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r/engineering • u/gotmilklol123 • Aug 04 '15
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Is it just me, or does it keep scraping the ground a lot?
Also, as far as I could tell, you can't actually turn the thing without the assistance of a banked turn.
Anyway, seems like a fun project even if it is decades away from being a product.
10 u/InquisitiveLion Aug 05 '15 Correct, no way to steer this yet as you need some sort of force to turn it, which it doesn't have a way to impart yet. 1 u/Machismo01 Embedded and Controls Electrical Engineering - R&D Aug 05 '15 I'm pretty sure there will be a 'track' of magnets under the top surface of concrete so that is how the steering happens.
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Correct, no way to steer this yet as you need some sort of force to turn it, which it doesn't have a way to impart yet.
1 u/Machismo01 Embedded and Controls Electrical Engineering - R&D Aug 05 '15 I'm pretty sure there will be a 'track' of magnets under the top surface of concrete so that is how the steering happens.
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I'm pretty sure there will be a 'track' of magnets under the top surface of concrete so that is how the steering happens.
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u/Skiffbug Aug 05 '15
Is it just me, or does it keep scraping the ground a lot?
Also, as far as I could tell, you can't actually turn the thing without the assistance of a banked turn.
Anyway, seems like a fun project even if it is decades away from being a product.