Your Drill has 1 BIG Problem?! (That we can "Hack")

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@betsytruman 3 ай бұрын

The leveling sensor should provide electric shocks to improve the learning effect

@i_system32 3 ай бұрын

Perhaps a task for @ElectroBOOM

@greatscottlab 3 ай бұрын

Oh boy

@Leroys_Stuff 3 ай бұрын

Amen to that I think a tens unit to make your arm and wrist go straight

@borisgraell 3 ай бұрын

thats something electroboom would make jajajaj

@oilybrakes 3 ай бұрын

@@Leroys_Stuff We could automate a lot of processes by controlling people's limbs with a tens unit and a camera for feedback. 🤔

@walker1054 3 ай бұрын

You can get metal guide blocks to put over the hole youre drilling and it'll keep the bit 100% straight. It's not techy but it works and you can use it just by holding it instead of needing to clamp it down or anything.

@kimbaleon27 3 ай бұрын

Yeah, but... technology.

@h9hkk6155 3 ай бұрын

That's a good hack, for some reason they are not selling that block with the drill 😅

@nullerrno 3 ай бұрын

Yeah. Sure. But where’s the fun in that?

@Morinaka25 3 ай бұрын

That was my first thought as well, why not just get a drill/tap guide block, that's been the solution to this for eons.

@gdukofficial 3 ай бұрын

theres also spirit levels you can buy online that stick onto drills, again not tech but they DO have an led version for the techheads lmaoi

@RFC3514 3 ай бұрын

Attaching a spirit level to your drill only helps you drill straight if the object you're drilling through is _also_ perfectly level. If what you want is to drill *_perpendicularly to a surface_* (which is what most people care about) what you need is a drill _guide_ (that will always be perpendicular even if the surface you're drilling into _isn't_ perfectly horizontal or vertical). Additionally, a drill guide gives you full tactile feedback and _forces_ your drill into alignment as you push it, so you don't have to keep looking at some display and trying to balance it while drilling. I realise you can't really get a very interesting video out of building a drill guide (because there are tons of those already - sometimes built into the drills themselves), but it's a better solution in the _vast_ majority of cases (the exceptions are when you don't have _space_ for a drill guide or when you care more about being horizontal / vertical relative to the _Earth_ than to the surface you're drilling into),

@boots7859 3 ай бұрын

+1. This is disappointing B-roll filler for $ponsored video unfortunately. Most folks can figure out how to drill a hole properly without gizmo's, etc. For really fine work where its going to matter like joinery/dowels, a $10 drill guide can/will be used for proper registration. This isn't that, this is just someone who's never worked with basic hand tools, and is shocked that everything doesn't just snap into place or alignment like in a CAD tool or such. People with below average IQ's can figure this out without an engineering degree, or a stint at a Trade school/vocational. How hard is it to spend 15-20 min in the garage with some scrap lumber, screws and a drill?

@AsifIjazOfficial 2 ай бұрын

Exactly. I was also thinking drill guide is best 👌

@Ramog1000 2 ай бұрын

@@boots7859 a drill guide is also good if you just don't want to think about much and definitly don't want to fuck up the holes, just no way it comes out crocked. A drillpress can also be very helpful but only for projects where you know ahead of time where the holes need to go I guess.

@alphadog6970 2 ай бұрын

He loves complex solutions to simple problems. I understand its in his blood.😅

@koitk 2 ай бұрын

There's a product called BullseyeBore for drilling perpendicularly to a surface.

@slyfondle1885 3 ай бұрын

10:40 The hole will only be square to the workpiece if your bench is perfectly level and the block you're drilling is perfectly square to it.

@AtomskTheGreat 3 ай бұрын

tbh, if i have to drill at a precise angle, i want to eliminate "the human factor", that can move the drill off-axis. thus i'd always use a jig.

@greatscottlab 3 ай бұрын

Good point

@Sekir80 3 ай бұрын

@@greatscottlab Yeah, yeah, you already have a 3D printer, just print a perpendicular jig. It works like a charm!

@realdragon 3 ай бұрын

"The moment I understood the weakness of my flesh it disgusted me"

@ErgoBytes 3 ай бұрын

@@greatscottlabI think what you made here fits a slightly different niche than a jig. There's some overlap for sure but being able to just whip out the drill and get a hole/screw 95% straight is all you really need sometimes, no need to design a new jig or go locate a specific one for every project

@ABaumstumpf 3 ай бұрын

@@ErgoBytes There really is no need to "Design" a jigg: That is just a simple drill-guide and they are readily available for purchase and extremely simple to make your self.

