Festo's done it again

[CidTeach]

quite amazing. enjoy

http://www.festo.com/cms/en_corp/11369_11439.htm#id_11439

[SteveGarward]

That. Is. Awesome!

[Greg Leighton]

Amazing, for the first few seconds I thought "why am I just watching a bird fly..." Then it hit me. Wow is all I can say about this one.

[wireties]

Now that is a awesome UAV!

[JesseK]

The real question is ...
Can it detect my Husky crouching/creeping along in the grass, and if it can --
Can it take off in time?

Even on a dang leash, he catches unwitting critters....

[nighterfighter]

Amazing, for the first few seconds I thought "why am I just watching a bird fly..." Then it hit me. Wow is all I can say about this one.

Same here! I got impatient and just went to the text description, and my jaw dropped.

[racesick222]

That is pretty sweet I would love to have one of those.

[kwotremb]

:yikes:

Its surprising how its not only flying around and turning, but they are getting the 'bird' to hover in place as well.

[Arjun Namineni]

A perfect off-season project! :D

[Bill_B]

quite amazing. enjoy

http://www.festo.com/cms/en_corp/11369_11439.htm#id_11439

That URL belongs on every engineer's and aspiring engineer's bookmark/favorites list. Too bad we won't see one or more of their inventions in St. Louis. Maybe next year?

[nitneylion452]

I saw this video a few days ago when one of our mentors brought it up. I was speechless when I saw the video. It's amazing! You can't even tell its a robot until you're very close to it. All other times, it looks just like a bird! I want one. Now.:]

[MagiChau]

I called it 2012 game. Wouldn't that be cool though having flying somehow in a challenge.

[JesseK]

Actually, given that we're allowed FOUR banebots motors this year, there's a good argument for building a quadcopter to pick up the tubes and place them on the rack. It'd be the absolute lightest overall mechanism out there (mainly because it'd HAVE to be in order to fly properly).

I suggested it, but the kids thought I was totally whacko. Heavy sigh.
Maybe I can convince them to try it this offseason. It's actually not that hard.

[qzrrbz]

That is beautiful.

I gotta wonder what they are using for power!

[WarpSpeed10]

Wow, that is so awesome! Leonardo Da Vinci would be proud. :)

[EricVanWyk]

I forwarded this link to my mom, who is a high school chemistry teacher and FRC mentor. She showed it to her students, and got the expected oooohs and ahhhhhhs.

And then one student asked "What is that?", to which another student said "What I want to work on when I grow up".

[synth3tk]

Amazing, for the first few seconds I thought "why am I just watching a bird fly..." Then it hit me. Wow is all I can say about this one.
That was my reaction.

It's amazing what the human mind can do...

[PAR_WIG1350]

Actually, given that we're allowed FOUR banebots motors this year, there's a good argument for building a quadcopter to pick up the tubes and place them on the rack. It'd be the absolute lightest overall mechanism out there (mainly because it'd HAVE to be in order to fly properly).

I suggested it, but the kids thought I was totally whacko. Heavy sigh.
Maybe I can convince them to try it this offseason. It's actually not that hard.

It sounds awesome. I like to think of controlling the arm as flying it anyway. How would you tether it to the main part of the bot so that it would not get tangled, would be able to fly freely, and not leave the 84 inch cylinder?

[JesseK]

It sounds awesome. I like to think of controlling the arm as flying it anyway. How would you tether it to the main part of the bot so that it would not get tangled, would be able to fly freely, and not leave the 84 inch cylinder?

1.) Make a block of mini anderson connectors, energy chain, and plenty of driver practice to learn the limitations.

2.) An automated tether manager that reels in the energy chain depending on how high the quadrotor is.