I've been away from home for 2 months and the wife said there's over 30 packages waiting hahaha

The battery is a lead acid battery

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

I buy music boxes just for the mechanisms. I’ve been looking for Moonlight Sonata for years. Of course I could buy a new one but rather find a vintage one. I’m obsessed with all things mechanical powered. I have hundreds of old windup watches and clocks, music machines, metronomes, etc. I bought a Mississippi River paddle wheel boat yesterday that plays “Wish I was in Dixie.” The shaft extends from the barrel and turns a pulley with a rubber band that turns the paddle wheel while it plays. The notes are muffled so I googled how to fix it and came upon your video. I’ve been watching your videos for years so naturally watched this one too.

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

I wondering how these cheap bulbs works without DC power switching. Even the 1$ Ikea Ryet have it

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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 😅

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.

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

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.

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.

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

that is a 2 cell lead acid battery

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.

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

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

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

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???

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.

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........

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.

Great for turning into a robot Arduino or Raspberry pi

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

Nice. A more modern version of pretty much the same circuit I built in the early-'00s. I used a 2N3055 and a 2N2222 to drive it, rather than an opamp and mosfet. I mounted it to a tiny (1.5" x 2.5"?) aluminum project box with a bunch of slots dremeled into it and the damn thing would quickly get too hot to hold.

Use the camera shutter on a pwm circuit and shine a light through it, and you have a strobe light. Then you can synch your camera with a moving thing like a motor. Just a thought. With a strobe light at the right frequency you can make things like a helicopter blade look like its in slow motion or even standing still. Thats about the only use I could come up for it.

Good build. I might build something similar now because I probably have about the same parts laying around.

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. 👍😀

Nice Brew!

Even if it worked, that sweeper would still be useless. It just pushes the dust around the floor. Why did you waste $10+tax on that crap.

Id never use it, but would still love to build it.

Unfortunately, there is zero information about the bridge between assembling the hardware and actually doing projects....that is, the computer interface setup, which is quite crucial.

An antenna wouldve been a great addition 😂

Favorite O'Stuff videos 3) Mailbag 2) Teardown 1) Mailbag that leads to a teardown

For the folks that absolutely need instructions for these: You can use a picture of one completed to use as a reference. Especially if youre not familiar with the parts and their correct polarity and the correct resistor values and locations. You can use a multimeter to read your resistor values to ID them as well. I have a couple shoeboxes full of these fun little kits. Its fun to go back and mod them if you're itching to build or play.

15:32 like how the leds reflect off the beer glass.

This was a good episode.

You've almost cleared out AliExpress! 😋