Your subtle sadism aside, I think this is a good idea. We will study it closely as a physical analogue for human existence in a indifferent, entropic universe, that we nevertheless depend on for survival.
This is how satellites maintain their attitude without having to constantly use reaction control jets, which would run out of fuel in a short time of constantly maintaining control. The ISS uses something vaguely similar to these control wheels, it’s called a control moment gyro. It uses gyroscopic precession to move the space station (more specifically to apply torque to it), rather than using direct torque from a reaction wheel like this one. Think of a Segway where the wheel is in the air. That is a simplified analogy to what this thing is doing, [just saw your username], you smeghead. ;)
Why doesn't anyone understand how amazing this really is...? Good job man, what you demonstrated/ created is something amazing. It's a self correcting system with actual "pinpoint" accuracy.
unreal demonstration. i love how this is coming up as we're watching spacex deal with the control on Starship. nice visuals on the basics of how that all works.
@PushandillPushback yea...they do....please don't be an idoit. Flying cars are not hard to make, but normal people cant drive them, so no ,they are not being produced, they would never sell..... how many accidents happen on the ground....you think flying cars would be better for usa, land of car accidents vs the world. Whats the definition on a car? Now just understand you can at propellers and jet engines. If you have the money. You can modify until it flys. We have all the tech. Thats my point. www.aeromobil.com/specification
@authorization batman I mean its perfectly possible. it'd take some beefy motors but its not impossible. itd be something like this : ua-cam.com/video/n_6p-1J551Y/v-deo.html
Beautiful, expecially how it seems to adjust its balance to spin down the reaction wheels so they don't get saturated. Even with the center of mass shifting and oscillating.
Hi Mike, This is creating stability, in an unstable system. An excellent presentation! I study the dynamic behaviour of all natural eyes. This is a superior instruction tool and simulation. Thanks.
Google, get out of my brain. I was literally thinking abut doing something like this for a Halloween costume prop the other day. I haven't searched on it or talked about it or anything, just thinking about it. Now this shows up in my feed.
That’s great! It can be so hard to bring those things from software to reality. I’m sure you had many issues trying to bugfix and make it real but it payed off!
@@En_theo that is because with drones they are essentially an isolated system the angular momentum cant be drained anywhere except for a bit through air drag so the reaction wheels on a drone become saturated easily, but with a stick like this the reaction wheels can drain their angular momentum by imparting a force downwards, through the stick and onto the table (and probably through the wire bundle) making it easier to have a system that doesn't become saturated.
@@halted_code I need to learn more about this draining of force and momentum stuff...I am an engineer could you please direct me to some article book or research paper on this stuff?
UA-cam: Hey, want to see this video from 4 years ago Me: Really (Edit) I said this not because UA-cam is not showing me new things it’s because I wished I could of seen this video sooner because it’s so cool what this guy did. Thanks for 97 likes😁
One day, when humanity is no more, I hope this is one of the videos that somehow survives as a record of our achievements. We made a stick that uses science to balance itself. What a legacy.
Okay, for fun, try balancing it on your finger while the reaction wheels are going. Can you overcome your natural inclination to balance it or will it be fighting you the whole time?
The detection part for sure. But they use propellants for correction. Haven't seen giant flywheels sticking out of the rockets... But, they are used to orientate space telescopes.
@@dnomyarnostaw Tuned Mass Dampers are passive elements. I think active mass dampeners with reaction wheels would add etntirely new heights to scyscrappers. Oc the reliability would be another problem.
I wonder, if you have a long stick like a broom handle, put one end on the ground, put a foot against the side and with your hand on top pull the other way, would it be possible to balance on a stick? I mean, you can pull yourself up onto a stick and it will fall over, but if you were to try to move your center of gravity around whilst on the stick, would you be able to balance forever? Maybe not since if you try to stick a leg out in one direction, newtons something law will make the rest of ur body stick out a bit the other way, ultimately not changing your cg. But maybe? What do y’all think?
This is actually more amazing than people think because a stick without any balancing capabilities would only be knocked over by the movement of a hydrogen atom
OH so that's what a flamingo looks like on the inside.
"bio-inspired"
HHHHH
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
😂😂😂😂😂
O.o
make a huge ione, wind powered, so it has to fight for its existence until eternity.
Actually can be a building like star wars
what if there is no wind?
@@RababaInc well, it will not be suitable for every location, but there are places with constant wind
Until it lost force ( i mean energy)
Your subtle sadism aside, I think this is a good idea. We will study it closely as a physical analogue for human existence in a indifferent, entropic universe, that we nevertheless depend on for survival.
Thank you reaction wheels, for making Kerbal Space Program playable.
true
What?
It wasn't understood for me what you said. Can you explain me in detail?
