Engineering is everywhere and it touches everything and everybody's life, so, good to see a class A engineer do his thing. I hope it inspires lots of young people to go into that direction. Because we don't need people that point out problems, we need people that find solutions!
The turbulance data is awesome!!! More data is going to be needed to prove it, but I think it's the first findings of what a potential pending collapse could look like! And it's so fascinating to see that with an experienced pilot, subtle cues indicate impending turbulance! It this kind of trend continues with collapses as well, then it should be easy to alert the pilot auditorily to a pending collapse situation so that they can fly themselves out of it, but more importantly, like your project is about, if no input is given, have a threshold or limit, to automatically prevent the collapse from occuring! So exciting to watch this project progress!
@@AndreBandarra1 Makes me think, you could make a fully rigged VR paraglider simulator with actuators on the lines so you get all the feedback as if you were flying an actual wing.
Wow, what a project, well done with building all the hardware, software and getting it into something working displaying and recording. And thanks for sharing 👍. 👏
Andre you flipping genius. I am just into my second year paramotoring and came across your work thanks to a link from Tucker Gott - I wish you every success and whilst you continue to push the boundaries (having cracked sense and compute concepts) I really hope the wing manufacturers are beating your door down to work with you during their wing R&D phases. There are so many spin off benefits to what you have done. Thank you.
I know absolutely nothing about circuit boards or electronics but was totally mesmerised watching you building it all. The first data is already extraordinary, so do keep the rig flying. And I just thought you were just a pretty face! Congratulations
I suddenly find myself questioning everything I have done with my spare time throughout my life. Bravo Andre. I look forward to seeing the progressive transformation of your data into useful information, knowledge, wisdom and ultimately action. DIKWA. Epitomized. Is this your first patent? Congratulations.
Hoping for more videos with this! Would be interesting to see line tensions while winching, spiral dive, entering a thermal, stalling and other maneuvers.
And meeee! It's really fascinating to see how we unconsciously get cued to upcoming turbulance and react before the turbulance hits. More data is going to be needed to prove it, but I think it's the first findings of what a potential pending collapse could look like!
TENSEY MCTENSE FACE? im rolling. Seriously to see the circuit board and know i watched this guy start out with a simple sketch in video 1... Somebody said it before but this is the coolest thing on the internet.
Woooooow! Andre, I had not looked at your videos for a couple of months, and came back to a highly professional site. Congratz. But that is not the most impressive. Passion of Leonardo, insights Of Musk, and IQ of ... I really don't know, man. THIS will be I'm sure part of every benchmarking process for paragliding design. The fact that you give it to the world is highly commendable. Thanks for the geeks that keep us safe. And stellar Kudos to you, Mr. André Bandarra!!!
Awesome work Andre! I loved watching the whole process. Also great job with the graphic illustrations. Everything from the scale design to the board layout and fabrication was so cool to see. The wing shaped, color coded 3d bar graph was ingenious 😁🤙 You sir are a legend!
Great engineering! Congrats to the successful collaboration of the different people working on this. And thank you for sharing the making of and explaining all the complicated stuff so well!
Very interesting data and project. The summary in 16mins is very well done. It could have easily been a 120mins documentary for all the time and effort you put into Tensy. Very well done. Hopefully this can be used to improve safety. Thank you for your contribution towards this sport.
Brilliant, I am already able to guess how many different things can bring with this project. Many aspects from the wing design to training. The care of the project and quaility of the product itself also way too good for a proto. Good job!
Awesome job, man! One more interesting thing to build and test would be an automatic reserve parachute launching system (ballistic for instance). That would respond way quicker than thrown by a pilot and powerfully enough to some chosen direction.
I'm so lucky to be a beginner in the paragliding sport with inventors such as you! I dreamed of flying for decades since the very beginning Hang Gliding in the seventies. I just purchase all my gear and will start lessons soon. Keep on going on onwards and upwards!
