I built a Star Wars AT-AT that I can RIDE ON

[@jamesbruton]

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[@eastcoastmodz5195]

Absolutely amazing!! Thanks for sharing! ❤

[@sysrpn]

Congrats James! This is obviously your best project and best video yet! We love it and you should be proud!

[@ameteuraspirant]

You really sold the desk with the tagline "it also doubles as a hydraulic lift for your high altitude programming needs"

[@danbrit9848]

How many rolls of filament did that take lol

[@FireBeam]

Just put driven wheels (like roller skates) on the bottom

[@georgeaguirre5437]

Of all the ads for flexispot or other adjustable desks I've seen...the ability to use the desk as a hoist is a benefit I have never seen advertised and is definitely worth capitalizing on

[@richardharding8438]

I can't help thinking it would have been easier to simply lower the legs to the height of a normal desk 🤣

[@Cloxxki]

I wish they'd go high enough to not just work as a standing desk, but as a walking desk on the manual treadmill I bought off the classifieds. It's around 20 cm off the ground, so I need a desk around 137 cm to be perfect. I need to add a riser to the desktop probably. Main problem though is the treadmill is LIGHT. The revolving track itself feels like it's 10 kg of inertia, so walking just feels like I'm super overpowered, balancing is very awkward, steps are shaky. I need to find metal bars to add weight to the 43 planks of the treadmill, on the inside there is ~25x5 cm for it, and around 2cm thick would fit. That's about 2 kg per metal bar I need, and 43 of them adds 86 kg to the treadmill which would be both perfect and terrifying :) Where to get such metal for cheap, though? I see 200-400 Euros which is nuts. I just need a metal roadworks plate cut to 50cm strips, pretty much :)

[@EnlightenedSavage]

Actually made me want one .....

[@AlexIstrate_Ro]

"Using the desk as an actual desk has been useful as well..."

[@Defianthuman]

Then there is me, engine hoist since at some of those can do almost 400lbs. Or stack one on top of the other and have a lift.

[@wizrom3046]

General! There is an Imperial AT-AT advancing on our location, it is only 5 miles from here! Weapons stations! How long before it gets into striking range?? 7.3 years 🤔

[@weldeddaydreams]

Cracked me up!

[@brsrc759]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👏👏👏👏

[@wurstelei1356]

Darth, don't run! Brute Skywalker is comin' after ya.

[@davidgreenwood6029]

Yea this is a fun video, and it's well made, I'm sure with darpa funding it could be a lot better, but really, it just illustrates that the at at concept is just pure garbage. If slow, and maneuverable, the only possible pros would be that it could carry a lot of weight over rough terrain but then you start to think of all the terrain types and it's like snow? ok no, it would sink in if it was heavy, so worse than tracked vehicles, same with sand. Jungle? Like stepping over downed trees? i guess but the lack of maneuverability and it's tall size would make it way too easily ambushed. There is just nowhere this think would actually be good, even with military funding.

[@wizrom3046]

@@davidgreenwood6029 yep. And in a world where elmost everything flies and a kid can make a flying car etc just by bolting some junk together... The best transport is always to fly. Why build the incredibly expensive walking machine with a limited payload size, that moves slowly and still cant get over a mountain or deep lake. You just bolt some flying engines onto your payload area and fly there. The At-At might have been viable as a special purpose TIE fighter carrier. It could be armoured enough to protect the fighters from extreme weather or light attacks. Like a mobile armoured airport.

[@ReneeNme]

One thing is for sure. You won't have to worry about getting any speeding tickets.

[@davidanalyst671]

yet

[@KafshakTashtak]

But can he pass under the 11ft8in bridge?

[@SirTodd]

😂😂😅

[@ch5139]

It’s only the Rebels who get tickets!

[@myronori]

Not necessarily true, depending on local ordinances it is possible to get a ticket for driving to slow.

[@integza]

If I were to drink a shot of tequila every time you say legs in this video, I would die before the sponsor

[@SeanHodgins]

Why is the sponsor dying?!

[@Fat-alpaca36]

@@SeanHodgins I love grammar

[@Maxjoker98]

Those legs though! And I don't even mean the ones around 17:03, I mean the THICC mechanical ones ;)

[@ReadersOfTheApocalypse]

Perfect use case for a rocket engine?