@kriekenzero 3 ай бұрын

You know you're in the really GOOD part of youtube when the creator is blurring the bubble on a level for dramatic effect.

@greatscottlab 3 ай бұрын

;-)

@ffs5310 3 ай бұрын

I dont get it, why even waste time on bluring the obvious?

@vambo1980 2 ай бұрын

2million subs. Wow, I've been watching a while but never realised there are 2 million of us.

@_BAYMAX 2 ай бұрын

@@greatscottlabWaiting for diy smart bms using esp32 development board. Which can handle 3s-15s and many parallel connections and can display individuals cell information. Also should have wireless control.

@vell0cet517 3 ай бұрын

An overly complex solution when simpler alternatives exist (my favorite kind!). Thanks for the great video. Even if this particular problem may be solved better with other, mechanical solutions, the concepts employed here are broadly useful to a variety of different scenarios and it's a great project. Thank you for putting in the time to produce and share this with the world!

@Jack-tx6ei 3 ай бұрын

The Bosch GSB 18V-150 has this functionality built in. :) It also levels against the surface you're working on, and not against earths gravity field.

@sihilius 3 ай бұрын

Ja, kann man sogar eigene Winkel einstellen. Aber halt auch wieder nur mit Handy. Das kann ich gar nicht leiden, wenn ich ein Handy brauch, um mein Werkzeug zu bedienen. Da hätte denen was Schlaueres einfallen können.

@RFC3514 3 ай бұрын

@@sihilius - They're basically saving money by not having an expensive touchscreen on the tool itself. A wireless connection to a phone is cheaper even than a couple of physical buttons.

@Jack-tx6ei 3 ай бұрын

@@sihiliusHab das Handy noch nie dafür benutzt, die 2 festen Winkel (45° und 90°) sind alle die ich je benutzt habe.

@sihilius 3 ай бұрын

@@RFC3514 Yeah, but looking at a 320€ battery powered drill (just the drill, no battery, nothing), I'd surely not be concerned for a view extra € for maybe 3-5 buttons and a small 7-segment display, So the tool can be controlled through it's own UI exclusively. Those displays come on accu-packs made by cheap-ish brands already, just for displaying the SOC, so the expense doesn't seem to be that high, really. Looking at a professional context: Imagine you're arriving at the site, but you got to turn around cause you forgot your phone. In fact, as sort of a hobbyist craftsman I'd already be quite annoyed if I had to walk back from the garage into the house, if I forgot my phone. Also looking at it from a safety perspective, hopefully at least a password can be applied on the tool, cause Imagine someone messing with the settings on the tool. That would be a great way to annoy a hated college, wouldn't it? Imagine someone randomly turning off kick back control - have fun finding out the hard way. Sorry if I am too pessimistic about those things, but extrapolating from behavior that I've seen from some people...well.

@ppdan 3 ай бұрын

@@sihilius Bluetooth only works if you buy and place the bluetooth module in it which is something only the hobbyists will do. A good craftsman doesn't care about that silly levelling function.

@cthree87 3 ай бұрын

I recommend a drill press. Once you have one you’ll never know how you did without. It will allow you to precisely control the angle of the table, drill depth and using stops drill a precise series of holes. Hand drills will never be precision tools

@pieterhe 3 ай бұрын

A drill press does seem cumbersome when drilling in a wall though

@cthree87 3 ай бұрын

@ not if you bolt it to the wall first.

@takix2007 3 ай бұрын

@@cthree87instructions unclear. I bolted my drill press sideways to the wall and now my holes are crooked.

@indyguy04 3 ай бұрын

I think it's a safe to assume that he's just using this problem as the premise for a video and he doesn't actually care about drilling perfectly level holes. Also drill presses are good at drilling at specific angles, not level.

@takix2007 3 ай бұрын

@indyguy04 also, drilling perpendicular to a (virtual) plane relative to gravity is not what you should want to do ; you want to drill perpendicular to your specific surface.

@FrostNuke 3 ай бұрын

5 lights would be better, having a center light would be much more helpful. And the lights should have a gradient to the center light.

@greatscottlab 3 ай бұрын

Not a bad idea.....

@VinodKulkarniOnPlus 3 ай бұрын

Actually why not one small oled display? Those 0.91" ones? Then you have full graphics...

@Zardwark 3 ай бұрын

@@VinodKulkarniOnPlus Drill porn!

@tin2001 3 ай бұрын

Bicolour centre LED, red outer... If you're off by a lot, only the red outer one lights. If you're close, you get an outer and the inner one is red. When you're spot on, it goes green centre. Or use the display as suggested above, and show the current angle.

