make the blades conductive and put in a device that measured for conductivity so it would cut the power asap?

Posted by Kris Kitchen on April 12, 2015 at 2:24pm

I was thinking about how much I hate roaching blades and what would happen had the machine his someone or something living. Could we make the blades conductive and put in a device that measured for conductivity in the event something  touched it ( like a fleshy body) : so it would cut the power asap? I doubt this has been explored.

Perhaps we could used regenerative braking on the motors? 

I was thinking of putting a clutching mechanism but I think that would be overkill.

I know we will have sonar soon enough and Lidar based object recognition with machine learning, but this seems like it could be a life saver on bigger drones? 

Just a thought. 

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    • Kris Kitchen April 12, 2015 at 2:37pm

      What if you could not see the device due to Murphy's law? 

    • Kris Kitchen April 12, 2015 at 2:42pm

      Maybe I should have posted this on the dji board, they have a problem with fl

    • Kris Kitchen April 12, 2015 at 2:50pm

      Not offended at all. I am thinking about the commercial drones too. I would not expect there to me much condensation being grounded, maybe that is another thing to consider. 

    • Kris Kitchen April 12, 2015 at 2:56pm

      That is exactly where I got the idea. lol

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