Insanely cool design, but please don't forget that even though you control the reliability of your invention, you don't control the quality of the rail construction lol be careful dude
You know, I really like the concept, but, why is it wrist-mounted rather than being mounted near the centre of mass of the person? I know it looks cooler like that, but closer to CoM would allow for locking, and rotating the whole body further out of vertical orientation, which might be very important for horizontal travel while hanging
I was going to say this!! He maybe do some exoskeleton but for ascend and descending spot robots so they can climb trees and decapitate passing humans, i think wild life would be to jumpy, but jokes aside, this content is gold...
Yes. I do climbing/rappelling etc. the rope is attached to the waist harness because it allows the force to be centered on you. Also, it makes it so you can walk down the wall rather than scrape against it.
This is amazing! But be careful as someone who does inventions ab everything chemical mechanical and things prone to being toxic and not safe. we tend to get carried away. I dont want to see a video on my feed and the tittle being " I messed up ... The Amazing" please be careful! this is sick!
For real, going out without a spotter at night, doing a 2-3 story test-drop above solid concrete, with poor visibility. If it jammed or something snapped, he'd either be stranded or dropped in a potentially lethal way, but yea. "Dw!"
@@Roobotics and that would be his decision to make? why are you sour about someone else living for the things they're passionate about which may or may not be dangerous?
@@spoon496 I don't think anyone is "sour". It's more a question of being concerned. Being passionate about something dangerous is nothing bad in itself. Giving someone advice on how to be safe(r) while practicing what you do is just a normal thing to do.
You will like climbing. We do these things safely with gear that will not break when you jump into it, since our ropes MUST have a dynamic core. This doesn't seem to me a game changer as long as you don't compare it to a simple belaying device and repelling with normal rope. You could learn a lot from it too. Lots of tips from climbing too. Like: DO NOT JUMP ON CONCRETE FROM 2 FLOOR WITHOUT A BOULDER MAT under you. Just put it there. Ask yourself: what is the point of this test? Do I need to get hurt if it fails, or am I allowed to not cripple myself? If the answer is the latter, put a boulder mat there. Ideally a spotter too. If you make an empiric test, we can compare it with repelling. From the vid I would assume you are slower.
I do love climbing! Done top rope a few times, mostly boulder. Would love to get advice from more experienced climbers such as yourself, so thank you very much for the feedback. Everyone I’ve climbed with as pretty much confirmed rappelling has been mostly abandoned for belaying, but I’d love to get more specifics of that if you have it.
@@theAmazing It is not for belaying but for taking your gear out after you finish a route outdoors (your carabiners and quickdraws). For completeness: when you climb a single route, not multipitch. If you multipitch, the second climber (who climbs on the prepared top rope) takes the gear on their way up and once both of you are up, you usually walk a tourist path. This video is ok. It showcases the rappelling: ua-cam.com/video/7U6tdEevJgs/v-deo.html I do a few things differently and some of their points don't make sense to me, but they physically do everything safely. Once you get the hang of it, it is much more streamlined. Notable difference between my rappeling and the vid: my hands are completely free, the stopping not stops the rope the moment I let it go. That is why it is there. I need to pull it down to go down, like in the vid. No strength required. You could do it in open space without a problem.
@@theAmazingI'll add that while belaying makes rappelling redundant in sport climbing, rappelling is still vital for people actually climbing multipitch, like you'd do in a steep mountain. It's often the best way to get down. There really is a lot you can learn (and have learned I see!) from mountaineers and rescue people for this project.
I'm now in my second year of university studying engineering and computer science, and have been watching since your first solenoid webshooters when i was a kid. Inspiring stuff man!
You should use tensioned rollers that straddle the rope going in and going out so that you can read the speed of the actual rope rather than trying to adjust speed based off of the change in gearing due to there being more or less rope on the spool. I was actually recently designing this same device for my work to use as a cable speed and run out sensor. You can get it pretty small especially if you’re able to machine the rollers and shaft out of aluminum. I haven’t finished my design yet, but I plan on using an annular diametrically magnetized magnet on the roller with a ball effect sensor on the shaft and a cable going to the micro controller. Not so sure how grippy an aluminum roller would be on the rope, but I’m sure you could design in some inserts out of TPU or maybe cast something in. There’s got to be a more robust mechanical solution, though.
Just found you and this project. It's quite spectacular, and the reasoning behind it is very respectable. I wish you luck on this journey you're taking. Don't forget to have backup safety measures when you do dangerous things. The last thing we all need is you losing part or all of you to an accident.
A laser rangefinder would speed up determining if a drop is within your rope length. Also imagine the look on some poor security guards face when they find you after you've broken your fool neck. If your gonna keep testing this get a safety harness/line setup, no point in being an inventor if ya die before you finalize your design. Also maybe bring a friend with you to hold the camera and/or call an ambulance when you end up a quadriplegic.
Dude! The project was absolutely crazy! The amount of work and iterations that was put into it is mind boggling. But I am even more amazed that so much knowledge can be available for 30 minutes in-depth for only $10. I know I will definitely ask for your services for my next projects cause the mechanical aspect is something I am lacking! Good luck on your entrepreneurship journey, even though I'm pretty sure you won't need any luck there!
