The motions the robot makes in this video are very basic and use no real motion control such as deceleration filtering or interpolation. Check back for parts 4 & 5 to see it feeling much more organic though!
Love. What a great way to wake up. (It's like, 5:30a.m. here lol). So, have you investigated topological optimization yet? With that dead-sexy set-up, you could go to bed and wake up to something amazing. More-so, the weight reduction to strength-ratio should be significant. Excelsior!
I always find the non-smoothed motions have their charm as well, like how people can dance "the robot". But it's also less "sophisticated" and not great from a mechanical point of view :)
Hi James, really love the OpenDog robot. It's sooo very complex! Question for you: how do you deal with all the comments? I had a video go viral and I can't keep up. --Thomas
The evolution of your electronics design and construction has made an order of magnitude leap in this project, outstanding work. Your creativity and work ethic is inspirational.
I make the comment every week that I genuinely have no idea where you find the time to do all this work as a one man band. But this week it’s unbelievable how much you’ve achieved. All that cabling - and done TWICE! This is turning in to a really professional build with such potential. Seeing it move was great 👏👏 I still don’t know how you achieve so much. Do you ever sleep? 😀 James, are YOU a robot 🤖?
I think he lives with his parents, having no job and make a few bucks on UA-cam. I think he is to valuable for UA-cam..... He should make a shittone of money somewhere else...
@@ahaveland not to mention a well supported patreon, tons of paid product placements, paid projects that are sponsored, paid events, a clothing line, etc. He makes well into 6 figures annually.
Ive been watching you for ~5 years or so now and I have to say you just keep getting better. My absolute favorite youtube channel. I absolutely love your work.
I wanted to say Thank You. I was given an old Jazzy Scooter that did not work and wanted to convert it to a robot, one battery was dead and the control electronics appeared to be fried. I purchased two of the BTS7960 that you are using so now I am going to be using a Raspberry Pi 3 set up as an Access Point for Wifi connection then running Node-Red for visual control feeding to an Arduino Uno then into the two BTS7960. I ran some test and I only nee one 12Vdc battery and can run it just fine. Keep up the incredible work
DMX is a very smart choice for this project. Very robust, lots of open source material, and once you work out the interface you can easily sync up the motion to audio, lights, and stage design. Its how most animatronics places do it.
These look super promising! It's really cool to see how much better this moves (even if it is just basic moves) than robot x! You have improved and I look forward to your future projects!
Greetings from Poland. Once you finish both, maybe a nice idea would be to combine both and do a demo on the basis of martial arts? 2 Robots fighting with each other would look fascinating and from what I see the dynamics of movements is brilliant.
for the movement u could (eventually) have the arms and waist controlled via VR controllers and headset so people could move the robots from behind the scenes or even re use the ultron VR like device for moving the hands ( difficult but im sure u could do it)
I’m a hobbyist light designer and teensy/arduino lover. I worked with multiple lighting consoles and implemented dmx and artnet (what you should look for this) in teensy. If you need some clarity or help I would love to discuss with you, I can also help making some nice pre-programmed show for those two lovely robo-guys! If you are interested let me know
You might want to consider adding some sand bags or other weights to the base to add to the stability. As they are now, they are certainly top heavy and as you add more to them it is only going to get worse. I recommended the sand bags since they are cheap and can be easily adjusted as you change the robot or it does motion that needs a little more mass to keep it stable.
Not sand, use water containers as ballast. The aim is to have these easy to transport. Water is available everywhere and the containers can be transported empty.
@@jamesbruton I figured it would be, but they are going to get even more top heavy as you add to them, especially if you add costuming to them like you did with Robot-X.
WOO, DMX. I'm a lighting technician, so really familiar with the dmx512 protocol. Really curious if it is going to work (dont know why it shouldnt). But the idea of programming a robot with a lighting console is funny :D
Great video I just wanted to say that you should include a parts list of the motors etc. and the links to where you got them. This would really help me as i am building school projects that are going to use the parts that you do but i cant find them. This will also help for people such as me who wants to build some of your projects. Thanks
@@clonkex It would be cool if ROS, when first installed, made the robot flair it's arms all around, like a newborn as it learns the extent of its Arm Control and its feedback.
