Self Balancing Stick - Dual Axis Reaction Wheel Inverted Pendulum

Summer 2015 - Controls demo

[@jamesjoseph268]

OH so that's what a flamingo looks like on the inside.

[@mikerouleau4495]

"bio-inspired"

[@TheHellfire2000]

HHHHH

[@christophergrove4876]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

[@bigbadjohn10]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@II_xD_II]

O.o

[@pand0ras]

make a huge ione, wind powered, so it has to fight for its existence until eternity.

[@anibalaguillon2573]

Actually can be a building like star wars

[@RababaInc]

what if there is no wind?

[@anibalaguillon2573]

@@RababaInc well, it will not be suitable for every location, but there are places with constant wind

[@agussururi1195]

Until it lost force ( i mean energy)

[@speedstriker]

Your subtle sadism aside, I think this is a good idea. We will study it closely as a physical analogue for human existence in a indifferent, entropic universe, that we nevertheless depend on for survival.

[@davegoodwin1848]

When you hung the weight on the stick I actually felt sorry for it.

[@brianevans4]

It's like bosstown Dynamics robot torture test

[@dragonsdream4236]

@@tthung8668 bosstown

[@Driga_]

@@tthung8668 bosstown dynamics is a parody of Boston dynamics

[@Aufputschmeddl]

@@tthung8668 bosstown

[@Aufputschmeddl]

@@Driga_ bosstown

[@TescoValueMemes369]

Thank you reaction wheels, for making Kerbal Space Program playable.

[@lifethrownoutofthewindow]

true

[@KarthikReddy-tkr]

What? It wasn't understood for me what you said. Can you explain me in detail?

[@KarthikReddy-tkr]

@Van okay

[@sol2544]

I play RP-1, so I suffer having just RCS

[@Michael-xd8bc]

@authorization batman dunno whats wrong about that

[@JOELwindows7]

This is your daily dose of Recommendation Standing stick machine! Yeah!

[@JamesDownes]

Good times 4 all

[@gulfsurfco]

@dailydoseofinternet @ Daily Dose Of Internet

[@elias1nefavel]

tem que ser mt idiota pra não achar isso impressionante, e pela tua cara, bom jaujfisdksoxz

[@antonystringfellow5152]

This is just what I've always wanted!

[@therubberduck1165]

🤗

[@alanequest7812]

This video needs a sequel. Balance a second one ontop of this one, now thats a challenge

[@sohrabsingh3110]

No background music nothing, just pure science 😍

[@shaunlastname391]

That's no way to address a Captain

[@raymondo162]

tvm i thought my lappy gone awol

[@willswift94]

This demonstrates engineering, not science.

[@shaunlastname391]

@@willswift94 doesn't really matter as the Jesus made it all anyway

[@user-og6hl6lv7p]

Do you watch Rick and Morty?

[@arnoldrimmer9161]

Why is this so fricking amazing? I can't stop looking at it!

[@GlossaME]

Because it would be called magic or sorcery just a few decades ago

[@RamLaska]

This is how satellites maintain their attitude without having to constantly use reaction control jets, which would run out of fuel in a short time of constantly maintaining control. The ISS uses something vaguely similar to these control wheels, it’s called a control moment gyro. It uses gyroscopic precession to move the space station (more specifically to apply torque to it), rather than using direct torque from a reaction wheel like this one. Think of a Segway where the wheel is in the air. That is a simplified analogy to what this thing is doing, [just saw your username], you smeghead. ;)

[@californiasomething]

Kickstart this, I want one for my desk~

[@rob1248996]

I just wonder what's on the other end of the cable.

[@MartinBuzon]

@@rob1248996 probably an usb and maybe a power cable

[@rob1248996]

@@MartinBuzon connected to $50,000 in electronics stuff.

[@thetooginator153]

California Something - I wonder if it could run off batteries for a reasonably long time. BTW - I like your cool Gir avatar.

[@RandomGuy-nm6bm]

They exist as cubes.

