Experimental Star Wars Speeder Bike
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
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I built a Star Wars Speeder Bike with omni-directional wheels powered by electric jet engines. I also have a plan for another version of the Star Wars Speeder Bike. Last time, I took the guts from a hoverboard and used them to make a balancing bike. Each original hoverboard wheel is mounted on the bike and drives the bike wheels with a drive belt. This makes the resulting velocity the same as it would have been when the hoverboard wheels were touching the ground. So now the balancing electronics still work as designed since the output velocity of the vehicle is the same.
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Very cool. How do you feel like a 3D printed "Salto" pogo sticking robot?
okay looking great! Good Job! Plans for version 2 are looking great so far! in case you want to take the V1 for a quick test again you might want to consider writing custom firmware for the microcontroller on board.
👍👍 looking great, dude 😃!
Perhaps the next version will have less mass.
Thank you so much for your endless efforts on making the world of engineering, robotics, mechatronics an inspiring world, May your day be made the way you made mine, Greetings from Syria.
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Syria? Tell me something: Why your brother flee to Germany? You have internet, RUclips…live seems ok! So, no need to immigrate to Germany.
We respect your culture, but we hate that you flood Germany. We do not want u in Germany. Cheers.
he doesnt care about ur comment
@@Mister_Fister.Individual creators very much care about comments. They are people. Hearing that people enjoy what you produce is always great. If you made someone's day better with your video, you are leading a successful career in my eyes.
Tbf he literally went a few feet, fell over and put dubstep over it...
WOW I have been dreaming of this since I was a kid!
look who it is!
So the last 2years?
@@jasmijnariel lol comical
Dreaming of what? An impractical designed bi-cycle?
I expect a cbr1000 speedster now lol
You should just limit the handlebar control to rotational steering and isolate sideways motion to the footpegs so that you can put your weight on the handlebars much comfortably and the leaning forces on each of your arms balance the handlebars straight until you use additional force to turn them.
Great video as always!!
EDIT: Being an avid cyclist (which James's vehicle is similar to in terms of ground contact), I have thought of concepts that I believe have considerable contribution to stability/balance:
1. The mutual exclusivity in motion is being forcibly relayed into the controls under the rider/operator's contact points (arms and legs). One can not turn the handlebars both left and right, and one cannot put both pedals downwards at the same time.
2. The motion of the controls, which also act as the ground/support of the operator, should not coincide or interfere with the operator's own self-stabilization. Angular steering via the handlebars should not cause the vehicle to rotate with the steering axis, and the foot controls should not interfere with the operator's ability to compensate their balance during sideways translation.
Translating these concepts into James's design, one would isolate angular steering to the handlebars, with the front wheel rotating equal or faster than the rear wheel. There would also be foot pedals (similar to bicycle pedals but bolted directly without the cranks) that are mechanically coupled in such a way that when one is tilted forwards the other tilts the opposite and vice versa, giving the operator a sense of rigidity as they stand on the pedals with the pedals angularly level. this alternate tilting or rotation of the pedals will then control sideways translation.
Again this is purely conceptual but I do hope these anecdotal observations from someone who has considerable time riding vehicles with only two points of contact to the ground will help you with this project.
Agreed. If the foot pegs were pedals instead of relaying on twisting the two segments for rotation, it would be back to an ankle movement.
It honestly seems like a VERY simple solution, to make this A LOT less complicated than it is and benefitted NOTHING from.
There's a lot to be learned from V1, and I really look forward to seeing V2.
I say use the exact hoverboard mechanism (both feet forward to go forward, et cetera), BUT, keep the handlebar twist throttle to control the amount of forward thrust. Handlebars rigid and strictly for support.@@kschleic9053
I'd lose the handlebars completely and change to a joystick. Lean weight forward more like a sports motorcycle and you can move chest side to side alongside using pegs for shifting weight front and back like the original hoverboard.
I think another issue that would help is the seating position. You are sitting very high on it and would benefit from a more "sport bike" position. Either way this is incredible and I cannot wait to see V2!
He could 3D scan his back side and make a perfect seat and print one.
Cool stuff! I think controlling sideways motion with your knees would be easier. I believe riders use their knees to control horses - and you can control a bicycle or motorcycle with your knees so it's very intuitive. Having a solid handlebar to hold on to seems essential - a small hiccup can quickly escalate to a full on disaster otherwise.
