oh she's broke she's broke well
this is the ego z6 ride on mow yes the most revolutionary ride on mower to the
market today because it's battery powered it's amazing we love it we're going to do
three things with a snow the first thing is we are going to convert it to remote control
oh yeah you got to sit on it just stand here and drive around the garden i know that's so
exciting the second thing we are going to do we're going to make it even more useful
because at the moment it cuts grass you know you can put a little trailer on behind or something
but now we're gonna make it even more useful than that and the third video we are gonna
get someone from another country to drive this mower without even being in the country
how is that even possible i don't know how to do that yet so stay tuned make sure you subscribe
watch all these videos we love all this stuff but let's just go cool love it
these two things here go forwards and backwards if you pull them the other
way that's what makes you turn so i thought okay let's use what's already there because
inside here there's already a potentiometer in under there which is what tells the motors
and everything which way to go so i thought well let's utilize that underneath there is a
gas strut and that's what creates the resistance on your arms so you're not too jerky it makes it
nice and smooth i thought right take that out and replace it with a linear actuator
yeah they just push and pull brilliant that's what i need but with this it's got a neutral setting
and we need to find out where that neutral setting is because a normal actuator goes from there
to there and back again great but we need it to sit in the middle because we don't want
it going either forwards or backwards we need to stop as well so replace the gas strut with
a position feedback linear actuator which has got five cables coming out of it rather than
two or three so then that will be under here and that'll then when it goes out it goes forwards and
when it comes back it goes backwards and then it will automatically sit in the middle could
have done it with servo motors but i thought this is a bit more fun bit more cool now work out how
to connect them to the remote i feel a bit of a build montage coming on so let's crack on with it
my
stops
this is the fight
we have got the controller connected to the receiver connected to two lakh boards connected
to two linear actuators fingers crossed it's all working i've got these all moving
how they should be and stopping where they should be so i'm really quite pleased with that
i've taken the wheels off because well we didn't want to you know suddenly shoot off the bench but
to be quite honest this has been more complicated than norman's relationship status it is not very
easy it has not been it's been a proper brain scratcher let's power up and make it work
power on hold down the green button we've got power oh lights pull one handle out don't let
you gotta pull both in that only one and then back in so it's important we still have that
function there we go that is on fingers crossed that this little lever here powers that one and
this lever powers that one so if we push this on forwards hopefully that turns and
ah help if i turn the controller on i'll turn the controller on as well
yeah so now we should push out forward and off we go
it's working right on stop let go it should go back
and stop it's done exactly that right backwards
slowly just going backwards
speed it up go
gonna take off like a plane quicker let's get the other one moving as well both we're going i'm okay
it works i'm now going to make up a nice little 3d printed box we'll pull
the gubbins here i'm going to pull power through from the batteries at the back
so we can get rid of the extra batteries i've got here and then i think it's time to cut some grass
this is
so here she is rc fans yes we have converted an ego z6 into our c and keeping it as original as
we possibly can we have kept all the original controls and just literally built a kit to be
able to convert it to rc we are going to test it right let's cut some grass i've had a bit of a
play already i will be honest and yet i crashed it i crashed it into a shipping container oh well you
know every day's a school day right let's cut some grass so it's ready to turn it on oh yes it is on
on we're gonna engage blade we've never engaged the blades before
on this mower ever so you know you're sharing this with me and we go it works i'm not even sat on it
okay now it feels a little dangerous anyway we got it in slow mode because well you know
we don't want to get too carried away to start with and now we're going to cut oh yeah she goes
can i give him a straight line no i can't even keep a normal mirror in a straight line
let's do circles let's do circles oh yeah yeah we can we can do circles can we do true zero turn
nearly hang on
choose a return james yeah there we go there's true zero turn look at that
they were away again now we're cutting the grass i put the height down if you've seen
our other video when we reviewed one of these you'll know how much i love it it's amazing
absolutely brilliant go around the tree this is not going to go so well is it ah no oh now
i'm stuck hang on let's just go backwards yeah see i'll get the hang of this in a minute it's working
give me a couple weeks i'll probably be an expert at driving arts easter
can we go back up that same line do you reckon very straight line you're ready
whoa betsy whoa so you get a little bit carried away of yourself right and then reset
and stop before the hedge spin round without crashing right
oh why is it beeping at me it wants me to put more batteries in so yesterday someone forgot to charge
the batteries until we could get away with what was in them obviously not so here we are today yes
back on the lawn doing some more mowing with it with 100 battery this is why i pretend that it's
not actually me using controller which is someone else who can actually drive rc stuff so we need
to make it go faster control mode so is that the slowest possible setting let's cut the blade speed
so i'm struggling with a bit of like oversteer and understeer you know that's because you've
got to wait for the actuator to sort of reset yourself each time but you wouldn't get on a
server now or admittedly or like just a speed control on the motor right just decided to have
i've got fail safe worked into this so that if something does happen
it just starts going backwards because i thought that would be safer to go forward
ah no we will are you bored of mowing the lawn well you need to do this to your lawn mower
uh wrong button there we go coming up for that bit spinning around there a bit get back
yeah see now we got it that's fine go forwards
one day i'll work out how to drive something rc i've turned the blades off and put it in travel
mode yes it's fastest possible speed it can go we might even pop a wheelie
let's do the speed test we're gonna go quite so well will
you know james just pushes it that little bit too far if something quite doesn't go to plan
well that did not go to plan um right we'll do a take two ready here she comes fast mode go
oh she's broke she's broke well
she's broke i need to make that better my 3d printed bits aren't quite strong enough
right so we've converted it to rc but we haven't completed our speed test
because we need to make better actuator joiners which i'm going to make out of metal rather than
being 3d printed i also need your ideas because we've got all this space here where i used to sit
and my legs used to go and we need to do something with it to make this even more
useful so please let us know your ideas in the comments we might even use your idea
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