This is V2.0 of the 3D Printed RC Excavator which now includes attachments like the push blade and grapple. ProfessorBoots Workshop: professorboots.com/products/p... 3D Files: www.printables.com/model/8332...
I'm a student at Western Sky Middle school and I help out in the STEM room after school. We have an ancient Maker bot replicator that was left out to dry after out last STEM teacher passed away. After I learned about his story, I started reaching out to 3D printer companies to hopefully get a new printer and start a club to teach anyone about 3D printing. We got no response from the companies we contacted and at this point I'm not sure what to do until I saw this video. My school would benefit very much from receiving even just one of the printers. I'm sure that our school and the students would benefit for years to come. Thank you, Max Murphy
he isn't. he is not sharing the wiring diagram. or the circuitboard files. so the only way to make this work is the order the circuitboard from a kit. like he did with his other vehicles. this project isn't finished yet so the kit for it isn't on his site yet. he does however allow you to pay 10 dollars to get access to a tutorial that DOES have those files. so no. he's not sharing anything for free. it's just marketing to get people to pay on his website. don't worry though. i am devoted to building this project and doing so without paying this guy a single dime. so i'll just design my own circuitboard. and make those files available for free. if he was honest up front that this would cost money i would have had no problem with it. but he pretends that you can get the files for free and then excludes the most important part. that is why he isn't getting a dime.
@@darkracer1252 He is providing a service. You could pay him $10, get the files and info you need, and then move on... or better yet, support him! Cheapo
Just in case anyone is building this and wants to avoid the slip ring… I just built mine with a couple of lines of code that prevents the wires from getting too tangled. After x spins, it simply locks that direction and shows a little light I added and then I can tap that direction and it will untangle. Slip rings are better but this is just something I added as I didn’t want to redo it. Another option if you wanted to minimise the wires in the pass through would be to add a microcontroller in the base and then you’d just need power and a single tx line so 3 wires
Bamboo Labs is top tier for sponsoring those printers for the school. I've never used one or seen one in real life, but I've heard they're good, and after hearing that they did this sponsorship deal and makes me really interested in learning more about them!
They are some of the best (if not the best) consumer printers on the market. When they released their first printers they were much better than most other printers and for the most part they just work with little need for tinkering, since then other printer manufacturers have been scrambling to try and compete. We still don’t have any great alternatives to Bambu lab products, especially the AMS systems which let you use multiple colours or materials within a print. A big part of why Bambu has been so successful is the price, they are reasonable for consumer printers. The only downside is the closed source nature and closed ecosystem, which a lot of people don’t like but so far Bambu lab have been decent with it and spare parts or upgrades are reasonably priced. Being closed source and a closed ecosystem is also a good thing, for the most part everything just works and you don’t have to (or can’t) tinker with it much. Bambu have also collaborated with other manufacturers already like E3D to produce higher flow hot ends and likely will collaborate more in the future.
I have a Bambu Lab A1 with the AMS lite system. Absolute bang for the buck. I do a lot more printing than tinkering nowadays. In my country getting Bambu consumables like filament is expensive. But I have managed to configure it for other localy available filaments. And it works a charm! This and the A1 mini model could be the first printer for a beginer. I have an Anet ET4 pro, and the amount of tinkering I had to do inorder to get it tuned was humungus. Even an Ender 3 pro requires more tinkering before you can get quality prints.
I'm a volunteer STEM teacher at our local Christian school where I have a large focus on 3d printing, we are a small-town school with very little funding, so I donated my old Ender 3v2s(which we spend half the time tinkering on them) to the school. Would absolutely love one of these in the class! Thanks for the video. It's definitely on the next on the build list!
I would say in case you would ever want to automate it, i would just manually add a external potentiometer - then it would still be strong and cheap while also being space efficient
I wouldn’t t use potentiometers. As you need multiple turns on some axis. You can also use some magnetic encoders. They are relatively small and also easy to get.
@@3DWolfEngineering Oh. Had the prices in mind for 500 pieces. If you only need a few they are pretty pricie. What does a small poti in this sice cost?
Next week I will receive the final part of the puzzle - the screws, and finally can finish the v1 build. Good thing that i purchased all the components for 2 excavators so i can have spare for the accessories!
This quality of content definitely deserves more subscribers! - Also, have you considered making a version that's inline with the Bambu Lab maker supply incentive program? I could definitely see this being a maker kit on their website and if you use solely parts available from Bambu you would also get a nice kick back from anyone buying parts through your makerworld upload :) - Great work!
I am a student at Forbush High School in NC. We are a small town high school being one out of only two in the county. We are very CTE based and not only me but many students strive to become an engineer or designer someday. We only have roughly 600 kids and not many classes that offer a design element like 3d printing. I myself want to become a mechanical engineer and learn how to 3d print, code and learn how to approach these projects. I think that with the donation of these printers this will help in our engineering and design aspect of our school.