I have to agree. The floating handlebar seems fine on paper but in practice, and on conventional bicycles, it’s the primary anchor point, and the point at which one’s finest motor skills can be employed.
I used to play Segway Polo, and the older ones had twist grip steering while the i2’s had tilt bar steering. The older rigid twist grips were vastly superior and allowed for riding styles that were wild by comparison, and far less likely to end with the rider eating grass.
Adding more degrees of freedom to add more nuance to the controls also adds more opportunity for rider error. In theory this also adds more nuance of motion but that’s not always desirable over stability and predictability.
who controlls their motorcycle with their knees?? you can use your hips to shift weight for a better response when you want to lean the bike, but generally the leaning action comes from turning the steering wheel and then bein leaned into the opposite direction you steered in because of gyroscopic effect
@@timobensch3904 counter steering is certainly the way to control a motorcycle at speed. but a lot of riding techniques requires knee control:
"Your knees can also act as a rudder, helping you steer the bike through turns. By squeezing the bike on the inside of the turn, you can help initiate the turn and maintain your line through the corner. It improves your riding style. Squeezing the bike with your knees is a key component of proper motocross technique."
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"Proper standing riding posture should include knees that are constantly engaged in the action. They may begin stacked directly over the pegs but are frequently squeezing and releasing the inner portion of the seat and/or tank. It is this squeeze point at the knees that allows for some of the most significant rider input to the bike. With the knees doing this much work, your upper body can remain light on the handlebars and your adventure can last much longer."
@@timobensch3904 that's not why bikes turn,
you use your knees to hold your body to the bike so you don't have any weight on your hands,
the bike turns in due to counter steering, gyroscopic effects have minimal impact on the balancing of bikes, it's the frame geometry that keeps it balanced
@@StillConfusing I can assure you, with 7 years of driving experience, once you go over ~30km/h your steering and leaning is done by countersteering. and you have to countersteering because of the gyroscopic effect.
as soon as you turn your handlebar to the left, your motorcycle will respond by leaning and also turning to the right.
you can make it turn/lean faster if you move your hips/shift your weight accordingly.
but you do not use your knees to steer the bike. you also don't use them to hold on to the bike (you maybe use them to help stay on the bike if you try to slide your knee over the pavement/if you lean really far)
This is re-inventing the wheel
If this man dedicated his time to make weapons, the world would be a far Bleeker place.
Don't worry his FBI guy has a direct line to DARPA
It's nerf or nothing
I really wanna see you build a speeder that can go side to side and forward. I feel like you’re the best suited person to make it a reality. Great job!
this is incredible and you are an absolute monster of engineering! It seems like you are going to get this going beautifully in the near future, but seeing you crash and break that piece makes me think that for future versions, an exoskeleton frame would be really nice to protect everything (and look awesome!) Obviously itd be a big weight difference, but I have no doubt that you'll be able to compensate in the future, especially for a "final" version!
Wow just amazing! I’m amazed that 3d printed parts carry this weight and can withstand the forces!
All depending on the infill and print angle
I've never seen Mecanum Wheels used in line on one axis. Will be interesting to see how well the combined directional vectors work with that.
Since you're moving forward more often than sideways, wouldn't it make more sense to install the wheels length-wise and use the "wheels" inside the wheels to move sideways? Apart from that, awesome video!!!
Probably an issue of stability. Balancing it would be nearly impossible the way you're suggesting
@@alexlyster3459 I´m probably late (I just randomly found the video), but wouldn´t making the wheels 3-layers (instead of 2) solve the balancing problem?
(But then it wouldn´t really look anywhere near like a speeder. It would just be a fancy bike.)
@johnyshadow It would solve some of the issues, but ultimately create more than it solved. There's a reason people don't use flat wheels on bikes. You want rounded off wheels for turning, and going for 3 layers think your wheels would relatively flat
Add a "Joystick Deadzone" to the handler and add propulsors at the front part.
This should give you more speed and a better control
This looks dangerous.
