Making a Drone in Besiege

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[@ace-fh9hg]

the spinning of the drone could have been fixed by simply making an a/b style propeller which is 2 of the 4 four propellers spin in the oposite direction example: A B 0 B A the 0 is the center of the drone as the A and B is the propellers A would spin clockwise and B would spin counter clockwise if you own a quad copter yourself. you will notice an a and b respective of the propellers so you wont get confused when changing out propellers

[@ReidCaptain]

It would have helped, but there was no real need since the reaction wheel was already necessary for turning and holding perfectly in one direction. Plus, i couldn't invert the pitch of the blades perfectly so there would have been slight imbalances in thrust.

[@abyss9447]

@@ReidCaptain pressing f allows you to flip the direction of the propellers

[@MGSLurmey]

Can I just.. uh.. point out to everyone. *These are not propellers. They are rotor blades.*

[@Hlebuw3k]

@@ReidCaptain A reaction wheel is not needed on a drone, you can just slow down group A / B to turn LEFT / RIGHT and speed up the opposite group

[@ace-fh9hg]

@@ReidCaptainI did not think about that I see Also I didn't mean to sound rude in the first comment if it gave you that vibes

[@bubbyft3779]

at this rate you’ll be building a spacex rocket by october

[@FennecMizar]

I mean all hes gotta do is crash it so thats pretty easy

[@gamestroyer891]

in ksp

[@FennecMizar]

@@gamestroyer891 theres entire mods based around spacex craft so thats kinda boring

[@ElBrahh]

@@FennecMizar stock Falcon Heavy

[@stuchly1]

@@FennecMizar the massive shaaaade lmaoooooooo 🤣🤣🤣

[@lizardude9114]

I think you can flip the direction, perfectly, of the propellers by pressing F. (sorry mrzombie if that's what u meant by your comment lol)

[@theneonbop]

@Fierce Plays2072 I think people who donate in some way get to see the videos earlier

[@Sophrv]

this came out an hour ago, you commented 15 hours ago. *HOW*

[@Broken0Hearted]

Can we get an F in chat

[@mistere6299]

As someone who literally only makes flying machines in Besiege I can confirm that pressing F is best

[@Ssusnny]

yeah that triggered me so much

[@NLT1734]

Also btw you can press "f" on whatever piece you're highliting to flip it i.e the propellers

[@Goldfish_Vender]

I wish he would actually look at the controls of the games he plays and learns how to play it before making complex builds. It would make watching a lot less frustrating lol

[@warpers7652]

@@Goldfish_Vender it's to visually show us hes flipping, he said in a comment he knows it exists

[@carlwheezerofsouls3273]

@@warpers7652 wait so he understands that he can perfectly flip them, but he does it just to make sure that we’re not somehow lost?? for fucks sake its just flipping an object, of all the things to get stuck on, especially flipping between the detectors and only showing their settings for a split second, flipping an object is somehow confusing enough that he has to actually show them being turned……. jesus christ this dude is special, very very special.

[@zioqqr4262]

@@carlwheezerofsouls3273 what do you gain from being so rude

[@bzanzaFN]

Goofy

[@expiredbanana6283]

FWI: You can press [f] while over certain blocks to reverse the direction, flip, extend by default, ect.

[@dropkickedmurphy6463]

yeah you really didnt have to do that

[@minecrafangerbirdsmovie3928]

@@dropkickedmurphy6463 he did he wasn’t using f sooo

[@minecrafangerbirdsmovie3928]

@@acered1651 lol

[@dropkickedmurphy6463]

I didnt mean that to you i meant that to Reid if he reads it.

[@chrisakaschulbus4903]

@@acered1651 "for we information :) " so pure... so family friendly... fucking wiki it!!!

[@maradupras7278]

1:50 if you hover over a wheel, steering hinge, propellor, etc. and press F, it'll flip the direction for you so you don't need to set the keys yourself. Just a tip

[@crabbyeric900]

hi tittily winkler

[@ReidCaptain]

Oh yeah, I just like to show me flipping the directions "manually" to make it more obvious on video

[@MyHandleIsGood]

@@ReidCaptain So you already knew?

