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!
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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.
Aim low. Reach your goals, and avoid disappointment.
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 (?)
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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.
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!"
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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
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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.
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
"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.
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.
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