Basement Engineering

Hey Hilal,There was actually no real coding or programming involved ( except for the LED strips ). After flashing the flight controller with the right Firmware (ArduPilot Rover in my case) the ArduPilot Software takes care of everything and gives you a nice Interface to play with the parameters. You can actually see the PID Parameter view in Step 8. ArduPilot also offers a great guides that walk you through all of the little steps required to set a vehicle up.

Thank you, that is a very welcome reaction😁. The prop size is most certainly not ideal. Their design was mainly driven by coincidence and the limits imposed by the previously designed hull. I simply took a look at the props, that came with the stern tubes for the boat. The ones that I accidentially broke😅 and remodelled them in Fusion. They were about 30mm in diameter and had 3 blades. I scaled them up as much as possible until they would almost touch the bottom of the hull in my model. After the First printed pair of propellers broke, I reduced the diameter a little bit and increased the blade thickness to 2mm. The project has probably schown, that I am not much of a boat guy but they work surprisingly well.

Thanks, the university is actually planning on incorporating such a sensor in the future to use the boat for autonomous lake mapping. There is also the option to attach some kind of external assembly that takes water samples at certain coordinates to be analysed in a lab and used for water quality mapping.

Thank you. You are probably right, I had to do a teeny tiny little bit more, to turn everything into a moving vehicle, even swim through cold water a couple of times, tha are not shown in the video 😅. But it was definitely worth it.We actually had a very expensive algea sensor that was loaned to us by a professor, that uses a similar approach. Algea are fluorescent. The sensor simply shines light of a certain wavelength at the algea and measures the wavelength and intensity of the light that comes back to determine the algea concentration.I even designed and 3D printed a full measuring assembly with pumps, sampling chambers, sediment filtering and so on. I attached a couple of renderings. But as we had limited time to produce a working prototype and realized that we designed the boat to …

Thank you. You are probably right, I had to do a teeny tiny little bit more, to turn everything into a moving vehicle, even swim through cold water a couple of times, tha are not shown in the video 😅. But it was definitely worth it.We actually had a very expensive algea sensor that was loaned to us by a professor, that uses a similar approach. Algea are fluorescent. The sensor simply shines light of a certain wavelength at the algea and measures the wavelength and intensity of the light that comes back to determine the algea concentration.I even designed and 3D printed a full measuring assembly with pumps, sampling chambers, sediment filtering and so on. I attached a couple of renderings. But as we had limited time to produce a working prototype and realized that we designed the boat to small for all of that stuff, we had to scrap that idea. I am actually thinking about incorporating an additional chapter on "the tale of the lost measuring assembly" into the Instructable😏.

Thank you. I hope it gets a bunch of people to play around with ArduPilot. Well knowing that the first and second and third and the ... attempt to make a vehicle self driving might fail, but those issues are to bei expected and they can get there eventually:).

Thanks you:)

Thank you:)

Thank you. I'm glad that you liked it. Especially the Video😁. It would habe been a real Shame to leave this project unfinished. It might have been a pain in the a** but it was super interesting. Maybe i'll sommeday finish all of my others unfinished projects as well😅

Thats Great, be sure to upload some Photos of it. And let me know, if you are running into any problems, maybe I can help:).Eso es genial,asegúrese de subir algunas fotos de la misma. Y avíseme, si tiene algún problema, tal vez pueda ayudar :).

Thank you :).

Thank you :).I bought 2m of the aluminium at my local hardware store (toom Baumarkt) here in Germany. It cost me 12 Euros.

Thanks, I tried to keep it simple and easy to make a lot of them.

This is a truly amazing project. I absolutely love your way of using wires, solder, LED's, a steady hand and a ton of creativity to create such beautiful art pieces. I also love the video, you did a great job in showing the process. I wonder how long it took you to edit the LED count :D, but i really appreciate it. Keep up the good work, I'm rooting for you to win the contest.

This is a truly amazing project. I absolutely love your way of using wires, solder, LED's, a steady hand and a ton of creativity to create such beautiful art pieces. I also love the video, you did a great job in showing the process. I wonder how long it took you to edit the LED count :D, but i really appreciate it. Keep up the good work, I'm rooting for you to win the contest.

This is a truly amazing project. I absolutely love your way of using wires, solder, LED's, a steady hand and a ton of creativity to create such beautiful art pieces. I also love the video, you did a great job in showing the process. I wonder how long it took you to edit the LED count :D, but i really appreciate it. Keep up the good work, I'm rooting for you to win the contest.

I used Libre Office to create the stickers

Hey, i just read through the log file and saw, that you are using my code package from January 8th. I updated all of the files this weekend and uploaded them to github, so i can easily maintain them. All of the new links are in the Instructable. On my PC compiling for the Nano and the Uno worked without any issues. I suggest you download those files and try compiling ones again.Contact me if the issues still remain, i'm sure we can figure it out :).

Hey, thanks for your feedback. Sounds like a good plan, make sure to share a few photos of it:).I spent this Sunday organizing the Code and increasing the readability. I also moved all of the files over to my new GitHub account. As a first step, i would suggest you download the latest files and try it again. Keep in mind that you will have to unzip all of the files with WinRAR or 7zip before you can use them. I hope this helps.If you still run into issues, feel free to come back to me.

Thank you. Unfortunately i have started my next university semester so my free time is pretty much completely gone. However,on my last Maker Faire, i talked to a couple of guys from a company, that makes educational electronics kits. They liked the clock and offered me to turn it into one of their kits. I am currently considering to give it a shot. I will update you if this turns into an actual product:).

Thank you very much, calling it one of your personal best read up's is a great honor to me:). By the way, you are very good at video compositing.

Thanks for that. It sure was a ton of work, and you probably know how tricky debugging can become from your Colorful Clock project:D. However, i also had a lot of fun building it.