#712 – Robots Everywhere with Aaed Musa

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