@Van okay
I play RP-1, so I suffer having just RCS
@authorization batman dunno whats wrong about that
Why is this so fricking amazing? I can't stop looking at it!
Because it would be called magic or sorcery just a few decades ago
This is how satellites maintain their attitude without having to constantly use reaction control jets, which would run out of fuel in a short time of constantly maintaining control.
The ISS uses something vaguely similar to these control wheels, it’s called a control moment gyro. It uses gyroscopic precession to move the space station (more specifically to apply torque to it), rather than using direct torque from a reaction wheel like this one.
Think of a Segway where the wheel is in the air. That is a simplified analogy to what this thing is doing, [just saw your username], you smeghead. ;)
This is your daily dose of Recommendation
Standing stick machine! Yeah!
Good times 4 all
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This is just what I've always wanted!
🤗
When you hung the weight on the stick I actually felt sorry for it.
It's like bosstown Dynamics robot torture test
@@tthung8668 bosstown
@@tthung8668 bosstown dynamics is a parody of Boston dynamics
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Kickstart this, I want one for my desk~
@rob1248996 probably an usb and maybe a power cable
California Something - I wonder if it could run off batteries for a reasonably long time.
BTW - I like your cool Gir avatar.
They exist as cubes.
@rob1248996 50.000$? Lmao it costs 30-40$ Max.
rob1248996 I know the principle behind this is abysmally simple but would the code really be that hard to write?
This video needs a sequel. Balance a second one ontop of this one, now thats a challenge
No background music nothing, just pure science 😍
That's no way to address a Captain
tvm i thought my lappy gone awol
This demonstrates engineering, not science.
@@willswift94 doesn't really matter as the Jesus made it all anyway
Do you watch Rick and Morty?
i cant believe i watched a stick standing by itself for 3 min
*worth*
Three minutes? I got cheated out of twenty seconds! How did you get the three minute version? 😢
a wild fuu same
a wild fuu it
We all did, and no one regrets it
Well sticks rarely stand by themselves for 3 minutses so yeh.
I bet this is how lando calrizians house stays up
Diego Aguilar there was an attempt
@@poboypowder7567 thanks man
1:07 we were so close to equilibrium.
Sweet stuff
This needs to be tried in a vacuum chamber to see how close to equilibrium it can actually get.
@@prajwalgaonkar, it needs to be tried in a vacuum, on a flat, motionless Earth.
notahotshot space
@@kingkahoonah with gravity*
Why doesn't anyone understand how amazing this really is...? Good job man, what you demonstrated/ created is something amazing. It's a self correcting system with actual "pinpoint" accuracy.
The 2 million views be like: am I joke to you?
@@mechanicalmonk2020 views doenst mean they fully understand what is going on and what it takes to make such a contraption.
unreal demonstration. i love how this is coming up as we're watching spacex deal with the control on Starship. nice visuals on the basics of how that all works.
Awesome... with self zeroing! This is the hardest part of it and probably hardly anybody notices! ^^
1970: we’ll have flying cars in the future!
The future: self balancing stick.
We had flying cars for a few years now
@PushandillPushback lucky, I don't think I have requirement and money to ever have one
what ever you say ua-cam.com/video/nnF2yua4KIw/v-deo.html
@PushandillPushback yea...they do....please don't be an idoit. Flying cars are not hard to make, but normal people cant drive them, so no ,they are not being produced, they would never sell..... how many accidents happen on the ground....you think flying cars would be better for usa, land of car accidents vs the world. Whats the definition on a car? Now just understand you can at propellers and jet engines. If you have the money. You can modify until it flys. We have all the tech. Thats my point.
www.aeromobil.com/specification
A sentence that I never thought I would ever read, haha!
It’s taken me a month of blocking monetized channels to start finding incredible things like this. Thank you 🙏
Almost 4 a.m. and I'm watching a self balancing stick on the internet. God, my life is sad....
No.the sad thing is im answering you.
better than cat videos
@@ahbushnell1 only slightly.
Its 4:30 AM and I am watching this video too :D
Divyanshu Negi hmm, 4:32 AM here. Strange coincidence.
How it started: Trying to stand a pencil on the pointy end.
How its going : This video.
0:01 i thought that stick will standup by its own and balance itself
I was thinking the same thing
@authorization batman I mean its perfectly possible. it'd take some beefy motors but its not impossible. itd be something like this : ua-cam.com/video/n_6p-1J551Y/v-deo.html
Well...you thought wrong..didn't yar...
@@charliepearce8767 i like how theres 4 new comments on a year old post thats awesome
@@justincase1898
Haha...the comments that come with this video are hilarious..
Take care..
Really clever and very well made.
A gift for the person who has everything.
