Originally Posted by u.abhi19

hi guys , can any1 tell me what is the role of those spoilers ? and also im trying to build this sphere .

Go back and read this thread from the beginning, I describe the function and design criteria of the spoilers in detail.

Kelly

Hey people,
Another RCG user has pestered me into modifying OpenAero to work with ball drones.
What this means is that all the external mixing is done by a KK board and of course all the gyro stabilisation.

For now, only the mixing is done as you can see in the video below.
Don't get too excited by any directional issues as anything can be changed really easily.

I hope that this is helpful or interesting to ball drone builders...

Ball drone mixing on OpenAero part 2 (0 min 38 sec)

Nice work HS.

Yesterday I posted a video of the ball drone mixing in OpenAero. Today here's a video showing the gyro stabilisation completed for the ball drone configuration.
So basically all you need is a cheap HobbyKing V2 KK board and this and some fiddling and you should be able to have a controllable, stabilised ball drone.

I haven't updated the GUI for it but you can set it up via LCD as per usual. If there is sufficient interest I'll provide more details, code etc.

Ball drone stabilisation with OpenAero (0 min 33 sec)

excellent work happy sundays hats off .. i was very much confused with the controls .. probably now i can implement the one's showed in ur pic .. how did u come out with these controls ? and can u add more details about ur sphere ?
have a nice day ..
abhishek

Hi, I don't actually have a sphere/ball drone so I have just relied on info from others.
Another RCG user send my that image and I added the servo numbers to it.
If I had a drone kit I could test all of this out but I'm more of a fixed wing guy...

does it have both 3 axis gyro and accelerometer ?

Thanks Happy !!!
Regards
Tom

Originally Posted by u.abhi19

does it have both 3 axis gyro and accelerometer ?

Yes it does

has any1 achieved the battery time more 8 min for the japanese sphere ? any ideas for recharging the battery on the flight ?

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guys.. i think japanese ball uses duct/ring wing for horizontal flight ? can any1 add thoughts on this ?

Has this been posted before?

Spherical Flying Machine Developed by Japan Ministry Of Defense #DigInfo (2 min 45 sec)

Looks good finally some thinks the way I do I want to attach two of these to eiher side of my craft with gimbals for manuverability

Originally Posted by TheNiceGuy

Found a bit more. My Japanese isn't that good, but I'll see what I can do.
http://www.ekouhou.net/%E7%90%83%E5%...010-52713.html

And here's a picture:

Looks like the CoGs right in the middle. Apparently its 42cm, 350g, 8min flight time, top speed 60km/h.

built the structure for the 1st prototype .. finding really hard to get the control movements and their respective hex codes for my atmega 168pa .. used spdf-vtol configuration but the firmware is not optimum for the use of 8 servos .. open aero firmware is loading but its not arming .. tried everything possible .. please can any1 help me out?