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Title: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: Gordo4444 on February 23, 2008, 04:01:44 PM
Found these videos on Youtube. Got the guys permission to post the vids here. It doesn't have a lot to do with small robotics but its just down right cool!

More info on Jaimie can be found at http://www.jamius.com/Robot/Robot.html (http://www.jamius.com/Robot/Robot.html)

Part 1
[youtube]86Krv3gE-c4[/youtube]

Part 2
[youtube]M6ON5IpUj0g[/youtube]

Part 3
[youtube]cEXuVfxMhVg[/youtube]

Part 4
[youtube]nQKNmrblxpw[/youtube]

Part 5
[youtube]i0sizgF3WNY[/youtube]

Part 6
[youtube]umyC0Px16AA[/youtube]

Part 7
[youtube]y35281wolP4[/youtube]

Part 8
[youtube]niyESsX4d4E[/youtube]

Part 9
[youtube]RkB2ZUk6Gl8[/youtube]

Part 10
[youtube]u_6JXRc65Fk[/youtube]

Part 11
[youtube]FcKeMwqY-7s[/youtube]

Part 12
[youtube]UZyscgW-t64[/youtube]

Part 13
[youtube]2vwFIOQeOT4[/youtube]

Part 14
[youtube]JwCmp_vAH28[/youtube]

Part 15
[youtube]mcgXinhKm94[/youtube]

Part 16
[youtube]wDCpy91XtCw[/youtube]


Part 17
[youtube]-O7ymVkZilk[/youtube]


Part 18
[youtube]G1OsuriB7VQ[/youtube]


Part 19
[youtube]174qmYc0MJ4[/youtube]

Part 20
[youtube]xPrCyW2u1Xc[/youtube]

I will update this post as he updates his videos on youtube.
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: airman00 on February 23, 2008, 07:38:34 PM
nice videos


I love the way he talks about his work , his tone and way he talks  sounds exactly like me   :D
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: MicHaeL on February 23, 2008, 08:07:50 PM
LOL

Awesome

Cant wait to see it when he finishes.
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: Admin on February 23, 2008, 09:31:10 PM
I've been following his project since his first video.

I recommend reading the youtube comments for more info.

(I'm disappointed he won't finish that cool tree house he was working on, and that he won't post the design due to copyright reasons)
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: Rebelgium on February 24, 2008, 06:43:20 PM
This has me as addicted to his videos as I was with Lost, band of brothers, prison break and Heroes  ::)
I can't wait 'till his next video!
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: ddemarco5 on February 24, 2008, 07:35:30 PM
haha, poor guy always seems to grab and touch the stuff that's still hot. ;D
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: Trumpkin on February 24, 2008, 07:50:34 PM
I LOVE IT!!!! i'm seriously addicted. can't wait to see the finished product!!!!
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: Gordo4444 on February 24, 2008, 08:26:36 PM
Yea, it looks like its gunna be cool!
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: HDL_CinC_Dragon on February 25, 2008, 05:26:56 PM
This guy is my hero... im not even freaking kidding.

Especially for this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nOzbCiRHhM
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: paulstreats on February 25, 2008, 06:51:08 PM
did you see his radio controlled slug  :D  :D  :D

Thats a lovely comment you posted on that utube link hdl  :-*  ::)
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: ed1380 on February 25, 2008, 07:43:09 PM
vids 10 and 11 dont work :'(
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: HDL_CinC_Dragon on February 25, 2008, 07:50:21 PM
vids 10 and 11 dont work :'(
Both work for me. Try clicking on them to go to the actual YouTube page

Thats a lovely comment you posted on that utube link hdl  :-*  ::)
:P
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: Shags on February 25, 2008, 08:56:21 PM
HDL_CinC_Dragon,

I had trouble with 7-11 but it might be connected to band width limits.  Anyway I went to his site and watched the rest of them from there it is posted on all of the videos but in case anyone doesn't want to look it up it is here at http://www.jamius.com.

His rant on the world sucks is interesting but I think he kind of goes off the deep end a few times.  I agreed with about 75% of what he said especially about self suffiency and being creative with junk,  conservation is good, environmentalism well thats just wack.  Just be smart about using your resources and hey plant a tree when you cut one down whats so hard about that?  I think he leans towards conservationism so he's cool.
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: Gordo4444 on February 26, 2008, 02:34:09 PM
Admin, He said that the tree house isnt finished yet, but he will when he gets back to vermont, which is covered in snow, so as soon as it melts he will go up and finish up there, I just checked all of the videos, they all work for me so im not sure...
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: ed1380 on February 26, 2008, 03:49:36 PM
yeah. they started working again. cant wait for an update
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: HDL_CinC_Dragon on February 26, 2008, 05:37:49 PM
Admin, He said that the tree house is finished, but its in vermont and covered in snow
No no, the workshop isnt done being built yet because the job was hindered by the snow. He will continue working on the workshop when the snow clears.
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: airman00 on February 26, 2008, 07:05:52 PM
question: how can he live without any job, arent there  land taxes to pay, and gas to buy to fuel his generators?
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: Trumpkin on February 26, 2008, 07:10:30 PM
How did he get 2k to buy the generator and welder?
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: HDL_CinC_Dragon on February 26, 2008, 09:07:52 PM
He said he does work designing and building things for people. Thats where he gets his money. He was just saying that he didnt have a job where he had to go to some place at a certain time every day for like 8 hours doing "nothing". He does work for people though.



