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Looks like the pitch of each blade needs to be adjusted very precisely while the blades revolve around the axis at a high RPM. That's tens of thousands of adjus
by kijin 8y ago
Looks like the pitch of each blade needs to be adjusted very precisely while the blades revolve around the axis at a high RPM. That's tens of thousands of adjustments per second. This would have been nearly impossible in the past, but a raspi on a drone coupled with tiny motors in each blade might be able to pull it off.
- taneq 8y agoWouldn't it be adjusted by a single mechanism, similar to a helicopter swash plate, rather than individual servos?
- exDM69 8y agoThe animation on the wiki page shows how the blade pitch is adjusted mechanically. Helicopter blade pitch also changes as the blade rotates and it's done mechanically with a swashplate.