PCB Motor 2-Wheeled Robot (Part 1/3) 

Can't wait for the next prototype

So, here comes a new piece of art 🤩. Suggestion: I think addition of a rubber band on the wheels can hopefully make it work much better😅

Mate as a graduate engineer big respect for make a channel on what you love as engineer is awesome

First class RU-vid Entertainment!

i love this guy alot because hes always straight to the point and explains in an easy and advanced way what hes doing

I’ve been doing electronics DIY for years, I have to say this PCB motor opened my eyes. Great content, thanks for sharing.

Amazing Work And PCB Robot 👍

These little contraptions are amazing and I also find your accent to be charming! Great work and I'm so glad I subbed!

Have watched you for only 6 months and your application gets more interesting day by day. Keep up the good work!!!!

Just the name of the video was enough for me to like it. I hope this the start of a great creation! Waiting for what's next!

Very impressive and cool! Can’t wait to see where you go next with this project.

Big fan of your work . Awesome 👍👍👍 Can't wait for the improvised version and future robots.

Wow your circuits are soo well integrated! Just the best!

Genius like you are changing world

This is absolutely exceptional.

Hand soldering under a scope is very relaxing.

Next up a Segway for ants. But seriously, interesting work!

I was playing with PCBmotor at work a few years back for some interesting applications but for some reason people weren't into it; haven't revisited it since, but it's been on the list and I still account for it in some of my own designs that will eventually be prototyped. :-) Thanks for publishing your project.

You should consider adding another wheel on top that drives a small reaction wheel for stability. See if that helps

What an awesome build. Looking forward to the next update

Loved the first song! 😆

Love the music. Perfect touch.

Tal-ostja. Keep these vids coming. The concept of the motor you are using would lend itself perfectly for sealed propellers for a mini-sub.

Your pcbs are a work of art ❤️

Very cool idea, thanks for sharing your work

Yay.....he's back.....most artful and informative video on RU-vid..😃😃....keep doing tinier project😊😊......eagerly waiting for part 2.........

No need for long videos filled with a ton of useless BS just to please RU-vid algorithm, you just go straight to the point, everyone understands and everyone wants to see the upcoming evolutions! Great work, you are always super creative!

Super cute robot 😀👍!

Carl, your channel is underrated, this is excellent work. Very interesting projects! Greets from germany.

Love it! Looking forward to part 2 :)

I love your works❤️

Just 2k more until 100k!

Genius! Can’t wait for the next video.

Amazing Work.

Impresionante tío lo que haces eres un grande enserio

great project! thanks

You always great & excellent on your experiment, which leads to learn

Excellent!!

This is so awesome

Great and amazing, you have lots of patience

amazing ,one day the whole world will give attention towards PCB motors

Speechless

I would love to do something like this some day

i really love this guy i still remember when i stated following you when you had just a few videos and i just found them very interesting. hope you had a lot more resources so that we can see your ideas and imagination evolve much faster. best of luck mate and your videos makes my day a lot happier!!!

Wow. So good. Well done

Great work. Clicked that bell 🔔 Can't wait for the next video!

Yes yes i love all the stuff you have been doing wth flexar but the potential for pcb robots are why i am here.

This is the homemade future of nanites

I'll bet your cat loves your projects -- almost had me swipin'. Exquisite stuff, sir. Two bearings per wheel may be in the cards.

Super cool

Cool video, excited for the redux!

Nice and quite inspiring!

Congrats on 100K!!!

You smashed it 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

I think it would really help to add a third really small balance wheel like a tail , that would stop the body from spinning and give the wheels more control

So cool!

Impressive stuff!

Such a cool little robot, definitely could even be a marketable idea but is just plain fun regardless.

Man i love this kind of vid

Cool idea 💡👍

You amaze me, good sir! I wish I can grow up and do what you do someday.

Nice dude really it provokes my mind to make something

you should use gyroscopes and a pid controller to keep the robot upright perfectly and to make it go in a straight line

This is so cool!!