@DavidPlass 3 ай бұрын

But... "THERE...ARE....FOUR...LIGHTS" - Picard

@dariodalcin5177 3 ай бұрын

I think the laser thing was coller, you don't even need your workpiece to be straight, and it will still drill perpendicular to it

@greatscottlab 3 ай бұрын

Hmmmm true I guess.....

@kimbaleon27 3 ай бұрын

It would have been good enough if the lasers made hexagons

@osvetlik 3 ай бұрын

Exactly, I'll try some ring mount with distance sensors and the LED (on top facing back) or haptic (lower frequencies for up-down, higher for left right) feedback. Only the haptic feedback should not be mounted on the drill, some kind of wrist band perhaps.

@ewfreg5nythyhtewt4w 3 ай бұрын

Is it visible while the drill is rotating? I mean, because of vibrations it might be hard to see the laser marks on the workpiece

@_BAYMAX 2 ай бұрын

@dirkvader6096 3 ай бұрын

I did the low tech version and glued a bubble level to the back of my drill. I used silicone caulk as glue since it is fairly thick and viscous and allows for small adjustments by just pushing the bubble level. I kept the drill vertical by fixing my longest drill bit in a vice and making sure the drill bit was perfectly vertical. Works great.

@Deathbyfartz 3 ай бұрын

you could also 3d print a jig that goes around the drillbit, with 3 lasers spaces out, that way when you speed up the drill they're supposed to make 3 circles on your workpiece helping you drill straight, by making sure the circles the lasers make are all round.

@VileAce 3 ай бұрын

Definition of an engineer - A person who creates solutions for problems that do not exist.

@guatagel2454 3 ай бұрын

The problem is to find where to attach the circuit to the drill. There are a few surfaces in the drill that are parallel/perpendicular to the drilling axe, and yet you have to verify that they are parallel/perpendicular. That's why there is no universal solution on the shelf.

@greatscottlab 3 ай бұрын

True :-)

@petervancaeseele9832 3 ай бұрын

Couldn't you just put a "tare" button to calibrate it?

@_BAYMAX 2 ай бұрын

@brucewilliams6292 3 ай бұрын

One of my drills has 2 small levels built into it that work well. One on the top for horizontal drilling and a small bullseye level at the back that does the X,Y. I wouldn't buy another drill without it now that I have used it.

@marcus3d 3 ай бұрын

Horizontally drilling it still can't detect angles sideways, unfortunately.

@ErgoBytes 3 ай бұрын

That's a good point, would require a second kind of sensor correct? Could just get a full IMU, I doubt it would make the project much more expensive.

@ewfreg5nythyhtewt4w 3 ай бұрын

that's true but usually one of two axes can be easily controlled visually during the drilling with enough precision

@marcus3d 3 ай бұрын

Rather than using gravity it would be nice to have some way to detect 2-way orthogonality to the surface being drilled into. Maybe using some piece that attaches to the surface? What options are there?

@HappyMathDad 3 ай бұрын

You can always incline the accelerometer. That's not really an issue

@marcus3d 3 ай бұрын

@@HappyMathDad Huh? If I'm drilling into a wall, how is inclining the accelerometer going to help me avoid drilling at the wrong horizontal angle? It's not as if the accelerometer could tell the difference between a wall that's North-South and one that's East-West, and that's a full 90° difference between those.

@Looki2000 3 ай бұрын

6:45 - some improvements: you should use higher PWM bit depth like 10 or 12 bits to remove stepping and gamma correct the linear value (pow(x, 2.2)) to get linearly perceived LED brightness

@greatscottlab 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for the feedback :-)

@_BAYMAX 2 ай бұрын

@Westpak00 2 ай бұрын

put an esp32-c3 mini in there and power it when battery is connected to the drill. Then use esp-now to send the axis info to a external visualizer. You can put magnets in the visualizer to mount it to a lot of surfaces. I think that if you do it like this, you can get a better viewing angle most of the time.

@ErgoBytes 3 ай бұрын

Already left one comment, but I just realized that this solution requires that the object you're drilling be level with ground already. Additionally, when using it horizontally it doesn't detect your left and right alignment, only up and down. I think you could do something similar with 4 IR distance sensors,(maybe even 2 if you don't change the bit?) they face forwards and the difference in distance between them is used to compute the angle relative to the object your drilling instead of the ground. Would be some very simple trigonometry. I think you'd practically need a small screen to read out both the X and Y angles though. a digital readout would let you drill any angle you want rather than just leveling. This solution would let you drill any angle from any angle without having to locate or create a jig. Accuracy will always be better with a jig but often you just need "good enough"

@maximthemagnificent 3 ай бұрын

A couple of my drills over the years have had built-in bubble levels and they helped a lot for sure.

