Experimental Star Wars Speeder Bike
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2023
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I built a Star Wars Speeder Bike with omni-directional wheels powered by electric jet engines. I also have a plan for another version of the Star Wars Speeder Bike. Last time, I took the guts from a hoverboard and used them to make a balancing bike. Each original hoverboard wheel is mounted on the bike and drives the bike wheels with a drive belt. This makes the resulting velocity the same as it would have been when the hoverboard wheels were touching the ground. So now the balancing electronics still work as designed since the output velocity of the vehicle is the same.
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Don't forget to watch the end for my Version 2 plans.
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Very cool. How do you feel like a 3D printed "Salto" pogo sticking robot?
okay looking great! Good Job! Plans for version 2 are looking great so far! in case you want to take the V1 for a quick test again you might want to consider writing custom firmware for the microcontroller on board.
👍👍 looking great, dude 😃!
Perhaps the next version will have less mass.
You should just limit the handlebar control to rotational steering and isolate sideways motion to the footpegs so that you can put your weight on the handlebars much comfortably and the leaning forces on each of your arms balance the handlebars straight until you use additional force to turn them.
Great video as always!!
EDIT: Being an avid cyclist (which James's vehicle is similar to in terms of ground contact), I have thought of concepts that I believe have considerable contribution to stability/balance:
1. The mutual exclusivity in motion is being forcibly relayed into the controls under the rider/operator's contact points (arms and legs). One can not turn the handlebars both left and right, and one cannot put both pedals downwards at the same time.
2. The motion of the controls, which also act as the ground/support of the operator, should not coincide or interfere with the operator's own self-stabilization. Angular steering via the handlebars should not cause the vehicle to rotate with the steering axis, and the foot controls should not interfere with the operator's ability to compensate their balance during sideways translation.
Translating these concepts into James's design, one would isolate angular steering to the handlebars, with the front wheel rotating equal or faster than the rear wheel. There would also be foot pedals (similar to bicycle pedals but bolted directly without the cranks) that are mechanically coupled in such a way that when one is tilted forwards the other tilts the opposite and vice versa, giving the operator a sense of rigidity as they stand on the pedals with the pedals angularly level. this alternate tilting or rotation of the pedals will then control sideways translation.
Again this is purely conceptual but I do hope these anecdotal observations from someone who has considerable time riding vehicles with only two points of contact to the ground will help you with this project.
Agreed. If the foot pegs were pedals instead of relaying on twisting the two segments for rotation, it would be back to an ankle movement.
It honestly seems like a VERY simple solution, to make this A LOT less complicated than it is and benefitted NOTHING from.
There's a lot to be learned from V1, and I really look forward to seeing V2.
I say use the exact hoverboard mechanism (both feet forward to go forward, et cetera), BUT, keep the handlebar twist throttle to control the amount of forward thrust. Handlebars rigid and strictly for support.@@kschleic9053
I'd lose the handlebars completely and change to a joystick. Lean weight forward more like a sports motorcycle and you can move chest side to side alongside using pegs for shifting weight front and back like the original hoverboard.
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@@Mister_Fister.Individual creators very much care about comments. They are people. Hearing that people enjoy what you produce is always great. If you made someone's day better with your video, you are leading a successful career in my eyes.
Tbf he literally went a few feet, fell over and put dubstep over it...
WOW I have been dreaming of this since I was a kid!
look who it is!
So the last 2years?
@@jasmijnariel lol comical
Dreaming of what? An impractical designed bi-cycle?
I expect a cbr1000 speedster now lol
I think another issue that would help is the seating position. You are sitting very high on it and would benefit from a more "sport bike" position. Either way this is incredible and I cannot wait to see V2!
He could 3D scan his back side and make a perfect seat and print one.
This is re-inventing the wheel
I really wanna see you build a speeder that can go side to side and forward. I feel like you’re the best suited person to make it a reality. Great job!
Add a "Joystick Deadzone" to the handler and add propulsors at the front part.
This should give you more speed and a better control
Cool stuff! I think controlling sideways motion with your knees would be easier. I believe riders use their knees to control horses - and you can control a bicycle or motorcycle with your knees so it's very intuitive. Having a solid handlebar to hold on to seems essential - a small hiccup can quickly escalate to a full on disaster otherwise.
I have to agree. The floating handlebar seems fine on paper but in practice, and on conventional bicycles, it’s the primary anchor point, and the point at which one’s finest motor skills can be employed.
