FPV 3D Printed RC SkidSteer

This is a 3D Printed RC SkidSteer that has an added FPV camera, this allows the driver to sit front seat and really embrace the RC FPV experience. Everything is 3D printed and opensource.
Pick up a MiniSkidi kit here: professorboots.com/products/r...
Battery: a.co/d/b4JWoPm
Simple charger: a.co/d/0wVkKt9
Discord: / discord
3D Files: www.printables.com/model/7212...
Github page/Code: github.com/ProfBoots/MiniSkid...

[@Coolfwip]

This channel is criminally underrated, keep up the awesome work

[@bluenamjay1547]

If I had to explain to my family, why I enjoyed so much watching a grown ass guy, driving a miniature skid steer with FPV, loading tiny plastic pallets onto a small plastic warehouse shelf, they won’t understand 😂 Thanks for the great content. Looking forward to the dump truck and shenanigans you come with. (Still hoping the kit is available for outside the US at some point 🥲)

[@TheUserReview]

You look like every Jonas Brother put together into one person…….SUBSCRIBED!

[@JCWren]

OK, so the next step is internet control of the MiniSkidi. Person A and person B set up a mini-warehouse with a MiniSkidi. Person A controls the MiniSkidi in person B's warehouse and vice versa. Then you run a challenge to see who can stack all the pallets first. The game goes national, then global. You retire rich, after figuring out to monetize this game. Following that, develop some AI using a vision system to have the MiniSkidi stack the pallets.

[@professorboots]

I like where your heads at! I’ll work on developing the National rules and guidelines for the miniskidi warehouse challenge haha

[@awesomecronk7183]

If a server hosted a TCP socket server and the machines connected to it, with different remotes also connected to the server, you could just run a server out on the web somewhere and have people connect to it to join the game

[@JCWren]

@@awesomecronk7183 Mini-Skidi Skynet?

[@awesomecronk7183]

@@JCWren lmfao maayyybeee

[@uniaddict]

Hell yea! You need a “fork lift” mode so that the forks are always parallel with the ground! Looks like so much fun!

[@professorboots]

That would certainly make the skidioperator life easier haha

[@uniaddict]

@@professorboots definitely! And you could have the tilt button set the zero point for loading and unloading operations! Such a fun project :) also, I was told on Friday that we have a mutual friend that I work with!

[@mdsferguson]

You need to ship to Canada! So awesome!

[@kirleyq1394]

Bro took work-from-home to a whole new level 😭

[@Shampoo1014]

Man, each video I see of yours just gets better and better. So much fun to watch. Keep it up!

[@joehanika]

I bought two because I stupidly thought I could solder... haha.. I cannot wait to get it finished up!

[@haydenpatience6377]

You are having way to much fun with the mini skiddy and I'm here for it! keep up the great content!

[@jordanhunt47]

Your controls are very similar to those of the John Deere Skiddy I use at work. Left hand joystick is your movement control (forward, back, turn) and right hand joystick is bucket control. Pulling back raises the boom, left tilts the bucket/forks up, right dumps, and forward lowers the boom. Pretty sweet build for sure

[@Darknynja2]

I think I’m about to order the electronics kit. This is so “sicc” and “legit”. 😂 Seriously though thanks for this.

[@KleinSchwein9999]

Damn, how is this guy just on 8k. Most underrated channel ever!

[@nathankelley9975]

Love this series!

[@msinnovations2023]

Bro your projects are very inspiring now I am planing to make this one

[@elonmoishkrl8981]

Dang this is sick! Obviously the next step in any rc project is fpv XD

[@professorboots]

Haha right! It’s truly the only logical thing to do.

[@AndyRC]

Nice. I have a little over a dozen drones myself, and quite a few are tiny whoops. Got a bunch of spare camers. I can see that being a lot of fun.

[@jmartin373]

AWESOME JUST PLACED AN ORDER CANT WAIT

[@professorboots]

Thank you for supporting the channel!

[@bradleylomas7525]

I don't know what it is about your rc skid loader, but it looks better than store bought

[@professorboots]

Haha thank you, maybe it’s the cartoony look

[@bradleylomas7525]

@@professorboots whatever it is, congrats

[@craniumbear]

Dude! This is awesome! I'd love to see a mini forklift!

[@jon_raymond]

Just a tip, exporting step files from SolidWorks for import into Bambu Studio will yeld better circular features over STL imports.

