Comments on: Hexapod helicopter

By: pilotOne

pilotOne — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:11:37 +0000

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

By: chris

chris — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 01:20:55 +0000

Pretty pointless if it can’t fly?

By: fractalrock

fractalrock — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:29:28 +0000

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).

By: blizzzarddemon

blizzzarddemon — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:04:42 +0000

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

By: Sammy

Sammy — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 10:24:13 +0000

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

By: cyberpunk

cyberpunk — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 07:53:05 +0000

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) ??

By: clark

clark — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 03:58:24 +0000

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.

By: Ender

Ender — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 03:28:31 +0000

That’s kinda scares me

By: BigBubbaX

BigBubbaX — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 02:03:42 +0000

Dang! I want one!

By: _matt

_matt — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:25:20 +0000

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

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

By: ajlovegrove

ajlovegrove — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:54:48 +0000

Run for your lives!

By: Panq

Panq — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:02:42 +0000

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.

By: andrew

andrew — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 21:17:09 +0000

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.

By: sean

sean — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:41:56 +0000

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

By: M0535

M0535 — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:08:45 +0000

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