The uses of these things are severely hampered by their fixed internal reference points and how awkward they are to rotate physically. If they possessed a "gimbal" to rotate the inner reference point on keypress and a way to configure that in the editor, we could do so much more.
Look at this drone, the Axe X:
That funny "tail" which rotates a direction indicator on a joint? That's a gimbal built the hard way. It has so many uses it ends up everywhere on my designs despite how awkward, wobbly, huge, and fragile it is. I've used it for:
Following walls very reliably. I completed all racetracks to the top 50 100 just following walls, until I realized 'next waypoint' was an option! Doh.
Holding unbalanced drones on a straight line course.
Catching and correcting overshoot for very fast turns without oscillation.
A drift compensator to "lean into" curves on racetracks
Tracking the size of the sumo ring
Making sub-drones orbit the main drone at a distance.
[edit] Angular accelerometers
[edit] Tracking your drone's location on a planet
They're really awkward to use in other ways. Observe the pair of 'eye's in that drone. I needed two since I didn't have room to rotate one at 45 degrees.
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The uses of these things are severely hampered by their fixed internal reference points and how awkward they are to rotate physically. If they possessed a "gimbal" to rotate the inner reference point on keypress and a way to configure that in the editor, we could do so much more.
Look at this drone, the Axe X:
That funny "tail" which rotates a direction indicator on a joint? That's a gimbal built the hard way. It has so many uses it ends up everywhere on my designs despite how awkward, wobbly, huge, and fragile it is. I've used it for:
50100 just following walls, until I realized 'next waypoint' was an option! Doh.They're really awkward to use in other ways. Observe the pair of 'eye's in that drone. I needed two since I didn't have room to rotate one at 45 degrees.
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