[@maradupras7278]

@@crabbyeric900 Why are you like this

[@crabbyeric900]

@@maradupras7278 idk ask a psychologist

[@acered1651]

me: obvious, you flip the rotation of two so the rotation cancels out. the video: so i added another 4 on top that rotate the other way. me: i died. i am dead now. writing this as a ghost. this killed me.

[@oracioo4206]

2:25 i love how he like to do things more complicated than it needs

[@pixelcopter]

I'd love to see you make a 6 speed transmission. I'm gonna be trying it myself today again

[@ReidCaptain]

I have my 3 speed done. If I make another transmission I'd give it a few reverse gears

[@Cro_man_]

@@ReidCaptain can you link video

[@drewbee0958]

@@ReidCaptain play main assembly you would like it!

[@cromcc]

reid: building a kinda-gyroscope-based controllable drone that literally stabilizes itself with logic comparable to an experienced actual engineer me: complete lack of cognitive function or sensory response

[@JosephBallin320]

You could've changed the direction two adjacent wheels rotate and flipped their propellers to fix the leaning and rotating problems the drone had

[@erei5659]

yea when i was watching this i was quiet yelling at the screen saying "you're over engineering this, it's just a helicopter the way you're building it".

[@JosephBallin320]

@@erei5659 ikr, this dude made a whole fuckin functioning brain for a problem that coulda been solved with 10 button presses

[@MisterPyOne]

@@erei5659 ahhhhhhh

[@pedroanthonio7106]

Next video is gonna be building a quantum supercomputer in besiege.

[@therealcanadagaming]

Reid: builds a freaking drone, let alone a functional control system Me: builds a windmill that barely stays together

[@NLT1734]

I actually started playing besiege again, its like you read my mind

[@dwnsdp]

Idea: a machine that detects stairs and climbs up them

[@raymondarrington5339]

Yes

[@poketopa1234]

Wow, this was so elegantly done. Love this series!

[@augustuscrow1799]

Another great video, I don't think any video on this channel has been anything less than great and well made.

[@TheClobberer]

loving the besiege content, always inspires me to try to make something and then remember that I cant

[@stuchly1]

Reid Captain is thinking with portals even in games without any portals! Amazing stuff once again! i absolutely love and adore your projects!

[@ilovehumongoushonkers]

I made something similar but with regular propellers and altimeter, your approach to this is pretty interesting. A tiny drone like this can demolish the campaign with few mods

[@1mariomaniac]

I just found this channel today by your explosion engine video, loving everything I've seen so far. 😁

[@jesterfrickinly8915]

yo great vid reid, love ya content

[@sirmatthry]

thought it was going to be a scuffed drone but you actually pulled it off. great job!

[@Xiangling.24]

The top center looks like real life engines its really cool

[@alasdairsinclair916]

I remember making a quad copter sorta like this. My meta design was to use an altimeter at the edge of the four corners. This meant you couldn't adjusted the height, so I ended up attaching a platform to the bottom with a winch so I could adjust the platform's height.

[@jonomoth2581]

I did the same thing myself a while ago, tilting system is really clever, I just used forwards facing propellers for propulsion. I also flipped propellers on opposite corners so rotation control was unnecessary. To avoid the problem of the tilt stabilization flipping back and forth just place some flat wings pieces to take torque out of it swinging side to side. But it might push the drone downwards if you use tilting for propulsion.

[@crazyknexkid]

That is so cool! Well done!

[@Terminarch]

Cool! I did exactly this idea a few months ago, but was made from wood and stabilized with a motorized hanging weight.

[@tylerpursley9377]

Having the front and rear pairs of propellers counter rotating could help simplify the machine. Simple drone I had worked that way

[@blitsriderfield4099]

"but this just made things...worse" My dude, you made an accidental flying saucer. how is that WORSE?