Wow is right! you've put a huge amount of work into this. What is the actual man hour count so far? Brilliant stuff, can't wait for the next instalment, well done mate,
I really want to know what 3d filament you are using and the setting you are running on the Lulzbot. There is no way I can get my printer to bridge a gap like that printed box you did, without using a ton of support!!! Amazing.
Big Clive, knows a bit about DMX and show controllers, he has worked for Disney and built his own controllers for different things. Even though his specialism may not be animatronics, he should be able to recommend which direction to look into.
It looks like you do not have any end stops for your motors. What other safety precautions do you have in place besides emergency stop buttons? I have this image in my head of your robots bugging out and flailing about.
Impressive build James. Very clean and well thought out. Will you be making a parts list and releasing dimensional drawings for this project? I would like to build one. Also...very professional video editing sir. Keep up the good work!
How the bloody hell did you do those prints!? Is there a very subtle concavity to it on a super fine print..? Or did you put some kind of block in there in place of support structure? I pride myself on my ability to print without support structure, but you've just baffled me with that one.
Boston Dynamics is really great but they are incredible slow if you compare it to the one-man robot development James is doing. My guess is that corporate company culture is at Boston dynamics. Like they need their regular coffee breaks and lots of meetings while James just goes on until the job is done and then some more.
@@jamesbruton well done for being so enthusiastic and producing stuff so amazingly quickly. also have you looked at esp8266 yet?...arduino with wifi built in (or wifi programmable with arduino)
What software are you using for the design of the robot? i can't seem to pinpoint it but i think its sketch up? how would you rate this software in terms of learning curve...
Can the bts7960 actually be controlled by the 3.3 logic from the teensy? Last i Checked the buffers had 1k resistors wich were too strong for the teensy gpios
China has a ROBOT ARM in a factory that is building robot arms on a conveyor belt, arm after arm after arm. Hundreds of hundreds of arms. Maybe you should build a robot arm first, then it can make as many copies of anything that you build as you want.
Can you put LED strips on the robot? Would look dope when he dances and makes some light show! I think this is the cleanest Robot project as of yet! Well done!
It has been a month since the last Open Dog post! :( Does james every finish anything or does he just go on to the next project and forget the old ones?
@@jamesbruton Did I miss a video? To me, the last openDog video I see was "openDog Dog Robot #19 - Some Stability | James Bruton" which aired on June 24, 2019.
The motions the robot makes in this video are very basic and use no real motion control such as deceleration filtering or interpolation. Check back for parts 4 & 5 to see it feeling much more organic though!
Love. What a great way to wake up. (It's like, 5:30a.m. here lol). So, have you investigated topological optimization yet? With that dead-sexy set-up, you could go to bed and wake up to something amazing. More-so, the weight reduction to strength-ratio should be significant. Excelsior!
I always find the non-smoothed motions have their charm as well, like how people can dance "the robot". But it's also less "sophisticated" and not great from a mechanical point of view :)
Genius
You could put globes on them and make them punch each other until one rips the other's head off ^_^
Hi James, really love the OpenDog robot. It's sooo very complex! Question for you: how do you deal with all the comments? I had a video go viral and I can't keep up. --Thomas
3:07 Bridging a gap that large with no support material, you absolute mad lad. Respect+
That one actually had me scratching my head, and the prints turned out just fine
Wow the amount of work in youve done to get this far..
The evolution of your electronics design and construction has made an order of magnitude leap in this project, outstanding work. Your creativity and work ethic is inspirational.
I make the comment every week that I genuinely have no idea where you find the time to do all this work as a one man band.
But this week it’s unbelievable how much you’ve achieved. All that cabling - and done TWICE!
This is turning in to a really professional build with such potential. Seeing it move was great 👏👏
I still don’t know how you achieve so much. Do you ever sleep? 😀 James, are YOU a robot 🤖?
