Clik here to view.
Robot gets around on lopsided wheels
This concept robot uses angular momentum to roll around. You can see that on either end of the robot there are two discs which have been cut on one side to make them off-balance. For locomotion, two...
View ArticleClik here to view.
This cube is made for walkin’
Meet Cubli, a research project which aims to make a cube that can walk around without using any appendages. It’s a research project at the Institute for Dynamic Systems and control in Switzerland....
View ArticleReaction Wheels Almost Control This Unusual Drone
When you think about all the forces that have to be balanced to keep a drone stable, it’s a wonder that the contraptions stay in the air at all. And when the only option for producing those forces is...
View ArticleDambusting, R/C Style
Disclaimer: no dams were actually busted in the making of the video below. But that doesn’t mean that a scale-model homage to the WWII Dam Busters and their “Bouncing Bombs” isn’t worth doing, of...
View ArticleFlywheel Stores Energy to Power an Airplane – Eventually
Question: Can a flywheel store enough energy to power an airplane? Answer: Yes it can, for certain values of “flywheel” and “airplane.” About the only person we can think of who would even attempt to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Magnetic Bearings Put the Spin on This Flywheel Battery
[Tom Stanton] is right about one thing: flywheels make excellent playthings. Whether watching a spinning top that never seems to slow down, or feeling the weird forces a gyroscope exerts, spinning...
View Article