This is so peaceful to watch
Agreed
Damn, that's over of the most well-calibrated PID controllers I've seen on UA-cam... Keep up this great work!
This is what happens in our inner ears all the time.
Yes only the sensory part . . The motor part would also include motor cortex, cerebellum, cranial nerves, spinal nerves with axial muscles.
@rob1248996 Yes. Not you?
@rob1248996 Mine has hamsters
@rob1248996 Could be Tinnitus, like me.
@rob1248996 No, it's onset at about 10-12yo, predating my obnoxiously loud car stereo by a long while. Just lucky that is.
Awesome!
did u call me?
Samy is my hero.
Yo dude! I met you back in 2016 in Santa Monica at a Meetup where you showed me a usb device that could hack into MacBooks, cool stuff!
The kind of work that went into making this must be crazy.
Beautiful, expecially how it seems to adjust its balance to spin down the reaction wheels so they don't get saturated. Even with the center of mass shifting and oscillating.
Hi Mike,
This is creating stability, in an unstable system.
An excellent presentation!
I study the dynamic behaviour of all natural eyes.
This is a superior instruction tool and simulation.
Thanks.
"What's is my purpose?"
"You pass butter."
"......o my god....."
Michael Crosby season 5 November 10
Good way to get an a on your science project
Its so amazing to see a stick balance itself that way...
@glyn hodges thats very true...
This is exactly what we needed in this world
Its actually a pretty important technology
Attach this to a pencil and you'll have the power to became the most cool kid in grade school
Actually if you stick a pencil in a fidget spinner and make that spin super fast then it does this
The Demon Reupblican ye but it doesnt stay up for long, it will fall over when the fidget widget of love has slowed down a bit
@@buzzmas8068 add motors then
I would also love the power to change the past.
*become
Google, get out of my brain. I was literally thinking abut doing something like this for a Halloween costume prop the other day. I haven't searched on it or talked about it or anything, just thinking about it. Now this shows up in my feed.
Bruh same, the fuck does my phone reads my mind now or what
Spooky!
I was thinking on searching Lolis but I got an FBI predator prevention video
think it can monitor wavelengths
Archimagus That‘s what you get when you are just an avatar in a computer simulation! But don‘t feel bad, we all are!
Why hasn't this blown up? It's the best thing ever
Its used for years in spacecrafts
That’s great! It can be so hard to bring those things from software to reality. I’m sure you had many issues trying to bugfix and make it real but it payed off!
Boys don't grow up, the sticks they find just get more sophisticated. 😏🍷
Thus is very useful if u need a balanced stick incase you forgot yours
With this new ED treatment, you’ll have no problem getting it up and keeping it up!
Love the shape
How do I buy the parts to build one? I want to put one on my desk, and look at it when I'm procrastinating my mechanics homework.
A miniature one would be awesome.
it's not that easy, I have seen others try to build drones with reactions wheels and it was very unstable.
@@En_theo that is because with drones they are essentially an isolated system the angular momentum cant be drained anywhere except for a bit through air drag so the reaction wheels on a drone become saturated easily, but with a stick like this the reaction wheels can drain their angular momentum by imparting a force downwards, through the stick and onto the table (and probably through the wire bundle) making it easier to have a system that doesn't become saturated.
@@halted_code I need to learn more about this draining of force and momentum stuff...I am an engineer could you please direct me to some article book or research paper on this stuff?
@@En_theo i know an article
I'm an electronics engineering and I know how hard it is to program and design all these things. This is a masterpiece
Finally, we have the technology to keep a pencil balanced on its tip indefinitely!
Man invents self balancing stick. Pretty clever actually. If you can't keep it up ..you need one of these.
This reminds me of when people flail their arms to regain balance
same principle
Exactly!
Doctor: Self-balancing stick is not real, it cant hurt you.
Self-balancing stick:
Oh, so this is what will make motorbikes stand on their own. Fascinating!
The graphs made it real cool.
This is really interesting..May be It can be used in a product to help the elderly with maintaining their sense of balance ...
@fumanchu Yes, but more like a exo-skeleton-Segway... :D
Who will hold the weight of the gadget 🤣🤣
@fumanchu more of a wearable ..like boots or backpack.. or a cane..
@@jbasumatary7861 the human..
@rob1248996 now... that is mean.... but as you will be an elderly one day... It is your prerogative to do so...:)
Me: * UA-cam, how strong is Leatherman's blade steel?*
UA-cam: *Self-balance stick*
I've already se new tip of engine. And I've already visualise new type of engine angular momentum. Keep it up, you are on the right track.
wow, im amazed that this was done 8 years ago, mind blown
I need this for when I get old and I just can’t get my stick up
im jobless for a almost a year now and instead of finding one, i ended up watching this 😂 Congrats UA-cam algorithm you won
Learn to make this and you will be able to get one of the best paid jobs on the planet.
welcome to the jobless club. i like to reinforce the thread and souls on my shoes with gorilla glue.(poor person tip)
Great job! I can already see eventually becoming the next “inverted cart pendulum” control systems lab in college.
