Ditch the printer. Seriously recommend any Bambu Lab printer. You'll have a much better time, be able to print faster with a higher quality. Cool projects btw. Subbed. I did also make a rover project, using a Raspberry Pi with camera, running web server etc. I just wish I could come up with a way to make it dock and charge. Maybe a robot vacuum platform would be better.
Great question! We’re still rolling out our official documentation. You can view our progress at motorgo.net/getting-started. Check out our API docs and our official BalanceBot Quick Start guide! And for any other questions, our Discord is the best place to reach us (we usually get back to you in a couple of hours). Hope this helps! -Jesse
interesting project need your advice any plans to switch to nvidia jetson nano from raspberrypi? if you will scale this rover to bigger one will you still use magnetic encoder for odometry or switch to optical ones? if you scale to bigger rover will you use big, powerful but expensive brushless motors or switch to big, powerful but cheap dc motors with reduction gearbox? take into account that brushless motors controllers are more expensive than dc motor controllers are you considering to make bigger rover with additional generator to make it work longer?
Oooh so many interesting questions here! Let me do my best to interpret and answer them each. 1) rpi vs Jetson - I would love to play with some of the Nvidia boards! We have a few laying around and I think they would do great for our applications in the future. We chose rpi for the first draft mainly because it's more approachable/ accessible to other people and beginners. 2) encoders - I really like our magnetic encoders and they get 14 bit resolution per magnet pole pair (which I can adjust to our needs) so probably sticking with those. 3) motors - I think if the rover needs to be bigger than this, you are correct that we will need a gear reduction. However I would probably stick with brushless motors for their torque density. Since this robot is controlled by our MotorGo robot platform, the cost difference between brushed DC and BLDC is negligible! We get all the benefits and no consequences 😈 4) I do plan on making a bigger rover that will go on longer missions, but what do you mean about an additional generator? I think the only energy collection I have considered so far is solar panels.
I mean portable gasoline/propane generator with electric starters suitable for big advanced UGVs. Using solar panels for energy supply and power collecting can be good solution for small UGVs but it is not good solution for big UGVs. For practical example I recommend watching this video after the first 10 seconds ua-cam.com/video/6okc3av6jMI/v-deo.htmlsi=M28WP9alFQVK7s0G&t=10, while watching it for 20 seconds from the time i mentioned you will notice generator mounted at the front of the UGVs. Similarly you can see generator mounted on the rear of Ukrainian UGV en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PIRANYA_UGV.jpg I am not sure which generator they use but it might be Honda EU2200i, Yamaha EF2000iSv2, Champion Dual Fuel Inverter Generator or Westinghouse iGen2200. Military technology is not a good thing but it is advanced and well founded so it will be such a big waste to not learn useful things from it. I will join your discord as soon as i will create account there, thank you for the invitation :) @@EveryFlavorRobot
@@TheFaridrep oooh that's is interesting! We might have to save up some money and look into this tech solution when the rover gets bigger 🤠 I really would like to send a rover on a multi-mile autonomous mission as a big challenge. Swapnil and I built mining rovers together in college and it would be rewarding to revisit I believe 😤
Ditch the printer. Seriously recommend any Bambu Lab printer. You'll have a much better time, be able to print faster with a higher quality. Cool projects btw. Subbed. I did also make a rover project, using a Raspberry Pi with camera, running web server etc. I just wish I could come up with a way to make it dock and charge. Maybe a robot vacuum platform would be better.
Is there a place where we can access the documents of the project?
Great question!
We’re still rolling out our official documentation. You can view our progress at motorgo.net/getting-started.
Check out our API docs and our official BalanceBot Quick Start guide! And for any other questions, our Discord is the best place to reach us (we usually get back to you in a couple of hours).
Hope this helps!
-Jesse
interesting project
need your advice
any plans to switch to nvidia jetson nano from raspberrypi?
if you will scale this rover to bigger one will you still use magnetic encoder for odometry or switch to optical ones?
if you scale to bigger rover will you use big, powerful but expensive brushless motors or switch to big, powerful but cheap dc motors with reduction gearbox? take into account that brushless motors controllers are more expensive than dc motor controllers
are you considering to make bigger rover with additional generator to make it work longer?
Oooh so many interesting questions here! Let me do my best to interpret and answer them each.
1) rpi vs Jetson - I would love to play with some of the Nvidia boards! We have a few laying around and I think they would do great for our applications in the future. We chose rpi for the first draft mainly because it's more approachable/ accessible to other people and beginners.
2) encoders - I really like our magnetic encoders and they get 14 bit resolution per magnet pole pair (which I can adjust to our needs) so probably sticking with those.
3) motors - I think if the rover needs to be bigger than this, you are correct that we will need a gear reduction. However I would probably stick with brushless motors for their torque density. Since this robot is controlled by our MotorGo robot platform, the cost difference between brushed DC and BLDC is negligible! We get all the benefits and no consequences 😈
4) I do plan on making a bigger rover that will go on longer missions, but what do you mean about an additional generator? I think the only energy collection I have considered so far is solar panels.
Btw! Join our discord if you enjoy talking about robotics and engineering with other science-minded nerds :)
I mean portable gasoline/propane generator with electric starters suitable for big advanced UGVs. Using solar panels for energy supply and power collecting can be good solution for small UGVs but it is not good solution for big UGVs.
For practical example I recommend watching this video after the first 10 seconds ua-cam.com/video/6okc3av6jMI/v-deo.htmlsi=M28WP9alFQVK7s0G&t=10, while watching it for 20 seconds from the time i mentioned you will notice generator mounted at the front of the UGVs.
Similarly you can see generator mounted on the rear of Ukrainian UGV en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PIRANYA_UGV.jpg
I am not sure which generator they use but it might be Honda EU2200i, Yamaha EF2000iSv2, Champion Dual Fuel Inverter Generator or Westinghouse iGen2200.
Military technology is not a good thing but it is advanced and well founded so it will be such a big waste to not learn useful things from it.
I will join your discord as soon as i will create account there, thank you for the invitation :)
@@EveryFlavorRobot
@@TheFaridrep oooh that's is interesting! We might have to save up some money and look into this tech solution when the rover gets bigger 🤠
I really would like to send a rover on a multi-mile autonomous mission as a big challenge. Swapnil and I built mining rovers together in college and it would be rewarding to revisit I believe 😤
What is the rover’s name
the name Rovie McRoverface won in a landslide victory on our polls
It's actually criminal that it is not "TheSwapBot"
Oh its only called that when its not working ;)@@kushhari1782