[@pr0hobo]

love your vids man

[@TheTGOAC]

It should be a crime that something that took so much effort, time, and is genuinely interesting and entertaining has so few views.

[@briceengle9126]

I just binge watched your last 5 videos!

[@simonvutov7575]

Great video, really fun

[@Stars22398]

you were so preoccupied with whether or not you could you didn't stop to think if you should

[@IamSouls]

Yes, this is why I subscribed

[@jewnier4175]

One of my favorite youtubers

[@AITF045]

You can make the props torqueless by placing an unpowered wheel below the powered wheels. It will decrease the amount of power, but you can recover it by placing braces on the unpowered wheel, so that one end is floating, allowing it to spin freely

[@zacbeames2562]

When I was making my quad copter it was an interesting way for auto stabilisation and I did some research and found that you can achieve auto stabilisation with just the props and the way that you angle the props. So I’d love to see you attempt to make another quad copter with auto stabilisation in just the propellers. And with the torque spinning you just need to flip two props and it will balance it all out ;) and you can use a reaction wheel for controlled rotation.

[@HuntersonPlays]

Very cool build

[@Litch_Maxer]

you can simply have only 2 sensors that you rotate the opposite way you want to rotate the quad. this is the method i have been using and it has been quite effective. if the quad "resonate" goes back and forth, you can add an angle-speed system to limit at which speed the vehicle can rotate.

[@dadolphinplayz]

this guy can make literally anything

[@henryg.8762]

holy hell! nice job, man

[@jannehansen-haug3375]

You spend so much effort on fixing something that could have been fixed by pointin at the propeller and pressing f this is both brilliance and madnes.

[@ButtcheekOnaStick]

Reverse the propellers on two corners and reverse the spin. This will create a cancelation on the torque without sacrificing stability or lift. Just a lighter solution to the problem. Great job!

[@monke8797]

Pressing F while hovering over the propellers reverses them. Same for wheels, steering hinges and all other things that can go 2 different ways. IIRC it also makes pistons start off in the "on" position

[@mathieu525]

for the torque issue you couldve just made the front propellers spin towards the middle, the same thing for the back ones but in the oposite direction and change the pitch of the blades respectively so it still goes up

[@tac0811]

I love the thumbnail with the air quotes saying "stable" lol

[@ashleyhamman]

Maybe this is too easy, but I think it would be interesting to see you make a controllable self-stabilizing unicycle-type vehicle in vaguely the same notion as a Onehweel.

[@SeabornNomad]

Way to reinvent the wheel 😂

[@reginald8228]

In all of your videos you seem to make everything 10x harder for yourself

[@dexterbarlow-busch4127]

not gonna lie I find the frequency of things just randomly and violently oscillating in your videos unreasonably funny

[@francescodero8759]

i've seen some comments on A/B propellers that are of course great, another way of cancelling torque is to use unpowered weels as torque cancellation joints between powered weels and the main body of the machine (of course this works a little bit less effective but is possibile to do it even if you do not hace exactly 4 propellers)

[@Weiufthe]

I love drones, i built a nice looking one. Works well

[@dragon10086]

U could use F to flip the propellers and use bracing for a reaction wheel. They resist rotation a whole lot more, weight less, and is smaller. Just attach a end of the braces to the wheel and the other to nothing

[@officerestonia9845]

All of the drone's propellers don't go the same way. Front left and rear right go clockwise when front right and rear left go counter clockwise. That keeps the drone from spinning.

[@runforitman]

7:41 you have just invented a rotary encoder! one of the simplest ways to tell which way something is turning

[@palisi5177]

on a normal drone opposite corners spin in the same direction diagonally, so its 2 cw and 2 ccw

[@elijah7076]

Best video yet.

[@ryskk0739]

incredible.

[@MELVENWONG89]

Drones work that both pairs of propeller rotate counter to each other. You added more propellers which added complexity try just reversing 2 of your 4 propellers

[@maxerpants2876]

If you want to make a plane you can use a propeller and rotate it 21.016 degrees so it’s flat (generates more lift than the wing panels)

[@adamhhing4069]

You don't actually need all that complicated stuff to compensate for the turning. You just need to make two of the propellers opposite each other turn counterclockwise.

