#712 – Robots Everywhere with Aaed Musa
Aaed is a YouTuber who builds a variety of robots and a mechanical engineering student at Purdue. He joins Chris to talk building robots and robotics components from the ground up, with a focus on lowering the cost and barrier to entry.
The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast
January 20, 202658m 37s
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Show Notes
Welcome Aaed Musa!
- Aaed is a YouTuber who builds a variety of robots and a mechanical engineering student at Purdue. He just completed his undergrad degree and is now working on his Master’s degree. I believe he is the first Amp Hour guest who is still a full time student.
- His channel has a great variety of builds including designing all the way down to gearboxes.
- Aaed says the MIT “mini cheetah” launched many low(er) costs builds of robots, including his own.
- Boston Dynamics (and many others) announced their new ATLAS robotics platform at CES this year.
- FOC motor controller
- Backlash is a measure of how much movement you have between the teeth of gears (and thus how accurate you can be with open loop control)
- Ball bearing balancing robot
- Inverse kinematics
- Past guest of the show James Bruton was a model for the builds that Aaed does
- what does the glue look like
- His recent build uses…rope…to build a robot dog?
- A Capstan drive has virtually zero backlash
- “relatively new rope” DM20
- High precision speed reducer using rope
- the impacts of materials on design processes
- Juicero
- Relationship with classmates and professors as a YouTuber
- Purdue Engineering
- Aaed picked up electronics from youtube
- What’s his take on LLMs?
- Making next CARA open source
- New video recently came out about a spinning top
- bulk of the cost is in the motors and motor controllers
- growing up in the age of youtubers