*I love it. Give me more.*
This looks absurd
I love this. Also, there was a really cool and very different speeder bike design introduced in Shadows of the Empire that might be notable for inspiration. (It looks like a bridge between the imperial design, and those sleeker, more motorcycle looking ones from the newer stuff)
This is what ME/EE engineering course labs should look like. Bravo.
This project is AMAZING. I can't way to see a version that can improve the stabilization. Exceptionally well done.
I love this idea. Have you thought about having a stable foot area with pedals for the offsets? This would be less like a hoverboard but more like a speeder bike, and probably also make it easier to "rest" your feet instead of having them in constant tension even when trying to just keep things neutral. The other things is maybe a dead-man switch on the handlebars because it looks like when you suddenly are needing to dump the bike, the bike electronics seem to be working against you instead of letting you just recover to your feet. If you could just "let go" of something on the handlebars to tell the bike "stop trying to compensate against me", then it might make it easier to deal with that situation?
Agreed. It seems like it would be a good idea to implement motorcycle foot peg and foot pedals but use them to control yaw and strafe instead of controlling the typical rear brake and gear shifter. He might have to design an additional foot pedal each side positioned above the foot so that pushing it up gives the opposite input for that side. Maybe yaw left is down left foot + up right foot and strafe left is just down left foot + no right foot input? Or some combination of those, I don't know which should be which to feel more natural.
In general, basing the speeder controls off of motorcycle controls seems like a good idea, if motorcycles have a design that works, and they don't have a stability/bracing/comfort issue, then it'll probably work for this, as long as it's even possible to remap the controls to actually suit his purposes.
Twist throttle on the handlebars was a good idea, and he probably doesn't need a clutch, so he's free to use both hand levers for brakes. If he does implement multiple gears, they probably won't be manual, so he could use two thumb buttons to electronically switch gears.
Great job, man. It's a very unusual and most importantly very interesting idea! Thank you very much for your tireless efforts in making the world of engineering, robotics, and mechatronics an inspiring world.
You're literally my idol man. The stuff ive learned watching your videos is literally invaluable to me. Truly appreciate all your hard work putting these videos together, you really pump out the work. Its very impressive.
I dont think we understand what hes opening the door to. This is incredible.
Sounds like you've already got a plan for a redesign with those mechanum wheels, but I still think a 3 wheel design is worth exploring, using the middle wheel as the forward/reverse motion while leaving the front and rear in their current orientation.
Love your work, really great to see. Looking at this bike, given a bike is mainly for use going forwards and large wheels were developed to manage bumps (penny farthing) and given the wheels go in multiple directions why did you decide to have the wheels 90 degrees to the forward direction? May be a engineering decision but it pops to mind as a question. the 4 wheels would be good but bumps would be hard and roads are never flat these days (Australia and UK...)
Already seen a few ideas to improve the steering, but I feel like tossing in my two cents anyway: I remember seeing a speeder (I think in the clonewars series) whose handlebars only moved front to back for acceleration and deceleration. So you lean on them to push them forward, accelereating the speeder and leaning back, thus pulling it back to decelerate. Sideways motion and turning was done with leaning to one of the sides and foot pedals, I believe.
I feel like this could be somewhat replicated for your omniwheels by integrating the boards for measuring the angle into (or onto) foot pedals that you seesaw front and back. Turning could then be done by tilting one forward and the other backward simultaneously for example. Whether one would solve the sideways movement through the aforementioned leaning of the body, or by configuring the foot pedals to tilting both in the same direction for one side, would need testing as for the intuitivity I'd say.
The flight stick style handlebars are super cool, but I don’t think it’s a good idea for balancing, you can’t put your weight against them or else you’ll start moving erratically which will cause a death spiral that’ll probably send you to the ground every time. I think it’d be better to have foot pedals control the side ways movement and just have the handlebars control forward movement. Also you’ll want to find a way to mount the thrusters in the future so that if the bike falls they’re not the thing that’ll hit the ground lol
As a long time fan of you channel it’s just insane to pause and think, man we are so far gone from the days when you were outsourcing 3D prints to 3rd party vendors for that original Iron Man suite. It’s just so cool to see the technology advance so far over the years.
I get that this is more of a practice in code and robotics, but the mechanical engineer major in me is in agony.
Just... just put omniwheels on a gutted quad bike. It'd get more practical results, and it would actually be able to drive on terrain that isn't fresh asphalt.