@Akya2120 2 ай бұрын

This is awesome! I just liked and subbed. I recommend two things, one put a button next to the switch so you can re-zero level on the fly, and two mount the LEDs separately over the drill clutch pressure adjust. Sometimes you have to drill holes at an angle to be square to the hole, and having a button to "zero" the level would make it much more versatile.

@ewfreg5nythyhtewt4w 3 ай бұрын

You can also buy some cheap little curcular bubble level units from Ali and glue them to the tool with the epoxy resin.

@johnpeters6147 3 ай бұрын

Yeah I saw this video and couldn't bother watching it because felt like #unnecessaryinventions

@stevenryall3186 3 ай бұрын

I think the LEDs are better because perhaps the haptic feedback you would rely on might be overshadowed by the vibration of the drill itself!

@greatscottlab 3 ай бұрын

True

@_BAYMAX 2 ай бұрын

@ianjamesevans 3 ай бұрын

The biggest issue I see is that you would first need to make sure whatever you are drilling into is level/perpendicular. Any type of level, spirit or digital, you attach to the drill has this problem. If the stock you are drilling is a couple of degrees off level one way or the other, your hole won't be square to the stock. So you would still need a level and a way to adjust the stock before starting to drill your hole. The better solution is to use something that measures squareness relative to the stock. Drill guides that sit or clamp on to the stock, for example. A block of wood with a square interior corner cut out is a cheap way of doing this: you just butt your drill bit against the inside corner. As long as the bit touches both sides, you're perpendicular to the stock. It works well for powered drills as well as brace & bit.

@kazzle101 3 ай бұрын

Drill guides exist, the good ones are made from hardened steel. Easy to use and don't require batteries. Would recommend.

@superfunny0109 2 ай бұрын

Bosch has devoloped a quite similar function in one of their newest top drill models Bosch GSR 18V-150C. It's called "Electronic Angle Detection" and has really useful extras, such as free angle choice using their app and also a button, to define a angle

@DS-uq5ks 2 ай бұрын

I recommend moving the LED's to a spot on the top or back of the drill, as that is where you would focus most of your attention. Something like a rifle sight style could be very useful, and you could wire them through the handle. That will reduce the amount of electronics required in that area. Also, there is a large area of unused space where the drill connects to the battery above the pack at the front. Perhaps you could minimize the footprint by layering your boards in a manner that would be conducive to shorter leads, or maybe a custom PCB? I would lastly suggest rounding off the printed casing, as it will be less likely to "bite" you if the drill kicks, as I have had happen to me in the past. Thanks for the great video!

@jdlives8992 3 ай бұрын

Awesome idea and an amazing solution. Of course you can just take your time and practice makes perfect. I do love this channel

@ericp.5533 3 ай бұрын

For the imprecise readings while drilling, you could try using a 6 axis acc/gyro and implementing a filter (like Kalman). That can reduce the errors in the readings while drilling.

@ChEsArE9000 3 ай бұрын

An integrated Accel+Gyro+Magnetometer can be a good option , a full IMU or MPU like the MPU6050 have available libraries on arduino and via sensor fusion you can compensate for magnetic noise from your motor and vibration from the drill , also you can add an lcd to make it nicer on the same space , check out the xDrill kickstarter campaign , is basically what you were brainstorming in this episode , love the thinkering on the videos btw ! keep rocking !

@petercoutu4726 2 ай бұрын

Love seeing your organization above your workbench. I need to properly set up my workspace.

@trombonista92 3 ай бұрын

cool! now you could add some laser distance sensors that shoot off the battery towards the work piece, at a slight outwards angle, and when you are drilling horizontally , you can calculate the difference in distance betwene the 2 sensors, and use that to light up the horizontal position LEDs

@maxper75 2 ай бұрын

Imo for in place holes tolerance is the way to go, so that you can adjust the orientation once parts are joined, there are plenty of elements to do that. For holes to be done in lab, so parts that will be bond together later the best is a drill press or some accessory that stimulates that. AliExpress Amazon and other stores have several very good ones

@AMNEZ1A 2 ай бұрын

If you redesign and refine the housing to make it thinner, you might be able to make it sit on top and hang over the rotating part. This makes it easier to keep an eye on it, and it being on top makes it so it's out of the way but still visible. It also has the benefit of the sensor being closer to the center of rotation/torque(?) so it might move around less. You'd have to solidify the mounting a bit more as well I think, the current one was a bit bouncy from what I could see, just a zip-tie with some rubber to tighten things might improve the inaccuracy already. Very cool stuff, I am starting on working with electronics soon as a hobby and channels like this are great inspiration.