[@Defianthuman]

@@integza he should have said sponsor segment

[@PicardoFamily11]

We're all looking forward to your future full-size AT-AT build!

[@TheDomLouis]

3D printing those laser cannons and getting government/military clearance will be interesting. Aren't AT-AT also troop carriers? It would be silly to build one that wasn't big enough to hold a centurion's worth of troops.

[@Agent-t2x]

This is not true.

[@backonlazer791]

@@TheDomLouis I might be wrong but I don't think AT-AT's carry troops apart from the pilots (if that's the correct term) and a handful of other personnel who do maintanance and man the cannons. They're just incredibly heavily armored and armed.

[@jbrecken]

@@backonlazer791 The second T is for transport - they haul something; if not passengers, cargo.

[@nicholasklangos9704]

Of course they carry troops, have you not seen any of the movies?! WTF?

[@McVilla1N]

Currently im in Asheville and have gone through a lot the last week with the flood etc.... Thank you for making me smile. Bought a 3D printer and it was one of the few things I was able to get out of my house before It flooded.

[@innateswing6607]

I am from the Agusta area and I am wishing you the best of luck

[@estrangeddingo423]

Have you considered putting in a crouching subroutine so it's a little easier to mount and dismount? It would also let you have bob up and down to the world's slowest club music just for giggles. p.s. Your weapons system could be a squirt gun with embellished sound effects. Like a sneeze. Also for giggles. But for the kids, too.

[@Cloxxki]

A lower stance would also allow for longer strides, I think. Could speed up progress a bit.

[@Allthegoodhandlesaretakenlmao]

It would definitely put way more stress on the legs though

[@joranwielandts2013]

I don't think the legs can even bend far enough for that

[@Tigery760]

I feel like nerf darts would be a bit safer for the machine, you won't have to deal with potentially bricking systems if the container spills. Maybe give it lasers too. Would love to see this at a Star Wars convention at some point.

[@johngerken4263]

Or airsoft with tracer rounds so they glow and shoot a little faster than nerf. ​@Tigery760

[@randomthepyro2058]

this is how you do an ad, not only did you talk about it (the basic ad) but you show us you putting it together and using it yourself in applications that make people realize how much more it can do than just being a simple office desk, great for shops

[@RoboWeener]

At 20:55 you said, "It does 60 meters per hour, which is one meter per second." I believe you meant one meter per minute. Still very impressive!

[@maurin1899]

60 meters an hour is exactly 1 meter per minute

[@phizc]

0.0167 m/s

[@TimCortesi]

Or 1/50th the speed of an actual Imperial Walker at ~3km/h or 3000m/h. (But adjusted for scale, it is probably closer to around 1/7th the speed)

[@mariueg]

@@phizc Or for us that use metric, 1.67cm/s

[@Slye_Fox]

@@mariueg ...m/s is Metric, it's "meters per second". Mi/s is Imperial/US Customary Units.

[@mann_mans]

20:12 “I can’t see anything in this helmet.” He’s got the full trooper experience!

[@Vousie]

So *that's* why they could never hit anything? 😂😂😂

[@AH64ApacheHelicopter]

@@Vousie yep! was confirmed, cant remember where though.

[@Moondog-wc4vm]

I'm pretty sure that was a deleted line from Dark Helmets dialogue 😀 May the Schwartz be with you.

[@TheRealAlpha2]

The Hacksmith: We made an Aliens Powerloader but we don't do walking robots, too expensive and complicated. James Bruton: (builds a whole AT-AT out of 3D printed gears and Aluminum struts.) The ingenuity on youtube is amazing.

[@nikolayyurchenko5075]

For a Powerloader to be walking you need it to have very good reflexes (like those of Boston Dynamic robots), otherwise it would tip over. And James' robot doesn't have reflexes at all.

