2023 is staring well 🙂 By the end of the year you & a passenger will for sure be flying this Levitator (drinking a cup of coffee) PS. The house next door where I live is for sale. Maybe you should buy it, and move over! I would love to have a neighbor like you :-)
Would be nice to see something home made like that, flying around the surface of another planet. Good work, look's like a quite location to clear the mind.
@@daydreamer997 lots of other planets have atmospheres. Some may have different densities, but obviously, in a trillion+ star universe, with quadrillions of planets, there are obviously going to be not only similar atmospheres, but also sentient humanoid life (and a lot more intelligent than the run-of-the-mill humans exemplified here).
My understanding is the aircraft aluminum ways require the whole part after welding to be heat treated to be brought back to the uniform aircraft aluminum spec. Has been many years since I've read into and worked with, though something like that. Not sure how feasible to make a furnace for heat treating the welded product, though might be doable cost effectively. Great work!
That’s a neat idea you have there. As far as your points goes, have you tried heat treating and then tempering the welded spots? What about using carbon fiber material and fiberglass to make longer rotor blades for more lift?
I agree. I hope that smother more fluid flight characteristics will be the consolidation prize for the loss of visual poetry. If I ever get to scale this up to man carrying size I think the magic will be back though, with a estimated rpm of one full revolution every 4th second, 15rpm!
It's great watching your development of this idea but would extended wings help with lift, ie. another wing tip outside the props, uncontrolled, just for lift at the higher speed than the motors are going ?
I love what you're doing, and I think it's great, but I've got to ask, what is it you set out to achieve here? Nonetheless, whatever your goal, looks like you're committed to your craft and all I can say is bravo!
What is the wall thickness on the aluminum tubing you are using? I'm learning to weld aluminum and I'd like to practice on thinner samples. Love your channel!
Hi I believe your long term goal it to produce a machine that is able to lift a person, the prototype machine you have now, do you know what weight it would potentially lift
Would brazing the aluminium instead of welding it be better? They do it on bikeframes but maybe not with aluminium, i don´t know it just popped in my head and i wanted to put the idea forward.
amigo puedes explicarpe algo ? por que las aspas del rotor en el exterior son mas anchas que en el interior , no debería ser alrevez ???? ya que la velocidad de en el exterior es mayor , eso no reduciría el ruido y aumentaria la sustentación. Gracias
Ehh.. RU-vid filtering me out because I posted imgur links or maybe just because I don't type like everyone else.. let me know if you didn't see my wingtip vortice pc-fan wip lol
@@ToninFightsEntropy I think you used to be able to post links if the creator would allow it but nowadays it doesn’t seem possible anymore. I’m not 100% sure though.
@@Conservator. Righto! Be interested to hear if the channel owner had any notifications about other comments I made with links in or not.. They had no error posting, just aren't visible to me now.
The concept has potential to hover very efficiently, but my un-scientific and simplified DIY approach on wing construction really does not make the most of it. However, it is in the 11-16g/watt range, depending on AoA on the wings, which is not bad for a non-carbon-fiber and non-lithium-ion-battery pack design.
@@joaomarveloso1049 Less. For some reason this version makes less noise than the three blade one, might be the thin layer of snow though. Its pleasantly quiet, I think that the comparably static motor RPM VS a traditional multicopters ever changing RPM helps allot.
@@amazingdiyprojects Thanks. Yes it sounds pleasantly quiet on the video. Also makes sense that It is probably the RPM and 4 blades compared to the 3. I wonder if it would be even less if there were more blades and if that brings any other benefits or just adds weight. In any case the future of aerial vehicles would benefit immensely if it had less noise pollution. It would be a 'game changer' in my humble opinion. It is pleasure to follow your work.
From now on I'm referring to all ductile or malleable metals as “chewy“ 😂🤣. You want to draw that out to a smaller diameter? One moment, I'll get you some chewy bar. Still wondering how you will solve the control redundancy challenge and prevent the controllers fighting. Many other safety critical systems use some form of input averaging and/or voting, where a disagreeing component is automatically isolated or shut down. Perhaps a “shared median value“ would work to automatically ignore a bad GPS device while still allowing all controllers to maintain gps redundancy in the event of a failure. This might also work at the output layer?
:-D I will get back on the topic once I got the first FC working properly. I do not have any meaningful answers at this point, but several technical combinations I would like to try!
in the future we will have satellite drones that are flying over cities providing various security surveillance services and also providing information for autonomous cars, EVTOL, this van technology of yours could be this satellite drone for this purpose. and the propellers could be made of a material to capture solar energy leaving the drone flying longer to be recharged
Why are your ‘wing’ frames aluminum? Too heavy! Think like nature - the wings should be graphite, a composite plastic with similar strength but lighter - like a dragonfly! If I were building it (and had the dosh (= $)), I’d make them “wangs” as lite as possible!
