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Self Balancing Adventure Bike

69.2k Chancey21  1.9 years ago
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Making a self-balancing off-road bike is hard.


Its so unfathomably, incredibly, impossibly difficult that it's taken months for me to get this barely working prototype. But do not be underwhelmed, this prototype climbs, jumps, steers, self balances, and turns all without any hidden jets or gyros.

100% real, exactly how motorcycles balance in real life.


But I'm not done, I need your help to analyze bike physics, nitpick and tear down this model until we have a bike and rider that symbiotically harmonize to tear up the trails in a realistic and satisfying way.


Controls:
Pitch: Throttle
Roll: Steering
AG1: un-crash


Thanks,

General Characteristics

  • Predecessor Complex Adventure Bike
  • Created On Mac
  • Wingspan 2.9ft (0.9m)
  • Length 7.2ft (2.2m)
  • Height 6.6ft (2.0m)
  • Empty Weight 498lbs (226kg)
  • Loaded Weight 543lbs (246kg)

Performance

  • Wing Loading N/A
  • Wing Area 0.0ft2 (0.0m2)
  • Drag Points 1750

Parts

  • Number of Parts 90
  • Control Surfaces 0
  • Performance Cost 721
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    69.2k Chancey21

    @TTL It did not start any other research into the topic as I had hoped and there didn't seem to be much interest in it

    +1 one month ago
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    7,506 TTL

    @Chancey21 what do ya mean?

    2 months ago
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    69.2k Chancey21

    Well this wasn’t recived well

    +4 1.8 years ago
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    32.4k Bernkastel

    This some new tech-

    +4 1.9 years ago
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    6,925 Kwoshent

    Nice beyblade! I like it 😃

    +4 1.9 years ago
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    173k Zaineman

    @winswings @wingsiron @OnlyRealCarrot Press 1 to un crash. It took me a while but it was a lot of fun

    +5 1.9 years ago
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    173k Zaineman

    Soo fun

    +4 1.9 years ago
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    30 CTHDSB

    that amazing

    +3 1.9 years ago
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    :D Time to play Kamen Rider
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdE8QpdWX5Y

    +3 1.9 years ago
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    69.2k Chancey21

    If you would like to help out with version 2, I would really appreciate it @MintLynx

    +3 1.9 years ago
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    69.2k Chancey21

    the steering is as much as the balancing system could handle, it works by changing the balance set point to I think 10º left or right. @MintLynx

    +5 1.9 years ago
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    69.3k MintLynx

    It does a good job at keeping itself upright without the gyro when running straight, though it doesn't seem to respond to roll input much at all. Am I missing something?

    +6 1.9 years ago