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Here goes nothing...YouTube Channel

SomeGuy

SomeGuy

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Here goes nothing...have started a channel "SomeGuy's Garage", here's a link to the channel:

(feel free to sub or not to sub, just sharing what I'm working on)

Basically going to start posting short videos of whatever I'm working on in the garage or new tools or other interesting garage related content. Likely a lot of it will be fabrication/machining/tinkering/building content so maybe things you guys will find interesting too.

Just to get started tonight, try things out, I did a "shorts" on a Siglent power supply that got delivered today:

One of my first projects with the lathe I just bought is to build an RC wheeled tank. I am starting with the electronics so I know roughly the chassis size I'll need and with all the little controllers and circuits and such, decided a bench power supply would be very handy for testing all of this stuff.

Cheers!
 
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Very cool! I'm in! The tank build will be cool to see, what sort of size vehicle you thinking so far? Going full on battle bot or something to run up and down the street to terrorize neighborhood cats, lol?
 
Hope to see the prototype progress thru the design-build stages.
Maybe I will trip over your ‘toy’ soon when we are hiking thru the Huron Natural Area.

If you need some milling or drilling let me know and I will see what I can do.
M.519-320-0384

This is my basement ‘Lab’.
 

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Everett said:
Very cool! I'm in! The tank build will be cool to see, what sort of size vehicle you thinking so far? Going full on battle bot or something to run up and down the street to terrorize neighborhood cats, lol?
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Hey, thanks for the sub, I sub'd your channel too.

As for size, just something to run up and down the street. I've got a pair of 250w brushed motors and will use dewalt 20v batteries for power...so it will be a fair sized chassis to fit that stuff, but won't be a huge battle bot either. I'm hoping I can make it fairly fast though, 30-40km/h would be awesome. The most RC experience I have is with $100 radio shack ones when I was a kid, so this is something entirely new to me.

I'm going to try to do an electronics video this weekend if all goes well (get it laid out, wire it up on a board, test it out, etc.)

LenVW said:
Hope to see the prototype progress thru the design-build stages.
Maybe I will trip over your ‘toy’ soon when we are hiking thru the Huron Natural Area.

If you need some milling or drilling let me know and I will see what I can do.
M.519-320-0384

This is my basement ‘Lab’.
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Thanks!
 
SomeGuy said:
Hey, thanks for the sub, I sub'd your channel too.

As for size, just something to run up and down the street. I've got a pair of 250w brushed motors and will use dewalt 20v batteries for power...so it will be a fair sized chassis to fit that stuff, but won't be a huge battle bot either. I'm hoping I can make it fairly fast though, 30-40km/h would be awesome. The most RC experience I have is with $100 radio shack ones when I was a kid, so this is something entirely new to me.

I'm going to try to do an electronics video this weekend if all goes well (get it laid out, wire it up on a board, test it out, etc.)



Thanks!
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I like all things RC. well not all things but good things.

You know that if you want to do things right you'd make your own motor eh? :cool:
 
Tom Kitta said:
If you have some time to kill and listen to boring me, here is mine - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTHu9H4FPvI8hb28ry7TDsg

I have to finally create 3 new videos - have them on my phone.
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Okay, I will subscribe to everyone's youtube channel. I do have one request. I am hearing impaired, and I can't take trying to discern audio with cheap embedded mics in rooms with echos and reverberation. Invest in wireless mic or a separate wired mic on a boom
 
TorontoBuilder said:
Okay, I will subscribe to everyone's youtube channel. I do have one request. I am hearing impaired, and I can't take trying to discern audio with cheap embedded mics in rooms with echos and reverberation. Invest in wireless mic or a separate wired mic on a boom
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My first vid was no voice...though that'll happen. I have some Shure wireless stuff here, will have to see if I can rig up some recording to my cameras.
 
SomeGuy said:
My first vid was no voice...though that'll happen. I have some Shure wireless stuff here, will have to see if I can rig up some recording to my cameras.
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alternatively people could hire voice-over actors to dub in sound in post-production. "In a world filled with youtube shills, TorontoBuilder brings you the goods" read in the mellifluous tones of James Earl Jones.
 
So, this one is again not as on topic for here (I might try doing a lathe video of some sort this weekend), but I was prepping blue box last night and decided to record a trick that I've been doing for a while with cardboard...I like how this video turned out:

 
I see that you know quite a bit about drives and controllers for DC motors.
I am purely mechanical, but I read a lot.

I started looking into an Electric Ultra Lite, but have yet to find a small battery pack that will supply enough energy to power the Axial Flux motors for a one hour flight.

Still collecting information for that project.
 
LenVW said:
I see that you know quite a bit about drives and controllers for DC motors.
I am purely mechanical, but I read a lot.

I started looking into an Electric Ultra Lite, but have yet to find a small battery pack that will supply enough energy to power the Axial Flux motors for a one hour flight.

Still collecting information for that project.
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I don't actually know that much lol my background is software development and I have a computer science degree though so a lot of control algorithms and such come very naturally to me.

An electric ultra lite would be super cool...though you're probably right, batteries aren't too energy dense yet compared to gas. Even the best lithium cells would be a struggle I'd imagine.
 
LenVW said:
I see that you know quite a bit about drives and controllers for DC motors.
I am purely mechanical, but I read a lot.

I started looking into an Electric Ultra Lite, but have yet to find a small battery pack that will supply enough energy to power the Axial Flux motors for a one hour flight.

Still collecting information for that project.
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There are such battery packs available.

One of my projects is designing contrarotating propeller dual axial flux motors for use in powered paragliding. The key to my project is eliminating weight to leave more load for the battery pack. I'm also thinking modular packs that you can go light and bolt on more for longer flights.

I plan to use the similar motor design to my ebike design with the hollow spindle to run the cranks thru... except it will be a second motor shaft going thru for contrarotating prop.
 
I used to fly Cessna 172’s and 152’s in the 1990s.

Electric propulsion has caught my eye since I did some work in Norway at the time of the Lillehammer Olympics (1994). I was doing a technology transfer to North America as part of a joint venture. Their electrical rates were so cheap that the energy input for extrusion plants was a small part of cost of production.

There has also been a few startups in Norway that have introduced electric planes.
An Ultra Lite with an hour flight duration would be OK for now.

The only manufacturers of Axial Flux motors that I have heard of are in Slovenia.
If you know of any in North America let me know.
 
I've been loosely following this project. Same 18650 Lion cells but some other tricks. Impressive speed but some of the key metrics have a ways to go. Sure would be a cool job.

 
PeterT said:
I've been loosely following this project. Same 18650 Lion cells but some other tricks. Impressive speed but some of the key metrics have a ways to go. Sure would be a cool job.

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I've been following this project that uses YASA axial flux motors
 
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