How this Actuator Survived 100,000,000 FLAPS

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Making a flexible Actuator Robust! Test this flap yourself here 👉 flexar.io/products/flap-actuator
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Time Makers:
00:00 - Intro
00:43 - Making it faster
02:24 - Making it durable
07:48 - Final Design
08:21 - Applications
Music:
Falla Upp - Lo Mimieux
Build With Me - Isola James
Way of the Walk - Dusty Decks
Dancing with the STEMS INSTRUMENTS

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@tomking6006 Рік тому

I can't help but be disappointed you didn't call it the flaptuator.

@thomasperri3294 Рік тому

😂

@Bergerons_Review Рік тому

Just brand name it the "Fap, fap".

@southernflatland Рік тому

Flap? Flap flap! Flap flap flap? FLAP! flap

@qwertyboguss Рік тому

Not my proudest flap

@osmacar5331 Рік тому

Flapperjappers.

@dythe7858 Рік тому

It looks to me as if you are doing a phd on pcb actuator. At first it started as a fun little expériement but with each video. I feel like you're improving your skill in R&D. Good job man.

@DakotaDinwoodie 10 місяців тому

@@iridium8341 FOUND THE GUY WITH NO FRIENDS^

@iRouRoui 10 місяців тому

@@DakotaDinwoodie probably a virgin too

@ajjskins Рік тому

I have no idea what this is gonna be used for what it could be used for but I’m extremely impressed with your dedication to making the best thing you can. Cool stuff don’t stop creating.

@warrenarnold Рік тому

4:20 Its used for mining bitcoins, they put a coin on the magnet

@ajjskins Рік тому

@@warrenarnold I thought bit coin was a product of block chain tech that puts two computers in a singular computation and if both computers get the same answer, a bit coin is created?

@jonatan_leandoer96 Рік тому

@@ajjskins They put a pickaxe on the flap and a bitcoin underneath it and it mines the coin

@roboterbasteln Рік тому

This statement tells us that you haven't watched the video nor read the description: 08:21 - Applications

@Le_Blnk____ Рік тому

For massage

@GadgetUK164 Рік тому

Absolutely incredible! Super attention to detail and persistence which lead to these amazing results!

@CarlBugeja Рік тому

thanks!

@cavemaneca Рік тому

@@CarlBugeja it's funny that persistence is that got you into this project in the first place!

@TymexComputing Рік тому

Hey - i think i heard everything but i dont know the idea and purpose of this flaps?

@scottlaughlin8516 Рік тому

You are the Wintergatan of pcb design. Amazing work.

@JacobProbasco Рік тому

The reason why your double sided actuator didn’t twist is because the two sides added off-axis rigidity. Because of the linear motion of your actuator, it was always going to tend to twist if it had a single pole along its axis of motion (an example of this is objects in space tending to spin). I love the methodology you used to avoid problems that otherwise would have remained elusive. These are super exciting! Any other ideas for novel actuators on your mind? (1st time watcher and subscriber)

@CTCTraining1 Рік тому

Wonderful project evolving over time. I imagine folk who build shop window displays would love the opportunity to add gently flapping butterflies into their builds using this tech. Keep up the great work 👍😀

@ayushdude100 6 місяців тому

Always delightful to see someone to take reliability so seriously. Kudos man.

@waylontmccann Рік тому

Hey Carl, this project sure has evolved! It's been a real treat watching your iterative process in action. Thank you for sharing, and keep up the great work!

@jamesmor5305 Рік тому

I like the little progress, because it shows the real world and that such an Projekt is Not makeable in 1 Week

@Dangineering Рік тому

Your projects are always so interesting. thank you for continuing to share and inspire Carl.

@nobrien22 Рік тому

Man, you're the reason I love UKposts. Great job putting your work, problem solving skills, and tenacity up here for all to see. 👍🏼👍🏼

@jimreineri6166 Рік тому

These actuators make me smile 😊. Video was very informative. Excellent job.

@PodbevsekMiha Рік тому

your dedication to this research is both amazing and admirable! Keep it up!

@MANUKRISHNAN008 Рік тому

Very happy to see your progress from initial stage to robust builds.

@beyondme9369 Рік тому

Thank you for showing the steps that lead to the final thing..the failures, the changes, the smallest of things that can lead to some major improvements..

@ahmadhasan3258 Рік тому

Best video in the series so far! Loved the testing all the different designs

@acolize8883 Рік тому

Always awesome to see someone doing things differently!

@scalzochris Рік тому

I love the walkthrough of your issues and troubleshooting. Very cool to see your thought process.

@nirvana613 Рік тому

The amount of work and careful effort you put into this is amazing. Keep making incredible things !

@randomefan4ul Рік тому

My idea is to uses 2,073,600 of these in a grid 1920x1080 flapping at 30 or maybe 60hz to make a projector.

@livdbest2942 Рік тому

Very informative video as usual👍 Bravo!!👏👏

@JGoodwin Рік тому

I love the way you tested and tested to make sure you could make a quality product. Please keep it up. You are doing great!