That is such a cool project! I dont fly myself, but as an electronics engineer i sat on the edge of my seat there! :) Well done, cool documented and a hell of a nice project. Congrats!
I'm learning paragliding, more precise, PPG and RUclips keeps popping your videos. Happy to see you are proficient with engineering, by the way, your welding technique is perfect, it shows years of practice. Alas, the first thing went through my mind when I saw your approach with the sensors is that there was an easier and safer way to do it. Instead of cutting the lines - which forces you to add a security strap, just route the lines through a simple V shaped guide formed by 3 pins on a plate. Tension in the line would deform the plate and you can measure that. With the costs saved by not cutting and reassembling the lines, maybe you could have installed sensors on all lines.
I predict an autonomous paraglider quite soon based on your brilliant work! Machine learning and some actuators on the lines will fly it as smooth as a feather!! This will for sure bring safer gliders and push the sport forward! Amazing work, I can't wait to see where this will lead us all!!
Amazing work Andre! This system looks very professional. Im sure this data will become invaluable in the future of the un-collapsable paraglider project.
This is an amazing Andre, I hope manufacturers might want this kind of test data as well, as it can be amazing for their design specs, and of course, towards your uncollapsable goal. Amazing job with the end result and quality of the device(s).
brilliant!!! Measuring line tension throughout different states of flights. This is something I have been wondering but can not find the answer anywhere else. Keep up the good work!^^
@Andre, Tracking the data at the malions is great, but what if you were to measure up at the wing? I think you might find some finer detail with many more sensors, all close to the wing connections. If these were all connected to your system via Bluetooth, or similar, you could avoid having too much drag induced by long electrical connections. Eventually this type of technology "Could" be used to make self correcting Paragliders. (Useful for landing unconscious pilots, who have been overzealous with their G-Forces. ) :D There is a lot of potential for the projects you are exploring. You are a true visionary of our sport.
This is such a rad project! Can’t wait to see more data from more flights/conditions. I’d be really interested to see data from inside a thermal/various different maneuvers. Great work👍
sooo good to see this happening and be a supporter of it :-) I really love the project and wish you the best of luck with your ambitious goal! This kind of research really shows how an idea can form into something step by step and you are just the right one to do it.
A good student pilot gadget would be a simple line tension unit that would speak up under certain unbalanced or low-tension conditions. This would be a very good groundhandling teacher, and an in-flight alarm for improperly executed manoevers.
Interesting project! I hope this will be beneficial for us all one day. Keen on your next steps. P.S. good do see someone else is still flying around with the same pg and same color
Dude, just stumbled upon your channel. This is brilliant and you probably have a novel invention on your hands which you could patent and license. It's a fantastic idea and I encourage you to speak to a patent lawyer if you have any intention of commercialization. If not, keep on trucking! This is incredible. Subscribed.
Wow. Lovely and game changing work Andre, you've excelled yourself(again). Thank you for this and all your output. I've always wondered how the DHV and EN tests as well as wing review statements might be normalised for the particular pilot inputs, and compared. Also how safety performance and performance vs controls envelopes could be characterised in more objectve ways . Stadradised, automated and fully Instrumented testing follows naturally from combining this and your 'pilotless' project . In an ideal world a collaborative global R&D initiative would follow. Respect!
Great stuff , no simulations and virtual data can replace real in flight data in different situations...... But my guess would be for sure some manufacturers are already using similar testing rigs ...... In any case very interesting ....thanks for posting.
Andre , i knew you were a man of many talents but this is def a WOW Video , Great workmanship and potentially a fantastic design tool in the making , well done and big up high five for great & interesting content yet again :-)
hey, at 3:04 you show wave shaped track. it pushed me to do a research on google, since i have seen this on my raspberry pi too. now i know it's for even clock signale distribution. thanks for geting me smarter. :)
It's called lenght tuning I think, it's to make sure if you have a set of tracks and some are longer than others, this makes them all the same legth, which means same resistance and cleaner signals :)
Felicitaciones, asombroso aporte al deporte de parapente, está data es muy interesante y útil para conocer la tención que recibe cada línea en el vuelo. Gracias por tu aporte. (Congratulations, amazing contribution to the sport of paragliding, this data is very interesting and useful to know the tension that each line receives on the flight. Thanks for your input.)