Geez I could probably write a biography on this guy lol
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: ed1380 on February 26, 2008, 10:18:14 PM

Geez I could probably write a biography on this guy lol
stalker
(http://www.subvertcentral.com/forum/images/smiles/stalker.gif)
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: HDL_CinC_Dragon on February 26, 2008, 11:11:45 PM
Am not... I just watched the videos of his progress and rant with eagerness. Hes a genius
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: robonoob on March 01, 2008, 02:26:20 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vwFIOQeOT4&feature=user there is the 13. part of his robot building series... anyways... HES A F*** GENIUS BOYS :P i LOVE this guy :D i'v allways wanted to build something like that myself, but i'm just too lazy :D but he motivated me a LOT :P
so yea... watch the 13-th video and welcome to the club "waiting for the next episode" :P
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: Gordo4444 on March 03, 2008, 05:58:54 PM
Ive updated it
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: krich on March 04, 2008, 04:00:07 PM
I love how it all starts...

Hi, I'm Jamie.  I built this little robot, now I'm going to build a huge one just like it.

So...I'm going to need a generator...and a welder...Hmm...I'll need a workshop to put all this stuff in, so I'll have to build that...so I'm going to build myself a lumber milling machine.

After watching all the videos, it's clear that the guy's a genius.  I just hope he finishes the robot before he starts working on that workshop again.  I can see his final video being him getting eviscerated by that milling machine.
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: HDL_CinC_Dragon on March 04, 2008, 05:43:31 PM
Milling Machines and Wood Mills are very different :)

But yes, he is a genius haha
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: Gordo4444 on March 05, 2008, 05:41:33 PM
Updated part 14
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: Gordo4444 on March 07, 2008, 03:28:57 PM
Updated part 15 =)
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: ScorpIon on March 08, 2008, 04:22:42 AM
Lol, the train with his ball bearings derailed and he snapped that thingy in half
It was clearly not his day xD
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: Gordo4444 on March 09, 2008, 09:55:58 AM
Updated 16!
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: gamefreak on March 09, 2008, 03:13:41 PM
For some reason building a milling machine to cut logs out of two tires and some bearings seems to be a bad idea...
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: Rebelgium on March 10, 2008, 09:28:48 AM
He looked kinda freaky that last part of 16 :/
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: HDL_CinC_Dragon on March 10, 2008, 10:48:27 AM
He looked kinda freaky that last part of 16 :/
eh hes just being silly haha... yeah he looks like hes losing his marbles over this project >_<
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: pomprocker on March 12, 2008, 02:30:18 PM
very motivating  ;D
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: Trumpkin on March 14, 2008, 01:33:12 PM
It's looking pretty awsome now.
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: BANE on March 15, 2008, 08:56:04 PM
Hey about the part on using water instead of oil, when i was machining aluminum too i found that out as well.  However, the profesionals use some white coolent instead of a lubercant.

bane
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: Rebelgium on March 18, 2008, 06:33:10 AM
Part 17 !
http://jamius.com/Robot/Robot.html
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: hazzer123 on March 23, 2008, 03:31:23 AM
Part 18 and 19 are up on youtube!
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: Rebelgium on March 23, 2008, 08:58:32 AM
Great, he's going back to Vermont (the tower and bandsaw will be continued) !
Can't wait 'till the next vid ;D
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: BANE on April 05, 2008, 05:04:09 PM
Just out of curiosity how much $$$$ does he have in it by now?

Bane
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: Asellith on April 05, 2008, 11:13:12 PM
Make sure to check out his other videos. He just did an interesting project on his way back to vermont involving a cool tower. Man what I would give to have an old school stone tower in my back yard but he put a floor at the top after clearing the bottom out. Oh and he built some interesting bee hives.
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: Rebelgium on April 08, 2008, 12:47:39 PM
yeah I saw them, those bee hive show that he's really talented... :o
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: airman00 on July 12, 2008, 08:07:38 PM
dudes I almost forgot about this thing!!

He updated a lot of it , I;m too lazy to put them on this page though
http://www.jamius.com/Robot/Robot.html
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: BANE on July 13, 2008, 02:56:22 PM
where ???

didn't he have part 20 last time
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: ed1380 on July 15, 2008, 09:16:47 PM
last i remember he had is part 7 of alaska
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: Gordo4444 on July 16, 2008, 09:14:57 AM
I've updated parts 17, 18, 19, and 20.

Sorry it took so long, I've been a bit preoccupied with life. =\

Any who, Right now he is in Alaska. I'm not sure when he will return but I know we cant wait!

