Robotic Flowers

We explore the design and production of some amazing animatronic flowers. I designed the mechanics and turned the skeletons over to a team of experts in the business of making high-end artificial flowers, the results are pretty spectacular.

[tgirard]

Why this channel isn't bigger is beyond me. I have a handful of people that I support, Mr Carlson's lab, Blondie hacks, and now here. It's the combination of tone, quality of content and, frankly, heart.

[guatagel]

I know why this channel isn't spreading yet: no clickbaits.

[dundermiflinpaper]

Wow, awesome collaboration. Really like that rack and pinion design. Great work!

[ilyatinker]

This is so awesome! Your description is so well put together it makes it really easy to understand. Thank you so much for sharing.

[HuygensOptics]

Very nice idea Leo, and great implementation. I'm not really a flower guy, but I think you might be onto something here (from a commercial perspective...)

[gizmibob]

Another very nice project ! Thanks for taking the time to share it

[mattiasfagerlund]

Cool! Hope you find a manufacturer that want this in their arsenal!

[happycyclops]

Wow it's so cool! It would be interesting to see how to make a lotus-like mechanism, with multiple levels of leaves opening one after the other

[sidthemyth]

was looking for stirling engines a few days ago, today was recommended your channel. subscribed. this video made me want to share this idea i drew yesterday: how about stirling flowers? with chains of rods that bring heat from an external source, even like a volcano... and water cooling 'petals and lotuses' that house internal electricity generating pistons and pipes... which -slowly- move and brush...

[JoshuaJoshua]

Beautiful! Can't wait to see it. I've been studying origami lately and picking up leaves on the ground for inspiration. Thanks for sharing!

[jordiberingues]

Many thanks for your video. Very nice!

[flowerregime]

Amazing work and thank you so much for sharing

[senorjp]

I love it. A worm drive might be simpler than the rack and pinion. This way you wouldn't need to convert rotary motion into linear motion.

[TTbelis]

This is great, fascinated and beautiful. I love you ❣️;)

[TravelRoads]

Magical! Well done, Leo. What a cool idea! :)

[gedr]

as always, you are an inspiration for me (an aspiring R&D roboticist/electromechanical engineer)
I wanted to ask, could you please describe how you make those bent sheet metal parts? Would make a really cool video!!

[losyeezyrosas]

I admire you and the quality content you post Leo. Just discovered your channel and I'm confident that it'll help me on my electronics journey. Saludos

[paigemariecody]

this is such a cool project! if you were using a higher powered LED perhaps you could use the waste heat to actuate the flower petals using a shape memory alloy like nitinol?

[FrancesHicks-do]

Hi I love the size of this mechanism have you been able to get these up for sale ?

[jstro-hobbytech]

Think you could show how you decided on the lighting solution for each one. I seen the ring of smd leds which was cool. I like you am a sucker for art, clocks, finding ways to make leds not cheesy and avoiding microcontrollers unless to control a motor.