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Hi Raymond, I'm a university student trying to build your project in ROS2 for my dissertation. Would it be possible to contact you with some questions?

Nice idea bro

any one here play diep.io if so use this technology and computer coding to were you can shoot other people and you start out with one of them robots but there are many around the area that don't move Intel you shoot it or run in to it then it attaches to your drone and adds another gun and drone to it like or comment if you think this idea is cool

хочуу...

can you buy those when yes than were it´s super awesome and i really have to try it :D

wikipedia/indect. welcome to the future.

super

awesome!

People are here for science, not make a nickle off random music... Greedy fuckers.

hahahhaha, that last 2 sec of the video....

Excelente invento felicidades!! estos serán los próximos transporte urbanos y las famosas alfombras mágicas

Fit this with with multi-barrel gun and you got a assassin drone. Just saying.

Those modules are AWESOME!!!

...and this is the born of the replicators!

i was just explaining that this video brings a tear to my eye then the last clip came up then i just died

duly noted. Thanks for the explanation=]

Experiments are rarely applicable to the real world at all. It's not the flight that is interesting here, it's the automated intermodule communication to achieve the goal of the larger unit. The hivemind, almost. The same AI principals function on one unit, 5 units, or 500 units. Apply that concept to things other than just an RC copter and it starts to get really interesting. Science.

This is my first thought....I fail to understand whats revolutionary about an RC copter...

And if you join two, that spin around the center quickly? Also can you stack them to gain better lifting capacity?

nothing special at all, it looks like a toy from 80`s

I'm dying of laughter with the little guy trying to fly alone. Keep up the good work!

Awesome!

Ten honeycomb drones flying around to dramatic music in a two minute UA-cam video? Ten honeycomb drones flying around to dramatic music in a three minute UA-cam video? Twelve honeycomb drones flying around to dramatic music in a three minute UA-cam video? The possibilities are endless!

1. In theory, there's no limit to the number of units. 2. They could be programmed to seek a certain pattern, but currently they are not. 3. We have not tried other geometric shapes for units. Choosing hexagons was an aesthetic decision, more than anything else.

They would be UFOs because they don't know what they are. Kind of comes from the meaning of "unidentified flying object," huh? :)

I suggest you get in touch with the organizations that are developing space probes, those that launch mission to Mars, Comets etc., build them large enough, and attached the right equipment to each of them, and they can cover more area than just one little rover. Hell, if you wanted, you could market this to Deep sea exploration companies, Oil Companies, and of course it has the military application as well. All the best, VonVictor Valentino Rosenchild Email: vonrosenchild@gmail.com

It is beautiful.

Ah, I see, thanks!

I don't believe contra-rotating blades on their own result in stable flight. You need vanes or something else to counter-act any disturbance in roll/pitch. In any case, we intentionally designed the vehicle such that each unit (or hexagon) is unstable. This was done in order to demonstrate that units need to cooperate in order to fly.

Changing the polarity of the magnets would require some sort of actuation mechanism on the magnets, increasing the complexity (and weight). Yes, reconfiguration would happen in sets of four or more.

You need at least four in this case to counter-act the aerodynamic torques in flight. Otherwise with three, the vehicle would just spin around in flight. Yes, tri-copters exist and are stable. That's because their propellers can generate enough torque to counter-act the torque of two propellers (by means of a larger propeller or a faster motor).

You need four to counter-act the aerodynamic torques in flight. You could use three, but then the vehicle would just spin around (and accelerate!) in flight. So four: two with clockwise (CW) rotating propellers and two with counterclockwise (CCW) rotating propellers. You might ask whether you need an even number of CW and CCW. Not necessarily. The larger the vehicle gets, the less this becomes an issue.

It will be used in a warfare first.

It's. The track is Tenderness by Dan Philipson.

This video is 10x more moving because of the music

Could you use a set of Contra-rotating blades on each hexagon so they are stable on their own?

Forget the British the Terminators are coming.

So are you saying reconfiguration would happen in sets of four? I actually started to wondered if you could change the polarity of the magnets, so you could sorta roll it along the arrangement

Shouldn't three be enough? Tri-copters exist and are stable.

Why? Just reconfigure in such a way that every unit is part of a group of four at all times.

I would have guessed three similar to how stools need a minimum of three legs. Is there a simple explanation for why it's four?

So how long until we can turn this into hoverboards?

Warning! There is a major issue in connecting an helicopter to "something"! Video: 0GEj69NANc8 It's called "ground resonance", but you just "invented" the "multicopter resonance"!

This video looks actually like an Apple advertisement :)

First of all, kudos, absolutely amazing and brilliant. Secondly I see this as a metaphor for a new socio-economic paradigm. .

In order for in-flight reconfiguration to occur, wouldn't a single unit need to be able to fly alone?

how many kg can that hold ? could you stand on it ?:) @raymord oung

Great work guys! Always makes me smile when I see such wonderful creations like these! Pioneers of a new age!

needs more attitude estimation lawl

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