Yea think I’ve been watching for like 8-9 years. It’s cool to see the development of this project as it evolved from wanting to replicate Spider-Man’s abilities to being a force for something more than just being a friendly neighborhood hero. We did lose a lot of spidey channels and creators along the way but I’m proud of you for pushing through and making the impossible a reality for all us Spidey fans. Keep being amazing 🕷️
I can’t wait till these are being sold at an affordable price! This would be so helpful for me, I like climbing and stuff and this would allow me to to that a whole lot better
I don't know *exactly* how long I've been subscribed, but I know it's been a long, long time. It's always a pleasant surprise to see a new video and I've always been so excited to see the projects become more complex and well-designed over the years. I've always been inspired by your videos, and while I'm more of a scatter-brain when it comes to my passions (I end up rotating between so many things It's hard to make progress on any one thing, lol), I can't help but admire the dedication you have towards what you do. All that is to say, keep up the great work, man! We're rooting for ya!
One thing to be cautious with your approach is that as you’re using your rope, it’ll abrade since you have rope going from one spindle to the other. If you rappelled with real gear, the rope is generally fixed and you slide up and down the rope rather than the rope sliding around an anchor point. I’d recommend having rope in both spindles and finding a way to connect the two spindles together to make a basket hitch around the anchor point like you had done in this video
Thanks for the suggestions! Idk if this is what you were thinking so disregard if I’m incorrect about your perception, but I think others are confused about this. The rope does not move around the anchor point during rappelling, only when loading the two reels when there’s not much force on them. This makes it essentially the same as your suggestion without the basket hitch. Cheers!
You could have used the hook and just braided the line back into the other part of the line. We did that all the time in the Navy, if that can work to hold a USS carrier lmfao. then I am sure the same mechanics can work for your body.
(respectfully and hopefully speaking) May I suggest that you should work on technology and arts of ninjutsu, since all your resources are implied: 1: blind your enemies with either: A: high beams lights B: pepper spray/powder for your web shooters… OK, granted your wet fluids can be sticky for some people. Maybe you could/would sell out your whip fluids for non-lethal self-defense tech. It could be the revolution for pepper or salt powder/spray. 2: lightweight armor: all because of your mobility, speed and agility, even if you are an easy target without protection. 3: stealth and superior tactics: despite your acrobat and athlete, you’re more like Batman, metal gear snake and all assassin Creed. Surprise attack when you suspected either hidden in a shadows or rooftops. 4: misdirection or disappeared: you have a Hologram projector like mysterio or the Spidey signal that can blind enemies, or you can either use smoke bomb for either escape or disappeared. 5: Arsenal and gears: you got some equipment for Cliff jumping or hanging sometimes, you make amazing foam or any liquidize webs. But do you ever think about making a Batman style, like they: A: batarang, or in your case spider-rang? 😉🤷♂️ B: scorpion chain dart from Mortal Kombat? C: Nightwing Baton or Escrima sticks Any of these sound interested to you? If I being really honest, you’re typically a ninja style rather than closely to be a Spider-Man style. 🤔💭😕🤷♂️🫱🫳🫱 Anyway, still supporting you. 😉👍🕷️🕸️
Maybe add a grip to the hand contraption :) You can then better place your hand on it to hold. And them maybe a pneumatic or hydraulic lever replacement button for your thumb (offhand, on the grip) could enable a bunch of shenanigans and make yourself more comfortable. Also I am as of yet unsure why you would even need the second rope spool. Cant you like hang the full loop down -> Attach the repelling device -> repell -> wind up ? You could then even make it bigger to accommodate longer heights.
The arm mounted look to have room for more upgrades, also if you move it up to ack more like shoulder pad armor it will decrease stress to the forearm. But all in all a really good build for a prototype 1. More over the belt system would be a point of failure over time do to heat /cold will damage it over time, plus dirt, sand, rocks, etc.
Seeing the locations you tackled really brings me back. That parking garage overhang was part of the parkour club's warmup route back in 2016-2017. Good times. Go blue!
This is really cool. Are you aware that the repel device you built is a product that exists called a gri gri? You basically designed exactly the same thing for a smaller rope. I was surprised you didn't have one to reference.
You were talking how manufacturing metal rollers is hard, and i agree, but there was someone who was using a drill with material mounted in its chuck. If you could get a chuck or an adapter of sorts to hold the material, you could mount the drill in a vise, and go at it with some sandpaper or files. Could take a while to do, but it's an option :D
For calculating rope speed accurately, you could try putting a small magnet on the spool and a Hall effect sensor on the spool holder, and calculate the spool angular velocity by calculating how many spins it does per second and the relate it to the rope length, obviously the more rope gets spooled, the diameter or the spooled rope increases so the relation to rope speed and length of rope being spooled is non linear bus it is still managable
The sensor for synchronizing the things might be more accurate than you think. But that accuracy means nothing if the rope is slightly compressable or stretchable in length. Detecting how much weight each of the modules are carrying might be a functionally better approach if I understand the problem correctly. Maybe you could use another set of levers for that? or use the same levers? Idk. I haven't made a mechanical project in a very long time.
"sounds like spiderman lotus up in here" 😂😂 haha nice video dude, how do you not have at least 100k subscribers yet, the engineering you put into your projects is amazing, keep it up!