@costarich8029 3 ай бұрын

When drilling horizontally with just the 'up-down' axis, you could have a mode where you first set the drill square against the side of the board, push a button or something so it 'remembers' that this is what the left-right orientation should be, then when you go back and drill horizontally it could guide you in both directions again.

@gcorreo9623 3 ай бұрын

Hi. It is useful. Not for someone working often with the tool but there is a huge amount of ppl that uses their drill once every five years and when they need to drill a hole for anchoring something on the wall it better be close to level than not. I think the position of the leds is wrong bc ppl use to look at the drill bit making the hole so a led projecting a couple rings on the object would be better. Mountin two led strips in the drill body close to the chuck would be a better place too. Great device you made here. Take care. Peter

@brettski74 2 ай бұрын

For the horizontal case, it's only going to give you guidance in one dimension. You could still be off to the left or right. A drill press is the best solution for drilling straight hole. If you have a ferromagnetic surface handy, a mag drill can be just as good. Next best option is to get some kind of drill guide. There are many different kinds, from hardened steel collars molded into some kind of base or other kinds that provide a chuck guided by posts attached to a base. These latter kind usually allow you to set it to other angles off the perpendicular as well, although they're much less accurate when used too far from perpendicular.

@JosepsGSX 2 ай бұрын

What a brilliant idea. You could just embed the leds in the shell , in the visible top area, and insert the board in the handle, just routing the cables to them. Also, I would use only 2 bi-color leds (or maybe RGB with two different color pairs) instead of the 4, so you can use your peripheral vision to quickly get if you drif one side or the other. Less space required.

@GillesHenrard 2 ай бұрын

replacing the ADXL345 by a module including a gyroscope, or directly using a MEMS sensor such as the LSM6DSO could allow you to eliminate the noise due to vibrations. You could use a kalman filter or a complementary filter

@therealchayd 2 ай бұрын

I have always used a drill jig for making perpendicular holes, but these depend on the surface you're drilling into to be wide and flat as a reference, but this little gadget would be perfect for small uneven surfaces.

@Zardwark 3 ай бұрын

Brilliant idea! A 'Set' button in the middle of the LEDs(or wherever) would allow you to mount it anywhere or drill holes at a particular angle.

@zhengyuan5047 2 ай бұрын

Great Video! This makes me thinking of the problem with hand drill, which I certainly have as well. Whether the hole you drill is perpendicular or not depends on many factors, -- your reference surface, the material and the sharpness of your drill bit also have the impact whether you can drill a perpendicular hole. especially when you work on soft materials, like wood or aluminum. The uneven fiber structure of the wood may push your drill bit into side way. Your drill bit may enter into the material perpendicularly, but your material may push it out of alignment when you are using hand tools. As the most of power drill owner, I don't have a large table saw or planar in order to have a good reference surface. I can only rely on the existing raw finish of the material to drill a hole. A long wood beam is unlikely straight as well. In conclusion, my solution is to buy a cheap a spirit level, attached to my power drill using the BlueTac when I really need to drill a precise hole. I need to calibrate the level gauge before I can drill the hole, but this setup time is worth if the higher precision is needed. Other time, I just don't bother this leveling issue, when I drill on to the thin material, shallow hole etc. The bottom line to me is, knowing my skill level, my equipment limitation to work around it. A hand drill is not a precision tool by any means. If I cannot drill a highly accurate hole, as a causal user, I might need to think of another design, or even buy a simple rigid drill guide or block, or get some help from professionals.

@nick-qw2zh 3 ай бұрын

Thank you this is really cool , it would work really well as a camera level mounted on the hot shoe of a camera so that if you’re not looking through the viewfinder but looking down on the camera you can see the level. Great Scott good stuff.

@CTCTraining1 3 ай бұрын

My Wolfcraft drill guide works well and allows me to select and lock-in various angles. Comes with a V-groove to allow me to drill into pipe should I feel the need. Sadly it has no electronic components … but I guess I could add some LEDs for Christmas 😀👍

@GoatZilla 2 ай бұрын

It's a good start for an improvement. It would be useful to either provide an audible notice for level or some visible marker where you're looking, especially if you're drilling somewhere difficult to see (even blind or obscured drilling).

@Two_Bears 3 ай бұрын

My first battery powered drill was a Black & Decker that had a leveling sensor with a single LED mounted in the top of the drill. It was very accurate back when 14.4v tools were the thing.

