I'm teaching Robotics at a high school in NYC. Would love the specs on these. Are the chasis 3D printed? Any open sourced code you guys can share. I'd love a sense of where you get your parts and if you have a starter kit idea. Would love to get small drones going with my students. Thanks!
Oh my gosh. That sound speaks to me. The buzzing of them.. it reminds me of Mantrid Drones and makes me hope that these things will soon be able to build copies of themselves. Oh the beauty
Imagine having your own augmented reality system or a swarm of robotic hornets at your command. First thing I can think of you could use them as a super flying ability.
Also do you have a website detailing the build info for the quads as well as the programs etc used in the development.... would love to learn more how the whole setup works
because you have been TAUGHT to be afraid..by church,Corp(se) television,,and now 75% of utube sites...it's an illness ,FEAR,a usefull tool of control..FEAR NOT..behold,i bring good tidings...BOYCOTT CHURCH AND STATE,,,peace,j.w.
After what we've seen in the Ukraine-Russian war, this is the next step in drone warfare. Swarms of cheap drones attacking in different patterns with grenades.
You mean bigger in this situation, as the "nano" quadcopters are about a quarter-billion nanometers across, and since just about anything with single digit nanometer dimensions is not remotely visible to the naked eye unless it's emitting "visible-range" wavelengths of light (as opposed to passively reflecting), the title is misleading market-speak. It's 1 part clickbait and 9 parts very cool tech, but whatever...
The NSA is collecting everything that anyone does on the internet and recording anything anyone says during phone conversations and storing it all in a gigantic database for easy referencing. I think people playing with quadrocoptors and wearing Google Glasses are the least of our worries.
Amaroq64 No, because out on the streets and in your home is - or used to be - the one place where you do have some privacy. Now you can't even walk anywhere without risking putting your face in Google's database without even knowing it.
***** Why are you worried more about your face being in google's database than your entire personal life being in the government's database? What's google going to do to you? Put ads on your searches that are relevant to your interests?
Amaroq64 1. 'The government' (I assume you mean the USA government) doesn't have cameras on every corner of every street and doesn't make/save profiles based on faces that are seen by cameras. 2. The government has no interest in advertising and tracking your every move and geographical location, etc., unless they have a solid reason to do so. 3. Google is and functions globally and litterally has eyes everywhere now, thanks to the Glasses. You might say that, in a way, Google has more power than all countries' governments combined.
If you've ever played around with these little devices you'd realize that it doesn't take much wind at all to completely destabilize them. Their tiny motors are only so strong and they don't have the power to compensate for strong gusts of wind. Take them outside on a windy day and this experiment would completely fall to pieces.
Just imagine a group of 6 of these little suckers can scan the target's house, scan the layout of the building and take out all terrorists in a matter of minutes. Technology is getting scary
Drones that could communicate visual and location data with each other could easily reconstruct an environment and move around it safely. Here comes the push for secondary co-processors on drones.
What programming language did you use to program the drones to fly in formation, what sensors do they use for the obstacles, are they using an antenna to communicate position so they don't crash into each other or are they using sensors? Lastly how much weight are they able to hold and keep a steady hover ?
Below is my original post about a few hours ago on a neighborhood site. Quite amazing. The wind was reported at 12mph Westerly at that time, and these were traveling due South. They must have gone at least 7 miles in 4 minutes. 840 pm sat, at least 60, lighted craft in the night sky, which I first mistook for stars, but noticed them flying overhead and changing formation like an amoeba flew over rather slowly and continued to the south. fascinating. Neighbors also witnessed.
You don't need quadrotors to guide a bomb to a target, there's laser designation, gps coordinates, the bomb would take a lot of time to arrive and can't hit underground/fortified structures
I have question. How are they aware of each other position when flying in formation. It can`t be gps because the precision is not great enough plus its indoors. Are they aware of each others position all together?
+legit name dude yes. I was going to reply to his comment but I never did. I'm thinking the cameras too. Or maybe they use the same concept as gps but super localized. 4+ sensors could tell the exact location of each quad. But the quads orientation would still need to be determined. So maybe it's the cameras after all.
I should add, I was walking on twin peaks in San Francisco at this evening when I spotted the swarm. It was quite dark, so it was easy to see. I honestly thought they were airplanes and assumed they were at least 7 to 10K feet up judging by their speed relative to me on the ground. But planes just don't swarm like that as far as I know, so figured it must be these flying much lower than I assumed.
I fly a professional multicopter for various purposes, however its a big machine with a lot of electronics and still not as smart as these small ones are. Is there a technical document to read more about the ones in this video? I would like to know how they maintain their position and how they navigate, what flight controller they use, etc.