You should watch what you put that rope on while under tension. You went around the bottom of the railing and the rope then makes a 90 degree turn down a concrete face, that could have cut the line, or easily put an unwanted stress point in it. Either put a barrier (pad) between the rope and the "rock" or tie off to a better point
This thing is sick! You might want to try using a rotation sensor on the spool to get an accurate reading of how much rope you have left. Been following the journey for a while the progress is crazy
12:30 why not use a gear/2 gears and one motor to ensure synchronous speeds and locations? i know the logistics might be annoying but you could use a chain/belt drive to help fit this mechanism to the arm. Just a thought.
It needs to be stress tested! I may not know what else might be a factor, but if the device has the ability to hold you up without breaking anything important for an unknown/infinite amount of time, I bet that reliability will make this not as terrifying as your first high descent! Hell, that reliability might be the key to get outside interest and investment on this product
This is so cool, I can see the applications on lots of areas, but I see one critical flaw: Harnesses generally are on the waist to reduce the force needed to use and put the center of mass on the middle of the body, you can see the difficulty of balancing when you are about to land when using your device. Why did you choose to make it around the arm and not around the waist?
Honestly it’s a cool factor thing, but I don’t think the landing is difficult at all, you’re hanging down so your legs are down. Waist harness would probably be easier on the arms. I don’t feel strain in my arms with this because it’s sort of nothing compared to gymnastics as a whole. But that’s different for everyone!
3:45 imagine doing it until logan paul shows up Also an edit for info. In the factory we have 2 methods for detecting the load of wire on a bobbin. One is infrared distance sensors, the other is an arm with a bearing roller on it that lays on top of the thread or wire to be payed off or taken up. The two really are equal just inverted. The angle of the arm dictates the diameter-, thus volume of rope on the bobbin after some math. Also a side note on anchors, railing has to take 600Nm of sideways force to be standard. That is nothing. 60 kilos.
the only thing im confused about this awesome device is that... is this only for climbing down buildings? it would be cool if you could climb up too! And what if you cant loop the rope around anything?
I dont understand how youre so criminally underrated, youre literally my dream from younger, keep at it, i wish i could donate in Patreon, maybe when my country gets better but i shared your vide with some friends :') thanks for doing what you do and dont stop till you're satisfied with what you've done, because you should already be proud of what you have made along the years and at the end of the video when you said you were only starting i got sooo exited man oh dam i cant wait to see what else you make
With a remote-controlled carabiner hook you could make the design retrievable after descent. Oh, It seems you already have that one figured out... Don't use ultrasound for rope measurements. weave in little ferromagnetic particles and use a reed switch. Then sell expensive rope. ;)
I don't like seeing this kind of stunt, I would much prefer sticking to less ridiculous heights, and having a climbing pad or similar padding to mitigate any potential failure.
Interesting, but why are there two powered spools? Wouldn't one spool work fine and even create a 2:1 block and tackle for ascending? Plus it gets rid of the synchronicity issue of winding and unwinding onto two spools.
The rope needs to be pulled both ways for this framework, otherwise you need the rope to move about the anchor point and be fixed to me somehow. The 2:1 ascending idea is a cool one but unfortunately the motors still aren’t strong enough for it.
@@theAmazing Something like a climbing pulley (the sort that can be added/removed on the middle of a rope being fixed to the anchor would solve this issue. Clipping/tying a pulley to the anchor and then clipping it onto your line also seems easier user wise than having to thread the cable around it and then onto a pulley. That all being said, why does the rope need to loop around the anchor at all? Isn't one rope straight from anchor to spool simplest? Motor power wise I'm pretty sure i've seen a few people build little winches that can lift them using small RC motors. I'm not sure how your gearbox works. You mention lack of metal pulleys and the belt being TPU and it looked sort of like bead chain, so i assume you're not using standard toothed belts? Something like a HTD belt and some off the shelf pulleys should get you a solid and efficient gearbox using a couple of stages. Or using an off the shelf planetary gearbox could work too and be more compact. Not trying to knock you, just interested to understand the goals, thought process etc. Really interesting project.
You should try AM32 ESCs, if I remember correctly they support speed control (or if not - you'll be able to modify them to support it, cause they're open-source)
Anybody remember cleopatra in the year 2525? They had rist units that i really dig. The stuff they use in titan fall and slow fall glider like breath of the wild is also neat. Of course im just looking for anti gravity like you see in dune part 2 or even the gravity flipper in ultraviolet. A man can dream.
Man, this is so, so cool. Incredible work. Good luck with your endeavors, I'll try to support where I can. And I appreciate the call to vote at the end :)))
bruh I typed out a super long comment and I think youtube auto deleted it or flagged it as spam rip (bet it's cause I linked to a blog post) good work dude! This is really well designed and I can tell you put in some serious iteration cycles. I almost didn't click on the vid cuz I didn't see the thumbnail (came up organic in my feed tho!), when I did see it I was like "what is that thing", didn't peg it as a spider man device. The vid is well put together and I bet you could get a ton of views with a more flashy thumbnail (like hanging upside down on a simple background or a close up of the arm covering most of it with minimal and easy to read large text), also I'd rec moving ur website/ad bit at the beginning to more towards the middle of the vid, since the first few minutes are critical for viewer retention. That is a really cool product tho, reminds me of early mark rober haha gl man, hope u succeed here, always fun to see good engineering :)
oh also if you want something cheap and strong (in between 3d print and milled steel) I'd heavily rec sheet metal, sites like sendcutsend will bend it and you can even stack it and bolt stack together if you need a more 3d part (such as a latch), can be order of magnitude cheaper than the equivalent milled part.