[@Azim196]

I would love it if you got a pair of HDZero goggles and used the head tracking to add pan/tilt functionality to the camera system! That would be amazing. There is probably a better system than pan/tilt, and other goggles probably support head tracking too, but I think you get the suggestion here.

[@mafhper]

I was looking for something like this to do with my little one. Thanks. I'm going to read the code to see if I can get the rust out of my brain. 😂❤

[@TiagoTiagoT]

Maybe add a little bit of a low-pass filter to the keyboard inputs to make the motions less jerky and make it easier to perform slower motions by modulating how often you tap or how long the taps are?

[@Austin-fc5gs]

You used my suggestion! Awesome

[@professorboots]

Why of course!

[@TheDistur]

Makes me wish I had some of the fpv stuff. Could be a fun thing to set up at some kind of convention.

[@aaro_n]

I made a print for one of those cameras that also uses a small fan to keep it cool. I need this mini skid

[@nyder1331]

So sick !

[@Raytenecks]

With the forks, now I want this *so* much.

[@user-wd8nd1gs7b]

grate job

[@Rob_65]

and now I need one too - and the mini warehouse too

[@sideways_printer]

We need this in the UK

[@siddharthmohan9378]

Nearly 8k subs!

[@JacobKRP]

Do a tiny bit of inverse kinematic to make the bucket stay at a fixed "incline". Nice work :D

[@sarahmiller9188]

Love it

[@thefreeheathenworkshop]

Hey my Dude, I love this build its wild. are you posting stls on thangs? Also where can I see the research on skid steer and have you thought about a skitter?

[@yokelabductee]

after dump truck it's got to be a proper fork lift, so that it's more acurate than flipping loads over the top of the vehicle

[@professorboots]

Whaaaaaat are you saying the miniskidi isn’t a natural warehouse loading machine?! Nah you’re pry right I have plans on doing an actual forklift

[@dboyd462]

I just got my electronics kit in the mail yesterday and I"m currently printing the parts! Definitely going to make the dump truck too. I am fairly new to microcontrollers/electronics and can do basic coding (mostly because I took a few classes in college years ago). I wouldn't mind a video walk through of the code, especially focused on the web page hosting and interaction. I've browsed your source code file and get lost tying to fully understand the web socket portion.

[@professorboots]

I will definitely keep that in mind when looking at videos to make in the future. The code would definitely be hard to grasp without a deeper explanation especially the web socket portion as it’s been arduino-ized haha.

[@ChainsawFPV]

Everything should be FPV!!

[@professorboots]

Agreed!

[@richo13]

Could the board be redesigned to use an esp32-cam and then integrate the video feed into the webpage?

[@TDPro1]

you can use 2 fpv cam for rear and front view.. just use same channel and use power switching..

[@professorboots]

Ohhh that’s an excellent idea!

[@hugoelec]

Antman would be so happy to see this

[@dericklong6191]

I got one of those but I ended up getting the foxeer run can and it is 1200 tvl and it has great color and no fuzziness.

[@AwesomeGuy098]

Ive been wanting to do this I can print everything but i just need your custom PCB is their anyway i could just get that separately?

[@faked8586]

You should make it third person almost Birds Eye view, then you could use the claw, and probably get motion sick

[@Flo-Rida-FPV]

You should include head tracker!!

[@mrityunjay1234]

Love the concept. Any way I can add a receiver to this and use my elrs tx for this? Or a Bluetooth Xbox controller?

[@professorboots]

Yeah absolutely, there’s a couple arduino libraries that make it really easy to bind to a console controller

[@aaro_n]

I am curious what the backorder time is for the unsoldered electronics kit?

[@Rivenwolf_2]

Hmm. Mini FPV Forklift next??!

[@JubileeQuaye-fr8tm]

Pls can I know the app u are using for designing your mini skiddy

[@mars3142]

„Shipping not available for selected address“. Need help. I wanted to order „required soldering“ option to Germany, but I can’t. Where can I get the PCB gerber files (will pay for it), so I can order it somewhere in my region and I also need the BOM for manual ordering. 🤔

[@NETBotic]

Sweet. Add some smoothing/ramping to your servo code though.

[@Gmcworrior1]

Sounds a whole lot like storage wars from the RCsparks channel. NOT A BAD THING. Does the arduino come with it? Or can i use a regular controller with mixing?

