I Made a Robot Arm... in the Middle of my Room!

[@JelleVermandere]

How long is your arm? 💪

[@argir5849]

4

[@hirzanabqary]

ok

[@kalfagianneiomiltiadou8580]

1

[@leapacho]

which one tho

[@MartyrMoon]

21 inches

[@BorretSquare]

I still believe you’re underrated with how much editing and funny moments you do

[@idov.z.9244]

Totally agree

[@freshbread5373]

just found this channel and was super impressed

[@darkracer1252]

the "funny moments" actually got in the way of me enjoying the video.

[@victoriage]

@@freshbread5373 same, very excited to xwatch those videos!!

[@szilardladocki5863]

Exactly what I was going to say

[@sperge5673]

As someone who is still relatively new to the field mechatronics, here's some tips that may help from my testing with very cheap materials and supplies (we're talking cardboard and SG90 servos since i'm a high school student) * You could use an extended kalman filter for state estimation for the motors. Sometimes, for cheaper motors or if you use gears (not sprockets/chains), occasionally it can "skip" and give you a slightly incorrect value, a kalman gain function could fix this. Bang-bang filters are also an option if an eKF is too hard * You could use a cheap webcam (or your current one) and use OpenCV with a morphological image processing algorithm or blob detection for objects. Blob detection is terrible in different lightning conditions, and if you wanted to do fast processing, a truncated SVD would be good to use for pre-processing in conjunction with a MIP * A PD/PID controller would be good to move to a position. It's a little more complex than what you have, but it's incredibly useful and has that "easing" motion you're aiming for, specifically with a PID controller. However, a PD controller is better for quick and less precise movements (in my opinion) * A Stewart platform would be interesting to use for the base, if you wanted angular motion, as well (although definitely not needed, would almost be redundant) edit: The field of inverse kinematics is also worth looking into, but from what I saw with the computer renders, it looks like you have something similar going on

[@ДауренМ-ц6м]

Appreciate it. I found a lot of useful information in your reply.

[@AXISMotionStudio]

And congratulations for getting nominated for Unity Awards ❤️

[@JelleVermandere]

Thanks!

[@Break.]

@@JelleVermandere and for getting my vote! Your videos are on a whole other level!

[@setrocar]

Make Glados OUT OF that arm

[@AmogusVR34]

Yea Bro

[@Ham-nuggetgaming]

Nœ

[@thumtak_]

yes

[@XYZglitch]

I clicked on this video only to say this.

[@XYZglitch-butcooler]

@@XYZglitch ...

[@CreepyMemes]

Very interesting all the skills needed to make this: math, physics, 3d modeling, 3d animation, unity c#, raspberry pi with python, html, css, javascript, web server, electronics, cutting metal, and much more! liked and subbed, amazing channel :)

[@edma06]

Thank you for your input, Creepy.

[@star80doessdastuff]

@@edma06 yes.

[@mad_cozy]

basically a computer engineering degree then

[@SenselessUsername]

You forgot "comedy" and "video scripting + editing"

[@SilverRyuu]

​@@mad_cozyI didn't learn like half of these in my CoE programming

[@MP-ri8ng]

I cant even Start to imagine how much work this Video was. 100-200+ hours easily. Congrats, you convinced me to subscribe with just one Video. This is awesome!

[@etalis811]

The quality on this video is top notch. Love the animations and how everything flows together

[@1_and_only_Crjase]

You should add a piston just before the rotating end bit, so you can extend the arm to reach around the room without it taking up a ton of space

[@integza]

I like how you handled those tomatoes

[@na9565]

If you want to see tomato abuse, look no further than michel reeves.

[@GeekDetour]

Ha ha ha, your obsession with tomatoes is the best. Cheers from Madrid, neighbour!

[@evanpocock6083]

More

[@Andreas-gh6is]

Tomatoes are disgusting!