I used to play Segway Polo, and the older ones had twist grip steering while the i2’s had tilt bar steering. The older rigid twist grips were vastly superior and allowed for riding styles that were wild by comparison, and far less likely to end with the rider eating grass.
Adding more degrees of freedom to add more nuance to the controls also adds more opportunity for rider error. In theory this also adds more nuance of motion but that’s not always desirable over stability and predictability.
who controlls their motorcycle with their knees?? you can use your hips to shift weight for a better response when you want to lean the bike, but generally the leaning action comes from turning the steering wheel and then bein leaned into the opposite direction you steered in because of gyroscopic effect
@@timobensch3904 counter steering is certainly the way to control a motorcycle at speed. but a lot of riding techniques requires knee control:
"Your knees can also act as a rudder, helping you steer the bike through turns. By squeezing the bike on the inside of the turn, you can help initiate the turn and maintain your line through the corner. It improves your riding style. Squeezing the bike with your knees is a key component of proper motocross technique."
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"Proper standing riding posture should include knees that are constantly engaged in the action. They may begin stacked directly over the pegs but are frequently squeezing and releasing the inner portion of the seat and/or tank. It is this squeeze point at the knees that allows for some of the most significant rider input to the bike. With the knees doing this much work, your upper body can remain light on the handlebars and your adventure can last much longer."
@@timobensch3904 that's not why bikes turn,
you use your knees to hold your body to the bike so you don't have any weight on your hands,
the bike turns in due to counter steering, gyroscopic effects have minimal impact on the balancing of bikes, it's the frame geometry that keeps it balanced
@@StillConfusing I can assure you, with 7 years of driving experience, once you go over ~30km/h your steering and leaning is done by countersteering. and you have to countersteering because of the gyroscopic effect.
as soon as you turn your handlebar to the left, your motorcycle will respond by leaning and also turning to the right.
you can make it turn/lean faster if you move your hips/shift your weight accordingly.
but you do not use your knees to steer the bike. you also don't use them to hold on to the bike (you maybe use them to help stay on the bike if you try to slide your knee over the pavement/if you lean really far)
Wow just amazing! I’m amazed that 3d printed parts carry this weight and can withstand the forces!
All depending on the infill and print angle
this is incredible and you are an absolute monster of engineering! It seems like you are going to get this going beautifully in the near future, but seeing you crash and break that piece makes me think that for future versions, an exoskeleton frame would be really nice to protect everything (and look awesome!) Obviously itd be a big weight difference, but I have no doubt that you'll be able to compensate in the future, especially for a "final" version!
This project is AMAZING. I can't way to see a version that can improve the stabilization. Exceptionally well done.
If this man dedicated his time to make weapons, the world would be a far Bleeker place.
Don't worry his FBI guy has a direct line to DARPA
It's nerf or nothing
You're literally my idol man. The stuff ive learned watching your videos is literally invaluable to me. Truly appreciate all your hard work putting these videos together, you really pump out the work. Its very impressive.
I've never seen Mecanum Wheels used in line on one axis. Will be interesting to see how well the combined directional vectors work with that.
I love this. Also, there was a really cool and very different speeder bike design introduced in Shadows of the Empire that might be notable for inspiration. (It looks like a bridge between the imperial design, and those sleeker, more motorcycle looking ones from the newer stuff)
This is what ME/EE engineering course labs should look like. Bravo.
This looks dangerous.
*I love it. Give me more.*
This looks absurd
Great job, man. It's a very unusual and most importantly very interesting idea! Thank you very much for your tireless efforts in making the world of engineering, robotics, and mechatronics an inspiring world.
As a long time fan of you channel it’s just insane to pause and think, man we are so far gone from the days when you were outsourcing 3D prints to 3rd party vendors for that original Iron Man suite. It’s just so cool to see the technology advance so far over the years.
Sounds like you've already got a plan for a redesign with those mechanum wheels, but I still think a 3 wheel design is worth exploring, using the middle wheel as the forward/reverse motion while leaving the front and rear in their current orientation.
Already seen a few ideas to improve the steering, but I feel like tossing in my two cents anyway: I remember seeing a speeder (I think in the clonewars series) whose handlebars only moved front to back for acceleration and deceleration. So you lean on them to push them forward, accelereating the speeder and leaning back, thus pulling it back to decelerate. Sideways motion and turning was done with leaning to one of the sides and foot pedals, I believe.