Very nicely done..! Now that you have proven concept, perhaps look at doing the digitization and multiplexing of load cell data out at the lines to reduce cabling to your 'cockpit'...
Hi Andre, you might want to look into ESP32 boards for the sensor pickup. You can avoid all the custom PCB and RJ45 stuff. The ESP comes with a LP core, wireless communication is on the boards and they would run on tiny batteries for a flight. All you would need to do is poll the load sensor and transmit to your hub ESP board.
yeah, I've thought about it but think will defo try esp32's in the future. For now have a tiny board and battery inside each sensor might be a bit too much and make the sensors too bulky.
@@AndreBandarra1 Just use a small lipo with 200ma. They are cheap, light and the whole electronics package should be 30x50x15mm and below 70gr. Price for the ESP board is below 10USD. The 200ma should last you an hour. ESP32 also offers you the LP core that is able to poll an input pin while in LP mode! So you go to LP and keep polling the sensor let's say 10 times a second, this way you might get away with 10ma/h consumption! You could ucollect the data, read out after flight and then syncronize the datasets. That would lead to a package of 30x40x10mm with a weight of about 50gr.
Engineering is everywhere and it touches everything and everybody's life, so, good to see a class A engineer do his thing. I hope it inspires lots of young people to go into that direction.
Because we don't need people that point out problems, we need people that find solutions!
The turbulance data is awesome!!! More data is going to be needed to prove it, but I think it's the first findings of what a potential pending collapse could look like! And it's so fascinating to see that with an experienced pilot, subtle cues indicate impending turbulance! It this kind of trend continues with collapses as well, then it should be easy to alert the pilot auditorily to a pending collapse situation so that they can fly themselves out of it, but more importantly, like your project is about, if no input is given, have a threshold or limit, to automatically prevent the collapse from occuring! So exciting to watch this project progress!
When you said sensors I immediately thought "surely he has safety back ups". Exactly how I would have done it. This is amazing work.
This is the coolest thing on the whole internet right now.
ahahah :D
@@AndreBandarra1 Makes me think, you could make a fully rigged VR paraglider simulator with actuators on the lines so you get all the feedback as if you were flying an actual wing.
This is seriously one of the coolest builds I've ever seen
Wow, what a project, well done with building all the hardware, software and getting it into something working displaying and recording. And thanks for sharing 👍. 👏
Andre you flipping genius. I am just into my second year paramotoring and came across your work thanks to a link from Tucker Gott - I wish you every success and whilst you continue to push the boundaries (having cracked sense and compute concepts) I really hope the wing manufacturers are beating your door down to work with you during their wing R&D phases. There are so many spin off benefits to what you have done. Thank you.
Thanks a lot dude, really appreciate it!
Que show parabéns André belo trabalho!!!!
I know absolutely nothing about circuit boards or electronics but was totally mesmerised watching you building it all. The first data is already extraordinary, so do keep the rig flying. And I just thought you were just a pretty face! Congratulations
I suddenly find myself questioning everything I have done with my spare time throughout my life. Bravo Andre. I look forward to seeing the progressive transformation of your data into useful information, knowledge, wisdom and ultimately action. DIKWA. Epitomized. Is this your first patent? Congratulations.
Hoping for more videos with this! Would be interesting to see line tensions while winching, spiral dive, entering a thermal, stalling and other maneuvers.
My thoughts exactly
Who is as excited as me? The idea is awesome!
ME! This is SO awesome! Congrats Andre, brings so many great things together.