I'm sure James has a team to do the grunt work while he can get on with the higher level stuff, and of course handing business enquiries etc.
no, i bet he has been cloning himself with some sort of calvin an hobbes like DIY Duplicator, if someone here remembers
I think he lives with his parents, having no job and make a few bucks on UA-cam. I think he is to valuable for UA-cam..... He should make a shittone of money somewhere else...
@@Gallardo6669 With 185 million views, he's made at least $200,000. UA-cam *is* his job.
@@ahaveland not to mention a well supported patreon, tons of paid product placements, paid projects that are sponsored, paid events, a clothing line, etc. He makes well into 6 figures annually.
These are looking really professional, great job on the design and execution.
Ive been watching you for ~5 years or so now and I have to say you just keep getting better. My absolute favorite youtube channel. I absolutely love your work.
Thanks, there's much more coming
I was snarky at first. I am not snarky anymore. You're making them to dance and such but you're also making them versatile and durable. Much better.
I wanted to say Thank You. I was given an old Jazzy Scooter that did not work and wanted to convert it to a robot, one battery was dead and the control electronics appeared to be fried. I purchased two of the BTS7960 that you are using so now I am going to be using a Raspberry Pi 3 set up as an Access Point for Wifi connection then running Node-Red for visual control feeding to an Arduino Uno then into the two BTS7960. I ran some test and I only nee one 12Vdc battery and can run it just fine.
Keep up the incredible work
Excellent work! Thank you for all the hard work you put into your amazing content!
Always model the wiring runs in your 3D mechanical design - the results will be much neater when you have in-built cable standoffs and channels.
DMX is a very smart choice for this project. Very robust, lots of open source material, and once you work out the interface you can easily sync up the motion to audio, lights, and stage design. Its how most animatronics places do it.
I get excited even when you say is not exciting, and just the idea to control them via DMX, made me smile
You have been making amazingly fast progress on this robot! Whatever your doing to get this done fast, it must be working!
I think it's just using the right material for the job
These look super promising! It's really cool to see how much better this moves (even if it is just basic moves) than robot x! You have improved and I look forward to your future projects!
James is buildings these insane stuff like it's nothing!
This is turning out nicely!
T1000 TERMINATOR HEAD!!! Really cool project James, can't wait for the file release so I can make my own.
Amazing stuff as always.
Maybe the 10 DOF hand I developed will suit these robots nicely.
iron brothers look awesome, i'm really looking forward to see them finished :)
Awesome video can’t wait for the next one
It's coming next Tuesday!
Great
Kinect skeleton tracking would be pretty awesome, I've never tried it with something this complex, would love to see it
It could be done!
@@jamesbruton I used the processing kinect library, but you probably know better ways to do it ;)
Fantastic job well done. It's amazing what you have done in a week!.
Greetings from Poland. Once you finish both, maybe a nice idea would be to combine both and do a demo on the basis of martial arts? 2 Robots fighting with each other would look fascinating and from what I see the dynamics of movements is brilliant.
I think they might need mobile bases, but that is not out of the question in the future
Instant upvote for the correct punctuation in the title
Love to see what it takes to make them DMXable. Please do all the details!
Thanks James.
It's coming next week
this guy is Dr Doom. keep it up bro you'll rule this world soon.
for the movement u could (eventually) have the arms and waist controlled via VR controllers and headset so people could move the robots from behind the scenes or even re use the ultron VR like device for moving the hands ( difficult but im sure u could do it)
Woo Hoo !! James ! The is Awesome. !!!!
How much does it cost to build this type of robot ?
Omni Consumer Products is taking a very deep interest in these robots.
I’m a hobbyist light designer and teensy/arduino lover. I worked with multiple lighting consoles and implemented dmx and artnet (what you should look for this) in teensy.
If you need some clarity or help I would love to discuss with you, I can also help making some nice pre-programmed show for those two lovely robo-guys!
If you are interested let me know
You might want to consider adding some sand bags or other weights to the base to add to the stability. As they are now, they are certainly top heavy and as you add more to them it is only going to get worse. I recommended the sand bags since they are cheap and can be easily adjusted as you change the robot or it does motion that needs a little more mass to keep it stable.
