Robot Zen Garden
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- čas přidán 4. 06. 2024
- Sometimes you need to find your center through the calm relaxation of a Zen Garden. But you're too busy to stop and play in the sand. Enter the Autonomous Zen Garden.
I use a cheap 3D printer and some excess free time to automate a desktop Zen Garden. Calmness, mindfulness, and serenity can now be achieved all while doing something else. Some call it a waste of time. Others, subtle genius. It's probably the former, but stay a while and find out.
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"this will drastically increase the efficiency of your autonomous zen garden"
I think you've made one sentence which perfectly sums up engineers.
Hahaha - yup - nothing once invented will excape the will of engineers to make it more efficient! :D
Yay, relaxing took too much time and effort before. Now I can relax faster!
I always said "Relaxing would be great if I could hire someone to do it for me".
I'm available for moderate hourly rates. Bonus, I live in a beach town so you can be confident your relaxation will be high quality.
I can't see the other answer but im preetty sure there are a few branches of the service sector that provide different levels of relaxation.
"Thats the Zen hole" - and I just about died from laughter.
That's where the zen comes from. It feels like there is a t-shirt slogan somewhere in here.
@@davidcrouch3226 It's blue light.
What does it do?
It turns blue.
The line was funny, but the delivery was killer 🤣
Thank you. I own a 3D printing business and have thought so many times of doing exactly this. You've done it so I don't have to.
If you have any sort of reception area or office for visitors, this would be a nice piece to set up.
As a fellow mechanical engineer I love these projects and your very matter of fact delivery!
"We will move that bridge when we get there" -- genius
i cant decide if this is the least Zen or the most Zen ,Zen garden :-)
The machine isn't thinking of anything else, is it? Then you can put it in a forest and wonder if it is making a sound.
The most Zen Zen garden would be Zen.Zen Zen Zen recurring. This Zen garden is not that.
least to the maker, most to the robot, but pretty much all robots that arent ai are pretty zen, as far as things that take inputs and make outputs go
Wow, you did a great job of automating stress relief in a complex way, while making it sound like fun and only slightly stressful. Probably why they don’t consult us engineers in the psyc ward.
FYI Gcode does allow for looping and "if" statements. You can have conditional loops and subprograms/macros. This was much more common when people were programming by hand on machines running on a pre DOS computer with next to no memory. Generally with more modern machines, the memory is not a limitation anymore and we all just program with CAM, so there isn't much need for being conscious of file size.
Great video as always, keep up the good work!
just FYI for matt and anyone else who might read this - do not constrain the free end of the lead screws. The lead screw is there to provide linear motion *only* . The V-rail extrusion is there to provide the straight alignment on that axis. By constraining the free end you are actually fighting the straightness of the lead screw against the straightness of the aluminium extrusion, and the extrusion will have *far* tighter tolerances than the lead screw (especially on a cheap machine). This can cause a regular wave pattern in the Z axis of the printer (which might already be present if the lead screw is manufacture bad enough - i've personally received printers with screws out of the box that might as well have been bananas given the bend - but rest assured constraining the end will only make it worse. The only solution to a bad lead screw is a new lead screw)
I second this!
Sounds too nerdy. I’m gonna go constrain some lead screws.
>:(
It's interesting how while the zen garden thingy was trying to do the circles it decided to go about the same radius a different way because the feature it was trying to draw was not a complete circle with a center point. I am a machinist and do a lot of conversational machining, so it's interesting to see what the code is actually doing when it decides to do that very same thing with my mill! Fortunately, my mill shows me the arc before it just plunges into the material though haha.
Line drawing solution (which is neat but probably won't work): Use the stepper motors to create pitches that generate harmonic resonance to draw patterns in the sand.
No.
This makes perfect sense to a engineer a robot work properly is more relaxing than anything else.
I've never seen a roller locked Zen garden before. That's amazing.
I love your style and level of comedic effort you put in these video. Been brilliant watching these through some tuff times.
THIS is why you don't leave engineers unsupervised.
All hail the algorithm.
I loved this and I grew up in Kyoto... well not exactly up but Ryoanji is wonderful. In practice, the move with the rake is suppose to be one continuous stroke/motion without lifting the rake. I like the little lantern and your goldfish called, they want their bridge back.
It’s like a robot vacuum cleaner and a 3D printer had a child that got into gardening. Great idea and supercool to just sit and watch! Edit: Damn, you already made that comment in the video. Now I don’t feel at all Zen.
I love the crazy time and effort put into something totally pointless :D
I never realized just how much I needed this…
You should make a video about your formula student experiences, i loved the book and that would be really cool.
Holy shit, didn't realize it's that Matt Brown until I read your comment.
The algorithm knows me so well.
@@Tubs737 after i read his book i looked up superfastmatt and found a video of him jumping a four runner. I subscribed and i was so happy when like a year later he made videos
@@Tubs737 is the book Racecar?
Thanks for solving a problem no one ever had. It’s perfect!
That’s the Zen hole
Absolutely fantastic! I've postponed watching this, for some reason, but now that I have, I regret not watching it sooner. Gave me plenty of joy and laughs, and increased my Zen volumes. Thanks SuperfastMatt! :-D
-what is my purpose?
-take care of the garden
I'll bet you forgot all about the Jag/Tesla project while you did this; Zen really IS a state of mind. 😎
Surprised this hasn't gotten more views. Cool hack of a 3 D printer.
As a fellow Tarantula owner, I'm impressed
Oh, THAT was appropriate. That made me to throw my head back laughing, thank you Super Fast Matt.
An almost Absurdist reaction. Automated Zen. Delightful. Camus would be proud.
Thank you so much fot these 21 minutes of pure zen!
So awesome. So many of my ideas start out with magnets and end up without them.... One day!
