing too complicated
DAMNN THIS IS FIIRE
Ya know those videos that say MUST WATCH or THE ULTIMATE... or THE GREATEST...? Well this is the first one I've seen that lives up to the hype. Add in a wicked good production value for free and you sent my brain into overload. Thanks for he adrenalin rush.
Awesome, That makes me tingle inside :)
This is pure genius! Nice work
Thanks a lot!
Just browsing Thingiverse, i saw your work, came here and subscribed! That's a sick DIY!
Awesome, thank you!
I love that project! I did a motorized 3d-printed pan-tilt-slider to use for my dragonframe projects and i spent hours and hours for that. I can't imagine how long you were tinkering to get this awesome thing done!
Its still not done. :)
From tunisia in africa
Thks my bro y're genius
wow thanks!
Nice project, it looks really nice. The only 2 thing I would add is an encoder at each motor so that you can save the position while manipulating it by hand. The other is add a hook to add weight to better the balance
The whole back unit is the counterweight! about 10 pounds on my rig...the counterweight slides as well so you can get a perfect balance...... kinda like an old school scale at the doctors office
A killer feature would be adding encoders to every axis, and being able to save different positions as keyframes and writing some software to connect the dots.
That would take it from impressive to absolutely insane.
awesome, I'm doing the electronics video next and hoping to address the issue of how we can all work on this project as a community!
What a cool project. Well done. Pure genius.👍
Glad you like it!
Recording the movement directly from the arm and being able to edit it afterwards would be so awesome!
there are youtube videos and there.s this masterpiece. hats off sir.
Thanks a bunch :)
Epic Project. Time to get the 3d Printer working again!
I have some videos planned on the printers I made as well!
This is a total monster you should market it this beast. I would buy one. Well depending on the cost. It is pretty slick!
You’re a genius. This is amazing. UA-cam is an incredible resource and you’re living proof of that, just wow. Seriously, wow.
This is certainly the coolest open source motion control rig I've seen yet. Nice work.
Wow, thanks!
I envy you, not just for your amazing engineering skills and your will to succeed, but also for the amount of time that you have taken to get this far. Well done! 👍
Thank you very much!
You are creating something epic!!! I'm sure you already know that given the amount to energy and time you have invested in this amazing project. Looking forward to watching your progress. Thank you for sharing your skills with the world.
Awesome, thanks!
are u kidding me....i thought i've seen all overbuild camera arms out there....
this is some next level ironman jarvis business going on here.
hats off, that must have been a monstrous project
Man!! What have you done?!? This simply looks incredible and trust me, you could be changing lives with this project. It opens to a lot of opportunities for people who can't afford a robotic arm(like Bolt) and want to have fun or increase their project value.
Looking forwad for the next videos, keep it up man, congrats and thank you!😀
Thanks a bunch!
That's ... awesome! My only concern is PLA plastic usage, that's the last plastic I will use if we are talking about about durabilitiy, UV and 60C+ temperature resistance, etc. Otherwise -- wow!
I would agree, but PLA is actually not a bad choice considering a huge factor is rigidity. You cant use it at 12pm in the sahara lol .... I agree PLA has a few drawbacks but overall stiffness is a higher value target worth the compromises.
I really hope for a full video of the assembly, that'll motivate me for doing it.
Now I just need to scale this down for use with my GoPro in my tiny studio!
Nice work, thanks for sharing!
Awesome. I make models all the time and would love one of these to photograph them in a cooler way for presentation. This seems like an affordable option. Now I just need to find the time to make it in my spare time. Maybe a real hobby going forward with a goal in mind. Thanks for sharing.
It is a great jig, I put my 3D printer to work. A long way to go
Thanks for sharing your project.
Fantastic!
I've been wanting to do this myself for over a year now, maybe now is the time to actually get started on it...
Nice! I'm doing the electronics video next!
Bloody hell! That pisses all over the jib I built a few years back! Awesome job sir! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Wow..This is F..King AWESOME ! Congratulations !!! thank you for sharing your great work !
Impressive commitment, progress, and perseverance! 👏 Of all the DIY handheld gimbal orgys, this simply outdoes that entire discussion. I can see how many hackers will contribute, and I can already see the RPi with onboard AI happening relatively soon.
This thing is just getting started :)
Here from Design Prototype Test link. NICE project man. This is nuts
Awesome, thank you!
Nice project! That's dedication. Can't wait to see if Ivan Miranda takes on this project - Ha!!!!
Thanks!
That's pretty badass - looks like it could use some stiffening to remove a few wobbles, but otherwise absolutely amazing crack at motion control!
Definitely not a professional rig but it's pretty sweet... Stay tuned for the other videos! I have more info coming on that
@@DoItWhenever Can't wait! Keep being awesome!
