Giant Robot Project: Part 9

[dyablodemon]

i dont know why am i watching this

[oldman32123]

I turned 12 the say you uploaded this video.

[estfx]

Wow!! Dude make a huge robot spider that could walk and do stuff!

[maZZiveAttack]

I would suggest using an aluminium tripod for your camera but I guess the tripod would only end up being another Giant Robot part. Hehee

[crocpotpwns]

BALL BEARINGS

[TheOneTrueLolMat]

This is the best series I've ever seen. You are a God amongst men. :-)

[Njordh0]

Jubilee clip

[009013M3]

Is it odd that it took an "evil mastermind" kind of project like this to restore my faith in humanity?

[PhrenicAcid]

Your work is inspiring. Keep up the great job!

P.S. You should create some kind of mount for your camera so you can still have use of both hands. I keep picturing something going horribly wrong while you're trying to juggle a camera and the use of power tools.

[akaricloud]

Rofl, sticking it to engineers. Take that 4 years at college, I'll just eyeball the fucker :D

[tasilbhurn]

you want free aluninium .. easy .. steal scaffolding.

[gladiadordeyaniree]

OMG IM shure that he eat some bulbering or what evert the name is,

(its so funny when he does the ssllluuumm)

reminds me an old friend

[xmrxkrazy]

dude. the word is ball bearing.

[kalcaron]

When zombies attack I'm coming to live with you.

[gamertecno]

if you had a billion bucks youd make the mechs we dream of.

[MasterMike44]

y dont use parts of ur car? when ur robots finished u can use that as transportation;)

[JMEMantzel]

ya, I should take the VIN number off my truck, and stick it on the robot. ha ha

[Dazzacopley]

mmm ball bearings *unbearable slurpy lick lippin sound* come to papa yummy ball bearings *Crunch* *snap* *Break* Ouch!

[JMEMantzel]

oh, ya.... swallow the balls whole.  Definitely. ha ahaa haa

[SSGTWinters]

check with metal recyclers they usealy have tons also check construcionsites for left over and "unaseable"tubes.

[JMEMantzel]

Ya, I need to find more sources. :-)

[KaizokuSencho]

Awesome! Greetings from a happy gettho-modding Swede.

I Approve. (Now where is those crazy "blueprints" I jotted down last drunk saturday?)

[JMEMantzel]

Greetings from North America! I want to visit Sweden sometime. :-)

[weldingslagg]

Be careful when you connect your ground clamps. Try not to ground to your bearings because you can arc across the balls in the race and fuse them together and ruin your bearings.

[JMEMantzel]

ha ha. believe it or not, I did think of that. :-P no weldin the balls.

[redhotcustoms]

So, you come to the Tampa area? Cool, you gonna bring the robot when it's done? (I live around Tampa.)

[walikai]

i wouldn't recommend using a grinder to sand wood, but i guess it doesn't hurt much..

[futsalfred2]

I didn't know spade bits were strong enough to cut metal o_0

[JMEMantzel]

Well... aluminium, yes. Steel, now way.

[josq1500]

Your sound effects make the video a bit more enjoyable.

"...cut it with this thing----brzzzzz"

[JMEMantzel]

sweet! So I'm not JUST embarrassing myself.  heh heh.

[pathammond]

bloody good thinking m8!

[JMEMantzel]

Oh ya? Do you have any of your robots on here? I'd love to see them!

[jamesx6x]

I'm more into making intellegent robots, not vehicles.

But this is still awesome.

[streetraceme2k6]

Good to see you back, I was getting bored without your videos!

[JMEMantzel]

Ya, I'm goin' full speed now! Oh... except for this weekend. I have a friend visiting, but otherwise its going really well.

Glad I could entertain. :-P

[Laser114088]

TIP: when using the spade bit on metal, use gloves to hold the metal being drilled. The metal COULD spin fast enough and hit YOUR unprotected hand and you'd get ANOTHER owie.

[JMEMantzel]

Oh gawd.... thanks mom. :-P Actually, if you pay attention, the bit did get caught, and just stopped. It takes more than this measley drill press to break me grip. ;-)

[tycoonassassin]

Is the arrow shaped thing that points up from the ring of bearings (last video) - is that going to be facing down?

[Foogai01]

This is really amazing i stumbled upon this just randomly i really cant wait for the next vid man its also quite funny every time you use one hand i shout use both hands ha ha ha its going to work keep it up i also noticed not many people are watching this see what i can do. good luck and god speed.

[JMEMantzel]

Oh, thanks! I'm glad you're enjoying! :-) It is a little scary holding a camera AND operating power tools.  ha ha. I'm pretty careful, though. I put the camera down when I really get going.

[Kayzaks]

Been watching all your videos, it's so cool actually watching something new being done, from ground up with barely any pre-made parts! Thumbs Up!

[JMEMantzel]

Thanks! This is the first time its actually been easy enough to document on my own while doing it. ....thanks to digital camera's! :-)

I like watching video's from the beginning and seeing what direction I thought things were going in then. ...and how its completely different now.

[JMEMantzel]

whadaya mean always? Its only been the winter! I can't do much on the tower until the snow melts.

[gordo4444]

You seem to be spending alot of time away from your amazingly engineered sawmill/tower thing. Why build it if your always somewhere else?

[jangalomph]

Eh muzaloth has a point there stress from the weight might crush the legs lol... so you might want to reinforce stuff :P keep the videos coming dude =)

[JMEMantzel]

Well, its a good thing I have you guys to point this stuff out for me. In the 12 months I've been thinking about building this, I never even thought about stress! :-P ha ha. ok, I'm being a smart-arse now.

[jangalomph]

Couldent you like mold some tough plastic and put it over for protection later? or like shocks from a dirt bike ect.

[Muzaloth]

I'm wondering how going from small spider to something proportionately much larger will hold up, I understand increasing size causes stress related issues to greatly increase exponentially.. curious what overall final size of completed robot will be.

[JMEMantzel]

It'll be 10-12 feet tall. Its aluminium now instead of plastic, and some parts are steel. The ones I think need extra strength. There are ball bearings in everything too. ....tp relieve stress on joints. Less friction and all that.  Actually, I just spent 340$ on ball bearings. AUGH!