Maybe jumping will help get it off the ground?

Posted at 9:01 am on Mar 2nd, 2009 by EdwardNardella

That is just too awesome.

Posted at 9:04 am on Mar 2nd, 2009 by nubie

that is pretty damn cool, bit scary tho :)

Posted at 9:15 am on Mar 2nd, 2009 by qdos

reminds me of …
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runaway_(1984_film)

Posted at 9:34 am on Mar 2nd, 2009 by sly

middle legs serve no purpose, removing them will probably allow this thing to fly

Posted at 10:38 am on Mar 2nd, 2009 by therian

that is the awesomest thing, i would love to see it try to jump.

Posted at 10:48 am on Mar 2nd, 2009 by dan

Couldn’t lift it’s own weight and was imbalanced for flight.

next go will be better I’m sure.

Posted at 10:54 am on Mar 2nd, 2009 by strider_mt2k

zomg!! Badass!

Posted at 11:06 am on Mar 2nd, 2009 by nick

Yea really cool.

Posted at 11:08 am on Mar 2nd, 2009 by Blastar

I am personally glad it crashed. Now it can’t fly at my face and suck my brains out during the robot invasion…

Posted at 11:08 am on Mar 2nd, 2009 by M0535

oh my gosh.
definitely the coolest swarm-bot potential out there…. and extremely creepy.

Posted at 11:41 am on Mar 2nd, 2009 by sean

whoa thats awesome! also, he might not have been giving it full throttle in the video, since he’s inside and probably didn’t want to crash it.

Posted at 1:17 pm on Mar 2nd, 2009 by andrew

As others have mentioned, it wasn’t quite balanced, so full-throttle would probably have flipped it. It’s nice as a first prototype though.

I would like to see this done with a quadrotor. Wouldn’t have to worry too much about shifting centre of gravity, and the gyros and/or accelerometers would let you use dynamic balancing, like a bipod or something.

Posted at 3:02 pm on Mar 2nd, 2009 by Panq

Run for your lives!

Posted at 3:54 pm on Mar 2nd, 2009 by ajlovegrove

panq, you and i need to build one, now.

you bring the supplies, and i’ll bring the…..me.

Posted at 5:25 pm on Mar 2nd, 2009 by _matt

Dang! I want one!

Posted at 6:03 pm on Mar 2nd, 2009 by BigBubbaX

That’s kinda scares me

Posted at 7:28 pm on Mar 2nd, 2009 by Ender

did anyone read the description?

“unfortunately the flying is not autonomous yet and I don’t know how to fly an RC helicopter. I crashed it the next day”

I didn’t take off a helicopter straight up first time I had flown.

Posted at 7:58 pm on Mar 2nd, 2009 by clark

too bad it crashed. would have been neat to see it fly! i wanna build one now! how come no one has hacked the mini airplanes (the ones tyc0 make) ??

Posted at 11:53 pm on Mar 2nd, 2009 by cyberpunk

i saw this ages ago on Society of Robots…It’s almost old news…

Posted at 2:24 am on Mar 3rd, 2009 by Sammy

Ya know if he made it out of a lighter material, like that plastic stuff crabfu was made of, it might gain more altitude.

Posted at 12:04 pm on Mar 3rd, 2009 by blizzzarddemon

I’m not an R/C helo pilot either, but I do know that the co-axial units (one rotor on top of the other, spinning in different directions) are more stable. I would guess they would give you more lift too (although that might be offset by the more complicated inner workings).

Posted at 12:29 pm on Mar 3rd, 2009 by fractalrock

Pretty pointless if it can’t fly?

Posted at 5:20 pm on Mar 5th, 2009 by chris

Looks like it will fly fine, but that he just doesnt know how to fly an R/C helicopter.

Posted at 4:11 am on Mar 10th, 2009 by pilotOne