~Gordo~
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: HDL_CinC_Dragon on July 17, 2008, 02:19:33 PM
Hes going to return soon. Hes pretty much done with the work he had to do there. I think he mentioned something about having to go down to Florida again though. I dont remember though :P
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: Rebelgium on August 19, 2008, 12:54:10 PM
He's back!

He's back in Vermont and he sais he's excited about continueing the giant robot project. Right now he's still busy building a road to his dome in Vermont, so he can get material to the dome easier.
Be sure to check out his videos of Alaska to, they're great.
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: kotentie on August 28, 2008, 08:32:25 PM
quite a project.
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: airman00 on November 01, 2008, 08:03:32 PM
he added some more videos
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: HDL_CinC_Dragon on November 01, 2008, 11:00:02 PM
A couple weeks ago I went up to his place to meet him. Hes a pretty cool guy. Ive been following his project(s) ever since I first saw them from this thread. Im actually in a video helping him work on a project that another friend of his, Ellen, was working on. Its not on his youtube page though, its on Ellens. We were working on the Sphere
Pretty cool :)
I plan on visiting him again sometime soon and probably going to be staying for the weekend at the dome helping him work on stuff and such. I was only there for like 2 hours or so when I went up.
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: Fredrik Andersson on November 02, 2008, 02:45:44 AM
I so much want to visit him as well, and help out on his projects also of course. I have considered doing it, but that has to be on a long trip since i live in Sweden. I should maybe wait until i graduate also.

I really hope more people will come and visit and maybe even settle down and live like him. It would be interesting to see what happened if ten people or so lived there instead (and worked just as hard as Jaimie do). He have by himself already fixed water, shelter AND infrastructure!
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: HDL_CinC_Dragon on November 03, 2008, 03:46:15 PM
He actually has plans of buying an island and only allowing specific "cool" people on it to live with him and create our own society lol. He said I have a spot on that island if I want it :-p totally do :D
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: airman00 on November 03, 2008, 04:27:41 PM
He actually has plans of buying an island and only allowing specific "cool" people on it to live with him and create our own society lol. He said I have a spot on that island if I want it :-p totally do :D
dunno if thats a joke or not


Problems with an Island : far from land ( which means medical help, food, and safety in case of emergency)
Too much worry from flooding
Expensive ( the islands with freshwater springs at least )
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: dunk on November 04, 2008, 12:05:13 PM
as someone who actually grew up on an island,
it does have a lot of advantages. not everywhere you could disappear hitch hiking all day when you are 10 years old without your parents having to worry.
as soon as you get old enough to want to see a city easily it's time to leave though.
i don't go home much these days. getting the ferry just takes too long.

my island:
http://www.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=isle+of+islay&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=23.490425,43.374023&ie=UTF8&ll=55.916891,-6.100159&spn=0.692632,1.355438&t=h&z=10&g=isle+of+islay&iwloc=addr (http://www.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=isle+of+islay&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=23.490425,43.374023&ie=UTF8&ll=55.916891,-6.100159&spn=0.692632,1.355438&t=h&z=10&g=isle+of+islay&iwloc=addr)


dunk.
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: paulstreats on November 04, 2008, 07:02:08 PM
Quote
my island:
http://www.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=isle+of+islay&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=23.490425,43.374023&ie=UTF8&ll=55.916891,-6.100159&spn=0.692632,1.355438&t=h&z=10&g=isle+of+islay&iwloc=addr

Nice Whisky    :)

I do prefer the whisky Jura though, I think its still classed as an islay though :)
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: dunk on November 04, 2008, 07:25:04 PM
naa. Jura (the whiskey) can be nice but it's kind of unreliable.
Jura (the island) is always cool. takes even longer to get to/from though.

dunk.
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: Admin on November 06, 2008, 02:30:38 AM
I think he's lost interest and given up on his giant robot spider . . . :-\

Quote
Im actually in a video helping him work on a project that another friend of his, Ellen, was working on. Its not on his youtube page though, its on Ellens. We were working on the Sphere
got a link?


Oh, and island living is great if you have an army of robot monkey butlers doing everything for you ;D
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: Rebelgium on November 06, 2008, 01:41:12 PM
I hope he hasn't lost interest, and i don't think so.
He's been asked it a few times, and always denies... plus he said he's building the banana building to work on his robot inside.

So I remain hopefull, with some doubts however.
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: HDL_CinC_Dragon on November 06, 2008, 03:10:50 PM
I assure you he hasnt lost interest. He just doesnt have the space to work on it anymore. Thats why hes building the banana building and originally the tower. The tower is pretty sweet by the way. He has the first floors floor boards up. They arnt nailed in yet or anything though lol. The view is amazing from even just the first floor of it though. Its really really cool :)

Heres a link to the video of me helping out a little bit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5kg4kx3k0I From the video it doesnt look like I did much lol. Im more towards the end at 5:43 in the count up time.
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: Rockyboy53 on November 14, 2008, 09:30:11 PM
I don't get it??  It seems a good idea to me, but it's a little, err...  odd.
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: HDL_CinC_Dragon on November 14, 2008, 09:37:18 PM
get what?
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: Metal Slug 2 on November 16, 2008, 10:45:32 PM
hey Jaimie, in one of the first videos you said you had bought like 500 pounds of polycarbonate sheeting for some $40.  Where on earth did you manage to pick up that much polycarbonate sheeting for such a cheap price!? ??? :)
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: HDL_CinC_Dragon on November 17, 2008, 04:54:54 PM
Jaime isnt on these forums unfortunately.