[@uwuanims]

A quadruped will alway be easier to make than a biped. Not to detract from this build at all, it's still imcredible but one would have passive stability and the other would need to manually correct any offsets in weight

[@NyeMechworks]

Hacksmith did try to make a big spidermech but didn't remember leverage lol

[@uwuanims]

@@NyeMechworks I honestly thing where they went wrong with thaf project was trying to save money using excavator arms. I think they even said there were all kinds of differences between arms that screwed a lot up

[@uwuanims]

@@trenched9747 How so?

[@MeleeTiger]

2030 AD, James Bruton builds the first full scale, operational AT-AT, panic spreads among the masses.

[@kke]

You need to make this 4x bigger and out of steel with Colin Furze.

[@jughead8988]

Beat me to it! I was going to say Full size

[@theboz1419]

You would probably run into an issue with weight and power.

[@ludovicschneider6190]

@@theboz1419 Power would probably be ok, a petrol engine is probably more power dense when you go in this kind of big build.

[@theboz1419]

@ludovicschneider6190 probably not, in a sense of direct power. Your correct in needing something of a fuel power, but to control hydraulics, and that's the main issue. Hydraulics are very controllable. It would either be a very slow ride or a more of a hold on for dear life type of ride you see in motion simulator rides. The complexity and the shear weight would be more then what a youtube hobbyist would want to tackle .

[@lerikhkl]

and >10 times faster x)

[@SteveRowe]

One meter per second would be a respectable speed. 60 meters per hour is 1 meter per MINUTE though, which is kinda painful. Fantastic build, though! Looks great. Thanks for making it open source!

[@LoafOfTheMilk]

"Thats causing the legs to spread and i can just feel myself turning around and around and around, it feels amazing" - James Bruton 20:27

[@jiorts]

😂

[@gelvy-q2f]

"But I'm just pretty impressed it's come out this tall and it doesn't fall over! And I'm on top of it and I'm doing all right!" - James Bruton 21:10

[@morpheon_xyz]

😂😂😂

[@akaHarvesteR]

If you ever need to explain the value of context to someone, This is the example to use.

[@3d-fuel828]

We're loving how well those Tough Pro PLA+ gears are holding up! Great work, James!

[@RileyMarkley]

I'm a novice student at advanced robotics compared to you, and your work is incredibly inspiring to me. I hope to one day have a fraction of your capability. Thank you for years of inspiration.

[@pieboygames]

Once it's done you could get a group of guys with Krazykarts dressed up as snow speeders to drift around you will you ride your AT-AT around a parkinglot.

[@MattDenton]

Awesome work!

[@jamesbruton]

Thanks for your help!

[@Scott_C]

ILM would have been proud. 😅

[@richards7909]

Well at least James is better at 'driving' the AT-AT than your Lego inspired go-kart, Matt :D

[@morpheon_xyz]

Was a pleasant surprise seeing Matt here 😂

[@chrishayes5755]

All the talent and intelligence in the world and you build giant toys. Invent something of value to the masses, innovate, help people, all that work you're doing is just entertainment. That's fine but I think you can do better.

[@mhenlopotter1612]

I think you could easily fill one video with experiments on crouching, step distance, leg speeds, etc. Amazing work! I'd love to see how much more you could get out of it with some optimisations!

[@Lorecastapendragon]

that was freaking awesome, you truly are a mad scientist now! Ok now for the next one, you mentioned you could make a faster two legged one, MAKE IT A METAL GEAR! from the metal gear solid series and get the hacksmith involved, he's obsessed with that kind of thing, he could make the weapons, you could make the vehicle.

[@tiagdvideo]

great idea

[@skelten454]

FYI I believe the idea is to have 2 legs in the air at once, still having all 4 legs for stability and safety. Right now it only has one leg in the air at a time.

[@NyeMechworks]

Hacksmith is having major issues right now: they tried to expand too fast and fired half their staff members just to keep their buildings.

[@nerdlord2288]

imagine if you rode this into a comic con or something. People would absolutely lose it lol. its insane what you do with 3d printing and electronics keep up the awesome work!

[@patrickjdarrow]

Constantly leveling up your work. Great stuff James!

[@Robothut]

Very impressive! amazing that the 3d printed gears and parts are holding up. Can you take larger steps instead of speeding up the motors to walk faster? A video on how you got it moved and set up for the final walking sequence would be cool. Must have been a ton of work to get it out there. Thank you for sharing with us.

