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The MEMS sensors, high power SoCs and sophisticated battery chemistry in a light/cheap form were all (arguably) enabled by the mass production of smartphones.
by Phlarp 11y ago
The MEMS sensors, high power SoCs and sophisticated battery chemistry in a light/cheap form were all (arguably) enabled by the mass production of smartphones.
Now that multicopters are beginning to ramp up the mass adoption curve and drive innovations of their own will we see this same kind of technological cross pollination happen to other fields with what's being created for multis?
The pace of innovation in brushless speed controllers has been exciting to watch, but I can't think of what other applications there are for brushless motors that accelerate quicker or can change direction nearly instantly. Lots of work seems to be happening in the position tracking arena, with everything from cameras to sonar arrays to lidar being considered and used both professionally and on the hobbyist scene.
I really want to see one of Googles project tango boxes used as a sensor to do real time object avoidance on a quad.
- gurkwart 11y agoAdressing object avoidance. Intel and AscTec are ahead in the game ;) [1]. But I agree that this indeed will become more and more prominent and really interesting in the coming years! "[...] Someday obstacle avoidance technology in UAVs will be like seatbelts in cars: You simply don’t start going without it!” [2] - Daniel Gurdan, CEO Ascending Technologies GmbH. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us0BqJvsF9k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us0BqJvsF9k [2] http://www.asctec.de/en/ascending-technologies-and-intel-collaborate/ http://www.asctec.de/en/ascending-technologies-and-intel-col...
- ChuckMcM 11y agoThere were drivers for each of the technologies that were independent of the combination of them as a smart phone. And they were singular, which is to say each technology, by itself, was important to some ecosystem. I used a mems gyro for example in an R/C car in the late 90s to tell me it was upside down and switch the left/right steering.