And meeee! It's really fascinating to see how we unconsciously get cued to upcoming turbulance and react before the turbulance hits. More data is going to be needed to prove it, but I think it's the first findings of what a potential pending collapse could look like!
TENSEY MCTENSE FACE? im rolling. Seriously to see the circuit board and know i watched this guy start out with a simple sketch in video 1... Somebody said it before but this is the coolest thing on the internet.
Woooooow! Andre, I had not looked at your videos for a couple of months, and came back to a highly professional site. Congratz. But that is not the most impressive. Passion of Leonardo, insights Of Musk, and IQ of ... I really don't know, man. THIS will be I'm sure part of every benchmarking process for paragliding design. The fact that you give it to the world is highly commendable. Thanks for the geeks that keep us safe. And stellar Kudos to you, Mr. André Bandarra!!!
Wow you are very talented in what yo do! Im glad there's people like you to push this sport forward👍
Absolutely Brilliant! Thanks to push the sport forward!
Awesome work Andre! I loved watching the whole process. Also great job with the graphic illustrations. Everything from the scale design to the board layout and fabrication was so cool to see. The wing shaped, color coded 3d bar graph was ingenious 😁🤙
You sir are a legend!
It’s always a nice when people appreciate the little geeky details!
Absolutely incredible work Andre!!!! I am super excited to see where this goes!
Great engineering! Congrats to the successful collaboration of the different people working on this. And thank you for sharing the making of and explaining all the complicated stuff so well!
I hope you get sponsored and achieve your goal man! This ambitious project and your complex bouquet of talents are worth it! God bless!
Wow....Amazing job !!!!!!
Well done .....happy to see this !!!!!!....Thanks André.....
All this work/research deserves a published journal research paper. Write and submit one, Andre.
What an incredible project, those data are impressive, I'm sure they are very useful to paraglider and flight simulator designers.
This is so amazing ! Thank you for documenting the project on youtube !
Dude! Mad respect for your passion for this project!!!
I don't respect many, but you, you have my deepest!
Very interesting data and project. The summary in 16mins is very well done. It could have easily been a 120mins documentary for all the time and effort you put into Tensy. Very well done. Hopefully this can be used to improve safety. Thank you for your contribution towards this sport.
This is the best invention since Penicillin :D. Bravo! You are a genius Andre.
Also I can see how passionate you are about paragliding.
Brilliant, I am already able to guess how many different things can bring with this project. Many aspects from the wing design to training. The care of the project and quaility of the product itself also way too good for a proto. Good job!
Awesome job, man!
One more interesting thing to build and test would be an automatic reserve parachute launching system (ballistic for instance). That would respond way quicker than thrown by a pilot and powerfully enough to some chosen direction.
So delightful to watch such a great job and exquisite workmanship. Congratulations!
Amazing project. Loving the Gulf Racing colours for the Tensy casing as well.
I'm so lucky to be a beginner in the paragliding sport with inventors such as you! I dreamed of flying for decades since the very beginning Hang Gliding in the seventies. I just purchase all my gear and will start lessons soon. Keep on going on onwards and upwards!
Wow that´s really a great idea! Perhaps you can also use it as an additional input for the variometer?
I am sure you are already improving the future of paragliders!
That is such a cool project! I dont fly myself, but as an electronics engineer i sat on the edge of my seat there! :)
Well done, cool documented and a hell of a nice project. Congrats!
man! I was trying to do exactly the same! but my roadblock where the sensors, glad you took the approach of doing them yourself! great video!!!
Incredible project!! Learning new stuff is fun, and the paragliding community is lucky to have you doing this work.