Hell, omniwheels in general are painful to work with, especially if you're trying to use the small wheels as the primary wheel instead of the big one, since the smaller wheels will degrade faster.
Even worm wheels don't have that flaw, and they're literally just twin drills.
This is so cool! I wonder if a joystick might feel more natural than handlebars? like a helicopter.
@@big.muscles.ohyeaha world where the bicycle has a floating control, and multiple directions of movement
a normal bicycle has 1 direction, forward the from wheel turns to direct it, this has 3, circular, side to side and forward, so a joystick might make more sense bc helicopters are the same way
JB's problem with this version is that the handlebar is "floating" - firm arm rests fixed to the frame so as to allow a normal biker position might be better. Small joysticks, like those found on rc controls, could be mounted on the ends of these, effectively pointing away from the rider's body and posing no threat in an accident. @@big.muscles.ohyeah
I think I know what is wrong with your design. You may want to double check the retro encabulators. If they're not level with the disentanglement interface, it may cause perennial issues. It's not as hard as it sounds. If you run into any trouble, you can always engage the subharmonic oscillation monitor. Or, you can just upgrade to the HYPER encabulators. They come with the above features already installed.
Man I wish I was a nerd from a different country than America cause I can't have hobbies like this cause I can't afford to ;^;
you are also going to be dealing with the servo lag of the handlebars transmitting the value of the pot down to the peddle controller that then moves the servo that tilts the peddle sensor. You might want to bypass using the peddles as the controllers and directly manage the balance yourself. The mechanical delay is probably what makes it feel out of control. I know that gets away from your initial idea of just hacking the hoverboard to make this beast but I think you probably well beyond the hoverboard at this stage. Love your work btw.
James, your build is truly remarkable.
I had a thought about ensuring the stability of the handlebar. Have you considered adjusting the programming's input range to account for the normal corrective movements of the hoverbike? Currently, it seems to be set at 0-100 (example values). Changing it to 2-100 (example values) might effectively prevent those unwanted shifts.
* Example values - Code to record noise/movement caused by system to get high and low values.
You should use those forklift wheels that look really strange that can move perfectly sideways as well as the normal forward/backward direction. .
Very cool, but I feel like you had everything to build a normal electric motorcycle right there haha. Often keeping things simple is best.
I think making the handlebars free floating was a bad decision. It makes stability on the bike unnecessarily difficult it seems.
Tired of yall claiming it hovering by using two wheels. Its wheeled, its nowhere near hovering.
I cant even stand still on a normal hoverboard, let alone move it.... so this "bike" would try to kill me😂
Random thought: You may be able to have more control if you changed the handle bar to just be a flight simulator controller and a stability/handle bar attached to the frame. Perhaps this could allow more control of the shifting weight/balance. Not sure if this is feasible as I am no programmer but I have always dreamed of learning the programming skills and inventing cool stuff like this in my spare time.
The front wheel should turn in two directions 1 part to the right side and the rear to the left as well as the rear wheel so that you catch the balance and you are not chatted on video.
"In the future everyone has their pockets turned out"
I love the turned out pockets and red-swoosh Nikes - Nice BTTF call-out. "Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads." 😎
Seems wildly unpractical… AND I LOVE IT!!!😂
Speeders are floating, this isn't
Very nice! Speaking from arcade experience, I would suggest replacing the steering pot with an optical encoder wheel and two photo interrupters. Direction is determined by which optic clocks first, and the encoder wheel will also give you better feedback on the speed of steering rotation.
Why did you make a bike and not a self balancing wheel chair?
Honestly it looks pretty pointless. Wow another knock off speeder
7:05 very brave of you to test this inside, in such small room, WITH PLANTS AND OTHER STUFF.
I wouldn't sit on my invention if it wasn't a big field with lots of space and no hard things I could bash my head on.
I saw the Omni wheels and I clicked
Maybe use a joystick? so you have one hand on the stick and the other on some sturdy grip so you are more stable holding on to the craft. With some form of 3 axis stick like in an aircraft but +1 axis. Awesome video as always dude!
Fantastic job!! I'm currently building a Mechatronics project at home myself. I was really fascinated by your 3d Printing skills and fitting parts together!! How long did it take you to build this whole project?