Great project! Would be awesome if you would combine the manual motion mode with a "record position" button to just record a bunch of positions and to generate the gcode from that. Easy and no software required. Would require some additional encoders though.
the SKYNET is the limit :)
Great and fantastic project!
I've been waiting for it for a long time!
Now I am waiting for the details! Then I'll make it too.
Thanks
Nice! I'm doing the electronics video next!
Not going to lie. This is one of the coolest projects I've seen in a long time. Bravo sir, BRAVO! You have earned this subscription. Excited to see your future projects.
Awesome thanks!
Wow. You, sir, deserve more subs
Great tool for videomaking enthusiasts
Thank you very much!
Once all the motion control work is done, it would be fun to program this arm to do long-exposure astrophotography, as well as long exposure 3d pans and such.
Next level play, next LEvel play. Dude this is awesome to share!
:) 😊 thanks
Man... this is so impressive... can't even picture how many hours you spent on all this!
Iv watched this video 10 times, so excited, can't wait to start building your creation. It has been a dream of myn to have something like this to help tell story's. Thank you so much for your generosity in sharing this information.
Awesome, I'm glad others can use it as well!
@@DoItWhenever How are the next videos coming along?
@@SglTurner I'm doing the electronics video now and followed by the assembly video... It's taking me a bit longer than I wanted to I've been pretty busy with my day job :(
@@DoItWhenever I will wait patiently! Hope you have a fantastic newyears eve!
@@DoItWhenever How's it going Bud? Just wanted to let you know that I am still watching your video and eager for your next, hope you are keep well. Regards Shane
Bravo, excellent work, subscribed and clicked on the bell icon. I was sold on first few minutes. Now show us how you did it and how we can do it too.
Thank you! Will do! next video is the electronics
Congratulatons! Great, complex, and hard project!
This looks great. It would be great, if I could manualy setup the position and movement and let the rig "remember" the settings and movements and then show me them and allow for manual tuning the timing etc. for those movements.
I will need something like this next march, and for now this looks by far the best dyi rig i have seen.
Nice! I'm doing the electronics video next!
Eres el maestro de la perseverancia! Felicitaciones y quedo en espera de ver tus siguientes videos.
cool project. I don't like all the cut scene stuff, but the project and your self imposed open source limitations are very cool. I'm doing my design work with freecad and have run into some of your same problems (it looks like). I especially liked how you showed the frustration of things not working, which is something that everyone just glosses over. It's nice to see that I'm not the only one who needs to do things over and over to get right.
You had me at “This Old Tony”.
SUBSCRIBED! That idea of just printing once and nail it... yea I still some times make the mistake of believing that myself, when reality is more a question of how many failed prints it’ll take until I’m satisfied... :)
I have even more then that table in the vid lol I wish i would have keep every failed print I've had in the last 8 years
You are ridiculously talented.
Thanks :)
@@DoItWhenever you should build Ironman when you are done with the camera stand.
Subscribed in a heartbeat. I might try to make it myself. I don’t even have a camera but who cares? A project this epic deserves a make 👍🏽
Awesome, It's really like lego....Off the shelf... and easy to do :) Stay tuned for the other videos
I'll say it.
You are AMAZING.
What you did here is actually the perfect reason to buy a 3D Printer. KUDOS.
I love functional printing
What a contribution to the community! Respect.
Loved the zooming portion, I didn't count that in , in my design.+1
Thank you! Cheers!
Nailed it! Hands down one of the best videos I've seen in a long long time. This might be a great project for my son and me.
Wow, thanks a bunch!
This is EPIC !!!! I may need to run all 6 of my printers to build one !!!
Wow, very well done!
For the programming of this Camera rig: a few days ago I started to plan a motorized slider with pan and tilt function, so it's only 3DOF instead of the 6DOF of your rig, but maybe you could also use a similar technique. I am planing to use two joysticks to control the slider. The idea is to start at specific point and then press "record" and move the slider to the desired position with the joysticks. All of the inputs are then saved to a log file and can be repeated as often as you like. With a few potentiometers you can then speed up or slow down the movement and have a repeatable result. By using Joysticks with a Twist Axes, you could use just two joysticks to control all 6-Axes. While this will probably need some time to get used to it, I think it should be possible to control. Personally I like the idea, that you can just try out different movements and directly see how it behaves and then later on be able to repeat the same movement.
the SKYNET is the limit :)
OMG, this is more than epic there is no word to describe how awesome this is.
This is the best thing i have ever seen.
nice!
Wow, amazing work! That’s how all research and development projects go. The success is so much sweeter at the end. If you use motors with encoders, you program it by creating a record by hand feature, move by hand, it and then replaying that motion. Less programming gcode, and use this method to generate gcode to tweak later.
Thanks, This thing is just getting started :)
It's going to take me six months to print all this, but I'm definitely building this.