[@elismob]

The filament sponsor went for broke on this one

[@thisisabsolutelystup]

I can't believe this is PLA+ just insane how good that material is now

[@3d-fuel828]

@@thisisabsolutelystup when we say it's tough, we aren't just full of hot air! The layer-to-layer strength really helps this one win for this project. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aaK1iaKnnrGNrKs

[@3d-fuel828]

Let's just say that we're HUGE Star Wars fans, too, so this project is one that's really close to our hearts :)

[@thisisabsolutelystup]

@@3d-fuel828 printable durasteel when?

[@3d-fuel828]

@@thisisabsolutelystup around the same time we figure out the transparisteel formula, too 😅

[@ryantaylor6831]

Ok so FlexiSpot - if you’re reading this - James has found a use case for the standing desk for me. I wouldn’t have though have used it for raising me or the things I’m working on. I wouldn’t care about standing while working - I’ve had similar desks at work for years and never use them. But this is awesome. I hope you appreciate James’ unique take on this advertisement!

[@xSuperFryx]

0:23 we do kinda see them turn in Empire Strikes Back. One swivels around its whole body to shoot a snow speeder.

[@ArnaldRimmer]

Hi, yeah thats what i thought! take care

[@MiniMasterpiece1]

All of ur Videos are so great! I just can’t explain myself how you can power so many big brushless motors with a that can provide relatively few current. For example for the OpenDog V2 you use 12 Eaglepower motor that require 22 A (per motor) according to the datasheet and you power them with a 4 A battery. Maybe that’s a super stupid question but I would be so happy about an answer because it would be very important for one of my projects! 😊

[@mundanestuff]

can't you increase the speed by increasing the stride length? Looks like there's several inches available for the legs to stride forward longer, effectively doubling the speed by doubling the stride length?

[@ih8music]

Amazing AND ridiculous. Everything that makes the internet so wonderful. Bravo!

[@MarkusK_]

This is incredible! Now we need a collab with Styropyro to mount a devastating laser 😎

[@Deja117]

The comedic bits really add to this, if it wasn't for all the bits staying on and nothing randomly falling out of the sky, it would be like watching Lego Star Wars brought to life.

[@eastcoastmodz5195]

There should be a collaboration with Hacksmith Industries. Imagine what they could build together! 😮

[@cameronwillis4482]

IIRC their hexapod's biggest problem was getting it to walk so that might actually be something james could help with

[@NyeMechworks]

@@cameronwillis4482 Their hexapod's biggest problem was they forgot all about leverage :D

[@BillyNoMate]

if you study the at-at walk, it is back legs first then opposite front legs move before the back legs touches the ground.

[@catwatermeIon]

Make. It. Even. Bigger.

[@smiddlehurst1]

Truly the Empire’s design philosophy…

[@vennstudios9885]

This mechanical engineering LAD IS GENIUS NOW THIS IS HOW WE CAN MAKE A TO SCALE AT-AT

[@Galerak1]

18:52 - Not sure why but this scene reminded me of Deadpool running over that guy with a Zambozi.... in super sloooooooow motion 🤣

[@FrancSchiphorst]

I was reminderd of the NNNNOooooooooooooooooooooooo "watch out!" NNNNOooooooooooooooooooooooo "watch out!" NNNNOooooooooooooooooooooooo "watch out!" steamroller in austin powers. In both cases people never think how it will affect the family of a henchman :D

[@RAM512]

Wow!!! That is so amazing!! Such a super cool build!! Very cool seeing it in action!!!!!!

[@weldeddaydreams]

This is such an incredible undertaking! It does appear though that you aren't fully utilizing the stride length made possible by those long legs.

[@nat7278]

We never see any failed 3D prints on the channel. I'm not complaining but it might be funny to do bloopers at the end where you show yourself realizing that a 3D print isn't quite the right size and curse.

[@MrTubeuser12]

I think speeding it up would help also if you could increase the stride a bit more.

[@cameralabs]

Amazing! This is one of the best projects and videos about it I've ever seen, congratulations! PS - how do you transport it, I'm guessing it didn't walk to the tennis court?