17:39 for some reason this made me very happy :)
3:04 constraining the Z-axis like that can actually be really hurtful to 3D prints. Your application didn't require a too high level of precision, but with these cheaper printers it's not guaranteed that the rod is 100% straight, causing the gantry to shift significantly when you get closer to the center of the rod.
You can see what I mean here:
czcams.com/video/2Z7mZVvPlc8/video.html
It makes me happy and zen to know you also have side projects that distract from the main projects.
SERENITY NOW!!! I love it.
I'm glad to see technology be what I thought it should have been 20 years ago. Only problem now is finding what you want to do. Maybe in 20 more years life would be the way I always thought it should have been.
So glad this popped up randomly again, loved this build!
I saw that "F" get written in the sand and thought it was going a different way than it did.
one of your funniest concepts for a project. love it.
Unnecessary improvements :) Like you need anything like this wonderful machine... Kudos!
That was 21+ minutes that I will never get back-THANKS!
SuperfastMatt knocks it out of the park!! 🤣🤣
This is pretty fantastic. Have to say, I'm enjoying all of your projects.
I feel calmer already
This was one of my favorite projects to watch. Very Zen dude
Thanks, superfast, this is the reason I subbed. Real heckin zen.
Wtf this is so underrated....
This is so Zen. So that's what the zen paintbrush is for. All hail the algorithm.
I don't know why, but this is the third or fourth time that I'm watching this.
Maybe the algorithm likes that?
You are a great content creator. A wonderful combination of engineering, humor and angst.
This made my day better.
The rotation axis would be great to rotate the props, like the bridge
A brilliant build! BTW, it's normal to use G0 for max speed of travel, whilst G1 is used with a feed rate,,, e.g. G1F500X120Y56. Great content, keep 'em coming!
Absolutely hilarious! Loved it.
"Zen hole" is my new go-to phrase
That guy was such.a.Zen.Hole.
this is the peak content i like to see
Great video! Every video you make is about a curiosity I have already had somehow! Maybe not specifically an automated zen garden, but Gcode programming to use 3d printers for different things!
"Its working! I can feel the zen!"
CNC Machine: WEEEWOOOWEEEWOOO
Isn't there a good reason for the Z-axis rod to be free floating? I don't know if I've ever seen one that wasn't free floating on one end.
Next time use a piece of packing tape to lift up the corners of the protective film on the acrylic. it makes removing the film so much easier.
I’m geeking out!
that 3d printer cleaing its head in the brush was the funniest thing in this video
Matt, have you seen Corridor Digital’s satisfying renders video? You have created the IRL version of what they were trying to achieve!
Check out the Trinamic controllers to make those steppers completely silent -- achieving more zen :)
OMG! I found another awesome This Old Tony channel. YAY!!!!
I feel very zen now
”This is a job ripe for automation”.
🤣👍👍
G code does have loops and even functions. The simple stuff implemented in printers however usually do not.
It's a subset or offshoot at best.
Should have printed off the pieces with the printer 😂 with predesigned holes to save you drilling :D love the motivation to automation
👍👍😎👍👍. So glad you had generated enough zen to pursue ‘unecessary’ improvements 😂🤣😂
You sick little man!!!!! I LOVE IT! LOL
I love this channel so much oh my lord!!!!
Love your work
You're good. Long life to the channel!
What was the piece of music at "Improved picker-upper" part?
How is that video only 2k views. Matt keep doing what you're doing!
Thanks. I... needed that
yes i'm watching this again
Great work sir! Is it possible to find zen in you finding zen by allowing a robot to zen your garden?
Yes
nice! next make a real zen garden where you place the pieces and the robot dynamically draws non-overlapping patterns around them
I feel bad for wathing this, I can only imagine how it would of been building it haha. Love you work matt
Alight, love this idea, love your dry and hilarious presentation, new subscriber earned. Thanks. Sincerely, fellow engineer.
Some people 3-D print plastic pistons, drive their vehicle for 30 seconds and get a million views, and now we have this, as an almost complete opposite to the pistons, with the out of this world hilarity, and??!! We're so different...
I think it's pretty great that I get to make fun videos and thousands of people like them. Millions would be cool, but I'll take what I can get!
This is hilarious and very entertaining, thank you for the video.
This has big "Giving Snakes their Legs Back" energy
Did you think about to use this setup to make something like a stop motion animation? I hoped to see the waves walking through the sand when seeing the title picture.
Loved this video. was a lot of fun listening to the process. I do wish you showed a bit more about the machining parts. Like lathe work and even just the drilling. But still fun! very Zen to watch n_n
With my education in music performance and the knowledge Matt shared in this video I'm pretty sure I can engineer anything. It's that easy, right?? All hail the algorithm!
OkY but one of these running in the background of an office would be fuccin lit
Your 3D printer has reached enlightenment.
Love it
If you electric magnet does not let go, you might add a spring to let go.
I believe a vacuum suction is better for picking things. You turn it on and off using some kind of valve controlled by solenoid.
it's SuperZenMatt, SuperfastMatt's relaxed cousin !
Constraining the free end of the wobbly z screw will transfer that motion into your machine head and cause z banding if you use it to print things.
Criminally underviewed.
This is such a random video for this channel but I like it. Hope to see some 3D printed car parts soon
" I don't actually have a 3D printer" = unbelieveable - Old git - UK
I have wanted to do this for a while but my plans were to have a steel ball under the sand and a magnet on the arm underneath. That couldn't place items on it though. Now I'm thinking something less mechanical on top like a single segmented arm with the stylus on the end. There have been some experimental 3D printers built like that, with an arm with a shoulder and elbow joint to move in two dimensions. I think there's already Marlin code in existence for this setup.
It’s like a easy version of Douglas Adams’ electric monk
Hilarious and brilliant! Subscribed!