Hey man, I'm a new engineering student and I would love to major in robotics. I just wanted to ask how you learnt all these parts and their functions because apart from this video I've never heard of an O-drive and I really would like to have the knowledge that you do.

The ODrive motor controller seems like the most versatile out of all the ones I’ve worked with before. Thanks for the scripts!

Very cool. I've been interested in the ODrive for a while now. When I get around to using them I'll definitely be back to review this video. I'm looking forward to more videos on the topic.

Appreciate all the work, please keep posting new updates on this project!

Hey, looking forward to Part 7, theese videos have teached me so much and I cant wait to see the final product :)

You're definitely selling me on these ODrive motor controllers, they appear to be equipped with everything you'd realistically need for these types of projects. I'll probably end getting them when working on the mech projects, they seem versatile enough to work with different types of motors. I don't have much experience with coding so providing your scripts will no doubt help me out haha. Sweet remix on the Zelda Fairy Fountain btw!

Your videos quality is amazing man! Keep going what you do

I am really enjoying following this series.

​ @AustinTronics I just found your channel. I am another dude digging into biped walking bot and that particular motor is the most suitable for my budget. I hope you did not abandon this project, I have a lot to learn from you and willing to help if you need.

Very Cool, this is coming together very nicely!

learning so much from you. Keep up the good work!

Fanstatic overview. Thank you

seriously fucking many thanks for the video - I was trying to get it to work for DAYS, read the documentation, etc... no success. The video helped me to get it to work which is... enormously satisfying! thanks!

Hi, I'm new to robotics, however, I am experimenting with a 2 wheeled (drive/steer) device using hoverboard motors and thoroughly enjoyed watching your channel; first class tutorial and easy to follow - thanks. I'm having issues setting up my oDrive 3.6/56v board and followed your instructions closely to try and resolve the issues I'm experiencing. Really, really helpful; at last I get the beep after motor calibration. Unfortunately that's where it stops! odrivetool accepts the hall sensor calibration steps without error, however, I get no movement of either wheel. This is frustrating as I think I've tried everything. I have checked the hall sensors on both motors and all appears well. Am I missing something, can you advise. I get n o errors when I dump odrv0.

Great work thank you for taking the time and explaining this setup. I was wondering i you have run an anti cogging on the hoverboard motors?

Man... this video is exactly what I needed! subd and liked. Great work and thank you! Do you by chance know if there are ROS libraries/Packages for the ODrive? Right now seems like i'll need to write it myself...

How do you imagine fixing the AS5048 encoder in the inner area of ​​the wheel?

hello austin. nice project i love robots but i don't have the programming skills to build one. I have always wanted to build a hexapode and so a question came to my mind using this hoverboard motor system is it possible to load a person's load on a robot of this type, whether it is a quadruped or a hexapod? probably not possible in direct drive configuration but using planetary gearmotors and toothed belts should you be able to get enough torque to carry a large load? sorry my english but i write with a translator

Really curious on how well a secondary encoder works for lower-speed operation. The slow speed movement with the built-in hall effect sensors appears to be quite coarse. These motors should be a excellent "good enough" low-cost option for my DIY experiments if the encoder add-on works well.

Very interesting

were you able to find a way to mount the encoders on the motors?

I bought an odrive last year. Need to get some of those hoverboard motors. Do you know of a good place to buy them? Edit: Found your other video that had links to ebay. A+

Good call on using a hoverboard motor for cost savings. The gear reduction will make or break your project though. Pay careful attention to this step.

What if I want to use it as a super powerful gyroscope to balance my robot?

can it be ran as a propeller at 1000 rpm. with a couple of propeller blades attached?

Thank you this information was very helpful to configure my hoverboard motor please help me with setting with Arduino

Hey man, great video! I want to use o-drive for an autonomus robotic platform. I have 4 BLDC 36V/350W wheels. I've tried to use it with a cheap driver controller powered at 24V but I didn't have enough torque. So, for these wheels I should buy a 24 or a 48V o-drive?

Hi, Great job. Can you make a walking suite type robot for paraplegics using these motors or some exercise machine which replicate walking movement.

Great project, how is it going and when is the next video coming. Thanks

How are you considering motor duty cycle impacts on your system?

Have you had any luck with the AS5048a encoders? I'm trying to get them to work on my o-drive setup but haven't had much luck yet. Also, amazing video, I'm looking forward to seeing what's next!

Great video. How to drive 2 or more motors at the same time? what command to give to odrive? Thank you.

cooooool

Great video! Unfortunately you can't follow along using the current odrive firmware version because the encoder calibration gets an ILLEGAL_HALL_STATE error. You'll need to put firmware version 0.5.1 on your odrive (which is the version used in the video). I made a post about this issue and how to fix it on the odrive forum. I tried to leave a comment here with a link to the instructions but it keeps getting deleted for some reason by the youtube moderators.

Hi @AustinTronics, what power supply do these hub motors require, if you are not using the odrive?

since they are 36v rated. are you running 36v? if not may as well rewind the motors to a much lower kv with thinner wire.

Are you still working on this project? It's been a great series so far.

how to use original pcb to run odrive?

Hi! I tried running closed loop control but the motor does not spin or resist as shown in your video. Do you have any suggestions to solve this problem?

Very cool video! But somehow the link to the code is not working, and I can't find it in the repo

Nice video, some of the links are failing? has the content changed

Hi, fantastic project. Are you still working on it

attributeError: "torque_constant not found ", what should I do to troubleshot his error, any help would be helpful , thanks for the great video

Hello, I’m having some issues running the python script, can you offer any input

Do you have updated location for the python script? Thanks!

not enoought position resolution on 1 turn... will not work

The link to your github is broken... Is there another? thanks

Hey, just wondering if this project is still alive. I'd love to see it completed :)

This is indeed amazing. My odrive motor controller came in yesterday and I am trying to set it. Unfortunately, my hoverboard came with 6 wires hall sensor, and there is no port in the odrive controller to connect the sixth wire. I did not connect the sixth wire which is supposedly for temperature control. The motor calibration was fine without errors, but I got the following error when i checked for the encoder. In [28]: odrv0.axis0.encoder.error Out[28]: 512 Could you please help me to solve this problem?. I guess the problem is from the sixth encoder wire that isn't connected but I do not know if there is other port in odrive controller that I can connect it. Thank you in advance

is this 2 or 3 dof each leg?

I think I love you

Help me, Can i use a spi encoder ??

I'm am trying to turn the hub motor into a hydro generator. I have 6 hub motors my goal is to produce 5kw any suggestions.

Your pid loop does not look ok to me - the reaction when you remove the force on the motor suggest there is some room left there.

Hi, Do you run in Linux or Win ? I'm runing in python 3.6 - Window, but I can't. Please help me

Hye... thanks for this script...but i got a problem...there is error which is 16 ....can you help me to program this? i also use 3 phase motor and has 15 pole pairs

interesting

Hi, so....how is the robot going???

Waiting ...

I am still waiting for New video 😭

Hi sir