The battery that you popped the protective cover on is an SLA battery. Maybe you can mod this thing to be a little more useful intelligent floor sweeper???

Stunned that it actually picked anything up! So you can't really give it an F, perhaps a D- grade? This was hilarious, thank you Mr O'Stuff.

@pileofstuff

Ай бұрын

I was surprised that it got anything too. I suppose dog hair isn't that much of a challenge, though.

New advertising on their box: “…a fragile piece of shit…” Mr Stuff! Thank you for taking the hit on this so we don’t have to. 👍😀

@pileofstuff

Ай бұрын

It's a sacrifice, but one I'm willing to make 😎

@snakezdewiggle6084

Ай бұрын

It's a technical term. We use to say it all the time in the test lab at uni'. 😉😆

That was way more impressive than I was expecting. It's still crap though. LOL.

To summarize: Yes, it sucks. But on so many levels.

That battery looks like a 4v lead-acid battery. You can see the battery have vents. That's incredible how they cut on costs using exactly zero silicon on it 😅

The fake autonomous navigation is similar to the old Dingbot toy from Tomy

@markfergerson2145

Ай бұрын

Same drive mechanism i think.

The steering mechanism is the same as those 'bump and go' toys of the past.

I bought one of these to play with. Putting a power bank on top so that it is continuously 'on charge' really extends the run time. I can see it being useful as a cheap cat toy - although i dont have a cat to test this theory.

@Tekwyzard

Ай бұрын

No-one ever has a cat, the cat has you 😸

Am I the only one to get the Big Clive reference? "One moment please..." 6:30

@onecircuit-as

Ай бұрын

I find myself saying “One moment please” in Clive’s voice all the time. The guy’s an influencer! 😂

@pileofstuff

Ай бұрын

Indeed he is. As much as I try not to say it that way, sometimes I just can't restrain myself.

A few years ago I picked one similar to that one except it held six C size batteries. I picked it up because it was cheaper then buying the six cells separately and I needed the batteries for a flash light. it had about the same suck Shone power as yours, until I wired it uo with 24volt nicads. It really sucked then and I ran it until the motors started getting real hot. I let it cool down while I rewired the battery pack (20 rechargeable AAAs) by adding 10 more cells all on a long lead, this I hocked up in reverse polarity. It actually lifted off the ground for a couple of inches and hovered for about 15 seconds until the magic Smole came out of the motors.

Nice No.1 Safety Boots. I didn't know they came in white and flesh.😉

hah, i have one in my shop, it works fairy well, I added magnets to catch and round up screws that I have lost

"Bump and go" is the loose term for those drive wheels that change the direction of the "Smart" robot...!

It's alive. After some work

I remember a lot of toys from the late 90s and early 2000s that had these kinds of drive. Especially things with lots of sound and flashing lights. It's strange that you've never seen them.

@pileofstuff

Ай бұрын

My toy experience was a few decades before that.

@michaelschafferAT

Ай бұрын

@@pileofstuff Sorry, unfortunately there was a translation error. I corrected it earlier.

yes it was worth every bit of 10 minutes. the trouble with robot sweepers like that and the better ones is you have to keep the floor space free of obstacles something that is not going to happen around here any time soon

On the plus side, it seemed to like you. Yeah, it was everything one might expect at the price, the only surprise was the failure modes. I didn’t see the mis-installed switch coming nor the self-breaking wire. It’s not really even good for parts.

Honestly, it's not bad for the price. You could easily spend the same amount on a crappy broom. I'm still unsure as to whether or not the far more expensive ones are worth the money.

worth $10 just for the parts salvage. Might work in those tiny NYC 'apartments'!

@pileofstuff

Ай бұрын

Yeah, the motors and gears might come in handy

Looks like $10 for some 3-5v DC motors, a handful of plastic gears , a couple wheels and a battery. Perhaps not the best haul but not likely the worst

Soo clearly.... just a simple lead-acid-battery (casing)... so no regulators needed... for the size a couple of minutes 'running-time'. Replace with at least 6 V battery-pack or get it on 8 Volts or above.

@stephendredge6077

Ай бұрын

Yes the battery is a small two cell lead acid, at least it won't burst into flames or explode, even if charging to 5 volt would be overcharging.

I am not sure that battery is Lithium Ion. It almost looks like a Lead Acid battery given the caps it has on the top........

I am a little disappointed it isn't one with a spy camera that would be sending images back to the mothership in China. Then everyone there would be aware of your safety conscious, workshop footware.

@309electronics5

Ай бұрын

Or it does not even connect to your wifi network and send back 3.5tb of data per second to the mothership

Only Chinese robot cleaners can suck that much without actually cleaning anything off the floor. 🤔😂

Great for turning into a robot Arduino or Raspberry pi

I bought one of these and also tore it down. The thing does function on a couple surfaces but for the most part its bad

that is a 2 cell lead acid battery

Well, apart from adding the brushes, its as useless as there version I brought.

That looks rubbish, but it would make a good robot.

Perhaps a joint operation of you adding sensors and someone else adding the intelligence to the hardware upgrades too make this Smart.

Steal all the useable stuff out of it , throw the rest..

I bought one of these for like $5 just to mess about with. Yeah they are just garbage. That said it's amusing to shove a USB battery bank on top of it and watch it attempt to clean for a 12 hour run

@M0LHA

Ай бұрын

Maybe we could go full PhtonicInduction and hike the voltage and current to all the motors!

@pileofstuff

Ай бұрын

I don;t think it would take much to pop this one. Probably wouldn't even be slightly spectacular.

@RambozoClown

Ай бұрын

@@pileofstuff You won't know for sure until you hook it up to the 12kV primary lines.

The battery is a lead acid battery

@pileofstuff

Ай бұрын

That seems to be the consensus. First time I've encountered one in this form factor.

Now aside from this "fragile piece of shit" being just that but able to somewhat vacuum, tell me the truth and let us know what you were thinking when it was on the floor. Did you want to just step on it, and crush it to pieces? Lol