[@evanpocock6083]

@@Andreas-gh6is no

[@JelleVermandere]

if you like this video, you're not the only one! I got nominated for both "best devlog" and "entertainment value" on the Unity Awards! Go vote here: awards.unity.com

[@KRISH-bh6js]

I really dont know what to say to appreciat the effort you put in your video and hoping that youll win the award also waiting for the return of the arm in future video

[@NNNoName6263]

Lets see if was for me u wold win both 🎉

[@user-bl8jc4hr3y]

Sorry I can't sign my self my brother and mom sign me in every thing but I don't how to use untiy And my computer is so bad it has 3 gb of ram something else my keyboard is dumb it types until but I want to say untiy I hope that you will win this🙂

[@TheScriptingLegend]

Highly deserved man

[@julienmeunierwolfgunnm6536]

Can you make im a glados costume ? =3

[@LanceMcCarthy]

As a developer who has tried to wrangle servos to do what I want, I appreciate all the work you put into this. Earned my subscription 😊

[@iHeartGameDev]

This is legitimately the coolest channel. Amazing job (as always) Jelle! 🍻

[@JelleVermandere]

Thanks Nicky!

[@kundanyadav5573]

Pretty cool!!! One thing you can do is that...make the arm with the camera attached follow your face like a cameraman(like they do in tech events), it would be really cool.

[@mayodev]

This channel is beginning to turn into an engineering channel and frankly, I don't hate it. Keep it up Jelle! I love seeing all the cool stuff you create :D

[@muffinman6136]

I’m actually starting a similar channel myself! I’m on a robotics team and cool videos are on their way!!

[@yolocat-dev]

AI following mode, for cameras and like holding stuff for you, just an AI with voice so you can say "Ceiling Robot, smash the hardest you can right downwards" and cool stuff. Keep up with the good work, Jelle!

[@Brick_Science]

This is awesome dude!!

[@abelcristiantimbalari7861]

It would be fantastic if you made something alike? Just mount the arm you already made to a wall. Also, it might be fun to try and improve it with metal pieces.

[@StaticFreighter101]

hey brick Science i love your channel

[@DominicAlden]

Whhwhaahiaisbkssoieegeie😮

[@bobimate697]

why are you here bro btw love ur channel

[@aaalll2513]

Robots are awsome and you're also awesome for sharing this with the rest of the world.

[@P33TY]

I've been wanting to do something like this since I first saw Portal. Planning to build a small-scale GLaDOS to act as a smart home hub, and to have other useful features, like a tracking light source, Kinect camera for scanning, speakers, and room for expandability. It's hard finding the time though to dedicate to a project like that, but hopefully someday.

[@techcast1822]

We are highly impressed with the design and functionality of your robot.

[@ultragames007]

Great projects, I would suggest adding code to manually set a position/ positions and have it as a preset. so you could just press a button for example when you want the arm to lower itself to add an attachment, or position itself for a selfie, or do a panoramic swipe, etc. really cool project :)!

[@jparky1972]

The production level in this is off the chart. Even forgetting about the content, which is great in itself. You just gained a subscriber.

[@huddlespith]

Dude this video is awesome! Just found you in my recommendations and you’ve definitely got a new subscriber! I can only imagine how much time went into making this! Keep going!

[@ayazasim501]

Dude this video alone will make your channel go viral. Great stuff

[@Arya-by6wm]

Jelle: Updates Me: Smashes like Me: starts the video You're very underrated for the amount of work put into this! Nice vid!

[@pedrosso0]

Me 10 mins in: this is a great video! I gotta like it Me: accidentally unlikes video because I already liked it

[@minecraftminigamemadnessnews]

@@pedrosso0 lol so relatable

[@tajklair]

Perfectly normal thing to build 👍

[@podini]

You're a LEGEND! Thanks for this epic Adventure. Good luck for the Unity award thingy!

[@eccbocceccbocc4917]

Holy shit your editing style is amazing

[@gavinpotter8741]

The humour, the smooth transitions, the intricate engineering, someone get this guy the recognition he deserves!

[@TheClutchCraft]

Your an engineer, you should make it do stuff for you! Like iron man (Tony stark) one in iron man films. Would be awesome if it could help you out like a workshop arm

[@sluginator1313]

I’m 7 minutes into your video and I just wanted to say that this is the highest quality video I have watched in a long time. I love the creative energy from this and I can’t wait to see the arm in action! Keep being awesome B]

[@swordfishfins7842]

Thank you for this Jelle, I had a blast watching :)

[@prof.tahseen6104]

IT'S SO GOOD I'M SO HYPED OMG!!! It would be reaaaallyy cool to use the phone/camera attachment with face tracking. Detect faces and move the arm accordingly! OpenCV would do the trick for your current tech stack for this project I guess.