[@jamesbruton]

In pieces:-)

[@dodgydioramas]

Hands down the best project yet. I do wonder how it would cope with uneven terrain?

[@AckzaTV]

i like that you left the outter shell "to our imaginations" because obviously you have the skills and talent to finish the shell with the weapons and lcd screens and all the british internal magic. please make it extra british with british car interior stuff liek an imperial umbrella holder

[@DeathTempler]

2026, someone's making the Iron Giant, and actually a giant. This project is freaking awesome

[@el_es]

this looks like a task for James x Alex Steele ;)

[@baosia]

Iron Giants cousin, PLA and Aluminium Giant

[@ArnaldRimmer]

Hi, dident some company in some where like Japan or something make a massive gundam robot? is it gundam? not sure how to spell that offhand, but i dont know weather that was just cgi? or an actual robot! anyway take care mate and have a great day!

[@squirrel-1969]

It's the ultimate AT-AT toy that every kid growing up in 70's and 80's wished they could ever have! I would have been over the moon and envied by every kid if I had this with my collection of Star Wars toys! Great build!👍😎

[@CubeMasterTV]

Nothing like abusing your variable height desk sponsor as a hoist and lift platform

[@akaHarvesteR]

TBF I never saw a need for having one myself before seeing here that this is a possibility. It won't lift the engine out of a car, but a lifting surface like that has TONS of uses for hobby projects.

[@TSRGarage]

Wow. Now we know how storm troppers get into their AT-AT... they ride up on the FlexiSpot desk. Incredible build👍. The speed it's after me,🏃‍♂️ the terrifying speed😂. Nightmares......

[@lazzerbear]

ok real talk here James. I have one word for you laser tag! well ok, that's two words laserTag... close enough. I need you to hook up laser tag guns to the front of that beauty and then have a bunch of people dressed as rebels have to come fight you like a giant raid boss.

[@ouzoloves]

How does lasertag deal with area of effect damage? The cannons mounted on an ATAT cause huge explosions

[@Echo_the_half_glitch]

Shhh, this is an AT-AT Mini, much less destructive, but far less resource intensive.

[@apex_prey]

That was so worth the wait. Awesome. Great work man. I'd love to see a stronger faster version since this absolutely proves the concept.

[@casperrisnes6616]

You should make a body for the AtAt to!

[@rabbetholestudio]

I remember when I first found your Channel you were working on your iron man suit. Flash forward to now and you're building all these large scale robots and it's just so awesome. Don't stop doing what you're doing man you're amazing

[@Warrigt]

"By the miracle of already doing it, I've already done it!" - Alex?

[@Stefano-86]

What a spectacular build, James!! I enjoyed the whole process, but the lifting table to integrate the legs to the body is a true gem! Congratulations also to the team, the look is gorgeous and I see an interesting motorbike for the onboard footage 😉

[@epaint86]

when it walking ,it reminds me of ED-209 from Robocop. how scary . hey might as well make it firing fireworks

[@OpinionatedCabbage]

Yeah I got ED vibes too, I think it's the sound it makes

[@chrishechtl8330]

Okay that was worth the wait! Wow! Very cool! I'm wondering what Colin and Hacksmith think of it. I wonder if you could do one of the 2 legged AT-RT, or the AT-TE...

[@Yohrog]

20:08 Sounds like a LookMumNoComputer montage with the distortion and the fast talking. Kinda hoping it's a reference lol

[@Basjuh1984]

To me it sounds like the lollypopman imitating Max Verstappen in his F1 cartoons 😂

[@BillieFingers]

This is such an impressive result James. Thanks for involving me in yet another fun and insane robot. Cannot wait for Gen2, I want to see @Mattdenton riding a scooter shaped like a T47 C Wing through the legs of the AT/AT while you're riding on top shooting neft blasters at him.

[@zadrik1337]

I think the rebels will get away in time.

[@Ohaleyp]

James, thanks for the laughs. Your FlexiSpot sponsor break was very entertaining. We need a part 3!

[@orosalsero]

If you could speed up the walk you might be presented with a visit by DARPA, could be the next automatous AI battel tank.

