Former toy designer, current YouTube maker and general robotics, electrical and mechanical engineer, I’m a fan of doing it yourself and innovation by trial and error. My channel is where I share some of my useful and not-so-useful inventions, designs and maker advice. Iron Man is my go-to cosplay, and 3D printing can solve most issues – broken bolts, missing parts, world hunger, you name it.
My recent projects include building various Star Wars droids including BB-8, a GONK Power Droid and R2-D2 R6, as well as various Marvel projects like my Iron Man and Hulkbuster projects. More serious robotics series include Ultron the “Real Robot” and my bipedal humanoid Robot X.
From James Bruton. AD: Go to: https://pvcase.com/JamesBruton try PVcase for free! A number or people have sent me various videos of the new Star Wars Droids walking around Disney’s Galaxies Edge theme park. These are smallish bipedal Droid characters which are a bit like BD-1 but kind of bigger and with bigger joints, because they…
From James Bruton. Ad: Thanks to PCBWay for sponsoring this video:https://www.pcbway.com/ I received a YouTube comment from one of my YouTube channel members on another tank video which suggested building a Mobius strip tank. They didn’t really know why that’s a good idea, and I don’t either, but we’re going to build one anyway and…
From James Bruton. AD: Go to: https://pvcase.com/JamesBruton try PVcase for free! You can’t suck yourself along with a vacuum cleaner, so don’t bother trying that. However, I did build a vacuum cleaner powered air engine which I could ride along on. This design was inspired by YouTuber Matthias Wandell, and his original design was made…
From James Bruton. Ad: Thanks to PCBWay for sponsoring this video:https://www.pcbway.com/ Worms locomote using a system of Peristalsis, or Peristaltic motion. This means that sections of their body expand and contract to push themselves along. There have been quite a few research projects for robots that move like this, and I previously built my own…
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From James Bruton. AD: Go to: https://pvcase.com/JamesBruton try PVcase for free! It’s time for the human egg drop challenge – it’s like the egg drops challenge where you have to protect an egg from being dropped, but with a crash test dummy! I challenged @KidsInventStuff to build something to protect our human egg from being…
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From James Bruton. AD: Go to: https://pvcase.com/JamesBruton try PVcase for free! I love riding hoverboards, so I decided to see if we could use the electronics and wheels from one to make a bigger balancing omni-directional vehicle. Other channels have attempted this, but generally they just made the wheels bigger which result in more velocity…
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From James Bruton. Ad: Use Promo Code: JAMESBFH to start your Fanhome Collection today: https://bit.ly/Bruton_FH What about if we could make a bendy tank track that bends to steer? It’s a bit like a conveyor belt in a sushi restaurant which bends around corners. These conveyors are commercially available, but normally have fixed curves, so…