He mostly does his shopping at junk yards and from people that give him stuff. Other times he goes to home depot :-p
Perhaps I can relay your question to him.
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: Metal Slug 2 on November 17, 2008, 07:57:51 PM
That would be great, of course if your willing to do so. Thanks.
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: HDL_CinC_Dragon on November 19, 2008, 09:06:22 PM
He got the Polycarbonate off of Craigs list


Also, I might be getting him to join the forums just to poke around a bit :)
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: Kalen on November 24, 2008, 01:50:50 PM
ha ha, this guy's awesome! I can't wait to see the robot. Love his sense of humor, too. lol... Mr. File...
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: Gordo4444 on November 27, 2008, 06:56:44 PM
Yea, he doesn't attend the forums personally but I got his permission via youtube to post the videos here.

ALSO, he has been building a hanger type building to house his robot making activities so this project is postponed. I will post the next video of the actual giant robot project up when he puts it on youtube. =)
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: AdvsNoob on November 27, 2008, 10:56:56 PM
Yea, he doesn't attend the forums personally but I got his permission via youtube to post the videos here.

ALSO, he has been building a hanger type building to house his robot making activities so this project is postponed. I will post the next video of the actual giant robot project up when he puts it on youtube. =)


I have been talking to him he got a airplane hanger for everything, he said that they our paving the street for the house and everything then he will finish the robot.

He told me the hanger is also a video called.  Operation:Crazy Operation.
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: HDL_CinC_Dragon on November 28, 2008, 12:28:23 PM
The hangar is almost done. If im not mistaken hell have it done by the end of the week. I was planning on heading up there again this weekend to help him but I cant really :-\ It was awesome being up there though. Everything looks different in person than on camera :P
The spring dome is pretty darn roomy inside too. He could probably rig that thing as a guest house lol (but not really, drinking water source isnt something to mess with). The tower actually is a little bit smaller looking than it is on camera. Its still very big though. Hes got an AWESOME setup up there. If I could I would totally offer to move in on the other side of the mountain and be a permanent hand lol
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: AdvsNoob on November 28, 2008, 06:45:13 PM
The hangar is almost done. If im not mistaken hell have it done by the end of the week. I was planning on heading up there again this weekend to help him but I cant really :-\ It was awesome being up there though. Everything looks different in person than on camera :P
The spring dome is pretty darn roomy inside too. He could probably rig that thing as a guest house lol (but not really, drinking water source isnt something to mess with). The tower actually is a little bit smaller looking than it is on camera. Its still very big though. Hes got an AWESOME setup up there. If I could I would totally offer to move in on the other side of the mountain and be a permanent hand lol

Ya looks cool i wish i could go over there  ;D but it would be kinda weared you see im 15, and hes a grown man soooooo. might not happen ^_^
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: HDL_CinC_Dragon on November 28, 2008, 08:07:55 PM
lol yeah, that might be a cause of some awkwardness haha
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: AdvsNoob on November 28, 2008, 09:02:49 PM
lol yeah, that might be a cause of some awkwardness haha

^_^ but i am going to be sending him some aluminum for his robot *If he needs it* because my uncle has a metal shop and they build big things like trains and sometimes buildings, and he loves me (In a no homo kind of way) and said that he can have ALOT because they have ALOT of scraps from building including big plates and pipes.
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: HDL_CinC_Dragon on November 29, 2008, 12:18:24 PM
hahaha well I can tell you that he would appreciate every single donation!

And loving uncles are good things to have lol

I wish I had a source of free aluminum lol
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: Thomas Countz on January 03, 2009, 05:01:33 PM
I cannot believe that I spent all that time watching every video! I really like his project and how optimistic and free thinking he is....I can't wait to see it finished!
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: HDL_CinC_Dragon on January 04, 2009, 12:56:31 AM
dont worry, ive watched every video too lol
Actually I just got back from staying at his place for a few days. I helped work on the banana building some more :)

Robot building will recommence soon :)
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: Rebelgium on January 05, 2009, 09:38:18 AM
I've been watching all his video's for a long time now too.
I'd love to go up there and help him to, but it's on the other side of the world...:/

Will he insulate the banana building first? So he can work on the robot there during the winter, or will he work on the robot in the dome like he said in his last video?
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: HDL_CinC_Dragon on January 05, 2009, 05:54:02 PM
Hes going to insulate the banana building once all the bolts go in since he put it up with only a third of the bolts in. His next video will show me and our friend Ellen working on it a little bit. The hardest part wasnt even getting the bolts in. It was finding bolts that werent messed up from the impact wrench the previous owner used. We had a huge pile of bolts and we had to put rubber gaskets on ones that didnt already have one. Sounds easy right? yeah not when its very very very below freezing and you cant wear gloves when you do it lol
got off on a tangent there... heh
anyway. So once he gets all the bolts in hes going to insulate it. He also plans on burying it similar to the way hes going to do with the spring dome. We got the wood stove going and it was doing pretty well warming the place up. We covered up the massive gap between the ground and the bottom of the garage door as well as made a makeshift door for the regular people entrance doorway lol. Next winter the banana building should be quite adequate for building stuff in :) The ground still has to be graded though. The back slopes up toward the mountain face to the point where if I look straight from the front of the building towards the back im looking eye level with the dirt lol.

