OT: awsome gadget - neat machine
Royston Vasey
impressive little machine, pity they dont show close ups of the
construction:
Like RC helis? This Hexacopter is amazing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyYujjP5J-k
Larry Jaques
<roy...@vasey.com> scrawled the following:
I don't think there's a guy here who doesn't want at least a dozen of
them.
Howzbout one you can fly in? http://tinyurl.com/qynqte
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Wild_Bill
instructions:
http://www.mikrokopter.de/ucwiki/en/MK-Okto
Apparently there are quad/4 and (okto) octo/8 versions too.
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Gunner Asch
wrote:
Oh my god...gotta have one..gotta have one!!
Gunner, who just picked his next hobby!
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Larry Jaques
<gunne...@gmail.com> scrawled the following:
>On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:17:54 +0800, "Royston Vasey" <roy...@vasey.com>
>wrote:
>
>>Someone else posted this link somewhere else. It's half on topic......very
>>impressive little machine, pity they dont show close ups of the
>>construction:
>>
>>
>>
>>Like RC helis? This Hexacopter is amazing:
>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyYujjP5J-k
>>
>
>Oh my god...gotta have one..gotta have one!!
>
>
>Gunner, who just picked his next hobby!
Just think of all the neat toys it could carry. <wink>
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Gunner Asch
<lja...@diversify.invalid> wrote:
>On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:37:34 -0700, the infamous Gunner Asch
><gunne...@gmail.com> scrawled the following:
>
>>On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:17:54 +0800, "Royston Vasey" <roy...@vasey.com>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>Someone else posted this link somewhere else. It's half on topic......very
>>>impressive little machine, pity they dont show close ups of the
>>>construction:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Like RC helis? This Hexacopter is amazing:
>>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyYujjP5J-k
>>>
>>
>>Oh my god...gotta have one..gotta have one!!
>>
>>
>>Gunner, who just picked his next hobby!
>
>Just think of all the neat toys it could carry. <wink>
Indeed! With a decent video camera/wireless link it could even be used
to drop explo...er...gum drops to happy children!! Oh hell yes
indeedy!!!
<G>
That looks like a TREMENDOUS amount of fun!!
And Ive already got a 4 channel rig that Id bought to fly the glider Ive
never completed...sigh.....
Now..I wonder now much it costs to build one? And of course..one
assumes that Titanium would work? ah..I happen to have a tinsey amount
of that tucked away.....
>
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>Adults are obsolete children. --Dr. Seuss (Theodore Geisel, 1904-1991)
Lewis Hartswick
> On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:17:54 +0800, "Royston Vasey" <roy...@vasey.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Someone else posted this link somewhere else. It's half on topic......very
>> impressive little machine, pity they dont show close ups of the
>> construction:
>>
>> Like RC helis? This Hexacopter is amazing:
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyYujjP5J-k
>>
> Oh my god...gotta have one..gotta have one!!
> Gunner, who just picked his next hobby!
>
I just spent an hour watching that and several more
that the links popped up at the end. Thats almost
unbelievable. I still haven't figured out how the
translation is obtained, the props are fixed pitch.
Those motors are just something else. I guess he is
Russian from the text. I have to get the teacher
of the shop to look at the construction of the
motors (one of the other videos).
All I can say is WOW!!!
...Lew...
Wes
>Just think of all the neat toys it could carry. <wink>
2.2 lbs of RDX? Better answer your Census questions or the Feds will be able to send one
to your front door. ;)
Wes
Larry Jaques
<gunne...@gmail.com> scrawled the following:
>On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:23:24 -0700, Larry Jaques
><lja...@diversify.invalid> wrote:
>
>>On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:37:34 -0700, the infamous Gunner Asch
>><gunne...@gmail.com> scrawled the following:
>>
>>>On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:17:54 +0800, "Royston Vasey" <roy...@vasey.com>
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>>Someone else posted this link somewhere else. It's half on topic......very
>>>>impressive little machine, pity they dont show close ups of the
>>>>construction:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Like RC helis? This Hexacopter is amazing:
>>>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyYujjP5J-k
>>>>
>>>
>>>Oh my god...gotta have one..gotta have one!!
>>>
>>>
>>>Gunner, who just picked his next hobby!
>>
>>Just think of all the neat toys it could carry. <wink>
>
>Indeed! With a decent video camera/wireless link it could even be used
>to drop explo...er...gum drops to happy children!! Oh hell yes
>indeedy!!!
><G>
You were going to say "exploratory copies of garage sale ads", right?
I thought so.
>That looks like a TREMENDOUS amount of fun!!
>
>And Ive already got a 4 channel rig that Id bought to fly the glider Ive
>never completed...sigh.....
I never got into RC, either. Some friends did and never wanted to
relinquish control, so I never got enough time on one to develop a
jones for it. Batteries didn't last worth a squat back then, either.
>Now..I wonder now much it costs to build one? And of course..one
>assumes that Titanium would work? ah..I happen to have a tinsey amount
>of that tucked away.....
Cool.
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If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we
shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
-- Samuel Butler
Cross-Slide
I am guessing that 1/2 the motors run CW and 1/2 CCW. throttling up or
down one bank or the other will do the turning, similar to tail rotor
control. Adjusting the front or back drive will create the tilt,
similar to the pitch control.
Adjusting all the motors is equivalent to the throttle/collective.
What am I missing?
Impressive performance. Perhaps the key is the batteries/motors, and
the gyro/gps/control interaction.