[@ANoBaka]

AT-AT - All Terrain Armored Transport All Terrain: Dubious Armored: The helmet is something I guess! Transport: Definitely! Maybe it's more of a T than an AT-AT at the moment... But it's the coolest T!

[@strider_hiryu850]

bro made the worlds slowest mechanical horse

[@H34...]

The cosmetics on this and the world of warcraft ball ballancer are really the icing on the cake with you projects. I like seeing the guts of machines, but something about seeing an AT-AT all dressed up looking like an AT-AT gets me excited.

[@Soviet_Grievous]

"this would make a fine addition to my collection"

[@wurstelei1356]

Yes, please more AT-AT videos. You need a top cover and some kind of auto cannon to defeat the rebels. Maybe with a drone tracking system so you can hit RC spaceships with it.

[@pizzaguy_1234-os4st]

You sound like weatley from portal 2 0:32

[@OTO_boi]

Fr 😂

[@andrewvarcoe4741]

Sadly this will never make to military use, the enemy can just use an airspeeder with a grapple to trip it up. This would be cool to see in a desert with a bunch more other vehicles and devices made, you could film a mini battle using your models and robots. Would be one wicked event to have others come out for, have people make warhammer vehicles and r.c. versions of some things and you can have a battle and a half, just plan out who gets to win or maybe use some kind of system on the side to randomize some things. What's really cool about this, a fan of the series was able to 3d print and build this, screw the 50million needed for the actors. If you could contact some of the youtubers doing stop motion with legos, you could do a nifty video. Its too bad you never got ahold of the toys they made, I had an at-at that was battery powered, had sound effects and you had a little joystick inside the body to manipulate the head.... Check out place named toy traders, they have a whole lot of those toys on display on the walls.

[@JustinJordan-zb9os]

SPONSER: here’s a free desk to help you code… your going to use it as a desk right James: ELEVATOR

[@BillieFingers]

Spectacular use of a standing desk. Very good product testing

[@fmphotooffice5513]

For sound effects put piezo transducer pickups by each motor and etc. With software you can lower the sound by an octave, add echo/reverb/flange filters and an embedded high output power amplifier and hidden speakers. Just a thought.

[@JanKowalskiOfficial]

Great projectbut I need to notice, your "walking sequence" is just totally unfinished and inefficient. All legs should work together, not only one in time. It could go much faster and smoother. It's just programming, no additional costs. I build spider on small rc servos few years ago, and something like your project but in "scrap mechanic" game 😂. Anyway, the better the sequence, the better the robot works. I hope you will do it to let us see it.

[@BrenainnJordan]

Very cool! super impressed how solid that is and how smooth the motion is, would love to see it moving a little faster! Do you think the gears and motors would hold up with a longer walking gate?

[@trooper5157]

Awesome. The intelligence this project took is probably the most impressive part. Really hoping to see length of travel on the feet increased and an overall speeding up of the coordination and motors. Increasing length of travel between steps is a sure fire way to increase how realistic, and quickly, it moves. Great video!

[@jeffbaird4318]

@jamesbruton This is very cool. I cast my vote in favor of more videos around it! I would be fascinated to know: - Endurance information (after 5 hours of operation, or some other milestone, what wear are you seeing on the gears?), and - Hurdles to faster speed, and how you overcome them and what adjustments have to be made to go faster.

[@caret_shell]

In terms of "knee" direction and animal movement, it's important to remember that many animals that move on all fours have very elongated back feet, and what often appears to be a backwards knee is actually an ankle, with a regular knee further up. The AT-AT design makes that kind of impossible to mimic, so maybe... elephants? Is the elephant walk cycle something that AT-ATs could mimic?

[@meribor]

Improvements: Silly String Cannon You've done us nerds proud by making a proper head, but now replace it with an aimable silly string cannon platform. Have it look as "head-like" as possible, yes, but make it so you can see over it, so you can aim better. Are custom silly string blasters possible? Mount the tank of fluid(?) behind you to make it easier to refuel. Will also give the appearance of more bulk. Have pipes and flexible tubes running up to the head, so it can fire in second-long bursts, simulating Star Wars blaster effects. Have a water system to flush the tubes once the shield generator is down, so it doesn't get clogged. For extra credit, have it glow and charge it with UV light moments before it reaches the nozzle. Slightly thicker nozzle than standard silly string cans, but not so much that moms and DPW workers are cursing you trying to get it out of hair and bushes. Only use water soluble, biodegradable, and non-toxic silly string, please. Simplifying it by just using standard cans of silly string could also work if you want to be basic about it ~ grinsmirks Also have the legs kind of fan out in an X when you do this to give you a more solid base

[@justins6458]

I love it! I think you should definitely do another video where you do everything you said as well as optimize the leg movement for bigger steps.