As far as building robot parts in the dome goes, im not so sure hes going to be doing that. At least not very much. The floor space is still kinda messy in that little area plus thats where the bike generator is which needs to stay where it is. We actually didnt discuss the giant robot much at all whilst I was there for those 3 or 4 days :P
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: airman00 on January 05, 2009, 06:17:16 PM
yea how was it those few days by Jaimie? Was it comfortable temperature inside his dome?
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: HDL_CinC_Dragon on January 05, 2009, 06:31:37 PM
no lol. It was slightly warmer than outside but thats not saying much when its negative degrees outside. In the small living area on the first floor of it where the wood stove is was pretty decent though. The wood stove got the room really toasty but he mostly only has the wood stove on when he needs to cook something. I always had wet socks and stuff on from the snow outside during the days work so I never really warmed much lol. I slept on the third floor though. which sucked because the floor for the third floor is all chain link fence attached to the dome via trampoline springs. Hurts the feet when not wearing shoes up there...
I woke up the 3rd morning with condensation all over everything lol
The nights were pretty rough because of the cold. Kept getting woken up during the first two nights because of it. On the third night I remembered I packed a fleece hood, which was freaking awesome. Its only a hood rather than a whole hooded sweatshirt but all I had to do was tuck the bottom of it into my shirt when I went to sleep and it helped me keep much much warmer.
When I go back in the spring(hopefully) it should be a much better experience sleep wise lol... by then im hoping the slope to get up to the dome isnt just a thick sheet of black ice anymore lol
-EDIT-
Just remembered a funny story about that little icy slope. We were heading out to I dont remember where... I think we were just going down to the banana building... or we might have been going to the grocery store I cant remember lol. anyway, so im walking down the slope, clutching the rope of coarse, when both my feet slip forward underneath me and I fall flat on my back and hit the back of my head on the ice lol. It kinda hurt a bit... I think I just layed there for a second or two... cant really remember that part either hahaha
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: BANE on January 09, 2009, 06:23:52 PM
How close is he to finishing the banana building?  I just watched the latest video and it looks really good considering that he probably got most of it for free :D.

Bane
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: HDL_CinC_Dragon on January 09, 2009, 08:07:13 PM
well based on all the things he wants/needs to do with it, id say somewhere around 60% or so.

He still needs to grade the floor which im probably going up there in the spring when the ground is no longer frozen solid to help him with that. He also plans on burying it with dirt so thats going to take a lot too. And theres still a ton of holes he needs to put bolts in.
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: SmAsH on January 13, 2009, 07:50:07 AM
has this been updated with the 20b,c and d? or is that not on youtube?
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: HDL_CinC_Dragon on January 13, 2009, 04:06:45 PM
20b, c, and d? What are you talking about?
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: Gordo4444 on January 13, 2009, 04:35:59 PM
Hey HDL, are you "Rob"?

I think I saw you in a few of the Crazy Operation vids too! That's pretty cool to be up there helping him like that!
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: HDL_CinC_Dragon on January 13, 2009, 04:47:25 PM
I am indeed the one they call "Rob" :)
And yes it was freaking awesome being up there helping out! I wish I could have stayed longer but I only had a week off of work and I had stuff to do around my own home :-\ During the spring time though I will hopefully be going back up there for a few days and helping out some more :) we shall see!
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: SmAsH on January 13, 2009, 09:05:36 PM
oh, sorry i thought i saw more on their site, must have been something else
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: HDL_CinC_Dragon on January 13, 2009, 09:30:33 PM
ohhhhh I see what your talking about! Yeah 'b' through 'e' mostly pertain to Crazy Operation which will soon lead to more actual robot building videos. I think gordo said he was only gunna add videos that directly had the giant robot in them.
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: SmAsH on January 13, 2009, 11:51:58 PM
ahh fair enough
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: BANE on January 22, 2009, 06:23:50 PM
Jamie should making something cool that runs off of hydrogen just because that be totally awesome :).  (i know, that was really random but i was just watching a vid on youtube about it :P).  Do they sell generators that run on hydrogen gas?