This + electric unicycle. The perfect people mover device combo.
UA-cam: Hey, want to see this video from 4 years ago
Me: Really
(Edit) I said this not because UA-cam is not showing me new things it’s because I wished I could of seen this video sooner because it’s so cool what this guy did. Thanks for 97 likes😁
Me too! But no regrets
Splekh lol
can you shut the fuck up?
Yeah
You know you're not funny right?
1980: In 2015 we'll have flying Cars
2015:
Unknown_user . Success in my book
Best science project ever !
I was just thinking about this , and it cam to my feed !!
One day, when humanity is no more, I hope this is one of the videos that somehow survives as a record of our achievements. We made a stick that uses science to balance itself. What a legacy.
Can we get the tutorial including the coding...
My sympathies with the left hand motor that has to work overtime while the one on the right hand takes subsequent naps.
It's impressive that it did this well even with the cable attached
I could watch those wheels all day long
Okay, for fun, try balancing it on your finger while the reaction wheels are going. Can you overcome your natural inclination to balance it or will it be fighting you the whole time?
The machine responds much faster than human brain so it would easily compensate for your finger movement
Is something like this in the SpaceX rockets for when they land?
The detection part for sure. But they use propellants for correction. Haven't seen giant flywheels sticking out of the rockets... But, they are used to orientate space telescopes.
The reaction wheels suitable to do that would be too impractical to use for the rocket.
Not even close, however space craft like satellites actually use this in space to change their orientation
Cruise ships also use them for stability.
im waiting for the day all the self balacing inventions to balance on one another
Great job! That's a very creative PID application! Hadn't seen it before. Kudos!
That's really stick bro.
y u do this
Doreamon’s magic wand
Took UA-cam 4 years to put this in my list to see. Now I want one.
Amazing and well tuned PID control.
Hi Mike! This project is amazing! How did you mount the wheels on the motors with the pinion gear on the motor shafts?
Add one on the third axis, parallel to the other two, and it’ll float in midair
This would make a cool piece of desk art
I'm 58, this standing stick has better balance than me. How can so many not like the exceptional thought and ability to make such a device?
Who else randomly got this in their recommendation??😂
Everyone because who would search for this
I did, go figure.
Oct 6 2019
Nobody, you're the only one. In fact nobody else has even clicked on this video.
@@corejourneydotorg3166 To be honest, I SEARCHED for it.
Can you make it hover at a 45° angle?
Great job! I wonder what happens when you run it in vacuum
Who ever is leaking the bird hardware is a real legend
Hi! Did you use a gyroscope sensor, an accelerometer, or an inertial sensor? I would like to know. Thank you
Also curious
"Am I a joke to you"
- Gravity, 2019
Interesting stuff. I can already see them building dampeners in sky scrappers with reaction wheels.
Already got em en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuned_mass_damper
@@dnomyarnostaw Tuned Mass Dampers are passive elements. I think active mass dampeners with reaction wheels would add etntirely new heights to scyscrappers. Oc the reliability would be another problem.
where art thou, mysterious inventor? I wish you kept posting more of your incredible projects! Hope you are doing great things.
You want terminators? This is how you get terminators.
because "simple" is most amazing...
Mydlarski Mariusz simple? Then try to do it yourself.
I wonder, if you have a long stick like a broom handle, put one end on the ground, put a foot against the side and with your hand on top pull the other way, would it be possible to balance on a stick? I mean, you can pull yourself up onto a stick and it will fall over, but if you were to try to move your center of gravity around whilst on the stick, would you be able to balance forever? Maybe not since if you try to stick a leg out in one direction, newtons something law will make the rest of ur body stick out a bit the other way, ultimately not changing your cg. But maybe? What do y’all think?
I want to read a dissertation on how to build that.
This is surprise a stick
HAS SCIENCE GONE TOO FAR?!?!
way more than that
I disliked because you didn't explain how to make?
If you don't know how to make it then you wouldn't understand the explaination either.
You may be right but I was to say I need step by step instructions.
The algorithm is improving no end recently
I was waiting it to stand by itself
So actualy the motion that the motors are adjusting for is the movement of your floor/house/the earth.
How do you avoid saturating the reaction wheels? Is there some reference that you can point to?
The gyros are beautiful devices.
Super cool. Great demonstration
This is actually more amazing than people think because a stick without any balancing capabilities would only be knocked over by the movement of a hydrogen atom
Angular momentum in action! And put to use, very cool
Amazing use of reaction wheels
This is super satisfying to watch