[@diegoaguilar6602]

I bet this is how lando calrizians house stays up

[@poboypowder7567]

Diego Aguilar there was an attempt

[@diegoaguilar6602]

@@poboypowder7567 thanks man

[@sharungarg]

1:07 we were so close to equilibrium.

[@anshlyk]

Sweet stuff

[@prajwalgaonkar]

This needs to be tried in a vacuum chamber to see how close to equilibrium it can actually get.

[@notahotshot]

@@prajwalgaonkar, it needs to be tried in a vacuum, on a flat, motionless Earth.

[@kingkahoonah]

notahotshot space

[@sharungarg]

@@kingkahoonah with gravity*

[@yeeturmcbeetur8197]

1970: we’ll have flying cars in the future! The future: self balancing stick.

[@mlee6050]

We had flying cars for a few years now

[@mlee6050]

@PushandillPushback lucky, I don't think I have requirement and money to ever have one

[@mlee6050]

what ever you say kzbin.info/www/bejne/pJ-pY6yrlpl-f9k

[@thegoodlistenerslistenwell2646]

@PushandillPushback yea...they do....please don't be an idoit. Flying cars are not hard to make, but normal people cant drive them, so no ,they are not being produced, they would never sell..... how many accidents happen on the ground....you think flying cars would be better for usa, land of car accidents vs the world. Whats the definition on a car? Now just understand you can at propellers and jet engines. If you have the money. You can modify until it flys. We have all the tech. Thats my point. www.aeromobil.com/specification

[@chaddrobertson5805]

A sentence that I never thought I would ever read, haha!

[@zachbishop3795]

Why doesn't anyone understand how amazing this really is...? Good job man, what you demonstrated/ created is something amazing. It's a self correcting system with actual "pinpoint" accuracy.

[@mechanicalmonk2020]

The 2 million views be like: am I joke to you?

[@19dollarfortnitegiftcard33]

@@mechanicalmonk2020 views doenst mean they fully understand what is going on and what it takes to make such a contraption.

[@TheCoolStuffHD]

Almost 4 a.m. and I'm watching a self balancing stick on the internet. God, my life is sad....

[@gavinmcinally8442]

No.the sad thing is im answering you.

[@ahbushnell1]

better than cat videos

[@gavinmcinally8442]

@@ahbushnell1 only slightly.

[@divyanshudn]

Its 4:30 AM and I am watching this video too :D

[@ChrisPrefect]

Divyanshu Negi hmm, 4:32 AM here. Strange coincidence.

[@kevfaherty123]

unreal demonstration. i love how this is coming up as we're watching spacex deal with the control on Starship. nice visuals on the basics of how that all works.

[@loadingpleasewait6940]

Damn, that's over of the most well-calibrated PID controllers I've seen on KZbin... Keep up this great work!

[@midnightbluenoz]

How it started: Trying to stand a pencil on the pointy end. How its going : This video.

[@rajeshkm_]

0:01 i thought that stick will standup by its own and balance itself

[@kingarthurthe5th]

I was thinking the same thing

[@jetison333]

@authorization batman I mean its perfectly possible. it'd take some beefy motors but its not impossible. itd be something like this : kzbin.info/www/bejne/pJCZoWBnf5poZ7s

[@charliepearce8767]

Well...you thought wrong..didn't yar...

[@justincase1898]

@@charliepearce8767 i like how theres 4 new comments on a year old post thats awesome

[@charliepearce8767]

@@justincase1898 Haha...the comments that come with this video are hilarious.. Take care..

[@awildfuu2607]

i cant believe i watched a stick standing by itself for 3 min *worth*

[@notahotshot]

Three minutes? I got cheated out of twenty seconds! How did you get the three minute version? 😢

[@cheesepuffyt1725]

a wild fuu same

[@nomusicrc]

a wild fuu it

[@colinbuscemi1257]

We all did, and no one regrets it

[@mattiloponen92]

Well sticks rarely stand by themselves for 3 minutses so yeh.