@sidpierce1 Рік тому

Have you thought of or tested using a second coil instead of the rare earth magnet? Using a square wave 90 degrees out of phase with each other so that they could take turns attracting and repelling each other? It may reduce costs and speedup replacement of failed units.

@francoisguyot9770 Рік тому

Very interesting idea. The flaps definitely could benefit of Berrylium Copper tracks as it's one of the most flexible and yet resilient material.

@ericlotze7724 Рік тому

Really Great Example of Jigs/Processes for Testing like this at the “Mid-Scale Manufacturing” / Maker-scale!

@MilesFinder Рік тому

Beautiful Work Carl! Has been very interesting following this project. Looking forward to more in the future!

@Maxjoker98 Рік тому

Hey, absolutely incredible video, as always! An interesting idea might be to build some sort of mechanical relay out of this, maybe even logic gates. Could be cool if one could build a computer out of nothing but (flex-)PCB!

@steve_jabz Рік тому

Would be interesting to see an electromagnet on the stiff side and a sensor that detects the distance so it can pull it a certain distance when it's safe to and doesn't need to physically slam up against it

@subbasslines 10 місяців тому

Awesome details on the design and testing process, so many applications 😮

@ostanin_vadym Рік тому

Thank you for your knowledge. Very interesting.

@erikdingeldein3359 10 місяців тому

This has a similar motion to a reed valve in a two-stroke engine. It could be a cool application or you could draw from reed design literature if you'd like to improve your design further. Great video, thank you!

@Dangineering Рік тому

Can you hang a couple of these from some string and then tune the system to constructively interfere with each other and create some larger oscillatory motion? If so that would be an interesting (though impractical) replacement for the rhythm of a clock.

@fabianoaas Рік тому

Congratulations for the clever and precise product research project

@JayeDiesel Рік тому

So talented! Once I establish myself as a Maker I am soo going to hit you up. Your hardware and some of my ideas 💡 ... The applications are endless. Amazing work sir! Please keep sharing!

@roboman2444 Рік тому

What about a flapper optimized for "airflow"? Might be useful for cooling applications.

@sepg5084 Рік тому

Fans would still be better at moving air. And if something can be cooled by flappers then maybe passive cooling is sufficient.

@AMalas Рік тому

That exists! It doesn't looks that different from this but flaps way faster, you can see it on LTT

@bleeptrack Рік тому

Love your actuators!

@NeoIsrafil Рік тому

What a wonderful design, and an AMAZING MASTERCLASS in the design PROCESS a skilled engineer uses to iterate their project from one version to the next and how to properly test said design before going to market. Id love to have a few of these in my electronics box for projects just incase they're needed, but moneys too tight right now, so I'll just say well done sir!

@ElJitomateElectrico Рік тому

This is an amazing video with great research, im glad I watched.

@MultiUroX Рік тому

first thought: flappy bird actuator

@nzerusocia9232 Рік тому

Incredible stuff! I wonder if its applications can be extended to some form of ornithopter flight mechanism!

@Produkt_R Рік тому

I love seeing the whole process

@ChrisMuncy 10 місяців тому

Never a boring video Carl! Keep up the great work and thanks for sharing!

@MichaelWatersJ Рік тому

You might want to start doing finite element analysis to get a better idea of your actuator's mechanical response, particularly torsional stiffness. Autodesk and FreeCAD can do it.

@Pscribbled Рік тому

For future versions, have you looked into steel wires for connectors? I believe generally steel has better performance with respect to fatigue than copper

@mrtechie6810 10 місяців тому

Yes. Depends on the type of steel.

@manjumanl5279 Рік тому

Imagine the revolution you gonna make when this will be applied to music instruments like clarinet ?????? You have really made a tremendous breakthrough .

@beemerwt4185 Рік тому

Great video. Love seeing the design challenges. Really demonstrates the reality of engineering.

@TheSphongleface Рік тому

You didn't bore me to death and I can clearly see your love for the craft. What I'm curious about is simply the future of these ideas 💡

@danielwilson2086 Рік тому

Could this be used for air circulation?

@CarlBugeja Рік тому

it can but it won't be very effective compare to other fans - i made a video on this topica few months ago ukposts.info/have/v-deo/ip1lq6-PoKlltZs.html

@chrisBruner Рік тому

They remind me of insect wings. Do you get any wind off them?

@CarlBugeja Рік тому

not that much - ukposts.info/have/v-deo/ip1lq6-PoKlltZs.html

@elliotmapp-best9990 Рік тому

Definitely very important and application rich work. Great job Sir

@hwhack Рік тому

One of the best engineering videos I've seem in years. Fantastic work Sir.

@marshpw Рік тому

so fun to see the process! Thanks for sharing this

@BitSmythe Рік тому

Fabulous research. I can’t wait to find out what the flapper would be good for.

@soynerdito 11 місяців тому

Keep it up. I have seen your videos about this and it's very interesting watching you develop your project. My respect, keep it up!

@penguins9012 10 місяців тому

I didnt know i was interested in this, thanks youtube. Enjoyed seeing all the testing and steps you went through to get that final version done.

@EvertAlink Рік тому

iziek how nice! Well done! Looking forward to seeing more applications done with this.