Hello, I am with a student team currently working on building an autonomous quadcopter. We were wondering if anyone involved in this project would be able to answer some questions?
That is in credible! I have a top of the range Hubsan x4 & cannot comprehend them flying in formation, Were you using 1 controller for all the aircraft or separate pilots or computer controlled flight? please respond.. very interested.. Peter
Hello . Can you help me about swarm robotics? I didn't found how to communicate the robots between themselves. Which moduls ı need to use ? Could you give me the list of materials you use? Please help me??
I am assuming that you are using server to control them maybe you can use other idea to make them more autonomy by making them communicate using leader, nice work
can the formations be controlled via 1 remote? like if each quad is programmed to stay a few inches away from each other then the movements are synced with a lead the lead quadrotor?
Read Deception Point by Dan Brown published in 1994. In the prolog he states "All technologies described in this book exist" In one of the first chapters, a Delta-Force team is using a dragonfly sized reconnaisance drone to spy on agroup of scientists in the arctic. That was 1994. If the public is being made aware of ground breaking technology with military uses, it's because it is already obsolete. Nanobots are probably not that far off.
Ok, so how do the quads know their position? Are they controlled from a central computer, or do they have avoidence software...you would have to know your position down to 2r in order to not collide. They are indoors, so no GPS...I figure white sheets were not coincidence, so I guess it could be optical, but you would need to process each one, uniquely identify it, and then position it. Since they all flew at same height, I would guess some type if sensor (Laser, optical). Need answers!!!!
Hi, have you written a paper on these quadrocopters that I could read and reference in my third year university project? It would be much appreciated as I am working on bio-inspired exploration robots.
The fact that these things sound like bees terrifies me in a most primal sort of way
It kinda scares me too
The future is here. I hope i'll live long enough to see more stuff like these
OK, these are just too cool...
this is actually scarier than it is amazing, or at least equal parts scary and amazing.
Now all you need is a BB gun and you've got Space Invaders IRL.
This is fucking petrifying.
I'm teaching Robotics at a high school in NYC. Would love the specs on these. Are the chasis 3D printed? Any open sourced code you guys can share. I'd love a sense of where you get your parts and if you have a starter kit idea. Would love to get small drones going with my students.
Thanks!
Oh my gosh. That sound speaks to me. The buzzing of them.. it reminds me of Mantrid Drones and makes me hope that these things will soon be able to build copies of themselves. Oh the beauty
Wow they are snazzy, but imagine what they could be used for.
You could put a 9mm round and small barrel and have this drones kamikaze into the enemy you want to assassinate or make them explode
Imagine having your own augmented reality system or a swarm of robotic hornets at your command. First thing I can think of you could use them as a super flying ability.
THEY'RE IN MY HAIR! THEY'RE IN MY HAIR!
WOW this + Martin Jetpack= the next personal urban transport system
manhacks are real. run for your life gordon freeman!
Here after 11 years. Feels weird to see this content again lol.
Cool, real world Space Invaders.
my nerf gun is locked and loaded!
Use drone spray there more better then nerf guns it will kill those drones in seconds
Cool real world black ops 2 swarm score streak
Also do you have a website detailing the build info for the quads as well as the programs etc used in the development.... would love to learn more how the whole setup works
why does this scare the shit out of me??
perhaps because of the aesthetics of the last frame.
because you have been TAUGHT to be afraid..by church,Corp(se) television,,and now 75% of utube sites...it's an illness ,FEAR,a usefull tool of control..FEAR NOT..behold,i bring good tidings...BOYCOTT CHURCH AND STATE,,,peace,j.w.
Because they sound like a swarm of giant bugs.
Technology+Science+Skill, the pros and cons th-cam.com/play/PL7tB6qL0r-AYne4REmG9Axwv3gfNRBUjN.html
I feel like we are looking at the future of the world right here
Now all they need is a frickin laser beam on their head. Totally creeps me out. I want a few hundred of those :D
After what we've seen in the Ukraine-Russian war, this is the next step in drone warfare. Swarms of cheap drones attacking in different patterns with grenades.
REAL LIFE GALAGA!
it looks like galaga
"Star wars. Episode 0.1: Attack of clones ... sorry, drones!!" :-)
All for the good of humanity, I'm sure.
"nano" seems like a bit of an exaggeration.
In 2012 that was nano.
I didn't know that nanometers got smaller.
