The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast

#712 – Robots Everywhere with Aaed Musa

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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
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