@hgbugalou Рік тому

I really enjoy this kind of hardware dev vlog content. Not boring at all to me!

@BunkerSquirrel 8 місяців тому

very neat stuff! You're running into PCB failures we usually only get to see on rare occasions after millions of units have been in the field for years. Awesome seeing people pushing this tech to its breaking point!

@madeintexas3d442 Рік тому

Keep it up. I always learn something from your videos.

@jerrydaugherty4657 10 місяців тому

Very well done, Carl. I really like the 'adding LED's' topic... That has some promising technology-meets-art applications.

@L2-Lagrange 11 місяців тому

Really awesome work man. I can think of a lot of fun applications

@radio_hobby Рік тому

Thanks for the experiment, it was very interesting!

@tf_d Рік тому

I loved seeing your process!! Good job on this :)

@ahmedashooriebrahim7360 Рік тому

Such and underrated channel, im happy UKposts suggested it. Keep it up man!

@laszlomarton4919 11 місяців тому

Well done sir! We are proud of you!

@Oberon4278 10 місяців тому

Can you ramp the voltage up and down to control the rate that the actuators open or close? Butterflies normally flap their wings kind of slowly and in a controlled manner -- they don't just snap them open and then shut again. Same with flower petals. If you can make things open and close at the speed you want that would be really cool.

@johnmclaughlin2392 Рік тому

This is amazing! I wish I had this guys energy.

@7eis Рік тому

3:18 "After a week of contentious flapping I could confirm that I indeed was not a bird capable of flight"

@grantfielder Рік тому

Awesome stuff man, freaking great job!

@pressure77 Рік тому

Amazing advancements, always fascinating to watch your progress. I wonder what the upper limit on frequency would be if you increased the stiffness of the flapper and reduced travel distance! If you could make audible frequencies, could have cool applications for tone/vibration generation

@MarioTheModder Рік тому

Hey Carl, look into the flex PCB i-beam effect. If you put traces directly over each other on the top and bottom layer, it creates more stress in the copper than if the traces were offset.

@JazzyFizzleDrummers 11 місяців тому

I can see this being used for sound sculptures and synthesis too

@mezmerizer0266 Рік тому

This was just fun to watch. Thanks for the good time, dude.

@rvarchitecture3667 11 місяців тому

perfected this, well done!

@jdsstegman Рік тому

Bad ass man!! Fist video I watched from you and you just kept at it!! Great work!

@peter360adventures9 Рік тому

Look forward to seeing many more improvements.

@an_R_key Рік тому

well done. this is impressive work.

@avocadoarms358 Рік тому

Absolute innovation at its finest. This dudes going places with a brain that big

@JDoors Рік тому

I kept thinking of solutions and the next thing you know, you were implementing those solutions! It was fun sort of working along with you in that way. I did wonder early on why you hadn't tried double arm flexors (I think you're right that the magnetic field twisted the single arm flap off axis).

@flinkiklug6666 Рік тому

Crazy to go sooo deep in one projekt

@Guilty_Crown Рік тому

I have no idea what I watched this the entire way though, and most of the information went over my head but you did a good job 👍

@AsymptoteInverse 10 місяців тому

I absolutely love watching the development process in such great detail. As for applications, I think an interesting one might be something like the flip-dot displays you sometimes see in bus signs and similar. A big array of these actuators (and maybe a retro-reflective surface) and I bet a passable 2D image could be rendered in grayscale mechanically. Might be noisy, though.

@GmailNexus Рік тому

Really Good Design is often very beautiful at the same time ❤

@admpandora91 Рік тому

incredible work, sir.

@JohanFasth Рік тому

Very well done Sir.

@timmturner Рік тому

Your flexible heater drew me in but this video made me a subscriber, keep up the amazing work.

@shiddy. Рік тому

this was awesome to watch - I wish you the best of luck in the future

@nixonnelson5181 Рік тому

hey the progress is great!

@larsandersen5505 Рік тому

Very good Carl. Keep going On

@rainboworange Рік тому

if you add a reflective surface, maybe even something mirror-like, the flap can be used as a pov-display WITHOUT adding the led's weight to the flap. just put the leds in a black box with a narrow slit, pointed at the mirror-flap...

@sargundhillon2808 Рік тому

I think there are applications beyond art. The immediate use case I see is a valve. There are cases where you may want to prevent dust going between two locations, and covering a hole with a flap is one solution.

@LukeSeed Рік тому

Great work, that's an amazing R&D effort. You are essentially developing a vibration arm with a control system and are encountering all the aspects of those types of systems. WRT to the torsion of the arm, perhaps the magnetic fields are trying to align and it is producing a torque? It looks like the 35mm arm is twisting as well, just not as much. You could make one arm slightly wider to increase its stiffness to counteract that bending.

@Tokentools-weldersAu Рік тому

Wow, your awesome, great explanation into your research :)

@jonathanm9436 Рік тому

Just discovered you!! I found your development process description really really interesting. DEFINITELY subscribed.

@Sailingon Рік тому

Perfect test system for light weight flexible couplings. Valves for very low air pressures. Someone somewhere is looking for this to fit an application.