i built a combat robot. in fact i build combat robots now, i guess. 

My friends are nerds okay

@@KylesMaybeElectricalStuff thoughts on Onshape and f360?

ONSHAPE FOR LIFE! I used fusion briefly for some small project before, but switched to solidworks bc my friends who helped me get the first antweight together were solidworks purists. Since then, they have all converted to onshape after building a 250lb sponsored by onshape, and i made the switch too after losing a beetleweight CAD to corrupted files.

@@KylesMaybeElectricalStuffbased

For real! And at least i'm not the only one to make this mistake. I'm still somewhat surprised thus was able to happen given all the hubbub over USB killers.

i add myself to the gang! fried hdd and serial capabilities on usb but laptop was fine, luckily it was an old one but that's why i put an extra diode on my custom esp pcb for robot combast, i don't want 3s to go into my pc usb ever again

I’ve just been learning ESP and this is handy to know about thank fuck I’ve been powering mine via the same USB C connection I use for the battery pack or I’d have definitely made this oopsie

Aye, nearly done that myself as well, dumped 12V directly into the my laptop's USB port. However, and somehow, either the USB port had some safety protection system or my reaction time was fast enough to unplug it before it caused permanent damage, but my computer somehow survived. My work didn't because the computer instantly shut down when I plugged in the ESP32 but I'm just happy that I still have a working laptop. Lesson learned, unplug any external power supply from the microcontroller before plugging it into the computer. Also, don't upload code at 3AM. On an slightly unrelated note, don't try computer repairs at 3AM either. Dropped a screwdriver and fried whatever controlled the backlight of the LCD on the very same laptop and I thought I killed it... until it decided, "nah I'll live", and miraculously came back to life like nothing ever happened. I... don't know how that laptop is still working, there was a SMD on the motherboard that's now just a burnt smudge... but it still works? Somehow? It's just, built different I guess. idk.

why does y'all esp doesnt have protection diode??

Nah they do. Initially the drum on V2 was printed on a 0.4mm nozzle and immediately chipped when testing. In the actual competition i swapped it for one printed with a 0.8mm nozzle and it lasted like 4 fights

@@KylesMaybeElectricalStuff That's still way better than I would expect. It just feels like it would immidiately be disasterous.

Wait until you see beetleweights

​@@KylesMaybeElectricalStuffantweights are 1 pounders and beetleweaights are three pounders, right?

My wallet will never forgive me. Also probably my lungs, given all the unhappy fumes of plastic welding.

I feel that( -w-‘ )

Holy crap it's my first repear commenter who isn't someone i know personally

NO WAY! It's awesome to be acknowledged by someone who has handled Sgt Cuddles! And yea i have had issues of ground clearance - you can see in the v1 fight the robot is barely driving. Also I didn't show it but the my v2 had an earlier chassis iteration where it basically didnt drive due to both ground clearance and the wheels being all the way in the back, behind both the battery AND the drum. I have destroyed that chassis in my first test of the fixed version

THAT MAKES SO MUCH SENSE! What you're describing is basically what happened. I didn't show it, but in that final grudge where the drum split, the same thing happened where it died and couldn't accept input. We opened the box, power cycled, and just as you described, it came back to life.

Everyone says i need more views but honestly i'm shocked i cracked 5k

Idk just don't watch the first one

Next thing you know you'll be out $3k on an NHRL 30lb robot after fighting emulsifier

I regret to inform you i have given up on solid work in order to become a disciple of on shape

Should've joined like 10 days ago before i hit the hundreds smh

Since making this robot i have been converted to onshape

If an electrical engineer can do this then an infosec person can do it too - 3d printing is super easy to get into so long as you don't touch anything with the words "creality" and "ender3"

@@KylesMaybeElectricalStuff oh, I'm already knee deep in 3D printing (built my own RepRap Prusa Mendel over a decade ago 🥴, had a stint with an Ender 3 Pro that still produces decent results, but my X1 Carbon is my daily driver these days), it's just translating it to functional designs that would hold up in a fight is where I'm less confident. 😅 I can do very basic stuff in Fusion 360, but it's still an uphill battle for me at the moment. Regardless, I appreciate the encouragement and maybe I'll be fighting you in robot combat in a decade when I finally get the knack for it! 🤣

Never heard of it - yall stream online?

Maybe? You're like the fourth commenter to make this claim

Plastic antweights don't drive particuarly well compared to other weight classes, at least the ones i've seen. But also what you are describing is a control bot those do exist

Nunchuk is drive, B is 1/3 weapon throttle, A is 2/3 weapon throttle, A+B is max weapon throttle. The wiimote itself only has an accelerometer, so anything more than waggle controls are infeasible with the amount of effort i was willing to put in (even then i struggled to get super fine control). Wii motion plus adds a gyro for actually usable tilt controls. I should figure out how to use it...