You mean bigger in this situation, as the "nano" quadcopters are about a quarter-billion nanometers across, and since just about anything with single digit nanometer dimensions is not remotely visible to the naked eye unless it's emitting "visible-range" wavelengths of light (as opposed to passively reflecting), the title is misleading market-speak. It's 1 part clickbait and 9 parts very cool tech, but whatever...
Technology+Science+Skill, the pros and cons th-cam.com/play/PL7tB6qL0r-AYne4REmG9Axwv3gfNRBUjN.html
Anyone can spy on anyone way too easily nowadays. With this and Google Glasses, I don't feel there's any privacy left on this bitching planet.
The NSA is collecting everything that anyone does on the internet and recording anything anyone says during phone conversations and storing it all in a gigantic database for easy referencing. I think people playing with quadrocoptors and wearing Google Glasses are the least of our worries.
Amaroq64
No, because out on the streets and in your home is - or used to be - the one place where you do have some privacy. Now you can't even walk anywhere without risking putting your face in Google's database without even knowing it.
*****
And after that, micro death stars.
***** Why are you worried more about your face being in google's database than your entire personal life being in the government's database?
What's google going to do to you? Put ads on your searches that are relevant to your interests?
Amaroq64
1. 'The government' (I assume you mean the USA government) doesn't have cameras on every corner of every street and doesn't make/save profiles based on faces that are seen by cameras.
2. The government has no interest in advertising and tracking your every move and geographical location, etc., unless they have a solid reason to do so.
3. Google is and functions globally and litterally has eyes everywhere now, thanks to the Glasses. You might say that, in a way, Google has more power than all countries' governments combined.
I hate the future!
If you've ever played around with these little devices you'd realize that it doesn't take much wind at all to completely destabilize them. Their tiny motors are only so strong and they don't have the power to compensate for strong gusts of wind. Take them outside on a windy day and this experiment would completely fall to pieces.
Love to see that in government hands!
Very impressive. Curious to see wind tunnel testing
Just imagine a group of 6 of these little suckers can scan the target's house, scan the layout of the building and take out all terrorists in a matter of minutes. Technology is getting scary
Can you show the video footage where they all smacked into the wall, or when the batteries ran down ?
I wanna see up-scaled versions of these.
Yeah I want some of these for christmas.
Drones that could communicate visual and location data with each other could easily reconstruct an environment and move around it safely. Here comes the push for secondary co-processors on drones.
It's smile is really eerie considering that buzzing will send people running for cover in the future
What programming language did you use to program the drones to fly in formation, what sensors do they use for the obstacles, are they using an antenna to communicate position so they don't crash into each other or are they using sensors? Lastly how much weight are they able to hold and keep a steady hover ?
Below is my original post about a few hours ago on a neighborhood site. Quite amazing. The wind was reported at 12mph Westerly at that time, and these were traveling due South. They must have gone at least 7 miles in 4 minutes.
840 pm sat, at least 60, lighted craft in the night sky, which I first mistook for stars, but noticed them flying overhead and changing formation like an amoeba flew over rather slowly and continued to the south. fascinating. Neighbors also witnessed.
amazing, whens it comming out?
...so finally I know what the pixels in Space Invaders were supposed to be!
You don't need quadrotors to guide a bomb to a target, there's laser designation, gps coordinates, the bomb would take a lot of time to arrive and can't hit underground/fortified structures
“St2pid luv” karaoke in the background you know you’re in the Philippines 😂💀
LED is the control board's way of letting the user know if the board is "armed" or not. Doesn't draw much power for its practical use :)
Can you utilize it for fire fighting?
I have question. How are they aware of each other position when flying in formation. It can`t be gps because the precision is not great enough plus its indoors. Are they aware of each others position all together?
do I have to use necesarily brushless motors to make the quadcopter fly?
This is pretty amazing. How do the quads determine their positions?
Quite sure they are determend by their start position :)
+legit name dude yes. I was going to reply to his comment but I never did. I'm thinking the cameras too. Or maybe they use the same concept as gps but super localized. 4+ sensors could tell the exact location of each quad. But the quads orientation would still need to be determined. So maybe it's the cameras after all.
They use the Vicon Motion Capture system. The room is fitted with many cameras that feed position data.
Soon as I saw that figure 8, I was like "WOAH" then liked the video, the point is. This is impressive. You never see anything like this these days.
1:13 I will never sleep with my window open again. FREAKY SQUARED!
Impressive - air shows will never be the same again
i'm deciding on what i want to do in college and i was wondering what engineering major would have me doing stuff like this?
I should add, I was walking on twin peaks in San Francisco at this evening when I spotted the swarm. It was quite dark, so it was easy to see. I honestly thought they were airplanes and assumed they were at least 7 to 10K feet up judging by their speed relative to me on the ground. But planes just don't swarm like that as far as I know, so figured it must be these flying much lower than I assumed.