[@seridyan]

Great video. This is exactly what I meant with a forklift design. How is the miniskidi performing going uphill? Can it bring a load up a ramp? Can it build a pyramid?

[@professorboots]

Thank you! The skidi can go up a small Incline but the main restraining factor would be the grippiness of the tires. Def could build a pyramid with enough patience haha

[@AetherXIV]

He's Forklift Certified!

[@boerni9060]

nice video do you have a link of the fpv camera ?

[@shanegonzales]

FORK LIFT! 😍

[@miguelllufriu1231]

Hi mate. Any tips on how to print the drive shafts? I’m trying PLA and PETG but both stat very fragile, impossible to put the wheel without break it. Tried with more flow, different speeds… but same result. Any tips? Thanks for your job!

[@professorboots]

Hello, I actually just updated the drive system to fix this very problem. It will require downloading the new parts off of printables but the main housing and drive shafts together are way stronger. Also consider printing out the new 4.0 drive belt.

[@miguelllufriu1231]

@@professorboots thx mate. It’s updated right now? Yesterday i checked in thingiverse but only found the 3.2 version.

[@user-in5vi1qy4c]

This is awesome :) Is there a way to get the kit shipped to europe?

[@Azim196]

12:13 Somebody call OSHA XD

[@AerialAcesRC13]

I need a tiny skid steer. Very very cool. I'd like something relatively realistic, but not $1200 and so hyper realistic is only works in actual scale scenarios..... (RC4WD/TUCAN HOBBY). Ive been making genaric FPV systems from this cheap IOS cams forever, and some actually are pretty good. Spectrum/fatshark USED TO offer a nicer version that you could get x2/$40 but they are discontinued.

[@GeezerGramps]

Why didn’t you use your whoop controller?

[@siyandagwavu4492]

🎉🎉 mow just need to make the joysticks

[@distractiondestructioncons4073]

Is there any way that we can get this to pair with a PS4 controller or something. That would give much better control. The phone control is a little clunky

[@professorboots]

Yeah pairing the esp32 to a ps2/4 controller is actually super straight forward. There’s a couple pre made libraries that can be utilized to configure it. I’ll work on making that an option in the future

[@brandon5317]

Did you say mini dump truck!!!?!

[@professorboots]

Yep sure did!

[@grued1374]

Do you ship to Australia

[@coopersharp2921]

What rpm are the drive motors?

[@eddie_Za]

How cool is it if you can make an elrs rx talk to the esp to control it fpv.

[@elonmoishkrl8981]

The latency is actually really good on this setup, and the controls are less intuitive than you would think on a normal rc controller with this many things to control

[@Reis4four]

Ok, so FPV, No file for the mount?

[@maurooomau6095]

Falto um servo motor para a câmara para ver em cima ai dar ver melhor as coisas...

[@DIYofThings]

very fun. hahaha

[@supremebeme]

so silly but so fun! ol

[@ToastyProductions.]

I dont know if you know this but some skidsteers use tracks you should look it up and try and replicate a set

[@professorboots]

Definitely on the bucket list!

[@Jeevan.k143]

bro can u make mini fpv drone😍😍

[@jonathanheye2370]

Hey boss are you on TikTok? And do these work with rc controllers

[@MaverickRoy347]

make a flat bed and a recker

[@CDRaff]

Someone needs to fork the MiniSkidi code and add PS3 and PS4 controller support to it. That someone might be me if I get a wild hair up my ass in the next few weeks, but if someone wants to beat me to it I won't complain. Edit: Didn't realize that you are "Mr. MiniSkidi", you should add controller support or are you cool with me actually forking the code?

[@professorboots]

Haha, it’s definitely on the bucket list of things I’d like to add. Though if your wild hair comes to life I have no problem with your forking it.

[@fredyy]

unfortunatly no shipping to germany :(

[@zacharygilbert3919]

MINI FORKLIFT??

[@leviparrow1532]

can you make a forklift pretty please????

[@Nothwarren]

Well yeah ahah you have wayyyy lower latency in analog than digital X)

[@GagePenselin-ji6sh]

Arduino battlebots? The hex bug ones are too mid

[@professorboots]

Yeah! I have plans on doing some bot builds here soon.

[@GagePenselin-ji6sh]

Heck yeah! Keep up the amazing work!!!

[@JubileeQuaye-fr8tm]

Hello