I know about the spiderman stuff, but wouldn't it be more useful, if you could use 2 hands freely and having it where it doesn't have a problem holding your body weight? Like if you've placed it at your hips, like attack on titan style t would've been at the center of mass. Or wear it like a backpack. But cool, stuff ey, now you can be spiderman ;3
dude said because the rope goes around something and comes back "the rope only has to support half my body weight" but the rope isn't double its only going around the object once so where it goes around the object only one strand is supporting 100% of his body weight based on the illustration
Yo m8, this is something i have read and been a victim of on youtube. Its totaly true with shorts but not sure how it affects longer videos. To make a ¨new realese¨ note for subscribers affect the video negative with the algorythm on youtube. As i have understod it it only gets advertised to people that has the same algorythm as your subscribers and shorts cant be shown on the first page on youtube if you click this. So the best thing is youst to realese the video when it comes to shorts atleast. Might be why almost no one use this function since it dosent affect the algorithm in a good way. Liked the content so youst wanted to give you the info that destroyed my chances at youtube when i tryed to make one a year ago with AI. I got a few thousand views the first days untill i made a video with ¨new realese¨ or what its called so it advertise my subvscribers. After that i got 0 views for the next month, pretty sad since i was the only one dabbling with the thing i did and it went very good the first 2 weeks then droped to 0 for the next month.
Never give up bro lemme tell you that IT WILL MOT BE EASY being an entrepreneur but IT WILL BE worth it if you stick through much love bro and Godspeed.🤞🏾❤️🔥
Dude you are literally one of the coolest people ever. I had a question that I’m not sure if you’ve addressed in a video yet or not (so sorry if this question is redundant) but I was wondering if you went to school for engineering or not, or if most of your knowledge is self taught and from trial and error. Edit: whoops, I should have just waited until the end of the video, sorry
hey man, did you delete your discord server? really saddening to see if you did delete it as it's been a community for people to gather and contribute to each others ideas for quite a long time now.
Insanely cool design, but please don't forget that even though you control the reliability of your invention, you don't control the quality of the rail construction lol be careful dude
Haha this is always something I consider
You know, I really like the concept, but, why is it wrist-mounted rather than being mounted near the centre of mass of the person? I know it looks cooler like that, but closer to CoM would allow for locking, and rotating the whole body further out of vertical orientation, which might be very important for horizontal travel while hanging
Good point, and surely could be.
@@theAmazing Add some rocket boosters to that idea and you've got the mobility gear from attack on titan ^^
I was going to say this!! He maybe do some exoskeleton but for ascend and descending spot robots so they can climb trees and decapitate passing humans, i think wild life would be to jumpy, but jokes aside, this content is gold...
Yes. I do climbing/rappelling etc. the rope is attached to the waist harness because it allows the force to be centered on you. Also, it makes it so you can walk down the wall rather than scrape against it.
What if you just use both
This is amazing! But be careful as someone who does inventions ab everything chemical mechanical and things prone to being toxic and not safe. we tend to get carried away. I dont want to see a video on my feed and the tittle being " I messed up ... The Amazing" please be careful! this is sick!
Dw! Thanks for the word of caution
For real, going out without a spotter at night, doing a 2-3 story test-drop above solid concrete, with poor visibility. If it jammed or something snapped, he'd either be stranded or dropped in a potentially lethal way, but yea. "Dw!"
@@Roobotics and that would be his decision to make? why are you sour about someone else living for the things they're passionate about which may or may not be dangerous?
@@spoon496 I don't think anyone is "sour". It's more a question of being concerned.
Being passionate about something dangerous is nothing bad in itself. Giving someone advice on how to be safe(r) while practicing what you do is just a normal thing to do.
Imagine being found dead near a building, with a broken rope attached to your wrist and wearing a Spider-Man mask 😂
You will like climbing. We do these things safely with gear that will not break when you jump into it, since our ropes MUST have a dynamic core.
This doesn't seem to me a game changer as long as you don't compare it to a simple belaying device and repelling with normal rope. You could learn a lot from it too.
Lots of tips from climbing too. Like: DO NOT JUMP ON CONCRETE FROM 2 FLOOR WITHOUT A BOULDER MAT under you. Just put it there. Ask yourself: what is the point of this test? Do I need to get hurt if it fails, or am I allowed to not cripple myself? If the answer is the latter, put a boulder mat there. Ideally a spotter too.
If you make an empiric test, we can compare it with repelling. From the vid I would assume you are slower.
I do love climbing! Done top rope a few times, mostly boulder. Would love to get advice from more experienced climbers such as yourself, so thank you very much for the feedback. Everyone I’ve climbed with as pretty much confirmed rappelling has been mostly abandoned for belaying, but I’d love to get more specifics of that if you have it.
@@theAmazing It is not for belaying but for taking your gear out after you finish a route outdoors (your carabiners and quickdraws).
For completeness: when you climb a single route, not multipitch. If you multipitch, the second climber (who climbs on the prepared top rope) takes the gear on their way up and once both of you are up, you usually walk a tourist path.