"No, son we have Star Wars speeder bike at home"
Maybe you can use a button input to start and stop the control loop of the Omni wheels so that it gives you better stability. Say you use one of your brake levers such that when they are pressed, you can turn sideways.
on the floating handle bars that made it difficult to balance:
could you change the side to side movement of the handle bars into grips on the handle bars like break grips on a bike?
that way you could stabilize the handle bars onto the bike so you could balance better
Congratulations on surviving the first speeder bike crash in the Solar System! Well done!
I love it! idea for next project: A self-driving wheelchair controlled your mind!
Someone get this guy ionic plasma thrusters
I am stoked to see part 2! If you get a stable version going I'd love to see if we can replicate it for our starwars charity stuff.
You should make the omniwheels out of clear plastic so it actually looks like you are flying.
at first i was like "woah that's so cool, this is a really nifty project" and then i saw the mecanum wheel plans and went "WOAHHH THAT'S GONNA BE FRICKIN EPIC"
That plant survived so much. You were a stalwart soldier. I salute you. 07
All kids in the future wear their pants inside-out. Chapeau James!
Amazing project! I feel like a trim system could be useful
well, James I got to congratulate you for your genius design
With ALL respect due, this is more like a futuristic FF7 Cloud bike vs SW Speeder which uses some form of levitation. That said.. bad ass build, you have my "wheels turning" - Could we maybe FFVII CLOUD BIKE NEXT?!!!
I'm really shocked you're not wearing a helmet while testing these inventions. You'd think you'd want to protect that massive brain of yours from injury!
Yknow I’m starting to think the hoverboard wasn’t designed with jet-powered Omni-wheels in mind
Jokes aside, cool project!
I feel like either bringing the safdle down to a more crotch rocket riding position, or lifting the handlebars up would significantly help. As it is you have the worst of both worlds.. no torso support to help you lower your shoulders closer to the low bars, and you can't sit stacked upright because the handles are so far down you cant reach
Maybe start with a fancier gizmo, like a Segway? That'll keep you upright and propel you forward with some decent amount of power. Just avoid cliffs... You know, for reasons...
Now this is the type of thinking I like. Well done Sir good skills. Bravo 👏👏👏 👍🌎The World is yours for the taking. Get a good lawyer and you're good to go. Assuming you did the Patent stuff first!! They charge like a wounded bull trust me I know only too well!! 😊😅 I'm very interested in this keep at it and it's various incarnations. Keep me updated please do. 😊
Sooo...what's the possibility of having a Cyclone Bike/Armor like in Robotech Gen3? XD I mean...you seem like the guy to ask! :D
This is probably way over my head, but I wonder is there any way to make a bicycle version all cogs and gears🤔minus the hoverboard... Going to look like some crazy contraption...you are bad Influence now i want to put some EDS on my new bike project🤣On a scale of 1 to 10 I'm pretty sure it's totally legal on the street🤣.... Well good thing you didn't put a bigger motor on it yet😅
there's a lot of smart stuff in this build... but tiny wheels and air propulsion for ground use is never gonna be great. like even the best hovercrafts are hard to control and then you added essentially wide skateboard wheels on a platform that has to be balanced.
WHOA!!! You made the Ezekial Wheel from the Bible. In the book Ezekiel he describes a wheel that goes forward and sideways without turning the wheel. NASA even patented the idea and it looks basically the same concept as yours.
Training wheels REQUIRED lol. Also if you lower the center of gravity wouldn't that make balancing easier? Less torque to stabilize, idk.
You've probably already thought of this but, what if you had foot controls for forward/slowing speeds? You basically built that but move them to the feet control instead of just having pegs. Left, right, forward and back all controlled with levers? I believe that's how the speederbikes function. You'd be able to eliminate the twist throttle and eliminate having to swivel the handle bars. But keep the angle pivot function? Awesome build so far. Cheers!
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Could you make a tricycle arrangement for the rear omnidirectional wheels?
Have the front has rhe Primary control and rear as secondary followers?
Dunno. Im not much of an engineer nor a cyclist anymore but my first thought of seeing the forward movement was "Unstable"
Couldn't go in a straight line. Especially Not with those wheels.