Not sand, use water containers as ballast. The aim is to have these easy to transport. Water is available everywhere and the containers can be transported empty.
It's much better once I put filtering on the motions
@@jenyates3033 The problem with water is it oscillates in the container and can lead to tipping still.
@@jamesbruton I figured it would be, but they are going to get even more top heavy as you add to them, especially if you add costuming to them like you did with Robot-X.
looking really good keep it up James
Genius stuff as always James!
thanks!
Wow great job .
Looking forward to learning more about DMX & Arduino! Oh, yeah, your cable termination is sick man!
Super neat! The DMX software sounds interesting.
This gave me hope again in my dream to build animatronics like disney. But i got to remember to stard small
Great work so far! Would love to see how you handle vision like OpenCV facial recognition
Give this man a motion capture suit !
James, you should consider using the ultra fine radio control silicon wire for your DC power, much more flexible and easier to route.
How'd you pull off the boxes at 3:13 on your print without using support material?
Yeah, that's something I noticed too. Very curious.
WOO, DMX. I'm a lighting technician, so really familiar with the dmx512 protocol. Really curious if it is going to work (dont know why it shouldnt). But the idea of programming a robot with a lighting console is funny :D
I'll most likely be using some software for DMX with timelines, but it could be linked into a lighting desk
Amazing !! Wonderfull and awesome video !
I would love to see you build a real jhonny 5 from short circuit, ( i mean with real world robotics apply by you!!)
You should get some dedicated wire to wire and wire to board connectors with locking mechanisms.
Hi Sir James, Can you please share the wiring connection of the Teensy board to DMX shiel and the stepper driver. TIA
amazing
well done mate! thanks for sharing,cheers mate
!
Wow, those arms are fast. Don't let it punch you. LOL
how cool would it be if Disney's imagineers invited you over to visit their workshop someday?
Great video
I just wanted to say that you should include a parts list of the motors etc. and the links to where you got them. This would really help me as i am building school projects that are going to use the parts that you do but i cant find them. This will also help for people such as me who wants to build some of your projects.
Thanks
Can ROS run this beast? Or does it require a specific kinematic layout?
ROS?
@@clonkex Robotic Operating System
@@TheRainHarvester Yes, I realised shortly after posting that comment that googling ROS was enough :P
@@clonkex It would be cool if ROS, when first installed, made the robot flair it's arms all around, like a newborn as it learns the extent of its Arm Control and its feedback.
Wow is right! you've put a huge amount of work into this. What is the actual man hour count so far? Brilliant stuff, can't wait for the next instalment, well done mate,
The videos are weekly, so generally each one takes a week. Some of this series took a little longer with some background work
Amazing
as always impresive video
The bridging on the print is impressive, are you posting the filament and process settings somewhere? Great work and incredible pace of production.
I really want to know what 3d filament you are using and the setting you are running on the Lulzbot. There is no way I can get my printer to bridge a gap like that printed box you did, without using a ton of support!!! Amazing.
3Dfilaprint.com premium PLA - default settings from Lulzbot Edition of Cura
Big Clive, knows a bit about DMX and show controllers, he has worked for Disney and built his own controllers for different things. Even though his specialism may not be animatronics, he should be able to recommend which direction to look into.
I've already made the videos, they'll be up in the next few weeks
@@jamesbrutonA thought for the future at least then, look forward to the new videos.
Hi, congratulations for the job ...
I would change the transmissions, they are too weak to the eye and the belts do not have enough stiffness ...
They work fine - wait for parts 4/5
Will it be moving around? Hopefully your robot doesn’t end up falling over
wow thank you so much
awesome!!!
Are you going to be adding on any stylized body coverings or fairings?
Yes!
Wow. When do you have time to sleep? : ) Massive amount of work. Mahalo! : )
I see it now... i finally see it.. James will eventually create the first terminator and eventually skynet... You will doom us all!
have you seen what Boston Dynamics makes?
It looks like you do not have any end stops for your motors. What other safety precautions do you have in place besides emergency stop buttons? I have this image in my head of your robots bugging out and flailing about.
You should use these to make a short film with Corridor Digital!
