Zip-tying bearings as belt tensioners is MacGyver af

@pb.projectbox

10 ай бұрын

I can't believe it worked as well as it did haha

I'm so glad I somehow stumbled upon this channel. This is pure gold ! It is easy to criticize and think one could come up with a much better solution, but reality is that integration hell deserves its name. Well done for seeing it through ! I have to say, I do think you could have gone with some kind of belt fed turret so you could avoid so much complexity on the loading and have "unlimited" ammo. This also would have probably made the head lighter and thus easier on your servos. That being said, maybe you did it for the challenge and hats off to you ! Keep it up, your projects are very cool !

Been looking forward to this since the last video. I'm 11 mins in and I'm already not disappointed. The engineering that went into just the loader is very cool. Keep it up man

@pb.projectbox

10 ай бұрын

Glad you liked the dart loader! It's by far my favorite part of the whole thing.

Props to the dog, moral support is often under appreciated at times when everything is going wrong! Great video, keep it up.

@pb.projectbox

10 ай бұрын

She's definitely been a big help haha. Maybe I'll have her make a cameo in my next video...

You deserve way much to be seen! 👍👍

Cool video! I also like the flying wheel method.

Been looking forward to this for a long time! Did not disappoint!

You’re the man Ethan!!

Your channel will soon blow up!

@pb.projectbox

10 ай бұрын

I hope you're right! I've got another project in the works that I'm pretty excited about.

I really LOVED this video!!! Loved some of the electromechanical designs you made and they create some elegant movement control. Yh the electronics guy in me cries to the silicon gods at the number of fried MCUs and chips.... but very important lessons no doubt were learnt (for your wallets sake I really hope they were!!) Which is part of the fun of learning. It shows how things like the numerous breakout boards adafruit (amoung others) make that really allow for access to the 'higher end' chips for all (by that I mean the 'designed for highly integrated systems chips which only come in tiny smt form factors'). Gone are the days of only THT parts avaliable for the hobbyist. 7400 logic anyone? :P (very old, but still highly invaluable and used more than youd think). I loved this project, its final form (at least for now) and the clear fun you had doing it also comes out :) Cant wait for more!!

@pb.projectbox

10 ай бұрын

Glad you liked it!

please more!

Absolutely fantastic over-engineering and work! Also, where did you get your pogo pins?

@pb.projectbox

6 ай бұрын

Thanks! I got a 100 pack from amazon: a.co/d/4bMXxOQ

bro this is damn cool ca i get the codes for the project and how can I contact you

"1 zip tie was too janky so I used 2 and some useless bearings". What a waste of material.

It´s cool but my man you could easily make this with far less mechanisms, think springs etc, worm gears, linear actuators.

@Thats_Mr_Random_Person_to_you

10 ай бұрын

True. Very true. But sometimes making something needlessly complex is more fun. And you can learn more in the process. Sure this is not a suitable for mass production, and could be done a hell of a lot simpler. But I really love the clutch drive mechanism with the switch idea in the loader. Sometimes over-doing it for your own personal 'who cares about part count, producability at scale, cost is not a constraint' hobby projects give more abilities to experiment and learn and have fun......

@pb.projectbox

10 ай бұрын

Not gonna argue with that haha

@robertkraciuk2753

10 ай бұрын

@@Thats_Mr_Random_Person_to_you reminds me of a couple projects of my own tbh.... lost a robotics track solving competition last year because i thought that adding a "pressurized cannon" would be absolutely hillarious and shave off a couple seconds off the track time, it did but also reduced the track completion efficiency from like 95% to 65% but yes fun was had and it was an absolute crowd pleaser