This video is ok. It showcases the rappelling: ua-cam.com/video/7U6tdEevJgs/v-deo.html
I do a few things differently and some of their points don't make sense to me, but they physically do everything safely. Once you get the hang of it, it is much more streamlined.
Notable difference between my rappeling and the vid: my hands are completely free, the stopping not stops the rope the moment I let it go. That is why it is there. I need to pull it down to go down, like in the vid. No strength required. You could do it in open space without a problem.
@@theAmazingI'll add that while belaying makes rappelling redundant in sport climbing, rappelling is still vital for people actually climbing multipitch, like you'd do in a steep mountain. It's often the best way to get down.
There really is a lot you can learn (and have learned I see!) from mountaineers and rescue people for this project.
DUDE congrats on the upcoming PHD graduation. You're a genius and love you're projects. keep up the awesome content!
Thanks Danny!! Means much coming from you
I'm now in my second year of university studying engineering and computer science, and have been watching since your first solenoid webshooters when i was a kid. Inspiring stuff man!
Thank you kindly and good luck with your studies!!
You should use tensioned rollers that straddle the rope going in and going out so that you can read the speed of the actual rope rather than trying to adjust speed based off of the change in gearing due to there being more or less rope on the spool. I was actually recently designing this same device for my work to use as a cable speed and run out sensor. You can get it pretty small especially if you’re able to machine the rollers and shaft out of aluminum. I haven’t finished my design yet, but I plan on using an annular diametrically magnetized magnet on the roller with a ball effect sensor on the shaft and a cable going to the micro controller. Not so sure how grippy an aluminum roller would be on the rope, but I’m sure you could design in some inserts out of TPU or maybe cast something in. There’s got to be a more robust mechanical solution, though.
That’s a great idea! I hope it goes well for you and if I use something similar I will credit yoy
@@theAmazing you don’t need to credit me but I would be super excited to see my idea in use if you do us it
Just found you and this project. It's quite spectacular, and the reasoning behind it is very respectable. I wish you luck on this journey you're taking. Don't forget to have backup safety measures when you do dangerous things. The last thing we all need is you losing part or all of you to an accident.
A laser rangefinder would speed up determining if a drop is within your rope length. Also imagine the look on some poor security guards face when they find you after you've broken your fool neck. If your gonna keep testing this get a safety harness/line setup, no point in being an inventor if ya die before you finalize your design. Also maybe bring a friend with you to hold the camera and/or call an ambulance when you end up a quadriplegic.
Great advice, thank you. 🙏
Dude! The project was absolutely crazy! The amount of work and iterations that was put into it is mind boggling. But I am even more amazed that so much knowledge can be available for 30 minutes in-depth for only $10. I know I will definitely ask for your services for my next projects cause the mechanical aspect is something I am lacking! Good luck on your entrepreneurship journey, even though I'm pretty sure you won't need any luck there!
Thank you!! And I certainly will need it lol
What are u doing here? I likee ur videos
How has this project not come up in my feed before this!?!
Beats me!
Yea think I’ve been watching for like 8-9 years. It’s cool to see the development of this project as it evolved from wanting to replicate Spider-Man’s abilities to being a force for something more than just being a friendly neighborhood hero. We did lose a lot of spidey channels and creators along the way but I’m proud of you for pushing through and making the impossible a reality for all us Spidey fans. Keep being amazing 🕷️
Thank you so much!! I’m gonna keep it going
16:26 Glad to know you didn't become a vampire or zombie from the experience
So am I!
Found your videos for the first time, and I'm hooked! Instant subscribe!
Thank you so much!!!
I can’t wait till these are being sold at an affordable price! This would be so helpful for me, I like climbing and stuff and this would allow me to to that a whole lot better
You really think so??
@@theAmazing yeah I’d buy it! :)
I don't know *exactly* how long I've been subscribed, but I know it's been a long, long time. It's always a pleasant surprise to see a new video and I've always been so excited to see the projects become more complex and well-designed over the years. I've always been inspired by your videos, and while I'm more of a scatter-brain when it comes to my passions (I end up rotating between so many things It's hard to make progress on any one thing, lol), I can't help but admire the dedication you have towards what you do. All that is to say, keep up the great work, man! We're rooting for ya!
One thing to be cautious with your approach is that as you’re using your rope, it’ll abrade since you have rope going from one spindle to the other.
If you rappelled with real gear, the rope is generally fixed and you slide up and down the rope rather than the rope sliding around an anchor point.
I’d recommend having rope in both spindles and finding a way to connect the two spindles together to make a basket hitch around the anchor point like you had done in this video
Thanks for the suggestions! Idk if this is what you were thinking so disregard if I’m incorrect about your perception, but I think others are confused about this. The rope does not move around the anchor point during rappelling, only when loading the two reels when there’s not much force on them. This makes it essentially the same as your suggestion without the basket hitch. Cheers!
Dan Poole is begging to use this for practical stunts, I just know it
Oh I’m sure he is
10€ for a 30 min prepared call is crazy cheap.. feels like a robbery
You really did build an empire for yourself I’m so proud to be one of your followers
Proud to have you as one of my followers!!
goofy ass mechanical engineers...
oh yes I am goofy
Now lets see Robert’s projects
The reveal that Dragline Tech is just you was wild
You could probably build something to ascend if you build a drone that can attach ropes for you.
