V2.0 - 3D Printed RC Excavator DIY

I'm a student at Western Sky Middle school and I help out in the STEM room after school. We have an ancient Maker bot replicator that was left out to dry after out last STEM teacher passed away. After I learned about his story, I started reaching out to 3D printer companies to hopefully get a new printer and start a club to teach anyone about 3D printing. We got no response from the companies we contacted and at this point I'm not sure what to do until I saw this video. My school would benefit very much from receiving even just one of the printers. I'm sure that our school and the students would benefit for years to come. Thank you, Max Murphy

Time to upgrade the nephews machine, he’s going to be so stoked

The fact that you're sharing the files for free is amazing

Make a kit!!!!!

Just in case anyone is building this and wants to avoid the slip ring… I just built mine with a couple of lines of code that prevents the wires from getting too tangled. After x spins, it simply locks that direction and shows a little light I added and then I can tap that direction and it will untangle. Slip rings are better but this is just something I added as I didn’t want to redo it. Another option if you wanted to minimise the wires in the pass through would be to add a microcontroller in the base and then you’d just need power and a single tx line so 3 wires

A Forklift would be awesome!

I'm a volunteer STEM teacher at our local Christian school where I have a large focus on 3d printing, we are a small-town school with very little funding, so I donated my old Ender 3v2s(which we spend half the time tinkering on them) to the school. Would absolutely love one of these in the class! Thanks for the video. It's definitely on the next on the build list!

Bamboo Labs is top tier for sponsoring those printers for the school. I've never used one or seen one in real life, but I've heard they're good, and after hearing that they did this sponsorship deal and makes me really interested in learning more about them!

This channel is so underrated.Good job sir.

The whole build is awesome but I have to ask this question. WHO CUTS PEPPERS LIKE THAT?

I am so blown away by this man

Can't wait to get a slip ring installed and the push blade!! Great work

I am a student at Forbush High School in NC. We are a small town high school being one out of only two in the county. We are very CTE based and not only me but many students strive to become an engineer or designer someday. We only have roughly 600 kids and not many classes that offer a design element like 3d printing. I myself want to become a mechanical engineer and learn how to 3d print, code and learn how to approach these projects. I think that with the donation of these printers this will help in our engineering and design aspect of our school.

I would say in case you would ever want to automate it, i would just manually add a external potentiometer - then it would still be strong and cheap while also being space efficient

Wow, this is insane! Hats off to your CAD and design skills, this is such a cool project!

Awesome printed toy project. Congrats!

This quality of content definitely deserves more subscribers! - Also, have you considered making a version that's inline with the Bambu Lab maker supply incentive program? I could definitely see this being a maker kit on their website and if you use solely parts available from Bambu you would also get a nice kick back from anyone buying parts through your makerworld upload :) - Great work!

Really fantastic! I’ve built two already. Working on the upgrades now. It’s lots of fun to have living room competitions with the family.

Next week I will receive the final part of the puzzle - the screws, and finally can finish the v1 build. Good thing that i purchased all the components for 2 excavators so i can have spare for the accessories!

love 3D printing