[@the-real-sachin]

You're such a great guy who knows how to hide the pain behind these projects and show us only the fun part..

[@oorbiter]

you should do something like when you ask the robot for something it will search your room, (probably making it a mess in the process) and then after finding the object you want it will give it to you, like siri!

[@EJMonkey]

Dude, I was just thinking about getting/making one of these! xD ...Except I couldn't actually think of any uses for it, so I was procrastinating. But now that I see how effective the boxing glove attachment can be at eliminating those pesky greek temples that keep popping up around my room, I think I'll have to get cracking! Thanks for the entertainment and inspiration. :)

[@thearackalsiblings9378]

Curse them pesky Greek temples

[@Here_is_Waldo]

Did you ever build a robot arm? Much like you, the lack of anything to use a robot for has always been a big de-motivator for me, I don't want to spend so much time and effort building something that ends up just sitting in the corner of the room being a static decoration.

[@EJMonkey]

@@Here_is_Waldo not yet... Maybe someday... XD

[@CarlosHenrique-gx9hx]

This video just became one of my favorites videos on yt, everything is just sooo goood

[@alexkonopatski429]

Amazing video and project! Huge respect to build something like this! I am actually also building a robot arm and I really like your's. Can I find the code somewhere (would be really cool)?

[@frfrank1]

Back in my days, we would hang a mirror on the ceiling but this works to xD

[@KiemPlant]

4:30: The average male in the shower

[@CallMeSwal]

I am impressed by both your engineering skills and video editing skills, great job bro!

[@tamamlanmamis]

Now make an AI for it

[@Kiwi-o9j]

you have massive companies making robot arms and selling them for 10000s and this guy made one in his bedroom. absolute genius.

[@augustrothpletz7932]

You’re creativity never fails! Keep up the great work! If you’re looking for ideas, maybe look into AI video recognition? You could make your arm shoot balls at intruders 😝

[@marble-q6j]

or you could make the arm shoot intruders in the balls

[@interesting9688]

@@marble-q6j why not both XD

[@timohelmers]

I have always dreamed of building my own little robot arm but I know whatever I could come up with wouldn't even be half as good as this and any commercial solution would probably break the bank for how much I would use it. You did a fantastic job, great video.

[@Tribolojaner]

Let us control the arm in your room!

[@bradparker716]

This is the most entertaining robotic content on YT by far

[@berkgaffaroglu8614]

Very underrated! Great work my friend. You deserve at least 1m subs for this quality.

[@jackpiki]

Bro you are hella underrated! the quality of these videos is sublime

[@ishankkhurana2117]

That was really good man. I really enjoyed the video, I was watching this video regardless I have a exam tommorow !! wish me best ! keep making this stuff. I really like it

[@3nertia]

WOW! The skill! The content is wonderful, the jokes are well ... pun-chy and the editing is *chef's kiss*!

[@juanmi601]

Mate, this is what I call talent! The editing is amazing 😄

[@TheCleveland1987]

now this is entertainment at its best loved your video glad i stumbled on it

[@mrED123]

Oh these videos are hilarious and amazing.

[@sircomplex8629]

This is the first video I have seen from your channel and I love it. Subscribed

[@MauricioMunoz-Cano]

Absolutely awesome video. Currently designing an arm for a simple project paper for one of my engineering classes in university to harvest strawberries. Wanted to understand some basics. Very, very helpful video... a great starting point. Liked and subscribed! :D

[@AndrewRGross]

This is amazing and also a PSA on the importance of emergency stop buttons. Very cool.

[@Carculturewsm]

Awsome vids! Leuk om iemand tezien uit de BeNeLux met dit soort content! Mijn sub heb je meer dan verdiend!

[@Pallerim]

Fantastic video! Love the humor, creativity and production quality, keep it up!

[@samdabeast3186]

Dude, your videos are actually great. I would have though you had millions of subscribers! I am sure you will grow very fast.

[@dar.io_j]

El primer video que veo tuyo y me he quedado flipando. En serio, impresionante. No se como no tienes 200 veces más suscriptores... Me ha encantado. Saludos desde España!

