March 25, 2011
UAV
More educational than entertaining, sorry dudes.
Chris Jack
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Joseph Flores • March 25th 2011 • Reply
Dude, Chris, as nerdy as this is, it makes me really happy that you made it because it makes you look SUPER legit. I have no idea what's going on, and I really hope you guys put a shell or something around that thing because it looks like it might break at any second, but I just had to say that I was really impressed.
Great job, dude. I can't wait until you get it flying.
Chris Jack • March 25th 2011
Wow thanks Joe! Yea, its pretty common to put bumpers around the outside of the thing but we probably wont go as far as a shell. Also, I will be taking Thursday and Friday off next week so I will be home Wednesday night or Thursday and there through next weekend; so don't go on vacation or something.
Jeff Micklos • March 25th 2011 • Reply
Wow, that is a Tim the Tool Man Taylor helicopter, you rigged it with MORE POWER.
Chris, you are such a good guy. You always have such high morals, etc etc.
Anyways, this looks legit but it is over my head so I can't say for real =)
It seems like you are learning A LOT, which is awesome. You might be interested in the most recent hacks to come out of Yelp: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBjOIjc5qn0
Chris Jack • March 25th 2011
hahaha, HEY! I recognize that conference room!
Mark Urich • March 25th 2011 • Reply
Dude, this is awesome and so legit. It got super intense there at the end while you were throttling it up.
How will you control movement? Decrease velocity on one side to tilt? So is there no real front or back?
Chris Jack • March 25th 2011
hahaha yea, it gets really intense in person.
Well thats what the PWM will take care of. Image the four motors in a plus (+) shape, one arm is the front. so if you want to turn (yaw) two opposite motors slow down and the other two speed up. if you want to roll right, the motor on the right slows down and the one on the left speeds up. same with going forward (pitch). But now imagine we have the front between two motor (yes, known as X-Wing format as opposed to cross). So there has to be a front and back but you just decrease/increase speeds to tilt that direction. kinda fun.
And yes we are in X-wing format of course
Joseph Flores • March 29th 2011 • Reply
Cross-posted from Chris' wall: Quadrocopter Ball Juggling
Chris Jack • March 29th 2011
Joe, that is more impressive than: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvRTALJp8DM because the ball juggling cant use a set of pre-defined coordinates.
Also note that it is still not as awesome as ours *will be*