[@jackmclane1826]

Awesome... with self zeroing! This is the hardest part of it and probably hardly anybody notices! ^^

[@anonymousstout4759]

Attach this to a pencil and you'll have the power to became the most cool kid in grade school

[@thedemonreupblican5803]

Actually if you stick a pencil in a fidget spinner and make that spin super fast then it does this

[@buzzmas8068]

The Demon Reupblican ye but it doesnt stay up for long, it will fall over when the fidget widget of love has slowed down a bit

[@GewelReal]

@@buzzmas8068 add motors then

[@Rin-qj7zt]

I would also love the power to change the past.

[@alius386]

*become

[@Theloss52]

It’s taken me a month of blocking monetized channels to start finding incredible things like this. Thank you 🙏

[@johnfox4691]

Really clever and very well made.

[@samykamkar]

Awesome!

[@rodstartube]

did u call me?

[@jonathanemery9557]

Samy is my hero.

[@JohnR436]

Yo dude! I met you back in 2016 in Santa Monica at a Meetup where you showed me a usb device that could hack into MacBooks, cool stuff!

[@zap...]

A gift for the person who has everything.

[@TrueIndianPatriotTIP]

This is so peaceful to watch

[@overcookedwater1947]

Agreed

[@jonathanclark7444]

That’s great! It can be so hard to bring those things from software to reality. I’m sure you had many issues trying to bugfix and make it real but it payed off!

[@boxingfan5742]

Great job! That's a very creative PID application! Hadn't seen it before. Kudos!

[@michaelcrosby6703]

"What's is my purpose?" "You pass butter." "......o my god....."

[@ROVideos]

Michael Crosby season 5 November 10

[@nobody-nb6qw]

Good way to get an a on your science project

[@vigneshmj1306]

Boys don't grow up, the sticks they find just get more sophisticated. 😏🍷

[@themadscientest]

The kind of work that went into making this must be crazy.

[@utcougar]

Super cool. Great demonstration

[@Nenad-ICXC-Shuput-GFAMMA]

This is what happens in our inner ears all the time.

[@shishirdas9697]

Yes only the sensory part . . The motor part would also include motor cortex, cerebellum, cranial nerves, spinal nerves with axial muscles.

[@rob1248996]

Two motorized wheels driven by a 4 core intel processor and 8 gigs of RAM?

[@HiVizCamo]

@@rob1248996 Yes. Not you?

[@litpath3633]

@@rob1248996 Mine has hamsters

[@rob1248996]

@@HiVizCamo May be that's what the noise in my head is.

[@otiebrown9999]

Hi Mike, This is creating stability, in an unstable system. An excellent presentation! I study the dynamic behaviour of all natural eyes. This is a superior instruction tool and simulation. Thanks.

[@Natethesandman1]

Great job! I can already see eventually becoming the next “inverted cart pendulum” control systems lab in college.

[@krishanlakhiwal]

Its so amazing to see a stick balance itself that way...

[@krishanlakhiwal]

@glyn hodges thats very true...

[@Archimagus]

Google, get out of my brain. I was literally thinking abut doing something like this for a Halloween costume prop the other day. I haven't searched on it or talked about it or anything, just thinking about it. Now this shows up in my feed.

[@anshlyk]

Bruh same, the fuck does my phone reads my mind now or what

[@Nijnvenijn]

Spooky!

[@paranpics]

I was thinking on searching Lolis but I got an FBI predator prevention video

[@healfast]

think it can monitor wavelengths

[@berndheiden7630]

Archimagus That‘s what you get when you are just an avatar in a computer simulation! But don‘t feel bad, we all are!

[@TwilightNX]

Hi Mike! This project is amazing! How did you mount the wheels on the motors with the pinion gear on the motor shafts?

[@crystalfire6677]

Beautiful, expecially how it seems to adjust its balance to spin down the reaction wheels so they don't get saturated. Even with the center of mass shifting and oscillating.

[@james.a]

That's so cool. Really interesting demo!

[@lovelaugh7299]

Thus is very useful if u need a balanced stick incase you forgot yours

[@ArcaneMana]

This reminds me of when people flail their arms to regain balance

[@wesbecool]

same principle

[@zakariacheriet5360]

Exactly!