I love it
Impressive build James. Very clean and well thought out.
Will you be making a parts list and releasing dimensional drawings for this project? I would like to build one.
Also...very professional video editing sir. Keep up the good work!
The CAD and code will be openSource after part 5
@@jamesbruton OK thanks. I am very excited about this project.
Where did you get the nice ball screws from?
@@rexgordon8661 eBay or Amazon - they are really common SFU1605
@@jamesbruton You use the 300mm length?
upper body reminds me of the robot from new vegas. mount a TV and a power wheel to it!
will performance robots be open source? Would love to build one!
Yes after part 5
Hello James where did you find the belts, btw great video
Nice work ! You said you will be powering them from the wall, aren't you afraid of exceeding the peak current draw capacity of the power supply ?
How the bloody hell did you do those prints!? Is there a very subtle concavity to it on a super fine print..? Or did you put some kind of block in there in place of support structure? I pride myself on my ability to print without support structure, but you've just baffled me with that one.
It just bridges it - I'm using the default settings in Lulzbot's Cura. I guess it just under-extrudes a bit and blows lots of air on it.
Whats your opinion on Boston Dynamics?
Boston Dynamics is really great but they are incredible slow if you compare it to the one-man robot development James is doing. My guess is that corporate company culture is at Boston dynamics. Like they need their regular coffee breaks and lots of meetings while James just goes on until the job is done and then some more.
Best resource to learn robotics please
ok stupid question. assuming these videos are very recent, just how hot is it in that attic room? and how are you cooling it down?
Yes it is, open the Windows in between shots
@@jamesbruton well done for being so enthusiastic and producing stuff so amazingly quickly. also have you looked at esp8266 yet?...arduino with wifi built in (or wifi programmable with arduino)
Awesome work! But you absolutely need to make that middle box in a butt shape or nothing will work.
What software are you using for the design of the robot? i can't seem to pinpoint it but i think its sketch up? how would you rate this software in terms of learning curve...
kaka_tv its Fusion 360 and I think its amazing 🙃
Jusst out of curiosity how long oes it typically take you to make your 3d models?
will they get legs?
Can the bts7960 actually be controlled by the 3.3 logic from the teensy? Last i Checked the buffers had 1k resistors wich were too strong for the teensy gpios
Well it seems to work ok
May I know the program/app that you are using in the video to design the 3D models? New to these things.
It's Fusion 360 - it's free to enthusiasts and startups
Thanks for your fast reply. Am using SketchUp now as it's very easy to pick up. Will try Fusion 360. Love your vids, very inspiring.
Isn't it only free for educators? How do one get it free as enthusiasts/startups?
Ok, found the page taking about it here, thanks anyway - www.autodesk.com/campaigns/fusion-360-for-hobbyists
Can’t wait till he builds the terminator an skynet
China has a ROBOT ARM in a factory that is building robot arms on a conveyor belt, arm after arm after arm. Hundreds of hundreds of arms.
Maybe you should build a robot arm first, then it can make as many copies of anything that you build as you want.
Does it come in Black
Hello every body i Can t find files on gitubes it is possible to see it ? Thanks
github.com/XRobots/PerformanceRobots
@@jamesbruton super i am looking for but Can t find super James thanks
What's that software he's using?
What‘s the software called he used to design the robot?
Fusion 360
....but I like the 50part series :)
I also wanna make robots like you..can you teach me..?
You need an intern!
Terminator is becoming a reality
I feel like to build a robot tiger or kind of.
great job..but u should finished openDog project before u start other prajects
That is an ongoing development project, it does not fit the same requirements
Can you put LED strips on the robot? Would look dope when he dances and makes some light show!
I think this is the cleanest Robot project as of yet! Well done!
It has been a month since the last Open Dog post! :( Does james every finish anything or does he just go on to the next project and forget the old ones?
It was last week?
@@jamesbruton Did I miss a video? To me, the last openDog video I see was "openDog Dog Robot #19 - Some Stability | James Bruton" which aired on June 24, 2019.
@@ArtisanASCII The one last week about leg testing
Build Chappie, plz