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lets all not forget about this https://www.youtube.com/embed/tYgHdxmCcAI

Its all good, nice to see someone that understands the scope of what i want to achieve unlike ass hat #1 bellow look man i dont care, to start with your advice was for something outside the scope of this project and also i know plenty of 26+ yr lecys that think their all that so ill take your boasting with a grain of salt and cary on my way. As for any updates, im like a couple on their honey moon with my new 3D printer and ive ordered all the parts to build another of my own design that will perform even better, so fo the time being alomost all my projects are on hold. On top of that ive received a lot of work on Fiverr recently so thats kept me busy as well.

well thats the point man, im trying to educate people that 3d printers arent for printing novelty crap and trinkets, and the crowd funding is to help out ill be paying for alot of it out of my own pocket. but stick around i hope i can show you what is possible. this would be true if i were trying to flip cars with this thing, but im just going to have it open and close, have some leds and have it respond the user movement. not aiming to be improving the users performance. think of it like a technical demonstration to learn how to do the technical steps.

well lucky for me my dad is also a master electrician, instrument fitter, electrical process engineer and programmer. my idea is to have it run off relay logic and have a master limiter that reads the pots and overrides the relay when limits are reached. so no relay logic is not out. what i still trying to work out is the variable speed input, i could use pressure sensitive plates in conjunction with end stops or do away with end stops, it depends on the mechanical function of the part. the pots are to make sure it only works inside of a range, and if input is active and movement is not happening then the output is stopped to prevent motor/actuator burnout. but all this is on hold until the frame is designed then ill start looking at how the mechanical aspects will work then we look at electronics. and even if it all runs off processing logic by the most part it would be boolean logic, algorithms would be a waist of time. All you need is a move or stop function with a speed variable integer. but like i said the control would be determined on a case by case basis, for the most part ill use none centralized PLCs (so a basic PLC for each limb/joint) and when you can get tiny Eduino based logic boards as big as your thumb for super cheap this is the best way to go. Push comes to shove i can slave the individual plcs to a master node to easily track and update the firmware for all the units

why would you think im going to use that sort of system? do you know how unreliable it is to use signals from the muscles? do you know how variable those signals are? and the fact that you use hundreds of muscles in concert to just balance while standing. Its literally the worst way to control a powered suit, the DARPA suit uses predictive force measuring which is a million times easier, cheaper and reliable. And im not even going to use that method im going to use the tried and true fly-by wire style input and output (similar to DARPAs system but way more ghetto). using end stop switches in clever ways with potentiometers at the joints to give positional tracking you can create a very reliable and cheap input system. besides if you kept track of my youtube videos you would know i started developing a system for my personal concept power armor 5 years ago, im building the FO4 armor because its popular and draws a crowd faster (search engines will bring up my videos on youtube along with lets play videos) dial back your expectations a bit, this is going to be more like a life size working "toy" of the FO4 PA. Its almost just a really detailed cosplay but way to technical and functional to be cosplay hence the title of the thread

well if you follow me on youtube you would know whats going on lol, i took a brake over new year and im back at it now. just got a 3D printer so ill be taking some tie to set that up before getting back to work on the power armor

yeah i saw those years back, this wont be the sort of power armor that does that, the joints will have assistance but you wont be seeing it flipping cars if you know what i mean. for the most part the project is a way for me to get a better understanding of the mechanical ergonomics of making a wearable mech suit and to expand my knowledge of electronics. Im not a fan of the pay to win option

ok working on next ep, fingers crossed i dont just rage quit again. I did some thinking and i think i have an idea on how to make the chest peace i bit easier

Or fanboys, smart guys, rich people etc. I know right, im far more worried about fanboys then any government agency, and lipo batteries will work fine. I dont need it to run for 200 years just a few hours, enough time to wow the fanboys into thinking they are in the pressance of greatness

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yeah it can be done we have the tech sorta it will work put you wont be flipping cars if you know what i mean

Yeah sorry about that i sorta went on hiates for a couple weeks ill have the next video up some time this week, im also working on a new format for the video recording etc so hopefully better content and more entertaining, worth the wait i hope

thanks man. next vid will be a while as its gonna be alot of condensed work and video editing

http://i.imgur.com/peyAA7W.png so thanks again to Silvist over at loverslab i was able to import an STL into inventor so i can start modeling everything to the scale I need. now for the long journey of creating all of the individual parts and then making them mechanicly viable. I will keep going for a few parts, record snipits of footage here and there and post regular montage videos as i go. And if i could ask you guys to please let my videos play all the way through, even if you get board (which i hope you dont). The more minutes watched i get on these vids the higher my my revenuiwe and the sooner i can get that 3D printer. I understand if you cant afford $1 a month to support my patreon page, the best you can help then is to share and watch my videos. I really apreciate the support, lets keep this tread active so more people see it and get involved. Thaks guys

yeah there are loads of place i can build in pacive and active energy recovery, places that recive force due to gravity in the walking action will be pacive. and active places are where they can provide extra power or can be used to pump up the system. pnumatics are great for this, they dont weigh much and can be easily replaced with the air around you. Sure they arent as eficiant as hydrolic systems, but were not building a forklift or aliens power loader here.