Comment by Jack Crossfire on August 7, 2012 at 5:48pm

Make a skycrane quad copter that automatically lowers it on a mountain top.

Developer Comment by jasonshort on August 7, 2012 at 5:52pm

yeah, I was thinking along the same lines. I even have the release mech planned out.

Jason

Comment by Maxime Carrier on August 7, 2012 at 6:26pm

Amazing, are you sure you are not cheating ? lol

Comment by Carl La France on August 7, 2012 at 6:35pm

Segway?

Comment by Greg Fletcher on August 7, 2012 at 6:41pm

This thing's been driving me crazy all day. With a Segway you tilt it forward and it keeps the acceleration vector in line with the CG, i think? So does it have a movable mass with a servo? I didn't see one. So for it to accelerate forward it would first have to reverse the motors to angle forward the balance by accelerating forward. Like a motorcycle racer briefly kicks the steering the opposite way they are turning, to set the roll angle of the bike.

Am I close?

Distributor Comment by Alec@FunWithDrones on August 7, 2012 at 11:05pm

That is really cool. great demo and looking forward to more.

Comment by Carl La France on August 7, 2012 at 11:42pm

Gyro ? Greg I haven't a clue how it works ? It is pretty neat  ! Jason gets a Thumbs up!

Comment by Marooned on August 8, 2012 at 3:57am

but it can't balance in the air, ironically.

jasonshort

1) http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/diy/dinosaurlike-tails-...

2) http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/xrl-r...

well, you could try with arduTail ;-)

Comment by patrice.rance on August 8, 2012 at 6:50am

Weldone !!! Jason . here is one i did. i start with the instructable project base. balancing skate board than i've updated.

Comment by patrice.rance on August 8, 2012 at 7:07am

here is the Balancing Bot at the event Futur en Seine (France)

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