Sounds stupid but would actually be pretty easy and a genius level urbex upgrade
You could have used the hook and just braided the line back into the other part of the line. We did that all the time in the Navy, if that can work to hold a USS carrier lmfao. then I am sure the same mechanics can work for your body.
Singlehandedly saving youtube content rn
(respectfully and hopefully speaking)
May I suggest that you should work on technology and arts of ninjutsu, since all your resources are implied:
1: blind your enemies with either:
A: high beams lights
B: pepper spray/powder for your web shooters…
OK, granted your wet fluids can be sticky for some people. Maybe you could/would sell out your whip fluids for non-lethal self-defense tech.
It could be the revolution for pepper or salt powder/spray.
2: lightweight armor: all because of your mobility, speed and agility, even if you are an easy target without protection.
3: stealth and superior tactics: despite your acrobat and athlete, you’re more like Batman, metal gear snake and all assassin Creed.
Surprise attack when you suspected either hidden in a shadows or rooftops.
4: misdirection or disappeared: you have a Hologram projector like mysterio or the Spidey signal that can blind enemies, or you can either use smoke bomb for either escape or disappeared.
5: Arsenal and gears: you got some equipment for Cliff jumping or hanging sometimes, you make amazing foam or any liquidize webs.
But do you ever think about making a Batman style, like they:
A: batarang, or in your case spider-rang? 😉🤷♂️
B: scorpion chain dart from Mortal Kombat?
C: Nightwing Baton or Escrima sticks
Any of these sound interested to you?
If I being really honest, you’re typically a ninja style rather than closely to be a Spider-Man style. 🤔💭😕🤷♂️🫱🫳🫱
Anyway, still supporting you. 😉👍🕷️🕸️
Maybe add a grip to the hand contraption :) You can then better place your hand on it to hold. And them maybe a pneumatic or hydraulic lever replacement button for your thumb (offhand, on the grip) could enable a bunch of shenanigans and make yourself more comfortable.
Also I am as of yet unsure why you would even need the second rope spool. Cant you like hang the full loop down -> Attach the repelling device -> repell -> wind up ?
You could then even make it bigger to accommodate longer heights.
The arm mounted look to have room for more upgrades, also if you move it up to ack more like shoulder pad armor it will decrease stress to the forearm. But all in all a really good build for a prototype 1. More over the belt system would be a point of failure over time do to heat /cold will damage it over time, plus dirt, sand, rocks, etc.
Seeing the locations you tackled really brings me back. That parking garage overhang was part of the parkour club's warmup route back in 2016-2017. Good times. Go blue!
Hehe I’m in the parkour club!! Since 2017 lol GO BLUE
This is really cool. Are you aware that the repel device you built is a product that exists called a gri gri? You basically designed exactly the same thing for a smaller rope. I was surprised you didn't have one to reference.
Yes! I know the grigri! Was certainly an inspiration
You were talking how manufacturing metal rollers is hard, and i agree, but there was someone who was using a drill with material mounted in its chuck. If you could get a chuck or an adapter of sorts to hold the material, you could mount the drill in a vise, and go at it with some sandpaper or files. Could take a while to do, but it's an option :D
For calculating rope speed accurately, you could try putting a small magnet on the spool and a Hall effect sensor on the spool holder, and calculate the spool angular velocity by calculating how many spins it does per second and the relate it to the rope length, obviously the more rope gets spooled, the diameter or the spooled rope increases so the relation to rope speed and length of rope being spooled is non linear bus it is still managable
Inflatable mattress could fit in a backpack and would be better than falling on straight concrete but i fuck with the project and the video.
Dang you’re right 😭
The sensor for synchronizing the things might be more accurate than you think. But that accuracy means nothing if the rope is slightly compressable or stretchable in length.
Detecting how much weight each of the modules are carrying might be a functionally better approach if I understand the problem correctly.
Maybe you could use another set of levers for that? or use the same levers? Idk. I haven't made a mechanical project in a very long time.
Maybe do tests over a mat where the rope is partially damaged.
That is actually a great test for robustness, amazing suggestion
"sounds like spiderman lotus up in here" 😂😂 haha nice video dude, how do you not have at least 100k subscribers yet, the engineering you put into your projects is amazing, keep it up!
You should watch what you put that rope on while under tension. You went around the bottom of the railing and the rope then makes a 90 degree turn down a concrete face, that could have cut the line, or easily put an unwanted stress point in it. Either put a barrier (pad) between the rope and the "rock" or tie off to a better point
This thing is sick! You might want to try using a rotation sensor on the spool to get an accurate reading of how much rope you have left. Been following the journey for a while the progress is crazy
12:30 why not use a gear/2 gears and one motor to ensure synchronous speeds and locations? i know the logistics might be annoying but you could use a chain/belt drive to help fit this mechanism to the arm. Just a thought.
Damn bro, I've been subscribed for 3 years, you've made such enormous progress. I really hope you can make this whole thing work out, good luck dude
Those lights wouldn't help if you're trying to be sneaky
It needs to be stress tested!
I may not know what else might be a factor, but if the device has the ability to hold you up without breaking anything important for an unknown/infinite amount of time, I bet that reliability will make this not as terrifying as your first high descent!
