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Autonomous flying umbrella follows and shields users from rain and sunlight

Posted by amichail |2 hours ago |21 comments

Zigurd an hour ago

I saw this on Facebook before I saw it here. While it bears a superficial resemblance to 1000s of clickbaity tech stunts this one really delighted me. Some of these should be edited into a remastered release of Blade Runner.

12_throw_away 2 hours ago[1 more]

IMO it's worth watching the video rather than reading someone's writeup of it. My favorite part is this (written) list of everything that went wrong [1] ... and how much of it is due to the intersection of hardware, software, vendors, and linux

[1] https://youtu.be/EYRrUiM_A6g?si=T60tAChuo-GNtfqW&t=921

SubiculumCode 13 minutes ago

Following the Ukraine war has basically made me flinch at the sight and sound of drones.

zkmon an hour ago[2 more]

I think this is in the category of excess application of technology

hdorchy 21 minutes ago

noise, autonomy are real constraints. And the wind resistance is a safety critical issue. To make it wind resistant you need to increase the drone's power/weight ratio which works against battery life/autonomy and weight (more battery, more weight) This is a nice technical experiment but cannot work as a general public product in my opinion (I build drones since 2013 and know this topic in depth)

SoftTalker an hour ago

The kid would appear to have a future job opportunity at Cyberdyne Systems.

4b11b4 an hour ago

And drenches them in sound

mlmonkey 20 minutes ago

Bonus: free hairdryer!

ricardobayes 2 hours ago[1 more]

That's really cool honestly. This took me back to around 2017 when everyone was into hardware startups.

comrade1234 2 hours ago[1 more]

Good for a haircut too.

tamimio an hour ago

>what was supposedly a small project ended up big and complicated

Welcome to the drone world! So many moving parts and one tiny mistake, you end up losing a $60k drone in the ocean (true story!)

That being said, regulations prevent flying drones of any size above people, unless the drone is high to certain altitude, because of all the dangers that bring, a small issues and the props will harm them.

Cool project tho!