Drone Motors on a Hydrofoil Surfboard

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@hrmny_ 28 күн бұрын

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@NicholasRehm

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@MyLeoOne

Your proficiency in having ideas and being able to put in the effort to make them and document everything for KZbin is admirable

@OpreanMircea

I love the advanced flotation device on that FPV drone

@Kevin_Aus

They are extremely difficult to ride. Especially if you don't already know how to surf/skate/wakeboard/etc.. One thing you seem to have mastered is safetly falling off. You often see surfers 'wipe out' and it looks totally random, but there is often some serious last second movements to aviod injury. Keep it up. Feels amazing once you get good.

@skenzyme81

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@sUASNews

Is there no end to your talent, I am always pleased to get a notification of a new video from you.

@lady_draguliana784

to pump foil you need to see-saw your feet: every motion is front-foot-first.

@1over137

It looks like it behaves more like a bicycle. If you want to turn, yaw as you found out will cause an adverse roll the other way. However, to keep the board stable in the turn the stem needs to be leaned over such that the force remains directly down through the stem.

@MrDayinthepark 28 күн бұрын

This channel is the nerdiest and most fun, of nearly all of KZbin.

@markuslimseth8426

Try to attach a rudder and some ailerons to the foil and use waterproof servos and a flight controller to help stable the foil.

@TheZombieSaints

By far my favourite uploader! Well done mate! I always love seeing how you troubleshoot and then overcome said problem with real outside the box thinking. Great job 👏👏👏👍👍

@ladudeman86

That was very cool. The shots of the foil underwater were really neat. I like how you kept pushing and trying different things to get to this result. Looking forward to your summer board riding. 👍🏻

@FoilFanatic42

So happy to see bigger channels getting into this! Efoiling/hydrofoil pumping is so fun.

@ferdynandkiepski5026

For inspiration you can look to foiling boats and catamarans. In terms of independence between speed and pitch/height you should probably be vectoring the thrust depending on how high the board is using a rotating engine mount. This would increase efficiency. In terms of making it work for a human though, adding engines onto the foil instead of props in the air would be the superior method. Ideally the batteries should be a part of the board i think. Though cooling would probably become a problem as the board in flight doesn't contact the water. The ESCs would probably be cooled the easiest if they were on the foil somehow. With you on top of it you dont need to think about controls at all. You changing your center of mass would be controlling the board. Also tweaking the distance between the foils, their location relative to the center of the board and their size has a large impact on how the board behaves. This is something you didn't include in the video, and that probably could have made your pitch problems easier to solve. Also depending on how big, heavy and fast your human carrying board ends up being, you might want to look at foil designs for kitefoiling or windfoiling as the speeds there are higher and in windsurfing the weight is way higher as well. Oh and get yourself a impact vest. It makes a world of difference when falling at high speeds. Though they aren't as good floatation devices in my experience.