[@tunedw1900]

Wow! Nice work! That's really awesome!

The graphs made it real cool.

[@MKUnited]

Doctor: Self-balancing stick is not real, it cant hurt you. Self-balancing stick:

[@yusuf1597]

How do I buy the parts to build one? I want to put one on my desk, and look at it when I'm procrastinating my mechanics homework.

[@joejohn.]

A miniature one would be awesome.

[@En_theo]

it's not that easy, I have seen others try to build drones with reactions wheels and it was very unstable.

[@halted_code]

@@En_theo that is because with drones they are essentially an isolated system the angular momentum cant be drained anywhere except for a bit through air drag so the reaction wheels on a drone become saturated easily, but with a stick like this the reaction wheels can drain their angular momentum by imparting a force downwards, through the stick and onto the table (and probably through the wire bundle) making it easier to have a system that doesn't become saturated.

[@syedwaleedshah2830]

@@halted_code I need to learn more about this draining of force and momentum stuff...I am an engineer could you please direct me to some article book or research paper on this stuff?

[@chloroplast8611]

@@En_theo i know an article

[@chunkykat9000]

Love the shape

[@nenadvucic2462]

I've already se new tip of engine. And I've already visualise new type of engine angular momentum. Keep it up, you are on the right track.

[@beyondzetabyte]

I'm an electronics engineering and I know how hard it is to program and design all these things. This is a masterpiece

[@MsTatli]

This is really interesting..May be It can be used in a product to help the elderly with maintaining their sense of balance ...

[@sebbes333]

@fumanchu Yes, but more like a exo-skeleton-Segway... :D

[@jbasumatary7861]

Who will hold the weight of the gadget 🤣🤣

[@MsTatli]

@fumanchu more of a wearable ..like boots or backpack.. or a cane..

[@MsTatli]

@@jbasumatary7861 the human..

[@rob1248996]

Or the elderly will just sit and stare at it and won't need to get up out of their chair.

[@Maxisokol]

Really neat setup, well done. :)

[@shaggysidbacon6144]

It's impressive that it did this well even with the cable attached

[@felicity3349]

Who else randomly got this in their recommendation??😂

[@corejourneydotorg3166]

Everyone because who would search for this

[@americanrebel413]

I did, go figure.

[@devprakash4214]

Oct 6 2019

[@notahotshot]

Nobody, you're the only one. In fact nobody else has even clicked on this video.

[@unliving_ball_of_gas]

@@corejourneydotorg3166 To be honest, I SEARCHED for it.

[@elliotalderson9945]

im jobless for a almost a year now and instead of finding one, i ended up watching this 😂 Congrats KZbin algorithm you won

[@rob1248996]

You should learn how to make one of those and you won't be jobless.

[@thetraitor3852]

Learn to make this and you will be able to get one of the best paid jobs on the planet.

[@holdmybeer]

welcome to the jobless club. i like to reinforce the thread and souls on my shoes with gorilla glue.(poor person tip)

[@prashantsingh514]

Best science project ever ! I was just thinking about this , and it cam to my feed !!

[@Three2NineProject]

Great demo, good job!

[@toaztr]

That's really stick bro.

[@Daniel-tl9eh]

y u do this

[@mojojoji5493]

I need this for when I get old and I just can’t get my stick up

[@dogzer]

where art thou, mysterious inventor? I wish you kept posting more of your incredible projects! Hope you are doing great things.

[@theisaiahcc]

With this new ED treatment, you’ll have no problem getting it up and keeping it up!

[@long3dprinting]

Doreamon’s magic wand

[@r4yker442]

Me: * KZbin, how strong is Leatherman's blade steel?* KZbin: *Self-balance stick*

[@MarcusDekenah]

Beautiful work.

[@jahsehrecardo8394]

Amazing use of reaction wheels

[@doggonemess1]

Okay, for fun, try balancing it on your finger while the reaction wheels are going. Can you overcome your natural inclination to balance it or will it be fighting you the whole time?