Hell, that reliability might be the key to get outside interest and investment on this product
I do suspect as much, though the quality of manufacturing (I.e not prototype quality) would play a role here as well
This is so cool, I can see the applications on lots of areas, but I see one critical flaw: Harnesses generally are on the waist to reduce the force needed to use and put the center of mass on the middle of the body, you can see the difficulty of balancing when you are about to land when using your device. Why did you choose to make it around the arm and not around the waist?
Honestly it’s a cool factor thing, but I don’t think the landing is difficult at all, you’re hanging down so your legs are down.
Waist harness would probably be easier on the arms. I don’t feel strain in my arms with this because it’s sort of nothing compared to gymnastics as a whole. But that’s different for everyone!
this concept is the only way real web swinging could work realistically
the only question is how can the loop be quickly attached to a swing or rappelling point
No it's not, a simple harness could work as well
Buy a pop filter for your mic. Thank me later.
Finally some good f***ing feedback thank you sincerely 🙏
You are a real inspiration, this is why I want to be an engineer when I grow up
Amazing dude I hope for you success !
3:45 imagine doing it until logan paul shows up
Also an edit for info. In the factory we have 2 methods for detecting the load of wire on a bobbin. One is infrared distance sensors, the other is an arm with a bearing roller on it that lays on top of the thread or wire to be payed off or taken up. The two really are equal just inverted. The angle of the arm dictates the diameter-, thus volume of rope on the bobbin after some math. Also a side note on anchors, railing has to take 600Nm of sideways force to be standard. That is nothing. 60 kilos.
guy deserves more subs, this is actually insane.
stay strong and keep growing, salute !
dude this is incredibly sick, how tf is this channel so small
yeah we will have super powers in a few years for sure
Amazing dedication to something that works, very cool to see this functional.
the only thing im confused about this awesome device is that... is this only for climbing down buildings? it would be cool if you could climb up too! And what if you cant loop the rope around anything?
This was awesome!!! Can't wait to see more stuff from you!
Thank you so much!
I dont understand how youre so criminally underrated, youre literally my dream from younger, keep at it, i wish i could donate in Patreon, maybe when my country gets better but i shared your vide with some friends :') thanks for doing what you do and dont stop till you're satisfied with what you've done, because you should already be proud of what you have made along the years and at the end of the video when you said you were only starting i got sooo exited man oh dam i cant wait to see what else you make
Thanks so much for sharing :) I’m glad you’re excited for the future!!
Im not an engineer but the thing you did with the springs at 10:30 and 10:47 is amazing
Best of luck, you got cool ideas that have real and useful application
Wow in the exact same area ...
With a remote-controlled carabiner hook you could make the design retrievable after descent. Oh, It seems you already have that one figured out...
Don't use ultrasound for rope measurements. weave in little ferromagnetic particles and use a reed switch. Then sell expensive rope. ;)
Haha expensive rope is also expensive for me 😭 but very interesting idea!
I don't like seeing this kind of stunt, I would much prefer sticking to less ridiculous heights, and having a climbing pad or similar padding to mitigate any potential failure.
Interesting, but why are there two powered spools? Wouldn't one spool work fine and even create a 2:1 block and tackle for ascending? Plus it gets rid of the synchronicity issue of winding and unwinding onto two spools.
The rope needs to be pulled both ways for this framework, otherwise you need the rope to move about the anchor point and be fixed to me somehow.
The 2:1 ascending idea is a cool one but unfortunately the motors still aren’t strong enough for it.
@@theAmazing Something like a climbing pulley (the sort that can be added/removed on the middle of a rope being fixed to the anchor would solve this issue.
Clipping/tying a pulley to the anchor and then clipping it onto your line also seems easier user wise than having to thread the cable around it and then onto a pulley. That all being said, why does the rope need to loop around the anchor at all? Isn't one rope straight from anchor to spool simplest?
Motor power wise I'm pretty sure i've seen a few people build little winches that can lift them using small RC motors. I'm not sure how your gearbox works. You mention lack of metal pulleys and the belt being TPU and it looked sort of like bead chain, so i assume you're not using standard toothed belts?
Something like a HTD belt and some off the shelf pulleys should get you a solid and efficient gearbox using a couple of stages. Or using an off the shelf planetary gearbox could work too and be more compact.
Not trying to knock you, just interested to understand the goals, thought process etc. Really interesting project.
Are you passing the spool around your anchor point, or unspooling and re-spooling?
You should try AM32 ESCs, if I remember correctly they support speed control (or if not - you'll be able to modify them to support it, cause they're open-source)
Already have speed control but thank u! 🙏
This is crazy!!! So cool!!!
This is absolutely incredible. The progress you have made is so unbelievable. Keep it up
Thank you so much for watching!
Anybody remember cleopatra in the year 2525? They had rist units that i really dig.
The stuff they use in titan fall and slow fall glider like breath of the wild is also neat.
Of course im just looking for anti gravity like you see in dune part 2 or even the gravity flipper in ultraviolet.
A man can dream.
Man you should've at least put an inflatable mattress or something in case it f-ed up geez, glad test went alright
have you tried the new carbon fiber filament on your high temperature parts
Man, this is so, so cool. Incredible work. Good luck with your endeavors, I'll try to support where I can. And I appreciate the call to vote at the end :)))
Real heroes vote 🗳️, ty!
