Quad pole balancing

[DucktileMedia]

The next video from the quad geeks.

 

[kloner]

pretty dam cool

 

[tstrike]

amazing, but makes you wonder how accurate they can program to work in a real world environment. I guess if I was a Venice beach stick juggler, I'd be concerned...

 

[araines2750]

All of that and no one seems to be able to produce a single multicopter flight controller that doesn't wobble, react like crazy to the wind or fall out of the sky when you hit a switch that is supposed to make it hold altitude......
These guys need to go in business to teach everyone else that way it's supposed to work!

 

[Kilby]

As great as these videos are, most people don't realize they are in a controlled environment. They can only do that because the room they are in is filled with HD cameras that monitor the quads 100's of times a second and send the flight control signals from outside the aircraft. Nothing in the craft is calculating that and making the adjustments, it's a bank of servers in another room that monitor where those ping pong balls are and predict what movements need to be made to keep it steady. Still very impressive, but I'll be really impressed when this can all happen on the actual flight controller. That's when skynet takes over.

 

[DucktileMedia]

Skynet! haha. Actually one of the more recent videos with these small quads performing a circus act was done without mocap.