[@ToX1c_Pink]

love the idea I would love to see a v2 using stepper motors and/or a planetary gear for extra power and smoothness and maybe attempt to go for open-source software to make it run more smoothly and possibly give it more functionality.

[@ninadmx]

Yes me too, when i saw those RC servo i kind a know that the arm movement will be jerky Cant wait to see this with Stepper

[@TechDubLovesMemes]

9:58 bruh the robot attacked him XD

[@JustTim321]

that's so cool!, keep up the good and hard work jelle!

[@Oliver_Connell]

Love how you go into more detail and keep viewers following along the project. Definite sub from here

[@Kuboszpl]

11:58 the cleanest transition I have seen in my entire life…

[@brandoferg6460]

Alarm clock, booby trap, swing a cat toy around, turn your lights on and off ( if it can reach ) play catch from computer chair ( need some tracking like the auto dartboard ) hold a flashlight while you look at your car engine, then yell at it for not holding it right.

[@andredazevedo]

i can’t say what is more impressive: the project or the video editing

[@benjidaniel5595]

I’m impressed such tiny servos can have enough torque to move an arm like that

[@liormalka8246]

High quality video and product, looks like you bought it from a company!

[@alpozaslan8067]

Man you are so talented and funny. Keep going, you will get what you deserve !!

[@oliverkuehle]

Got this Video recommended on my main page and I must say I am very impressed! Loved all the jokes and the overall editing. I have no idea of engineering but the video is great!

[@mr.marouane465]

You’re creativity never fails! Keep up the great work!

[@EchoYoutube]

Can I just say… 3D printing is a gift from the gods.

[@qu_feigenbauma]

Oh my GOD What a Quality Level!! Bravo!

[@DaleTrevors]

Can't wait to watch more of your videos! This is my first one and I've subscribed!

[@DanPos]

Amazing project Jelle - so cool!

[@judybravo6900]

This was fun to watch! and thank you for the explanations, I enjoyed learning how it was made :D

[@roshanchaudhary2760]

Great work man. Which software are you using for design ?

[@unboxstation854]

i think this is awesome work man. Keep up the good work

[@ayoCC]

Can you make some sort of added part that stabilizes the movement attached to another anker point. Like a secondary arm that holds the first arm so that it's more smooth

[@LSETalks]

This is absolutely amazing, the amount of skills and talents needed to do this is very inspiring and impressive!

[@marsrover6121]

Man this is pretty awesome and you are very smart. One thing though I would recommend you put an e stop for machines like this.

[@cd33music]

can't believe YT took this long to recommend you channel! Sick robot arm!

[@vellocx]

This was a triumph! I'm making a note here, 'huge success'.

[@mayurwagh7399]

This is super cool!! Is the tutorial available for this???

[@bastisbastelbude9612]

Mein größten Respekt für deinen Roboter! Mega cool!!!

[@ozzietradie6514]

man that robot arm is pretty sick awesome job

[@nicoleibundgut534]

I really like technique and construction so it was really interesting to see in what kind of problems you run. Also your way of explaining stuff was really humerous too, in combination with your accent really funny, like the mix.👍

[@sandwichqueen]

You should add movement tracking so it follows you around while holding a camera or something that you want near you while moving around

[@BoringtonJames]

You should make "Poi"s for the robot for specific tasks like "rest" or "get my controller" and stuff like that.

[@V1king_Person]

This looks much like the UR5e! Good Job!

[@CopiHuman]

This is super cool! I wanted to make something like the gantry design to be able to go around the edges of my room so I have an effective reach of my whole room, but after seeing this I'm reconsidering

[@Nugget470]

If only I was this smart, amazing!

[@dustyfisk1887]

Fantastic project and great sense of humor! Thanks for making an inspiring video!

[@LutfijeLitfijeS]

Pretty cool man! Gives me portal vibes!

[@smokey.w]

That's some serious Aperture Science stuff going on, man. Nice job.

[@_G3RG_]

Subbed! Really high quality and fun to watch!

[@turtleturtle9120]

This was a fun video to watch, I really enjoyed to design process!

[@Xx32123]

i hope you can go in depth to how you did the GUI and software, that seems pretty cool