Next up: I built a clean and safe nuclear reactor in my very own Backyard!

Super interesting robotics project with a happy ending. Thanks for sharing.

U r not just an engineer, u r an austrian painter

my brain is cooked, by simply having the four squares with lines in 90º i see a swastika

Hello. The solar panels are too small!

Brilliant!!!

Your lifting servo might have enough torque but you have geared Up with big gear on servo, small gear on the threaded rod. Try equal sizes? Also can the lifting servo be placed not beside the arms but underneath, in line with them?

Great idea! But a "small" improvement could be to not rotate the solar array and base, but to tilt the solar array in two directions similar to a joystick(X,Y) to track the sun. That way you don't neet the slipring and you don't have the problem of to many wires going up since they are only going to bend and not twist. Edit: it also makes the project more scaleable

What's cool is it looks pretty similar to those solar power stations from total annihilation.

Nice project! I made a real scale one with 2 axes of movement. The sun reading is also done with LDRs but with different angles and shadow projection, I really liked yours! Congratulations!

voltage 4 current 50 💀 I was scraching my head how everything hasn't melted yet.. ahh it is mAh 😮‍💨

this is one of the coolest thing ive seen

hey boss, little bit of design feedback from the west-- maybe reposition the solar panels so all the lines face the same direction :) it perhaps looks like a different kind of windmill

this exactly looks like in No mans sky game Solar Panel Cool stuff!

First video I have seen and really cool to see the iteration of the design and concept. Look forward to more.

what printer/filament do you use ?

Earned my sub

what a cool project!!

release the code and cad!

Now you just need to sell this product to Elon Musk, and Mars terraformation will be closer.

This is fantastic. Do you have a webpage or github where you make your CAD or STL files available?

Proof of concept for the power source for an autonomous security drone station.

Slight comment on the light sensors, With the arduino code constantly checking the light levels and auto updating (causing more cpu cycles and more power reqired to boot) Would there be a follow up on making this more efficent?

Why not just orient the solar panels with a control system that maximizes the output voltage

Could you have been given out the 3d prints?

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Talk about needlessly overcomplicated.

The overall design was quite impressive man

I honestly hope to see this on top of many homes one day, at a larger scale of course lol

This is very impressive.

You must be Swedish, u talk with a Swedish accent. Or possibly Norwegian

what if it is windy?

Can you do solar panels with a zig-zag cross section to increase the surface area or would it lower the efficiency too much?

Is there a reason why you don’t just use the voltage generated by each panel to determine where they should point? I.e. if the top panel measures the highest voltage move up until the bottom and top panel generate the same voltage and the same for lateral movement.

Impressive! Thanks a lot for sharing the incremental progress and your thought process. Would you consider sharing your design files for others to try to rebuild?

This is really impressive dude!

How come this video has so few views? Cool project, keep going

If you look closely - the miniature of the video is Nazi XD

This is super cool. it feels like the sort of thing i would come up with in my head and could never find the exact thing to make it work.. and yet you did it.

surface area? maybe you should look into solar penel technology a bit more. ofcourse these 20 year old tech solar panels aren't going to produce much at all.

now that is sub from me. great stuff.

Does it need to be programmed or will it already know how to do that?

I'm curious how it behaves if you have a lot of clouds moving by, so your light conditions change drasticly.

KİNG....!

The problem with auto tracking is it is not wind resistant.

This is a really cool project! Maybe, if you get the stacking of the solar panels a bit more compact, you coud stack 4 of these current flowers together. If I'm visualizing this correctly, if you do it right, the surface area it takes when retracted wouldn't change much, just the height. If you do that though, you'll have to revise the raising and lowering mechanism completely as this idea would make it A LOT heavier. Also, gotta say, great editing!

whats your degree

I think this has great potential for scalability, and I love the fact that you designed your own little mechanical piece with the bolt and screw to help raise and lower the device. I would love to have something like this for being able to charge small devices outdoors.

when are you going full scale?