Wow. Impressive technology and it appears to be all "open source" build-your-own kinda stuff. Amazing....sounds like a swarm of mad bees too ; )sunset-Jim - 17-2-2010 at 11:00 AM
ohhh boy, the uses for that is mind boggling, let alone the fun factor.lad - 17-2-2010 at 11:35 AM
HOLY MACKEROLI! :shocked2:
That thang sure puts my original Draganflyer to shame!
The sound it makes is between a rocket whoosh and a swarm of angry bees! It'd scare the beejeezus out of unwary passerbys!
iPhone parrot Drone
lad - 17-2-2010 at 11:50 AM
Oh no...click a few vids ahead to see what you can now fly with your iphone!!!Drewculous - 17-2-2010 at 12:58 PM
:o:o:o:o
THAT IS GREAT... LMAO!!!!acampbell - 17-2-2010 at 01:11 PM
Impressive but I have to say the sound is annoying. I wonder if the props could be synched or phase-shifted to effectively cancel each other out,
rendering it silent? Stealthy surveillance!Drewculous - 17-2-2010 at 02:06 PM
hell no!
that thing sounds so freaking mean when it takes off.. that is awesome.... plus its sounds angry when he tries to move it by hand lol
a stealth model has its place... but this thing is really coolJovver - 17-2-2010 at 02:12 PM
The military could use it to send bottles of coke to the armed forces on the battlefront!heliboy50 - 17-2-2010 at 02:25 PM
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Originally posted by acampbell
Impressive but I have to say the sound is annoying. I wonder if the props could be synched or phase-shifted to effectively cancel each other out,
rendering it silent? Stealthy surveillance!
Varying the speeds of the motors it how it moves/climbs/changes direction. Higher end brushless motors could quiet it down, but would not be cheap.
KMAC-post a vid link, if you would. wrong forum, but just plain good anyway. He thumps me with helis.acampbell - 17-2-2010 at 04:27 PM
Yes of course you are right. I thought that input changes could be momentary in nature and that they could re-synch quickly but as I think about it,
I guess not. I wonder why six props and not three. Maybe smaller they can react faster (?)lad - 17-2-2010 at 06:48 PM
Coke? Heck...add another heavy duty servo and you could drop Molotov #@%$#!tails on the opposition!
There has been all sorts or variations on these flying platforms for like 10 years now (ever since they integrated gyros on the circuit boards). The 4
rotor was the standard, with the various Draganflyers been the most well known. I would think with only 3 blades, it might be a little trickier to
steer and balance - just my guess.Kamikuza - 17-2-2010 at 09:03 PM
GoPro on the bottom, pattern recognition software and tell it to follow me around while I kite - I want it lad - 17-2-2010 at 09:13 PM
Could you imagine crowd control with them? A giant, angry swarm of them just dropping down over the heads of people? GPS, and a little object
avoidance programming, and you could just send batches of them out..."Go, go my little flying monkeys...and bring the little dog too!"Kamikuza - 17-2-2010 at 09:18 PM
Bolt a tazer on the bottom - then drop them on people's heads :wee:PHREERIDER - 18-2-2010 at 09:21 PM
personal drone camera nice ! automatic hoover sequence pattern, GPS control, land it self when the program is over or battery life .
thats a need !rocfighter - 21-2-2010 at 08:02 AM
Way too cool. I like the swarming bee sounds too. It would be fun at a beach.BoneHeadGolf - 3-3-2010 at 12:37 PM
i eventually plan on building one.dtoast - 3-3-2010 at 08:11 PM
My girl friend was sitting next to me when I opened this link...first words out of her mouth "O'gosh, there goes all the money you just saved for your
new car"
Once I picked my jaw from off the floor..."looks like it" :bouncy:
@ Kamikuz, I think you're onto something...I once programmed a robot to follow my dog but set parameters to not let the dog get within a foot of the
robot. Problem was the dog was smarter than me and backed the robot into a corner. Could do the same with the kite.InvertedForce - 3-3-2010 at 09:04 PM
Last thing I need is trying to dodge 6 spinning blades with that thin twinskin fabric. On a gusty day, with both the kite and the drone susceptible to
unexpected behavior, I wonder how much risk there is of the two actually colliding. Avoidance software would be a must, but I fear the reaction time
to make a change wouldn't be sufficient.
If you build one Kami, let us know how it works out.
I'll send you a complementary fix kit Kamikuza - 3-3-2010 at 09:09 PM
Not me - electrical things hate me.
"I didn't know that" TV show from the UK had a clip about a 4 bladed jobbie that was totally silent - developed for the military. Came with VR goggles
but otherwise, same features and functions as the Hexakopter.Hardrock - 4-3-2010 at 03:29 PM
probably takes some skilz to fly that thing. 1500 bucks and neeyong, right into a tree.Bladerunner - 7-7-2011 at 06:30 AM
I have a funny feeling this thing won't like wind ? :dunno:indigo_wolf - 7-7-2011 at 10:09 AM
GPS lock and accelerometers makes some of them surprisingly adept in winds.
Practical uses aside we all know that Drew is just looking for a video game he can take outdoors.
Yeah... it's what it looks like. Drones are real, weapons are virtual. Sort of like laser tag for machines.
ATB,
Sambigkahuna - 7-7-2011 at 10:33 AM
For a while I looked into getting a quadcopter for aerial videography. You're right, they don't like wind (or water for that matter). But you can
get some amazing footage using one:
I use to fly rc helicopters before my son was born... that's sport that makes kiting look cheep. Crash a kite and typically no damage done, crash a
heli and at best the rotors break. In a bad crash, which is pretty typical, metal would get bent or snapped, blown speed controllers, exploding
lithium batteries.... money, money, money. And heck, an rc heli won't even pull.