Bane
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: HDL_CinC_Dragon on January 22, 2009, 10:34:08 PM
Probably not. Hydrogen gas takes a lot of energy to harvest still. A generator running on H2 would just be too costly and probably more damaging to the environment due to how much energy it takes to get it currently. Perhaps when the process gets more refined?
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: SciTech02 on January 25, 2009, 03:04:57 AM
The only thing somewhat related to a "hydrogen generator" is a fuel cell.  Put electricity in and it splits water into hydrogen and oxygen (reaction absorbs energy); draw energy and hydrogen reacts with oxygen to form water (releases energy).  The best fuel cells are currently not on the market; but cheaper, less efficient ones are.  Even if you used this setup, it's not really "hydrogen powered", the energy used to create the hydrogen comes from an outside source.  So, a fuel cell would merely act as a really large battery (one of potentially unlimited size), not a source of power.

However, damage to the environment would be minimal, if not nonexistant.  The byproduct of hydrogen and oxygen reacting is only water vapor.  Using an outside source of energy to split water and create hydrogen gas would be similar to charging a battery.  However, it would be less efficient, since a large fraction of energy is radiated as waste heat (the laws of thermodynamics always get in the way  >:().
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: HDL_CinC_Dragon on January 25, 2009, 12:12:04 PM
running a hydrogen fuel cell does in fact have a minimal to non-existent negative environmental impact. That wasnt my point there, cuz that would be a silly thing to say :)

Its the harvesting of that hydrogen that kills it. The amount of Hydrogen you can get from water (via an Electrolysis of Water device) is directly proportional to the amount of voltage that is run through the electrolytic water solution. Unless that electricity is sourced from another renewable energy source such as solar, wind, or hydro then the harvesting of that Hydrogen thus makes anything that uses it harmful to the environment by guilt of association per se.
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: SciTech02 on January 25, 2009, 12:57:06 PM
I agree.  Unfortunately, using hydrogen as a primary source of power is impractical on earth.  The only hydrogen we have is bound with oxygen as water (and as we've said, it takes more energy to get this hydrogen than you get from using it as an energy source).  The only place we could practically use hydrogen directly as an energy source is the planet Jupiter, where 90% of the atmosphere is pure hydrogen gas.  But here, hydrogen power systems are best used as energy storage devices (so instead of toxic battery fluids, this "battery" would have only water, hydrogen gas, and oxygen).
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: HDL_CinC_Dragon on January 25, 2009, 01:09:12 PM
Right. I cant wait for the day humans can reach Jupiter. By that time Im sure we will have enough H2 demand to make Jupiters atmosphere disappear in probably a little under a year.
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: BANE on January 25, 2009, 08:53:07 PM
So i guess it has been established that hydrogen in general is not very efficient.  But what if one day we can't get fossil fuels?  We would still have water and could use many ways to generate electricity.  So maybe not now but it might be something to consider in the future.   :P :P :P

just a thought...

Bane
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: HDL_CinC_Dragon on January 26, 2009, 04:07:06 PM
not now but it might be something to consider in the future.
Hell yeah it is :)
Its already something to consider. Ive been sorta researching and prototyping efficient ways of harvesting Hydrogen...
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: BANE on February 22, 2009, 12:39:26 PM
has he finished the banana building yet?  It looks to me like he's commencing project "lawn chair"  lol :D  I hope he gets around to working on the robot.

Bane
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: HDL_CinC_Dragon on February 22, 2009, 05:16:40 PM
lol I dont think the banana building is going to be done until at least late spring. Im supposed to be going back up there within the next few months and im gunna be helping out again... which will be nice being able to feel my extremities while working.... we had to take so many breaks to go huddle around the wood stove. The steam coming off of our clothes while we stood around the fire was hilarious for some reason lol
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: Asellith on February 23, 2009, 10:58:13 AM
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Right. I cant wait for the day humans can reach Jupiter.

Till we find the hidden ancient alien species that lives inside gas giants.....

hmm wonder who else read that scifi novel :)

Might need to start working on a business plan and investors to build the first hydrogen harvesting plant above Jupiter :)
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: SmAsH on February 23, 2009, 02:51:06 PM
...you might want to copywrite that...*runs to copy idea*
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: HDL_CinC_Dragon on February 23, 2009, 03:54:19 PM
else read that scifi novel :)

There was a scifi novel about that? lol I didnt know :P
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: Asellith on February 25, 2009, 08:05:18 AM
Yah Kevin J. Anderson's Saga Of the Seven Suns. The series is LONG and the books are HUGE. I got to the third book so far. Not sure how many books are in the series but they are good. They get confusing because he literally has like 12 or so "main" characters that all start at different ends of the universe and several races that he develops good background and culture for over time.

but the part that matters to this discussion is they harvest rare hydrogen from gas giants and use it for space ship fuel. So they have these huge ships that float on the surface of the planets and collect this gas. Really cool concept till they decide to colonize several small planets but turning a gas giant into a sun. Then everyone realizes that people (who have teleportation technology) live inside these gas planets and they come out blowing up all the refineries and war begins.
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: HDL_CinC_Dragon on February 25, 2009, 03:44:09 PM
hahaha that sucks! Nothing says we dont like you more than setting their explosive planet on fire!

