How To Turn A Stuffed Animal Into A Motorized Cat Toy - Using Household Electronics

[@hullinstruments]

4:26 that adorable little face!

[@Sawboyjr]

Randomly came across your channel, love seeing people that love to tinker with things. Tip for future builds: - Find the clearance/accuracy of your 3d printer. You can do this by printing a tolerance tester from thingiverse. - research interference fit, clearance fit, and loose fit. - Determine which fit you want and then you can design your piece part to the desired fitment using your printers tolerance and this will allow you to purely design the part and it work and not require you to do trial and error on fitment pieces. This is also true when you know the accuracy of any type of manufacturing process such as cnc, 3d print, or injection molding you can design the tolerance in the part and not have to worry about a part fitting or not. Hopefully that makes sense and helps if not can further clarify!

[@felix5535]

Relly nice video. Duck taping cables to the table and soldering that way reminded me of how I actually started soldering. When it comes to you making a lot of money of of youtube (which will for sure happen) you might consider cutting out the top bar of fusion 360 to make it not-so-abvious that you are using the personal, non-commercial license. Back then I also used to wear gloves while soldering and now I only do it while dealing with chemicals or resin printing. Very nice, like your idea. Came unexprected but I love it

[@LacrosseTarheel3]

Hahah holy shit this is awesome, I have ADHD too and randomly just got into all this mechanical engineering stuff, so it's so great to finally watch a video from someone else that doesn't know all the terms and stuff. I was shocked when I first heard someone pronounce soldering the other week, I will forever pronounce the "l" I dont care lol

[@bethsdeck9095]

Well done👍nice build, your cat enjoyed it for sure 😁

[@jonathansimerly5550]

Ha! Been there! I tend to scrap motors and other parts from anything I can find. The rest usually ends up in my box of "parts" (junk). RC cars, old drones, etc🤣 Good idea! Best of luck!

[@davidparnell1893]

Love the video! I would suggest a small gear motor. Again...the design process from drawings to prototype build was a good example of how so many "things" become realities. Thomas Edison would appreciate your "process" so keep up the good work.

[@jesuseyez619]

11:48 That’s a 3v motor. In creasing voltage won’t increase the torque much. I’ve done a “stall torque vs no-load rpm” plots and their performance is kinda crappy if you need to get meaningful work out of them without gear box. My solution to get okay torque at 120rpm out of them was to design a planetary gear box for it where the ring gear was stationary and the and the input was the sun gear. The planet carrier would rotate. At the 120rpm. Dimensionally, the gear box was about 25mm diameter and 15mm long. Anyways, it’s doable just requires extra designing

[@JeromeDemers]

you can use heat source (heatgun) to soften your 3D printed motor shaft thing and then press fit on motor shaft. You have to be careful because you can also make it loose. You could create some knurling on motor shaft then press fit it. In your case you didn't have issues of motor shaft slipping because motor would stop before it slips. CAD = Computer Aided Design. Fusion360, Solidworks, NX, Onshape, Catia are all CAD tool. keep it up!

[@heyitsdrew]

actually you're better off not wearing gloves because if solder happens to get on it, it'll burn into it and stay there and probably continue to burn you, rather than hitting your skin and bouncing off, that would stay in the glove. it's fine not to be afraid of tiny little bits of solder. as long as you're not dealing with globs like if you were plumbing pipes you'll be OK.

[@SpacePotatoMan]

The terminology for gears, mechanisms, electronics, etc is usually made for people like engineers who spend significant chunks of their lives working with and talking about it. That level of detailed terminology and analysis isn't needed for many projects. Don't feel bad about learning just the level information you really need and discarding the rest. (This is what the engineers are doing anyway) As for gears, there are a lot of online tools that do the calculations for you. Safety note on soldering: The lead and rosin fumes can be harmful if you breathe them. If you don't have one you should look into getting an inexpensive fume extractor. Fans with activated carbon filters will get the job done and can be had for less than $25 at amazon or a hobby electronic store; or you can make one yourself. Adafruit has some good guides for it.

[@studentpoint2364]

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[@hullinstruments]

10:10 Could have lost an eyebrow there 😁🤘

[@new_comment]

I love Fusion 360. I'm losing my mind, my good soldering station iron broke, and my new one won't be here until Monday

[@amazinrad8225]

I see your channel is still new, your content is very interesting and you make it very easy to understand, good job! I would like to challenge you to make, in the future, a geiger counter using whatever microcontroller and geiger muller tube you see fit. I think you should try it.

[@stix1096]

Rita , where can I send you a pm?