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Electric Unicycle? OBSOLETE!


DiasDePlaya

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not sure if he just has a nicely balanced setup of props and he is kind of surfing the aircushion or if it has stabilizing capability and he must actively move the center of mass to make it go somewhere. The clampcelerator is neat too.. ^_^

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It's a basic octocopter, more powerful than usual, capable of carrying a human being for ~1.5 minutes using a truckload of LiPo batteries (just charging those will take hours, or an army of chargers in parallel)... there are quite a few multicopters capable of carrying a person, none practical: they are all very noisy, all very dangerous (there is a reason he flies over water), and range is non-existent. This one has exposed propellers, and looks even more dangerous than most, but it's one of the few that flies well (and by calling it a hoverboard, he's getting more attention than most other designs with worse names)

I'm pretty sure it could fly higher (yes, ground effect helps, but multicopters actually fly better well above the disturbance caused by the propellers: when close to ground, the controller must continuously adjust to avoid oscillations, using up more power than flying in clear air), the problem is that with 1.5min battery life, there isn't a lot of time to safely go higher. Also, the design is still pretty experimental (shuts off unexpectedly), so flying higher is probably not a good idea

Flying, as cool as it looks, will never get to the range you can get by rolling, so I doubt it will ever replace eucs, e-skates or e-bykes. But it's cool, no questions :) 

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