That does sound like a pretty good novel series though. If only I had time to read books >_<
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: Asellith on February 26, 2009, 09:52:57 AM
audiobooks dude. Thats the way to go. www.audible.com Not sure if that series is on there but you can get 2 free books using this site www.audible.com/twit2 (thanks go to the twit podcast for that)
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: SciTech02 on February 27, 2009, 01:23:59 AM
That's not the only science fiction novel.  2010: Odyssey Two, the sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey by the late Arthur C. Clarke, also mentioned "strange, but beautiful" lifeforms on Jupiter.  Although the book focused more on Europa, HAL, and the black monoliths, life on Jupiter is discussed.  In the end, Jupiter is turned into a star by the omnipresent creators of the monoliths to fuel life on Europa.  This was written in 1982, so this is not a new idea.
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: Asellith on February 27, 2009, 09:13:12 AM
Old Scifi is great. I like Asimov's stuff. He thought it would be easier to make a robot walk and think before we could make it talk. That was great. Also the descriptions of the use of tubes along side transistors and other electronics made me chuckle a bit. I went through an entire EE degree and am now only learning about tubes cause I got into one of the fields where they still thrive. BTW tubes are annoying! At least taking classes from CIE about them is annoying. But when you have 20k watts of power churning through a tube its good to know whats going on before you get a call at 2am to fix something. Got to love the radio business.
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: RiffRaff on March 03, 2009, 05:56:58 PM
This guy has some serious determination.

Any updates on the robot or anything else?
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: BANE on March 03, 2009, 08:36:09 PM
Apparently he is collecting Styrofoam for this banana building or something.  Does he have a real job or anything?

bane
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: HDL_CinC_Dragon on March 03, 2009, 09:20:29 PM
He does work on the side for people but he doesnt have an actual "job". Plus people donate some cash to him here and there which helps him out a ton! He also started doing that advertisement thingy with his youtube pages where he gets a certain amount of money every time someone clicks on an advertisement on the sides of his videos and such in the upper right corner. Hes testing that out to see if its worth it.

The robot wont be getting worked on too heavily until the banana building is basically done if im not mistaken. Thats the way he made it seem when we were talking about it when I was last up there.
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: BANE on July 04, 2009, 12:16:41 PM
Sorry, just couldn't let this post die since i just spent most of yesterday watching all his movies that I didn't know existed :D.  I honestly forgot about this being that over the winter he didn't work on it any.   He is really close to finishing his project.  http://www.youtube.com/user/JMEMantzel (http://www.youtube.com/user/JMEMantzel)

Bane
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: SmAsH on July 04, 2009, 07:16:09 PM
well, to help keep interest here, ill post the other videos.
i really like what he's doing, me... i would've given up ages ago...
Giant Robot Project : Part 21 (New Life) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ry_SI_R0L1A&feature=channel_page#lq-lq2-hq-vhq)
Giant Robot Project: Part 22 Trambampoline! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grmV-86HGLg&feature=channel_page#lq-lq2-hq)
Giant Robot Project: Part 23 New Rails (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iegV8erptA4&feature=channel_page#lq-lq2-hq)
Giant Robot Project: Part 24 umm... err... duh... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWJiT8NdnYU&feature=channel_page#lq-lq2-hq)
Giant Robot Project: Part 25 oops (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGhugBTMYX0&feature=channel_page#lq-lq2-hq)
Giant Robot Project: Part 26 "I can smell victory" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjKYG9f-L_c&feature=channel_page#lq-lq2-hq)
Giant Robot Project: Part 27 Going for it... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwOtJ0c9Bfs&feature=channel_page#lq-lq2-hq)
Giant Robot Project: Part 28 The Chicken or the Jaimie (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WDkVvEMWPk&feature=channel_page#lq-lq2-hq)
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: Admin on July 04, 2009, 08:53:27 PM
I've still been following him. He's been on double time lately.

But to be honest, I have a feeling he didn't do his force calculations correctly and it's not going to work very well . . . I'm basing this on the lack of engineering he does before adding components ;D
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: BANE on July 05, 2009, 11:56:42 AM
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he didn't do his force calculations correctly and it's not going to work very well
lol, I was thinking that when I saw the legs and when he was lifting it up.  I sure hope that the aluminum holds up for him :D.  Mechanically speaking, I think it works pretty good.

Bane
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: Admin on January 29, 2011, 12:17:38 PM
64 videos later, it moves. Not really works, but it moves lol. Skip the first 3 minutes to get more to the point.

