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Here's another video of quadrocopters flying through windows: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7X0_6o9J10 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7X0_6o9J10 Fascinating
by brianwillis 16y ago
Here's another video of quadrocopters flying through windows: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7X0_6o9J10 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7X0_6o9J10
Fascinating and slightly disturbing at the same time.
- amelim 16y agoFear not, unless you have a Vicon system installed in your house. Most of these quadcopter demos involved very expensive motion capture systems to determine the location of the vehicles. Pretty much all of the control software is on a separate system.
- brianwillis 16y agoCall me paranoid, but it probably wont take too many iterations for them to get the price down, and integrate the control system into the quadrocopter. Once that happens, we'll have manhacks on the market.
- jjs 16y ago> Once that happens, we'll have manhacks on the market. Researchers at CERN have discovered an effective defense against those: http://imgur.com/qMCeI http://imgur.com/qMCeI
- HeyLaughingBoy 16y agoTen years from now, you'll be buying them as toys at Wal*Mart
- famousactress 16y agoAh. Thanks. I was curious about the level of autonomy deployed to each of the actual devices. It'd be interesting to get more details on this particular demo.
- tseabrooks 16y agoIt seems it relies on 3d information about it's surroundings... Perhaps there is a future project here to try and strip out / slim down the kinect internals to use with these copters and then off load the control system right onto the copter since it won't (maybe) need any more external data.