I feel like this could be somewhat replicated for your omniwheels by integrating the boards for measuring the angle into (or onto) foot pedals that you seesaw front and back. Turning could then be done by tilting one forward and the other backward simultaneously for example. Whether one would solve the sideways movement through the aforementioned leaning of the body, or by configuring the foot pedals to tilting both in the same direction for one side, would need testing as for the intuitivity I'd say.
Love what you're doing, and think you're building the beginnings of something that'll be HUGE in our future
I'm super excited to see the continuation of this. Amazing work
I love this idea. Have you thought about having a stable foot area with pedals for the offsets? This would be less like a hoverboard but more like a speeder bike, and probably also make it easier to "rest" your feet instead of having them in constant tension even when trying to just keep things neutral. The other things is maybe a dead-man switch on the handlebars because it looks like when you suddenly are needing to dump the bike, the bike electronics seem to be working against you instead of letting you just recover to your feet. If you could just "let go" of something on the handlebars to tell the bike "stop trying to compensate against me", then it might make it easier to deal with that situation?
Agreed. It seems like it would be a good idea to implement motorcycle foot peg and foot pedals but use them to control yaw and strafe instead of controlling the typical rear brake and gear shifter. He might have to design an additional foot pedal each side positioned above the foot so that pushing it up gives the opposite input for that side. Maybe yaw left is down left foot + up right foot and strafe left is just down left foot + no right foot input? Or some combination of those, I don't know which should be which to feel more natural.
In general, basing the speeder controls off of motorcycle controls seems like a good idea, if motorcycles have a design that works, and they don't have a stability/bracing/comfort issue, then it'll probably work for this, as long as it's even possible to remap the controls to actually suit his purposes.
Twist throttle on the handlebars was a good idea, and he probably doesn't need a clutch, so he's free to use both hand levers for brakes. If he does implement multiple gears, they probably won't be manual, so he could use two thumb buttons to electronically switch gears.
You sir are a certified genius.
I really loved hearing about your future plans at the end, can't wait to see this, really great ideas and explanations here thx !
This is great, love your enthusiasm for not giving up & exploring new solutions 🙂
Wonderful design James! Thank you for all your experiments. Maybe we can incorporate the upcoming Raspi 5 in future builds?
Since you're moving forward more often than sideways, wouldn't it make more sense to install the wheels length-wise and use the "wheels" inside the wheels to move sideways? Apart from that, awesome video!!!
Probably an issue of stability. Balancing it would be nearly impossible the way you're suggesting
@@alexlyster3459 I´m probably late (I just randomly found the video), but wouldn´t making the wheels 3-layers (instead of 2) solve the balancing problem?
(But then it wouldn´t really look anywhere near like a speeder. It would just be a fancy bike.)
@johnyshadow It would solve some of the issues, but ultimately create more than it solved. There's a reason people don't use flat wheels on bikes. You want rounded off wheels for turning, and going for 3 layers think your wheels would relatively flat
This is so awesome, your creativity is on another level 😅
I love the turned out pockets and red-swoosh Nikes - Nice BTTF call-out. "Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads." 😎
What about using feet pedals to move right/left instead of having the handle bars pivot left and right? That way your handle bars will be much more rigid
This is so cool! I wonder if a joystick might feel more natural than handlebars? like a helicopter.
@@lil.dogbytea world where the bicycle has a floating control, and multiple directions of movement
a normal bicycle has 1 direction, forward the from wheel turns to direct it, this has 3, circular, side to side and forward, so a joystick might make more sense bc helicopters are the same way
JB's problem with this version is that the handlebar is "floating" - firm arm rests fixed to the frame so as to allow a normal biker position might be better. Small joysticks, like those found on rc controls, could be mounted on the ends of these, effectively pointing away from the rider's body and posing no threat in an accident. @@lil.dogbyte
One of the coolest things I have seen being made, genius. I know this is basically pre Alpha stage in development, so I can only imagine what it will end as
wow, I can really see you reinventing how we move. This is awesome and probably coolest thing I've seen all year.
Keep at it! Can't wait to see how this evolved! Subbed!
Bonkers, love it 🥰
Can’t wait for version 2!
It’s so good that you show your successes and failures while teaching us all ❤
V2 looks mad! Can't wait to see it. Hope it works.
Excited to see where this goes next!