Amazing!👏👏👏

nice work

I'm a big fan of your videos !! It is probably not the major problem for now but when dealing with self-balancing robots, the higher the center of gravity, the easier its is for him to maintain its equilibrium ! It is a bit counter-intuitive but think of when you are trying to balance a stick on your hand, the bigger the stick, the easier it is !

SUPERB IDEA!!!!

With all of the practice and knowledge you have gained, it would be great to see you reconsider the robotic ball. It was the first of your projects that I stumbled on, prompting me to subscribe.

I would really love to see some of these project become a series where you refine and test designs for different applications with an end goal of actually building complete prototype devices incorporating many of your designs.

Try ordering SLS parts. Milled will come out heavier, while titanium or such 3d printed parts will do the work perfectly

Well done man, this is super impressive!

You are a genius. 🙌🏻🙌🏻

Really nice made! And you're almost at 100k subscribers! :) :)

Love it!

Great Scott.

looks great for micro robot actuators

Cool video, thanks :)

Excellent work! I think you should consider the stability you would gain from mounting the wheels on a single straight shaft, if that is possible.

If you take the plastic spacer part off the header once you solder the headers on the wheels, you'll be able to solder the chassis PCB so it sits much lower. I look forward to seeing this chooch along :D

I've made two wheel robot once, but it was bigger. Try changing the angle of wheels - it should help with stabilisation. Wheelchairs for sports have slightly angled wheels too. Btw I love your PCBs! It's awesome you are trying to make everything small, simple and compact :)

I think you are a legend

Hi Carl I received the Flexible PCB (x10) i am from Singapore.-Thank you.

Wow just quality bro ♥️♥️😍

I'm studying electronics engineering, and I wish to have the same level of innovation in electronics as you one day.

Nice friend!! Realy nice!!!

You would make a killer flea weight combat robot with this.

Hey, RE: the problems you've had with some of the flat pancake motors starting up. Watched some of your videos and finally hit me what the problem is, been around the early 2000s since I was last looking at these types of motors closely. Pole angle. Because these only have the 6 coils, when the opposite magnet is over the coils the force is mostly 90 degrees from the PCB, not in the rotation plane. If the rotor is not constrained well it can simply push the magnet away and put the bearing in a cocked state where the friction increases and it won't turn. Higher precision bearing or longer shaft and two bearings limit the off angle, and make it less likely to get stuck in this manner. Also look at small pulses for starting, so the tiny bit of in rotation force has a chance to act on the rotor without the coils staying energized and keeping the rotor off angle and higher friction.. The other easy fix is more poles. They are problematic motors, but were used in some of the old floppies so there are ways to make them reliable, it just takes some extra work and tricks. If you look at an old 3.5" floppy with this type of PCB motor and watch its start up on a scope it will probably give you a lot of ideas..

really neat idea, have you thought about making a small gear reduction to the wheel to help deal with the low motor torque? it wont go as fast but hopefully you wont be stalling the motor as much and will over all be smoother and less hard on the fittings.

So you COULD make it from metal, OR you could optimize your print geometry. Some gussets between the main platform and its "bookend" PCB motor coils to keep them from leaning in, extra thickness in the bottom of the main platform to make a "wheelie bar" somehow (maybe put a mount for a bearing, to be used as a central 3rd wheel). You could also make your print thicker, after all you are adding more weight anyway. Some thoughtfully placed thicker sections around the bottom could simultaneously reinforce the corners, and make contact with the ground to prevent flipping. A little extra bulk around the bearings wouldn't be a bad idea either.

A robot made exclusively out of PCB board would be cool

Awesome.

Very Nice

Word of the day- wobbly wheel

waiting for next part

Menakjubkan...jadi pingin tau tutorial pcb transformator/ travo

it would be interesting to have multiple coils on different pcb layer but a little bit shifted between them so it can simulate more small coils in the stator but that would imply to control these set of coils in a syncronous way

Love the music

It's great, but it would be easier to control if you would change it into a line follower. It would make steering easier (just follow the line) and you wouldn't have to worry about balance. It clearly has enough torque to move.

What about using stacked PCB's for the wheels with self-fusing silicone tape wrapped around them to provide grip?