@pierre84820 3 ай бұрын

you could have a clip mount design over the motor head, this way you can put ity either on top or bottom. You could also put a Micro view screen to have a sort of compass to guide you... This compass would have a dynamic range so you can have unlimited precision and print a single dot of the circles...

@slick8086 3 ай бұрын

the horizontal drilling axis still allows to be off axis (not square, not perpendicular) left and right. The simplest solution is a perpendicular drill guide, like a doweling jig or similar. The problem with the electronic gadgets is that the rely on the user own manual dexterity. With a jig it guides the tool for you.

@simplestuff3895 2 ай бұрын

Very useful video as I’ve just started working on a vibration logger and have ordered one of these modules. Thank you

@t3hd0t 3 ай бұрын

This is an awesome mod! I think if I i were to make it I'd incorporate it into the rear housing of the drill so its directly behind the drill bit. All of my drills have an LED work light that turns on for a few seconds when drilling so I i reckon it would be easy to power the system off that.

@dusinnhht 2 ай бұрын

I had to drill 400 holes (32mm dia) mostly in concrete at 30 degree. I used electrical tape to glue a cheap aliexpress laser rangefinder (with 'electronic angle sensor') to the drill. It worked great! :)

@iivin4233 3 ай бұрын

While a guide block or bracket mounted to the drill would be better, you would still need something like that accelerometer to adjust your bracket device so that it drilled a plumb or level hole on a piece that wasn't flat itself. Or just a small bubble level on the bracket. Although this accelerometer is the one thing I might want linked to some kind of AR glasses. We don't usually need to drill that precisely, but it would be awesome to have a readout of the exact angle we started drilling at.

@derpeek 2 ай бұрын

A very practical solutions for drilling straight horizontal. Is to put a ring around the drill. If the rings remains in the same place you are doing great, ifmoves away from you, you have to lower the drill. If the ring moves towards you. You gave to lift the drill. No battery.

@TheCommuted 2 ай бұрын

Add a three position slide switch and enable motor power with position. Have the drill speed reach finger pressure when positioned correctly, then slow the speed according to error size.

@h9hkk6155 3 ай бұрын

Great project 👍 if you are drilling something thick, you need to be at 90° in both directions - and this is a lot harder than it looks. Not to mention drilling at some uncomfortable places, were holding at 90° is even harder

@rand6626 3 ай бұрын

I would use a beep to show unalignment in any direction and a button to reset the initial offset without need to change the program. I loved your not perfect idea. Congrats man!

@kuromad 3 ай бұрын

Seems like a lot of work. I got one of those cheap jigs for a dremel and pre-drill them with that thing. If I ever get a dedicated workshop, one of the first things I'll get is a drill press.

@petercoutu4726 2 ай бұрын

I would recommend looking into 3D printing a flexible. They can stretch over the back of the motor part of the drill that can contain smaller LED's, or if you can print it thick enough, you could put all the components in a stretchable shell that can go on the back of any drill. And if you add a calibration button It may make it a marketable product for many drill types.

@das250250 3 ай бұрын

What you want is a multiple servo setup that keeps the drill vertical /horizontal / set angle no matter how you hold the drill . This would make a very interesting project but probably needs an old drill and reconstruction to control axes

@KnightsWithoutATable 2 ай бұрын

I think this works and could be miniaturized so that you can have it in a better mounting location, including having a button for re-zeroing it for mounting and after replacing the coin cell, but there are spirit level dots you can put on the back and top of a hand drill that do it and cost next to nothing, so you would have to make this thing for pennies for it to be a viable product. As an electronics project, though, it's a neat one and I still think you could get it smaller, even with the parts you have, so a kit version for hobbyists would be a valid product. Spin up some custom boards to have the chip and LEDs on one side and the coin cell on the other and it could be pretty small. With a case printed for it by a bulk 3d printing service, you could make a kit that was pretty easy to build. Just have to bulk program the chips or have them come bulk programmed. Add in the re-zeroing button I mentioned that is needed and it would be a project I would use and put one on the back of a drill just to show off.

@CamiloSperberg 2 ай бұрын

Nice idea! I do use however a small piece of wood in an L-shape to serve as a guide, I also did make some special blocks for the 8mm drill bit which I made sure were at precisely a 90° angle so that I get a precise angle every time without too much thinking, I never would have thought about using electronics to solve this issue! xD

@CXensation 3 ай бұрын

I wonder if a sound output would be better ? If one axis is out you will get a high pitch tone. When all axis are in range you will get a low pitch tone. With a narrow band where the pitch gradually changes. Thanks for the video, food for thoughts.