One of the coolest things I’ve ever seen!
Soooooooooo awesome! V2 sounds absolutely ridiculous and like it could be the ultimate riding machine.
Love the development to this point, very entertaining! 👏
You are making my lifelong dream a reality. Keep up the good work!
I can't wait for part 3, this is awesome.
This is wildly creative!
This speeder looks so insane but so much fun! I love it
The next version is going to be so cool
Pushing technology forward!!! Brilliant
Fantastic work!
This is actually so damn awesome, I love creative people so much
I am stoked to see part 2! If you get a stable version going I'd love to see if we can replicate it for our starwars charity stuff.
This is one of the coolest things I’ve seen
The nerdiest and most delightful projects. Thanks James.
My high school need to see this. Great video!
You could add a fast flywheel inside the frame as a gyro to help keep it upright. My design uses two cowled impellers front and back to keep unit stable and produce ducted thrust to provide lift and forward thrust. It is ostensibly a speeder bike without antigravity plates.
Very nice! Speaking from arcade experience, I would suggest replacing the steering pot with an optical encoder wheel and two photo interrupters. Direction is determined by which optic clocks first, and the encoder wheel will also give you better feedback on the speed of steering rotation.
Thank you once again. I would suggest that the forward direction is aligned with the outer wheel (the wheel with the largest circumference containing the smaller wheels). Like on a forklift. The smaller wheels are for ajust the direction and the bigger one is forward and backwards.
you are a smart guy.... it was cool for me to see a part of what is in your head....thanks
great job James!
please make the next version I want to see this thing really go!
Videos like this will literally lead to the creation of real speeder bikes lol.
KEEP INNOVATING!
Awesome work. It's utterly ridiculous, impractical at this stage, but what a fun project for the sake of itself.
That's awesome! To make it safer and more controllable my suggestion would be to fix the handlebar in place and have 3 inputs controlling the hoverboard board angles.
- The first would be the angle of the bike to get back more automatic stability
- The second would be a foot pedal where rotating the foot forward and back would rotate the bike clockwise and counter-clockwise.
- The third would be force sensors where your knees sit to detect how far you're leaning one way or another to translate sideways
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Beautiful Project!!
This is so cool and it kinda reminds me of a omni directional treadmill like vr treadmill
I love your Omni-directional wheels. They are awesome and really big. 😮
Man that thing is wild looking in motion.
Congratulations on surviving the first speeder bike crash in the Solar System! Well done!
You should release a full tutorial of these that would be really cool
That’s pretty cool, and inspiring.
I subbed, I have to see where this is gonna go. So fascinating
I hope that someday you'll be able to develop something the masses would be able to buy, with all of this tinkering and learning.
It's ironic that you convert the inclination of the handlebar into rotational position, measure that position with the potentiometer which in turn moves a servo that changes the inclination of the original hover board circuit board, only for that circuit board to turn those measurements measures into commands for the wheel to move. You were trying to save time by using an existing product, but you ended up working three times as much and introduced additional complications, like the acceleration you mention at the end of the video. You could have used the inclination and rotation of the handlebar directly to move the wheels.
Fun video to watch. Thanks for sharing. I am sure it was a great learning experience.
This is brilliant nice looking try !!!
Good luck to you on this!
Great proof of concept 👍
This is amazing!
Really cool! Id love to see an update with more thrust! I think that would help stabilize potentially too
Very cleanly printed details!
this man can make any sci-fi fantasy come true. god i wish i was this talented to make my own medabot XD
This looks amazing! I hope continue to upgrade it. I would like really work because I definitely want one 😂
I didn’t know I needed this until now. I’ll take two.
Hey, project's awesome! I think a nice idea for solving the problem with your weight on the handle could be some sort of support for your knees where you could rest your weight more easily.
Your a genius man. Very cool!
Nice prototype build here.
Completely Awesome!
You could add casters sticking out of the side as a buffer if it gets too close to falling over
No maybe more... MORE! This was super cool!
Dude reinvented the wheel!
"No, son we have Star Wars speeder bike at home"
your pockets are out mate! this was amazing to watch
I dont think we understand what hes opening the door to. This is incredible.
Very cool! Some gloves or wrist guards will be great for protection during falls while testing
Amazing! lol it was like I was watching extended edition of pod race scene!
This is amazing!!
That looks like a ton of fun😄
I'm so excited to see where this goes!! I want one so bad haha