[@michman2]

Great 22 minute ad for a desk and raising table..... with an AT-AT in it!! Lucas, eat your heart out. If I was asked to describe how an ad for office furniture would look, this wouldn't be it.

[@RichRap3D]

Absolutely wonderful work James. Looking forward to the supercharged version in the next video.

[@Janderius]

Absolutely insane project scope, and a great video too! Crushed it!

[@Atticman1369]

Wow, that's really cool. Sounds like it might be easier to just use polar coordinates since everything is angular. That was my old rudimentary method to do three-dimensional rotation back in the '80s on my Apple 2 computer before I knew about matrices. I would take Cartesian for my 3D model which was a cube at the time, convert to polar so I could do the rotation and then back to Cartesian for plotting which was an enormous waste of CPU resources. Lol I love the large scaled up 3D print mechanical devices.

[@carmentate37]

Instead of overdriving the motors, can you extend the reach of the step? Twice the step difference gives you twice the speed...

[@UG3DBoss-54]

This gotta be in the top 10 list of amazing things ever printed or created with a 3D printer…. Either way, definitely one of the coolest things iv’e seen…. Great job man

[@RealbotixCorp]

This AT-AT build is next-level engineering! Can’t wait to see what you tackle next! 👏

[@848]

you could definitely make a much faster hard coded (non-IK) walking cycle, would like to see how fast it could actually go

[@ed.puckett]

You never cease to amaze me with your fabrication skills!!

[@BaronVonHardcharger]

I'd personally take "It looks like LEGO" as a compliment, mate! :D Amazing work, doesn't diminish it at all.

[@deBobsico]

the first proper use of a flexidesk, well done! I hope you'll show this one off at an EMF camp or something similar. And like Someone else said add a squirt gun as the main weapon, if you add some lights and laminar flow to some industrial size squirt guns and you'd have them looking like the real thing too!

[@true.is.around]

cover the teeth, gears - with Teflon, even in a spray cooling the print, allows to increase the printing speed - ordinary fans right behind the nozzle.

[@Gin-toki]

Really kool project! I suggest you cover the bottom of the feets with some rubbersheet to improve the grip on the surface you're walking. I noticed the feets slipped around even on the tarmac.

[@JargBeatzz]

this probably in the top 10 best youtube project ever you have to do another episode on this what a banger !

[@stuchris]

would be neat if you made the driving position a laying-forward position with your head and arms in the actual head. helps keep the center of mass down and more immersive for the driver :D

[@glennac]

Definitely need to see this going faster and carrying a more completed body. 👍🏼 Thanks for all of your work and effort in these projects James. Very inspiring.

[@theawesomer]

I can't imagine how many days it took to 3D print all of those big parts. Amazing build!

[@galvanaut7119]

"Oh no AT-Ats are coming!!" -"How far away are they??" "2 miles!!" -"Ok, we have two days to get ready!!"

[@eekee6034]

🤣👍

[@kevinhainline8232]

I think the main thing about speeding it up is just increasing the size of a step - im not sure if you can get more range of motion out of it but it looks (just eyeballing it) like you could get more out of it, especially if you bias the neutral position a bit lower and the legs a bit further out along the direction of travel

[@loganhodgsn]

20:58 Fastest AT-AT walker ever

[@JustWasted3HoursHere]

It'd be quite cool to see this walking through ComicCon, but I imagine it's not too practical as it would take at least a week and a half to go from one end of the main hall to the other! LOL.

[@Werdna12345]

21:00 wonder if you allow the legs to lower the body more if you will have more range of motion for the legs to move more horizontally per step. Awesome videos and project! Thanks for sharing and inspiring! 😊