Hey just a tip, I’m working with really small 3D printed gears right now (I’m a mechanical engineer) and they DO work, even on a bambu, you just need to play around with the profiles as well as the amount of teeth!
I can't wait to build one of these with my nephew , it's awesome!! There's a new nonprofit makerspace in my area and I believe a bambu printer would serve many people very well in many ways.
IBIB (It Begins In Brockport) is a makerspace near me run by my college professors that just celebrated their 1 year anniversary. They have a couple older printers we have been using to make some 3d printed sumo bots (as well as many other projects) and I'm sure they would be ecstatic to get a new one!
I think it would be neat to give one of the 3d printers to the local library where a variety of people could use it for just the cost of materials or something. Not sure how maintenance would work and such though.
Some schools are literally overcrowded. The class sizes are double of what they used to be. understanding on how much time they have for each course and how many students they need to handle. They could make use of the extra two printers that were given to you.
Make it easy for you to change tools on your excavator, for example, to put a jackhammer on the end and lots of other things 😍 I'd love to give a bambulab machine to my nephew, he's learning mechanics and he's passionate about it, like many of your creations :p
Have you thought of trying a push/pull cable(bike cables) actuation for the tool ends and remote mounting the motors in the body? Then you will be able to power different types of tool heads with a slimmer profile
I'm so excited to make this now! I just subscribed to your workshop and ordered all the parts. Printing the machine will begin this weekend ☺️ Thank you so much for this, it’s really cool what you’ve made. I’ve had my own ideas but don’t know much about the electronics. Hopefully after this and perhaps your other builds I’ll have some experience to experiment with my own stuff. Looking forward to your future machines which I’ll most def be making! (Forklift or telehandler?🙂)
How does this only have 600 likes… this is insane!!! People get this man up higher , like his shit, comment, then comment again, and when you’ve commented, do it once more to make the algo notice him
I gotta say, With these 3d printed mini machine vids, You're really making me want to get buy a 3d printer to start making this type of stuff, Anyway, I was wondering if you've seen a spider excavator before, Building one of those would be pretty crazy considering all of the extra movements, Just throwing the idea out there
You can get a clip on magnetic encoder for the n20 that you can use to monitor its movement.. won’t be as granular as a stepper but will allow you to know where the part is 😊. My suggestion for next steps - add in LiDAR and a camera then hook it up to an off the shelf ai model that will make it autonomous 😊
I love it man waiting to get electronics. Also it’s at the point time to go from ps3 controller to a real radiomaster air transmitter I’m sure there’s a way but the controls would be so much smoother
I would be absolutely delighted to have a Bambu lab printer, I’m young but an aspiring engineer and love 3d printing and 3d modeling, my printer just broke and it is really old so I cannot be repaired, so having an a1 would be amazing!
Put a little camera on the esp32 and make it controllable via the internet! So people can share it with friends or just use it from another room via WiFi. Crawl space adventures would be a cool thing to do .. 😊
Shameless plug here, I just started as a STEM teacher at a middle school and we have some flash forge printers but they… are small and unreliable. A bambulabs printer could be used to make some mini skidis at the end of my coding and technology class and improve my quality of life for myself in my 3d printing unit for 6th grade 🙃 On a side note I love and hate you for these projects, I’m currently getting my ender 3 dusted off to start producing my soon to be desktop construction yard. Just drop all of the upgrades before I start printing please!
Had to like AND comment within the first 30 seconds because I got moneys worth and then some. I subbed too. Wanted to the 1st vid of yours I saw. But this 2nd one. 35 seconds in and I'm throwin $$$$ at the TV. I gotta make one with a 56" track width just to flex. And do some stuff 🤩🥰🤑.
Awesome addition to a great build. Where/how did you get that remote? Is there a vid or link on how to get it? Would any receiver/transmitter work for these provided it has the proper amount of channels.
Where is the voting page? I'd vote for a diy "rwe bagger 288". It'd be awesome to have scale model mining rc vehicles. I can imagine getting some friends together and creating a miniature quary
I am a student at a school in Australia who has some Zortrax M200s which barely work, and the school has many electronic resources such as Arduino kits which are itching to be put in a 3d printing project. I do not really think the school needs an A1 Combo, but we would absolutely love one of these. Thanks for the amazing video! Also, any idea when a purchasable kit for the excavator might happen?
Hey one more thing, have you thought about making the claw assembly as a posible quick swap like you did originally to be able to wap out sizes of buckets? Another words make it easier to swap from the claw to the bucket and back again? I only ask because I printed both but don't want to have to go through the hassle of screwing different parts on and off and eventually wearing out the plastic that holds the parts and screws!