A tricycle arrange could solve that. Giving you vertical support, and helps keep balance when you lean to create sideward movement.
Rigging the tricycle rearward wheels with some form of simple spring or suspension could also reduce the on having two smaller wheels.
This is exceptionally interesting, nevertheless! Keep it up!
I love your videos, and i'm jealous of your ability to tinker so casually, but your example of the eyes for smooth movement always bothered me. All parts of a person generally move smoothly, except for the eyes, eyes flick, and eyelids, well, blink. In fact some people have their eyelids 'stutter' when trying to hold their eyelids in halfway positions (though that's not incredibly common)
It's probably just because it's the easiest way to showcase the smoothing, but my animator brain still pokes me with the need to bring that up every time I see it, today I caved and commented...
Don't think I'm bashing you though! Genuinely one of my favorite engineering/3d printing channels!
Can you not put the wheels on the normal way? As you know you would go faster forwards, also small jet engines from a radio controlled plane has lots of power. Your obviously capable of building these amazing things, i can picture these things but actually building something this complex i wouldn't get far.
"A crash helmet that looks the part made by a company called Hasbro" is this a joke? Hasbro owns Star wars (for toys) and is the 3rd largest toy company behind Lego and Bandai Namco, with Mattel right behind them.
But yeah, your speeder helmet is probably legit branded merch.
Hello James. My dream would be to see you build a Thundertank!!! With all the Thundercats inside!!! It would be wonderful and epic!!! Cheers.
Wow you must really like Star Wars 😂
Look up rake (or caster) and trail on motorcycle geometry.
They're very very important. Sport bikes have smaller rake which makes them easier to flip back and forth and nimble. However it makes them inherently less stable as well. A Yamaha R1s rake is 24 degrees and this is a bike you can drive from the showroom floor to the track.
Compare this to those custom Hogs where the front tire sticks out way far. It's not only for looks. This makes it more stable at the cost of being less "flippable". It makes long highway rides much easier and relaxing.
Your rake is zero degrees...yeah. No matter what it's going to be unstable as heck. Even if you're upgrading all the bits all those bits have to work even harder than they should be.
In addition by having the front drive wheel perpendicular you maximized its crossection. Hold a piece of cardboard out your car window perpendicular to the direction you're going and feel how hard it's pushing. This is yet more the motors need to fight with.
Not sure how much engineering it would take but even a rake of 10 to 15 degrees should make it a LOT more stable than it is and less taxing on the motors, batteries, electronics.
Also consider upgrading to sprocket and chains. They take up less space and won't skip or creep like the belt. With your design you're measuring position at the smaller pulley. I imagine it's not going to be good if the belt were to skip even a single tooth which does happen even on non 3d printed parts.
Hello, ex motorcycle mechanic, and i've rode bikes for 14 years:
In sport bikes (high seat, low handlebar) you rly can't hold to the bars, because a tiny input can result in a big lean.
The trick is that you hold the bars like the hand of a newborn, and you actualy hold your body hugging the tank with your knee.
So i suggest to add a contraption that might help you hold your torso up by anchoring yourself with your knees and thighs.
A "fake fuel tank" if you will!
You could try making the handlebars vertical instead of horizontal, and instead of using lateral motion to control lateral acceleration, make them laterally stable again, and use something "simpler" like a thumb wheel for lateral acceleration, you wouldn't be sacrificing stability (via a wobbly handle bar).
I'm sure it's not super simple from an engineering standpoint, but it would be simpler from a user standpoint.
James I love your channel and your videos, but they can be so frustrating to watch unfold. This is a classic Bruton project in this regard - cool idea, build looks epic, but a lack of simple pre-build mathematical checks on the power-weight ratios and the desired speed, acceleration or response times leaves this build (like many others on your channel) completely useless when it comes to what you were aiming for originally.
I love the ideas and the wacky build plans are so cool - but please please *please* incorporate more basic feasibility checks on the expected performance before you commit all this time and materials towards a build. Otherwise it feels like so much effort for such a disappointing result. Like those ESCs to drive you along. Surely some simple force calculations could have told you that they were absolutely laughably underpowered? So much unnecessarily wasted effort and resources on a doomed approach 😔
Keep improving, keep building, I'm all here for it. But *please* check the maths before you fire up your 3d printers!