Maybe combining the torque of both motors you might be able to ascend too
Nah definitely still too weak!!
I've been watching you since middle school 7th grade year. Gonna be heading to college soon, glad to see you're still uploading
Yooo good luck!! Thanks for watching and don’t forget to have fun in college
Looking forward to it!
Awsome stuff!! Good luck with life!!
bruh I typed out a super long comment and I think youtube auto deleted it or flagged it as spam rip (bet it's cause I linked to a blog post)
good work dude! This is really well designed and I can tell you put in some serious iteration cycles.
I almost didn't click on the vid cuz I didn't see the thumbnail (came up organic in my feed tho!), when I did see it I was like "what is that thing", didn't peg it as a spider man device. The vid is well put together and I bet you could get a ton of views with a more flashy thumbnail (like hanging upside down on a simple background or a close up of the arm covering most of it with minimal and easy to read large text), also I'd rec moving ur website/ad bit at the beginning to more towards the middle of the vid, since the first few minutes are critical for viewer retention. That is a really cool product tho, reminds me of early mark rober haha
gl man, hope u succeed here, always fun to see good engineering :)
oh also if you want something cheap and strong (in between 3d print and milled steel) I'd heavily rec sheet metal, sites like sendcutsend will bend it and you can even stack it and bolt stack together if you need a more 3d part (such as a latch), can be order of magnitude cheaper than the equivalent milled part.
Now make it pull you back up
Why are you testing alone with no redundancy safety equipment in place?
How about a hook attached with pulleys instead of knots?
why not add a magnetic or optic encoder to sychronize the rotation of both reels?
Yes definitely something like that in the works
would adding a harness that goes up your arm to the chesg then down the legs to the toes help carry the load?
COOL! You would have more guts than me if I were in your shoes lol. Glad you didn't die 👍
THIS IS AMAZING. i am blow away with everything. maybe use an encoder for the motor. be safe. keep being AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!
I know about the spiderman stuff, but wouldn't it be more useful, if you could use 2 hands freely and having it where it doesn't have a problem holding your body weight? Like if you've placed it at your hips, like attack on titan style t would've been at the center of mass. Or wear it like a backpack.
But cool, stuff ey, now you can be spiderman ;3
Yes, I do think there is utility in that lol
very underrated
dude said because the rope goes around something and comes back "the rope only has to support half my body weight" but the rope isn't double its only going around the object once so where it goes around the object only one strand is supporting 100% of his body weight based on the illustration
Sorry but wrong, draw a free-body diagram or take physics
@@theAmazing at the weakest point where the rope wraps around whatever anchor point you use there is only one strand supporting your weight
Yo m8, this is something i have read and been a victim of on youtube. Its totaly true with shorts but not sure how it affects longer videos. To make a ¨new realese¨ note for subscribers affect the video negative with the algorythm on youtube. As i have understod it it only gets advertised to people that has the same algorythm as your subscribers and shorts cant be shown on the first page on youtube if you click this. So the best thing is youst to realese the video when it comes to shorts atleast. Might be why almost no one use this function since it dosent affect the algorithm in a good way.
Liked the content so youst wanted to give you the info that destroyed my chances at youtube when i tryed to make one a year ago with AI.
I got a few thousand views the first days untill i made a video with ¨new realese¨ or what its called so it advertise my subvscribers. After that i got 0 views for the next month, pretty sad since i was the only one dabbling with the thing i did and it went very good the first 2 weeks then droped to 0 for the next month.
What a literal legend
That is just so fucking cool, as a robotics enjoyer myself i must say impressive, keep it up ngl
Thank you! I will!
Never give up bro lemme tell you that IT WILL MOT BE EASY being an entrepreneur but IT WILL BE worth it if you stick through much love bro and Godspeed.🤞🏾❤️🔥
Man we got bootleg spider man brfore gta6 😂
Lmaooo I am and forever will be bootleg spiderman
Market this to your local responders. I bet u could get funding.
Hmm the local aspect is interesting
Dude you are literally one of the coolest people ever. I had a question that I’m not sure if you’ve addressed in a video yet or not (so sorry if this question is redundant) but I was wondering if you went to school for engineering or not, or if most of your knowledge is self taught and from trial and error.
Edit: whoops, I should have just waited until the end of the video, sorry
Haha watch the end section
Always impressed
Tysm for watching!!
If you want to know were is the rope use magnet 1/spool and use many sensor as you can to make a high resolution not lying lengt sensor
I just want one lol. If you ever sell one or just do like a patreon thing where we can buy the files eventually I would buy one
My hope is to get funding to ready this product for the consumer!
I spin rope dart and im very interested in this.
u seem insanely underrated
9:38 I see that cup top right corner. O-H…..
Haha born and raised but I defected 😭 go guardians
This is fucking insane. I love the process and your definitely inspiring others to be engineers and forever kids. Awesome.
Thank you for the kind words!
hey man, did you delete your discord server? really saddening to see if you did delete it as it's been a community for people to gather and contribute to each others ideas for quite a long time now.
I did, and I apologize. I’ll direct you all to blood spider’s discord server
@@theAmazing thank's man! good luck with your life.