@WhatsTheWordBozo 2 ай бұрын

you can 3d print jigs for this. Its cheap and effective. Just know in your case of what you just did, the board is only going to have holes as level as your table OR your boards base because the board isnt being leveled.

@RogerTannous 3 ай бұрын

You can still rely on the accelerometer data and keep an eye on it even when drilling if you discard high jumps that occur on any axis for a small amount of time. But it requires experimental adjustments to the thresholds (example:: abs(x_current - x_previous) compared with x_noise, which is the threshold), and the amount of time this occurred. If it occurs for longer than the noise_time_threshold, then it's not to be discarded.

@Trust_me_I_am_an_Engineer 3 ай бұрын

Nice! A very interesting use of an accelerometer. I would still look to 3D print it to fit on top of my drills. Sure I have jigs and I also have a table top drill press and a floorstanding one , but somehow I never use either of my drillpresses when on top of a ladder. This looks more ... portable. Cya.

@jase_allen 3 ай бұрын

I love all of the drawers being labeled. It pleases the 5S compliance auditor in me, and gives the almost but not quite obsessive compulsive in me a warm and centered feeling. 🥰

@3rdworldgarage450 2 ай бұрын

It looks like you could really use a drill press. I bought mine used for $50 and it's a real game changer of a tool. It's faster, drills perfect holes in metal and repeatable if you set it up correctly. There are also regular drills with built in levels as well. I know Ryobi offers some in the US and imagine that if they do it, other higher cost manufacturers do so as well.

@videogenie1236 8 күн бұрын

Hi, I just found and watched your video using the accelerometer in your drill. It is a very interesting concept. However, I would suggest printing a mount that fits the neck of the drill, at least for the display part of the project. Yet another GreatScott! video.

@digitalsparky 3 ай бұрын

You can get portable hole guide jigs which mechanically limit you so you get straight holes, not super expensive either.

@edbilek8033 3 ай бұрын

I can see that being useful as you learn the proper position to drill perpendicular-to-the-surface holes (at least the vertical ones). Horizontal also has two axis that need to be managed, up/down you have, but not left/right. You could potentially have two sets of LEDs, but after a week or so, you won't need it (because your muscle memory will take over).

@greatscottlab 3 ай бұрын

That would be great if it helps my muscle memory

@christer8964 3 ай бұрын

Nice solution! Don't get surprised to see that build into electric drills in the future.

@EatRawGarlic 3 ай бұрын

You could try to implement a low-pass filter in software, and see if it helps to keep using the LED feedback while drilling.

@321ooo123 3 ай бұрын

One serious shortcoming is that the drilled material has to be either perfectly vertical, or perfectly horizontal. Also you while drilling vertical material you can still drill at an angle left/right. I'd rather think about 3-4 sensors perpendicular to the axis of the drill rotation, measuring the distance to the drilled material. In that way it can drill perpendicular holes no matter what the orientation of the material is.

@petersage5157 3 ай бұрын

I still like the spirit level approach. Another option is a simple guide block, which is quite inexpensive and is specifically designed for drilling square to the surface. What about simply striking a reference line on the board with a speed square? Go slow and visually confirm the bit's alignment a couple times, should be close enough to square/plumb/level.

@ultimateworkshop2000 2 ай бұрын

The angle feature exists in Bosch cordless drill GSB 150C with great adjustability for the required angle not just right angles

@thorbenh 2 ай бұрын

Nice idea. If you add a gyro and use a Madwick filter or similar, you could improve the results a bit more and maybe even make it accurate during drilling. Nice.

@lowrads3653 2 ай бұрын

Another piece of wood serves as a guide block. If you can't hold a strait hole, just lay the drill on its side, and push the guide block onto it using a flat surface and a strait edge.

@VeniceInventors 2 ай бұрын

Nice idea! Red LEDs should give longer battery life, but if that's too faint then green ones would be the brightest and SMD type usually draw less current too. I'd use a flat ribbon to extend the LEDs power lines and relocate the LEDs on top of the drill motor so that it's closer to your field of view. In horizontal drilling position it doesn't warn you of left/right misalignment. You could add ultrasonic distance sensors on both sides, but that would be cumbersome, so it's easier to eyeball it,

@ChrisTopher-wl6pd 3 ай бұрын

Maybe you could add a "calibrate" button to reset your offsets in case it goes out of calibration later. maybe one button for each axis? or make a jig that will hold your drill in the perfect position and you press one button to reset all the offsets.