Oh my god it's genuinely the real PCBway

@@KylesMaybeElectricalStuff The ONLY! Do more uploads pls!

The rest of my videos is where i got practice. Also learning from osmosis from watching other videos, i guess

The action movie fx airplane is a perfect screenwipe tbh

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You say that as if i haven't already started my beetle

@@KylesMaybeElectricalStuff you have? What is it gonna be

​@@chriscapps206 there's a pic way buried in the NHRL discord somewhere. it could be described as... - legally distinct fully defined - a combine harvester - a quadisk

@@KylesMaybeElectricalStuff that’s pretty cool,you sign up for April or what NHRL you planning on signing up for

@@chriscapps206 Signed up for April NHRL. The robot is basically complete (spinup before signup) but there's a few things that aren't quite fight ready that i need to sort out.

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Algo or algo not. There is no algtry

That's an interesting approach... and no it wasn't a particularly high end laptop but it was the one i used for school so...

Well that's annoying... I don't think you said it in the video bit were you able to recover your data?

Yea the SSD was fine. It, along with all of my data, currently lives in the replacement laptop

Glad to hear it! Anyways thanks for the video, it was great!

What

That was definitely one of the nore unhinged things i've done in the editing room

I should make "who cares? twin beast" a reality

All glory to the ESP32, except when it doesn't work.

"Jesse we need to cook funny youtube videos" "Yo mister white i thought we were cooking meth not crack"

Wow the youtube algorithm is actually catching me for once?

@@KylesMaybeElectricalStuffSomehow yes, right up my alley too, love funny editing and robotics. Hope it hits more people's recommended's!

I had 97 when this was uploaded and still don't know what happened since

seems like you have a knack for it, keep it up bro you def got another sub@@KylesMaybeElectricalStuff

Trial/error, online tutorials, and talking to more knowledgable people can get you so so far you have no idea

@@KylesMaybeElectricalStuff also did you use the Wii chuck library

@@zed_2ed929 nah. The wii remote itself is just a bluetooth device, so I had an ESP32 inside the robot that it connects to. Someone made a library to do this which I used, though it takes a small modification to get it to work. I keep meaning contribute my fix to github but I keep forgetting to github.com/hrgraf/ESP32Wiimote

This channel's content is entirely dependent on where my hobbies take me. It won't entirely be battlebots but who knows i may be sucked in super deep

I've thought of it as looking like a wii personally, which btw was completely accidental

Get ready to not riot

Join the NHRL discord server idk. I only have 500 subs how is that big enough to warrant a discord community

Iirc the merge scope of sone early feature was out of wack so one of the uprights was a separate body from the rest of the chassis. At the time I had no idea merge scope was a thing so I just added that feature there to fix it.

Tell the other one who got got to the join the other commenters who claim to have gone through this misery

Hah nerd!

It worked until it didn't. I have ideas on how to improve it...

@@KylesMaybeElectricalStuff Please tell, Im considering using a wii controller for my upcoming project but do not know how to start. Im completely new with no experience and have an arduino laying around. Do you think the bluetooth module would worK or is the esp good? I dont have a arduino bluetooth module and all my parts are savaged. I'd really appreciate a reply.

No it is i'm just dumb

The wii remote itself is just a bluetooth device, so I had an ESP32 inside the robot that it connects to. Someone made a library to do this which I used, though it takes a small modification to get it to work. I keep meaning contribute my fix to github but I keep forgetting to github.com/hrgraf/ESP32Wiimote The ESP32, in my experience, is not able to handle pretty harsh conditions (i.e. combat robotics), so I'm working on a different solution using ELRS, but it's still a bit immature to talk about here. That being said, I can still recommend it for most other things. Some folks use ESP32s to control 3lb combat robots at NHRL with xbox controllers and such, so I might just be bad at this.

If there is a PLAnt tournament which would allow me to enter 3lb robot consisting of TPU, AR500, CF, and UHMW, i guess the answer is yes. Otherwise i'm stuck waiting until April NHRL

That's actually my dresser lol

Boppity bippity your breathing is now a conscious activity

Unironically i'll put this thing into the NHRL 30lb cage as a minibot if and only if it's against depth charge

Yes i do tease, i guess

As a massive dankpods fan i didn't realize what i did with the thumbnail until a few hours after i uploaded

Thanks...?

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@@KylesMaybeElectricalStuff i demand a video of thy quadisk

I would but april NHRL hasnt happened yet

Allegedly

Ff brain

The second half of the video isn't that bad tho

Macaroni with the chicken strips ayo the pizza here whats 9+10

Story of my life