(it needs to take much more than two steps without breaking for me to consider it working :P)

Giant Robot Project Part 64 TEST DRIVE! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVhr8FrtmOo#)
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: Asellith on January 29, 2011, 10:07:11 PM
Someone with a real camera and of yah LIGHTS! needs to document at least some of his adventures. I was following him but he stopped build robots and started giving hippie speeches so I stopped watching. I really hope someone takes all his raw footage and makes a decent compilation/documentary of this project. I assume he does NO editing of his videos in anyway.
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: HDL_CinC_Dragon on February 07, 2011, 05:48:10 PM
Nope he doesnt really do any editting. And all these little side projects help out with the main project in some way or another. He has a work light but since 100% of his electricity comes from solar panel fueled battery banks, he mostly resorts to working by headlamp light to preserve energy for the main lights in the dome and such. Otherwise hed use one of his 2 generators but they obviously eat a lot of fuel which is very expensive up in the north!
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: Anoroc on February 28, 2011, 10:23:36 AM
I remember seeing the original post about JME and have been watching his videos since. I can't wait to see his giant spider robot in full action. I'll have to pick up one of his toys, once they hit the market, too!
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: helishaun on February 28, 2011, 10:35:16 PM
They already sell the toy version called the hex bug spider at radio shack.

Hexbug Spider (blue) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU2xJDaan6M#)
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: cronospark on March 01, 2011, 02:10:48 PM
They already sell the toy version called the hex bug spider at radio shack.

Hexbug Spider (blue) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU2xJDaan6M#)

Jaimie mentions about the hexbug in this rant, he says he wasn't part of it.

Why Inventors stop Inventing (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDpLwgFuMeU#)
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: corrado33 on May 21, 2011, 03:05:51 PM

Jaimie mentions about the hexbug in this rant, he says he wasn't part of it.

Ah so that's why I keep hearing things about "stolen" ideas. 

I've watched all of Jamie's vids.  (Even operation crazy operation, and operation laser machine or whatever, and even the unnamed ones).  He's hilarious.  I would honestly love to meet him one day. 

I mean think about it though, if you live minimilistically, how much money do you really spend?  No mortgage, no car payment, no electricity bill.  Just food, car insurance... taxes, and baby or course!

Also, he's building this thing in a (currently broken) shack with very limited resources.  Did you see him build the legs?  3 of them are built from tubing and 3 are made from an old ladder! 

I understand where jamie is coming from though.  There are lots of things wrong with the world today.  Especially how kids seem to stop learning so quickly, and schools only teach what they think is best for the kids (aka what will make them good money as they get older).  Now I'm not arguing for art in school, cause I suck at drawing and couldn't care less, but everything now-a-day is about "what will get me into college" or "what will land me a high paying job".  Etc. 

Don't even get me started on video games.  I'm not saying I don't play them, but I remember when I was younger I loved playing in the woods carving sticks and getting muddy.  Now kids just want to play games and hardly ever go outside.  No wonder we have an obesity problem in the US... (And as I'm typing this I'm sitting inside on a beautiful day... ok I should really go outside!) Ok I've been outside all morning, I'm a bit tired lol. 

Oh and his most current vids are of him fixing his banana building (snow caved it in).  The robot is OK.  He said the "deadline" has been pushed back to later this summer if I remember correctly.  He was originally building the robot to show at some toy thing that went along with the toys he's designing, but the deadline for that got pushed back and stuff.  By the way, don't quote me on this stuff it's just stuff I remember (maybe incorrectly) saying.

And admin, admittedly it broke right where he thought it was going to.  Once he fixes his "coupling" things that he made from acrylic, I think he'll be good to go.  I want to see if it turns.   
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: Admin on February 17, 2012, 02:08:59 AM
It's been a long time, but he has finally released a video actually worth watching lol . . . I got tired of the long rants :-\

He is finally going to sell his little toy spider, and it looks pretty cool too. I'm thinking of getting one to hack . . . you know, autonomous and all . . .

Sneak Peak Greatest Toy in the Universe! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_AqXCw1SYs#)
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: Anoroc on May 07, 2012, 11:04:39 AM
Check out JME's current giant "toy"version[/url] of the spider robot. Its been quite some time since he started, (and this thread began), but it looks like he's just found a smarter way to meet his GSR goal.

http://youtu.be/qmcRGSNJZQQ (http://youtu.be/qmcRGSNJZQQ)

I've been eyeing up those 3D printers for quite some time. But I think Ill just stick to my Router table, for now :P
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: corrado33 on May 17, 2012, 02:49:37 PM
It's been a long time, but he has finally released a video actually worth watching lol . . . I got tired of the long rants :-\

He is finally going to sell his little toy spider, and it looks pretty cool too. I'm thinking of getting one to hack . . . you know, autonomous and all . . .

Ahem:  If you watched all of the vids you'd know there is a port in the bot to interact with the MCU so it wouldn't be hard to hack.   8)

I'm guessing it's a programming port. 

At least, he mentioned it in the first vid he releases about his toy bots, but that was before the molds got made.  But those were pretty far into production so I'm guessing the port made it into the design. 
Title: Re: Giant Robot! (Giant Spider-bot)
Post by: corrado33 on June 01, 2012, 04:38:17 PM
Asked him if the port was still there, he said it was so that's awesome!

On a side note, Jaimie has started working on the GRP again.  He's released 3 new videos, the last one he actually does some work.

Here's video 68, you should be able to find 69 and 70 easily enough.
Giant Robot Project Part 68 Rejuvenation (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHRcobttFhg#)