@danny_cunningham 3 ай бұрын

I appreciated the honesty in the video. You didn't do everything on the first go and you showed it.

@janrosum4494 2 ай бұрын

You can add a filter, to ignore the vibration produced by the drill itself. Then it will also work while drilling.

@gazgadgets 2 ай бұрын

Love it! Great idea! Thanks - For the next version I would tap off the battery for power somehow.

@xDMG15x 3 ай бұрын

You could add a relay to the drill motor and set it up to close the circuit only when the drill is level. So you pull the trigger when you’re ready to drill but the motor doesn’t start until you have the drill level. You might also need a switch to change between 1 axis / 2 axis alignment.

@greatscottlab 3 ай бұрын

Sounds even more over engineered than my solution ;-)

@xDMG15x 3 ай бұрын

@ i thought over engineering was the aim of the video! I didn’t even tell you my LIDAR idea yet!

@stoatystoat174 2 ай бұрын

An easy hack for that particular Makita drill is moving the light to the bottom of the handle on top of the battery. Normaly the light is in a bad possition. The end of shorter drill bits in the shadow of drills own body. Once you move the light to the bottom of the handle the problem is solved. there is enough wire and you don't need to disconect the light to do it, just make a new gap for it to go into.

@ryancasey4807 2 ай бұрын

Bosch has this feature in their 18 volt drills, and even better yet if the item isn't perfectly level which often it isn't, you can just set the drill on the item or hold it on it and push calibrate and then it will give you any angle you want in correlation to the angle the item is

@brutester 3 ай бұрын

The is a jig by Wolfcraft called Dowelmaster. It is for positioning dowels, but I use it when I need good-ish precision. For absolute precision, nothing beats a 150Euro stand drill.

@Name-gi8dr 3 ай бұрын

You should take another go at the haptic feedback. Because it's much better than having to look at the LEDs so you can focus on the positioning of the position of the bit

@ashutosshguptaa6697 2 ай бұрын

Just giving feedback you might use 0.96 INCH OLED instead of LEDs And animate that spirite level it will look awesome ❤❤ BTW love your videos learned lot from you 😊

@crankybloke 2 ай бұрын

When drilling horizontally, you can put a washer loosely on the drill bit and start drilling. If the washer moves toward the drill the drill is too low. If the washer moves toward the work the drill is too high. No electronics required.

@codebeat4192 2 ай бұрын

I use a factory drilled block from furniture to drill straight holes. Simple and very effective. The problem with this electronic system is that you cannot drill 90 degree in respect to the position of the flat surface. What you only can do with this is drilling spirit level holes but that is most of the time incorrect to the object to drill. For example, drilling something on a (30 degrees) flat roof, this system is useless. What this system needs is an adjustable angle offset in respect to the surface to be useful. That is a little more complicated. I think a second (wireless) device is needed that you can mount/stick on the surface and report its position. Then it is possible to position the drill correctly in any situation. It will be handy if you can input the angle of the hole so you can for example drill at any position you need.

@gauravsinghsays 3 ай бұрын

You and DIY perks are my favourite KZbinr keep up the great work

@Slugsie1 3 ай бұрын

The thing is that my old Ryobi drill from back in the 90s (before they went bright green) has 2 built in spirit levels. One on top for horizontal, and one on the back for vertical. They work perfectly, and surely add almost no cost to the BOM. Why doesn't any manufacturer do this anymore?

@swapnilkumar9363 3 ай бұрын

An OLED will be a nice upgrade replacing the 4 LEDs as you can program it to display the angles in the XY plane graphically. And you can also include a distance sensor to drill precise depths, which can be calibrated with touch of a button while using different sized bits. A buzzer can be a better alternative to haptics for obvious reasons as it consumes way less power, can easily be controlled, and our sensory systems are likely to react faster to beeps rather than vibrations on a tool that already vibrates to some extent, specially hammer drills.

@h9hkk6155 3 ай бұрын

Another good gadget for drilling straight is magnetic drill - a small drill press that usrs magnet to hold itself. Not useful for wood, but with a bit of modification ( adding a wood clamp 🗜️) it can be

@MarkoCloud 2 ай бұрын

My drill does the job without any fancy electronics. I've never had a problem drilling any size of hole. If it's a bit uneven just drill in and out a couple more times. I mean who doesn't have a drill that doesn't drift a bit to one side. Also, the length of the drill bits is usually a complaint, but if it's a really deep hole, just turn the work piece around and drill from the back side. I know many a craftsman thinks you should never go in from the back side, because it can look a bit nasty afterwards, but you should definitely try it, it gets the job done.