[@thetraitor3852]

The machine responds much faster than human brain so it would easily compensate for your finger movement

[@unknown_user.6249]

1980: In 2015 we'll have flying Cars 2015:

[@Rhino-ep6of]

Unknown_user . Success in my book

[@rob1248996]

1948: in 1980 we'll have flying cars

[@Mike-ff7ib]

Thats one sick stick.

[@davecrupel2817]

This is super satisfying to watch

[@bodhisattwapal8879]

Can we get the tutorial including the coding...

[@davidk7529]

Is something like this in the SpaceX rockets for when they land?

[@haulin]

The detection part for sure. But they use propellants for correction. Haven't seen giant flywheels sticking out of the rockets... But, they are used to orientate space telescopes.

[@thepope2412]

The reaction wheels suitable to do that would be too impractical to use for the rocket.

[@jacob.thaxton]

Not even close, however space craft like satellites actually use this in space to change their orientation

[@duanebrown3877]

Cruise ships also use them for stability.

[@slot1999]

Why hasn't this blown up? It's the best thing ever

[@David-eh9le]

Its used for years in spacecrafts

[@chipmeister111]

This is so fantastic. Thanks for sharing the video.

[@MikeHuntDIMO]

Add one on the third axis, parallel to the other two, and it’ll float in midair

[@dragon5th390]

KZbin: Hey, want to see this video from 4 years ago Me: Really (Edit) I said this not because KZbin is not showing me new things it’s because I wished I could of seen this video sooner because it’s so cool what this guy did. Thanks for 97 likes😁

[@MsXtremeCamper]

Me too! But no regrets

[@dragon5th390]

Splekh lol

[@user-rs3lg6un4n]

can you shut the fuck up?

[@chinengsung8561]

Yeah

[@lich.possum]

You know you're not funny right?

[@controlsengineer]

Amazing, nice work!

[@adrianmh]

I could watch those wheels all day long

[@jobarturocabreramontiel888]

Hi! Did you use a gyroscope sensor, an accelerometer, or an inertial sensor? I would like to know. Thank you

[@forbiddenera]

Also curious

[@user-ky2vl2wm3j]

My sympathies with the left hand motor that has to work overtime while the one on the right hand takes subsequent naps.

[@carlbossert6888]

Angular momentum in action! And put to use, very cool

[@ryanm9318]

Took KZbin 4 years to put this in my list to see. Now I want one.

[@ossifyn3221]

Can you make it hover at a 45° angle?

[@tobiasgertz7800]

You want terminators? This is how you get terminators.

[@hallucinati]

This made me happy 😊

[@RonSonntag]

Great demo! Thanks.

[@mydlarskimariusz2915]

because "simple" is most amazing...

[@wiicchooo]

Mydlarski Mariusz simple? Then try to do it yourself.

[@ashokkumarsaxena7867]

"Am I a joke to you" - Gravity, 2019

[@SONofaGoddess]

That’s pretty amazing

[@jasonl3445]

Beautiful well done!

[@timb6558]

HAS SCIENCE GONE TOO FAR?!?!

[@rodstartube]

way more than that

[@aashutoshnamdeo6880]

I disliked because you didn't explain how to make?

[@sticky13337]

If you don't know how to make it then you wouldn't understand the explaination either.

[@aashutoshnamdeo6880]

You may be right but I was to say I need step by step instructions.

[@TheGoodContent37]

Oh, so this is what will make motorbikes stand on their own. Fascinating!

[@rckahale]

This is magneto level skill! 👏

[@nuclearfrog306]

This would make a cool piece of desk art

[@erccdang]

That's incredible

[@Beateau]

That's some impressive PID tuning.

[@vspatmx7458]

Brilliant... You have my respect

[@josuelarz]

Thanks KZbin recommendations , very cool

[@carrcohol]

I watched that whole video l completely fascinated!

[@SMARTART-ys2wd]

Awesome Using balanced feedback control system

[@johnseminatore8449]

Still designing awesome stuff Mikey, we miss you over here.

[@mikerouleau4495]

Haha hey semi! Thanks, I hope everything is going well!