Are the quads communicating with each other, or are they flying on pre-planned paths?
I fly a professional multicopter for various purposes, however its a big machine with a lot of electronics and still not as smart as these small ones are. Is there a technical document to read more about the ones in this video? I would like to know how they maintain their position and how they navigate, what flight controller they use, etc.
i wonder what did they use to coordinate positions in such a high accuracy
who's gonna be the first to put a gun on that thing?
what about grenades
So when will the weapons be attached?
this has got to be one of the coolest things I have ever seen in my life!! I wish I can build one of those.
Wow! That's impressive! Do you have any published article? I'd love to read about it!
Are you using a special program to use GPS + bluetooth commands to control or???
Curious and fascinated at the same time!
Hello, I am with a student team currently working on building an autonomous quadcopter. We were wondering if anyone involved in this project would be able to answer some questions?
Can this be performed outside a controlled environment?
very interesting project, do you have a web site with information about the development? Best regards, Luis
That is in credible! I have a top of the range Hubsan x4 & cannot comprehend them flying in formation, Were you using 1 controller for all the aircraft or separate pilots or computer controlled flight? please respond.. very interested.. Peter
good show, not all of it can. perfect synchronization of all models
this is awesome. can a mini camera be put on it
Are these controlled by one transmitter ?
Wondering how much one of these would cost, and how long it would run on a battery charge.
I will need 8. I will also need some time to program all the square dancing moves.
What are the specs of these quadrotors? Whats the FCB and electronics for these?
The software to control this many drones is amazing I can see the home protection Application for this !
I'm sure this is just an example of the scaled up version that would be TRULY SCARY!
I'd love to see you win America's Got talent...set this to music, big lights, dancers....etc
Looking again, I notice all the cameras, so it must be cameras that are linked...I am guessing quite a bit of processing for the formation flying!!!
How can I get a drone programmed for commercial work?
Hello . Can you help me about swarm robotics? I didn't found how to communicate the robots between themselves.
Which moduls ı need to use ? Could you give me the list of materials you use? Please help me??
Please, tell me how can I buy one of them? I need a mini quadrotors for my project
I am assuming that you are using server to control them maybe you can use other idea to make them more autonomy by making them communicate using leader, nice work
If you blow fans at them they would just sit there. The Quadrotors perfectly balance it so no matter the speed of the wind it will just sit there.
excellent insight, have you considered working for the DoD?
Great work, but one fun thought... It would be neat to see these nano quadroters playing Galaga!!
can the formations be controlled via 1 remote? like if each quad is programmed to stay a few inches away from each other then the movements are synced with a lead the lead quadrotor?
Fantastic work!
what kind of positioning system did you use
Wow I want one! Wonder if radio shack has them?
so how do we... get these, buy these, use these?
Read Deception Point by Dan Brown published in 1994. In the prolog he states "All technologies described in this book exist" In one of the first chapters, a Delta-Force team is using a dragonfly sized reconnaisance drone to spy on agroup of scientists in the arctic. That was 1994. If the public is being made aware of ground breaking technology with military uses, it's because it is already obsolete. Nanobots are probably not that far off.
I use to play Down of War (warhammer40k), would love this thing to be interfaced with game, and each vehicle represented in 3d
are those cameras on top? How do they keep the distance?
Ok, so how do the quads know their position? Are they controlled from a central computer, or do they have avoidence software...you would have to know your position down to 2r in order to not collide. They are indoors, so no GPS...I figure white sheets were not coincidence, so I guess it could be optical, but you would need to process each one, uniquely identify it, and then position it. Since they all flew at same height, I would guess some type if sensor (Laser, optical). Need answers!!!!
What programming language did you use?
I'm really curious. what you're doing guys is incredible!!
very nice what software are you using for the formation algorithms?
Awesome. I'd like to build something similar in size.. Can you tell which motor and proller you are using ?. Amazing work !!
what kind of quad do i need to do it?
Stunning work
AWSOME this is incredible advancement in flight control.
Anyone please tell me, what type of sensor is used for this type of indoor position system ?
Probably Infrared based on the red Spot lights.
Hi, have you written a paper on these quadrocopters that I could read and reference in my third year university project? It would be much appreciated as I am working on bio-inspired exploration robots.
When i see them fly in different formations i remember the old computer game galaga where you shoot spaceships coming from up above you.
This scared me 9 years ago. God forbid how we’ve innovated by almost a decade.
Great job! Congrats!