DIY UAV Steadicam Thing

May 14, 2011

This is pretty cool

From DIY Drones, the founding dude of which is now one of the Ponoko Advisory board people?

steadicam

Being the roll-only stabiliser version, the one below being two-axis

steadicam2

The previous post had a quadracopter balancing a tall pole with a ball on the end of it… while doing vaguely acrobatic stuff… I think it all turns on this – feedback-loops between servos (or whatever) and sensors. I really ought to start playing with this stuff myself, but I want to use one of these…

minicomputer

… just go straight to using a full-blown computer (with the brain the size of a planet) to do simple electronic tasks… because I’m too lasy to learn how to do things with arduinos and such. I’ve actually got one as well. I should stop pranneting about and give it another go I guess. I need to make myself a little project that is specifically to do with fitting a genetic algorithm between a sensor and an actuator. I know how to write them… just never really had a reason to. The only thing I can think of right now is helio-sensitive sensitive/tracking mirror matrix… which is a little more doable now that Ponoko does mirrored acrylic.


2 Comments » for DIY UAV Steadicam Thing
  1. Patrick says:
    May 15, 2011 at 9:40 am

    If you do decide to do a tracking mirror array you might want to get in touch with these guys

    http://openfarmtech.org/weblog/2011/05/solar-fire/

    so they can tag it on.

    I don’t know if you’ve seen their project but in the last 3 months it has really started to move along.

  2. Nick Taylor says:
    May 15, 2011 at 9:46 pm

    Yea – I’ve been keeping 1/2 an eye on the open-farm thing for a while. It’d be quite good to have an urban-version (once the rural one gets underway)… not that urban can (probably) be off-grid… but I’m envisaging something like a solid square-meter of stuff that people can unpack and set-up in an urban environment to take themselves off-grid. Can’t be that hard, surely.

Vague Categories

Latest