[@scottnewman522]

you can press F on a piece like a wheel or wing to flip it

[@dropkickedmurphy6463]

You can use braces on the stabilization unit to stabilize your craft.

[@majinplaton]

Found this xhanel on accident and it was one major "made my day" thing.the other thing was my mom playing "skip-bo" withe

[@Hlebuw3k]

Just a heads up, diagonal structural beams kind of like l/l or lXl are recommended for more stability.

[@thefergottenop499]

I swear to God bro you sound like you make math fun

[@gopherguts2183]

7:34 my guy just reinvented rotary encoders in a video game, absolute madlad

[@etheraelespeon1986]

i believe if you rotate two propellers that are diagonal to one another the opposite direction to the other two you can do away with your reaction wheel system, because the torque’ll cancel out. I’ll attempt to do a diagram of how that’d work xD A(A) B(C) C(C) D(A) i’ll be using A B C and D as names, and the letters in parentheses indicate which direction the props are rotating ( A for Anti-Clockwise, C for Clockwise) Here’re the controls you’d need for pitch roll and yaw Yaw right: Slow down A and D Yaw left: Slow down B and C Pitch up: Slow down C and D Pitch down: Slow down A and B Roll left: Slow down A and C Roll right: Slow down B and D

[@bengineer8]

Amazing.

[@muhammadafiqbinmohdahsani8417]

At this point, programming something complex looks like a child's play to him

[@maxhagenauer24]

You know you can still put a perpeller on a small wheel if you put a block on top of the wheel. Like right in the center going up, then attached the 4 blades on each side of the block.

[@susahk2921]

Nice!

[@horatioyen256]

well done

[@Xkay7]

if you have two propellers you can spin them in opposite directions to stop rotating the craft

[@nosiulconc1049]

0:31 You have just experienced the Besiege sausage effect. The only way to reduce it is to brace up the extremities of what ever you're building.

[@specil-k]

imagine rounding up to a medieval siege on that

[@FarceeTheFire]

All of the explanation and stuff and then "annnnd now the drone is pretty much good"

[@agentminty5503]

1st: Real drones reverse the spin off 2 of their props to cancel out the spinning. 2nd: If you click 'F' on keyboard it reverses certain objects I think.

[@allhighonly7533]

Btw you can reverse wheels en propellors with F

[@swordofgenetics5361]

This man gonna make Dyson sphere by january.

[@mostlyhere985]

Amazing

[@freevbucks8019]

Quadcopters have two sets of counterrotating propellers by the way

[@drewbee0958]

You should play main assembly you would like it!

[@Khergitli]

"I'm going to stabilize this drone with pistons!" *_CREATES A PULSAR INSTEAD_*

[@N00byEdge]

Using Gray codes for the angles, nice.

[@mcgeefamily1459]

much more complicated than it needs to be

[@levizietkiewicz1692]

“Hey guys, so I detonated a thermonuclear weapon in Francisco”

[@johnfkennedy-official]

i definitely understand what your saying

[@SmartEzer]

Oh, why these videos are ending too fast P.S. Nice Video, Man!

[@Treva-dn5jb]

U can press f on propellers or wheels to flip their direction

[@vaipre1576]

This is like math but without all the numbers

[@miladsab8166]

Please do more of These !!!!!!!!

[@cyber0mega513]

the tilting system kinda looks like something da vinci would make

[@user-hu8dh8vq7v]

You can press F to switch the direction of moving things (including wings).

[@kaalind475]

you should do a video on stormworks. its really complex and kind of a mix of all the games you have played before

[@theuniversalbean9352]

you can press f on a propeller to flip its pitch

[@hutchiefam]

You should try Trailmakers It is based on building vehicles like this drone.

[@Jumpsterr]

Yes I love it when you play besiege