Don't know why you made the bike frame swivel between front and back wheels. Don't know why you didn't just make leaning the whole bike side to side cause the whole bike to translate side to side. That would feel natural and intuitive, while handlebars could just do rotation, which would also feel natural and provide a stable place to hold onto for balance.
What a joke 🤣🤣🤣🤣 waste of money and time
We are getting closer and closer to living in the star wars universe. Hacksmith making lightsabers, Boston Dynamics making droids, some other company making clones and you making speeder bikes... The last step is for the Dalai Lama to start showing off his Jedi powers lol
Your balance will improve if you look where you want to go rather than down at the handlebars. Your body (after some practice) will make adjustments intuitively to keep your upright and travelling in the right direction
at 12:42 it seems like he is falling and instinctively trying to lean the handle bars to his left which would make the craft fall further.
What if the sideways handlebar movement direction control was reversed?
[This sounds mad I know but back when I attached a sacktrolley to a skateboard to transport my keyboard at UNI (keyboard was on the front as a crumple-zone) I had to have the rear truck of the board reversed. This was because when i was falling to the right i instinctively put more foot pressure on the right side of the board and with the usual rear skate truck that would cause it to go to the left. When reversed this felt much more natural and was actually quite fun and reasonably safe. It certainly beat walking with a keyboard on my back.]
That way the instinctive handlebar direction (muchlike the original products ankle movement) would aid rather than hinder the balencing
Those handlebars may be a hazard. That leverage exaggerates the tearing. I think an ergonomic knob it probably best, and, as you mentioned, a place to firmly mount the other hand to stabilize oneself relative to the bike.
For whatever reason, I have super-balance, so I would love to ride that thing. I don't want to try to not oversteer with those handlebars though; that seems a bit too hazardous even for someone with super-balance.
For the gears and bearings you should use materials from the company igus. They wont wear out so quickly. This company built a whole bike out of plastic. Not a good looking bike, but hey. Only plastics
Slightly surprised you didn't try using something more akin to Mecanum wheels...
Edit: ah, I see you _were_ considering it, towards the end of the video. Fun stuff.
Maybe you might consider that to push a bike quickly through a left hand turn you push the left away while pulling on the right arm you can see it in action on a Speedway dirt oval, BUT just WoW that’s a bike I want 👍🏻
I love how RC electronics claim to be able to handle 5KW and yet are the size of a pack of cards. Meanwhile a 5KW industrial motor controller is like 50 times the size. Meanwhile anyone who attempts to run a continuous load through the RC one melts their ESCs.
So, fun-wise, this seems awesome! Efficiency of design for moving forward-wise (and safely), however, lol.... ...well, at least you're not going too fast when you crashing. If you do get it to balance well on its own, how do you get it to stop if you're on a slight (or more) incline? Both for the controls and possibly for a separate handle bar for resting on you might want to have those higher up and a little more back (closer to you're reach essentially so you can control the thing without leaning forward too much to make for a more comfortable ride). If you get good enough at balancing on it you might be able to remove the handle bars and just use the controls eventually. I'm not a robot maker, so I cannot tell you how to make it more stable or faster forward other than possibly adding gyros or much much much stronger fans/jets (if you don't hit a sideways skid, going forward faster might help with stability). I wish I had the resources and robotics knowledge to do cool stuff like this. Good on you!
Yes, a two-wheeler exposes problems that a four-wheeler equipped with those other wheels mutes- mainly, stabilizing the vehicle from centrifugal forces during an abrupt turn caused by wheel direction change. Would an installed gyro (or an auto counter-lean function) synced and tuned to all motion variables that would kick in during a turn help counter the wipe-outs?
*Also, it seems that conceiving and engineering this from the start on a V2 so the power of the motor(s) is "perfectly" matched to the mass of the wheels to decrease drag with the overarching goal of an ideal matching of weight of wheels and entire vehicle with the power from battery and motor, achieved though choice of lighter wheel materials plus aiming for the lowest total center of gravity of the whole device in its design, would help matters.
So cool to watch. Thanks.
You can add jet Propulsion system in the back and balance it by the fuel
Tanks. Although its a nice project 👍🏻👍🏻 best of luck for your further projects