This is so freaking cool. Paragliding and science. You cant go wrong! 🤘stay safe stay elevated 🙏🌄
I'm learning paragliding, more precise, PPG and RUclips keeps popping your videos. Happy to see you are proficient with engineering, by the way, your welding technique is perfect, it shows years of practice. Alas, the first thing went through my mind when I saw your approach with the sensors is that there was an easier and safer way to do it. Instead of cutting the lines - which forces you to add a security strap, just route the lines through a simple V shaped guide formed by 3 pins on a plate. Tension in the line would deform the plate and you can measure that. With the costs saved by not cutting and reassembling the lines, maybe you could have installed sensors on all lines.
I predict an autonomous paraglider quite soon based on your brilliant work! Machine learning and some actuators on the lines will fly it as smooth as a feather!! This will for sure bring safer gliders and push the sport forward! Amazing work, I can't wait to see where this will lead us all!!
Brilliant idea and perfect video! I've instantly subscribed for future gems!
Amazing work Andre! This system looks very professional. Im sure this data will become invaluable in the future of the un-collapsable paraglider project.
Impressive work ! And very interesting results !
Awsome work man! I will definitely take a look to the complete document. Congratulations and thanks for sharing.
8:34 GOOD MAN!!! Was waiting the whole time to see if you included a safety. Great work. Cheers, #SeattleRingHunter
This is an amazing Andre, I hope manufacturers might want this kind of test data as well, as it can be amazing for their design specs, and of course, towards your uncollapsable goal. Amazing job with the end result and quality of the device(s).
This is freaken awesome! And thanks for sharing the data! I'm super excited about this.
The was so satisfying to watch. Very cool project
brilliant!!! Measuring line tension throughout different states of flights. This is something I have been wondering but can not find the answer anywhere else. Keep up the good work!^^
Cant wait till this becomes a full on product... such a genius idea.
Very inspiring - great idea and execution!
@Andre, Tracking the data at the malions is great, but what if you were to measure up at the wing?
I think you might find some finer detail with many more sensors, all close to the wing connections. If these were all connected to your system via Bluetooth, or similar, you could avoid having too much drag induced by long electrical connections. Eventually this type of technology "Could" be used to make self correcting Paragliders. (Useful for landing unconscious pilots, who have been overzealous with their G-Forces. ) :D There is a lot of potential for the projects you are exploring. You are a true visionary of our sport.
Such an amazing project. I can’t wait to see how this keeps developing. At the very least helps us understand what happens when wings collapse!
Love your work! Amazing use of tech and beautifully implemented. Congratulations.
quite impressive work. I really enjoyed your video.
Amazing project and results!
This is such a rad project! Can’t wait to see more data from more flights/conditions. I’d be really interested to see data from inside a thermal/various different maneuvers. Great work👍
This is extremely cool! I think this could be useful for all manufacturers.
sooo good to see this happening and be a supporter of it :-)
I really love the project and wish you the best of luck with your ambitious goal! This kind of research really shows how an idea can form into something step by step and you are just the right one to do it.
A good student pilot gadget would be a simple line tension unit that would speak up under certain unbalanced or low-tension conditions. This would be a very good groundhandling teacher, and an in-flight alarm for improperly executed manoevers.
Awesome Andre! It's great to see you're still working on this.
This is incredible work. Would be so interested to see if you can take this any further...
OUSTANDING. Thank you for sharing!
Well done! That is very good research.
Interesting project! I hope this will be beneficial for us all one day. Keen on your next steps.
P.S. good do see someone else is still flying around with the same pg and same color
Dude, just stumbled upon your channel. This is brilliant and you probably have a novel invention on your hands which you could patent and license. It's a fantastic idea and I encourage you to speak to a patent lawyer if you have any intention of commercialization. If not, keep on trucking! This is incredible. Subscribed.
That's awesome, thanks for the sub :)
I'm blown away.... This is amazing.
Very interesting. Nicely put together. Great job-thanks for your commitment
Wow... jaw dropping! Huge respect!
Thanks!
Wow. Lovely and game changing work Andre, you've excelled yourself(again). Thank you for this and all your output. I've always wondered how the DHV and EN tests as well as wing review statements might be normalised for the particular pilot inputs, and compared. Also how safety performance and performance vs controls envelopes could be characterised in more objectve ways . Stadradised, automated and fully Instrumented testing follows naturally from combining this and your 'pilotless' project . In an ideal world a collaborative global R&D initiative would follow. Respect!
This is awesome. Incredible you did all that yourself
So impressive! That’s well done.
Can't wait to see what you do with this project next!
Super cool dude, I love designing PCBs 😌
And here I thought I'd be one of only a few pilots who think this geeky stuff in paragliding is awesome.
Insane engineering--love it!
This is one of the coolest thing's i have ever seen!
Great job, congratulations!
Thank you for the work, I don’t know if the work is unique, I suspect not, but I think sharing it is unique and for that I truly thank you
Congratulations
This is amazing, great job!
Wow, you are one clever guy. Well done Andre!
Great job Mr andre
Great stuff , no simulations and virtual data can replace real in flight data in different situations......
But my guess would be for sure some manufacturers are already using similar testing rigs ......
In any case very interesting ....thanks for posting.
Wow - this is seriously impressive!
Andre , i knew you were a man of many talents but this is def a WOW Video , Great workmanship and potentially a fantastic design tool in the making , well done and big up high five for great & interesting content yet again :-)
this is what people need to connect testing to wings.. the next thing is also cross port re-flow characterization. great work
Well done! That's allot of work.
It is quite impressive work...
I have just open my mouth! Amazing. It may be used to improve paragliders!
Appreciate the struggle and forced me to like the video and comment
Clever thinker with practical skills. I aspire to your level of ability and applaud yours. This work should improve the design for safer wings.
hey, at 3:04 you show wave shaped track.
it pushed me to do a research on google, since i have seen this on my raspberry pi too.
now i know it's for even clock signale distribution.
thanks for geting me smarter. :)
It's called lenght tuning I think, it's to make sure if you have a set of tracks and some are longer than others, this makes them all the same legth, which means same resistance and cleaner signals :)
Felicitaciones, asombroso aporte al deporte de parapente, está data es muy interesante y útil para conocer la tención que recibe cada línea en el vuelo. Gracias por tu aporte.
(Congratulations, amazing contribution to the sport of paragliding, this data is very interesting and useful to know the tension that each line receives on the flight. Thanks for your input.)
Great work man!
Very nicely done..! Now that you have proven concept, perhaps look at doing the digitization and multiplexing of load cell data out at the lines to reduce cabling to your 'cockpit'...
This is remarkable!
Nice job! It will be interesting to see the datas of a collapse or full stall! Next video ?
Hi Andre, you might want to look into ESP32 boards for the sensor pickup. You can avoid all the custom PCB and RJ45 stuff. The ESP comes with a LP core, wireless communication is on the boards and they would run on tiny batteries for a flight. All you would need to do is poll the load sensor and transmit to your hub ESP board.
yeah, I've thought about it but think will defo try esp32's in the future. For now have a tiny board and battery inside each sensor might be a bit too much and make the sensors too bulky.
@@AndreBandarra1 Just use a small lipo with 200ma. They are cheap, light and the whole electronics package should be 30x50x15mm and below 70gr. Price for the ESP board is below 10USD. The 200ma should last you an hour.
ESP32 also offers you the LP core that is able to poll an input pin while in LP mode! So you go to LP and keep polling the sensor let's say 10 times a second, this way you might get away with 10ma/h consumption! You could ucollect the data, read out after flight and then syncronize the datasets. That would lead to a package of 30x40x10mm with a weight of about 50gr.
Holy crap, this is awesome, well executed! Subbed for sure.
Great info. This info will lead to some ground breaking stuff.
Great work! If you build Tensy V3, maybe add an accelerometer/gyroscope chip. That could help capturing the pendulum motions as well.
nice idea!
@@AndreBandarra1 And total g, since you are only instrumenting half, for any asymmetrical collapse events.