Parrot MiniDrone Jumping Sumo is Acrobatic and Fearless Adventurer
Parrot’s Jumping Sumo MiniDrone its own WiFi (AC) connection allowing for an automatic connection to your smartphone or tablet as soon as you enter the free FreeFlight 3 application (available for iOS and Android smartphones and tablets, and available in October 2014 on Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1).
Thanks to its advanced jumping system, Parrot Minidrone Jumping Sumo can vertically and horizontally jump up to 80 cm/2.5 feet. It rolls at up to 2m/s and turns 90° and 180° in the blink of an eye.
Small, yet robust with a great personality
Parrot Minidrone Jumping Sumo offers two different experiences with its adjustable wheels: depending on your level of experience you can opt for stability (wheels extended) or speed (wheels retracted). Thanks to its sturdy, shock-proof design you can jump, roll, spin and explore without stopping. What is even more amazing is that Jumping Sumo always lands on its wheels. Equipped with a gyroscope and high-speed processor, the pilot can make the most of Jumping Sumo’s fool-proof agility and super-intuitive driving control.
Parrot Minidrone Jumping Sumo reveals its mischievous personality through the flashing LED lights and sounds. You can personalize your robot with a range of stickers depending on your mood! Program your own animations and choreograph different moves and tricks to impress your spectators.
A removable Lithium-Polymer battery provides up to 20 minutes of fun. The battery is also compatible with MiniDrone Rolling Spider.
Always lands on its wheels
Parrot’s Jumping Sumo MiniDrone has the ability to vertically and horizontally jump up to 80cm/2.5 feet. Preload the springs to anticipate your jumps or use one of the 3 modes – Jumper, Kicker and Auto-Balance.
Jumping Sumo always lands on its wheels!
Roll and turn in the blink of an eye
Move forwards, backwards and adjust your speed to adapt to the situation. Jumping Sumo rolls up to 2m/s and avoids any obstacles that get in the way by turning 90° and 180° with the swipe of a finger.
See what Jumping Sumo sees
With a 640×480 pixel wide-angle camera, you see through the eyes of your Jumping Sumo. Capture, stream, and save your photos and videos to your smartphone and tablet or directly on to a micro-USB flash drive
Ryno Motors calls it; transport, humanized. The Ryno lets you combine and also mingle into a group, normally.
Compact, distinctive as well as economical, it resembles something that rolled off a Batman movie set onto your community pathway. Yet even with its hi-tech look, the Ryno was developed to accomplish a straightforward mission: making motorized personal transportation easily accessible, delightful, and very sensible.
This sci-fi electrical unicycle is the Ryno a future-badass choice to the Segway that appears like it was beamed to Earth in the year 2225. It’s right here, as well as it’s real, and Batman wants one.
Self-taught designer Chris Hoffmann began dealing with the Ryno concept in 2006, when his 13-year-old little girl laid out a one-wheeled mobility scooter she had actually viewed in a computer game. She asked him if he could possibly develop it, which set the solitary wheel transforming. Now, about 6 models later the Ryno is ready to appear on the streets with or without the Caped Crusader.
As a mechanical engineer Chris Hoffmann has possibly had to retell his story hundreds of times that he quit his job to develop an electrical, self-balancing unicycle. Hoffmann has the air of an individual regularly mistaken for being outrageous, however that has long since abandoned his thoughts.
“It’s been a huge trip,” Hoffman states, recalling just how he sold his house as well as lived in a 14-by-14-foot area prior to Ryno’s financing came together.
On a fishing trip, Hoffman’s little girl than 13 years old, sketched out a one-wheeled motorcycle she had actually seen in a video game. Being an engineer by trade, Hoffman began digging right into what it would certainly take to construct the contraption, looking for the stumbling blocks that would certainly make it difficult. “At some point, I just believed, ‘I’ll merely take a machine shop lesson or two as well as develop this concept my daughter gave me,'” Hoffman says.
Undeterred, he looked for help online, ultimately coming across soon-to-be-cofounder Tony Ozrelic, a split embedded systems designer and also hobbyist who was currently building his very own Segway-style mobility scooters. He developed for Hoffman a two-foot-tall version as evidence the idea was sound. The concept model literally stood up by itself when he switched it on. Soon after, Hoffman crossed his fingers, packed Ozrelic’s software program and the prototype and headed home. The prototype than named Ryno is an overgrown Segway that lost a wheel. Like the Segway, the Ryno is controlled by the cyclist’s body position: slim ahead to increase, turn back to stop.
Likewise like the Segway, the Ryno equilibrium’s itself front-to-back when standing still. With just one wheel, side-to-side equilibrium depends on you. It’s a big wheel however, putting on a 240-millimeter-wide bike tire usually discovered on large custom motorcycles. There’s a brake lever on the right, though it does not need to function in the method you would certainly anticipate it to. Turning the handlebars rotates the seat on a pivot someplace behind your tailbone, which really feels totally foreign when standing upright.
Here are some of the basic controls called out.
Impulse informs you not to lean onward when you’re balancing on a one-wheeled unicycle machine, yet Chris ensured his creation would not drop you on your face. Once moving, that strange steering feels strangely natural. You lean into a turn and in some way, the Ryno merges a smooth arc.
Naturally, if you’ve spent some amount of time on a bike or motorcycle, a couple of quirks will certainly catch you slightly off-guard on the Ryno. Leaning over on one foot at a stop made the Ryno assume tight turn was warranted. A lot better to remain on the foot pegs, come almost to a stop, then plant both feet– unlike lots of two-wheeled contraptions, the Ryno’s seat is reduced sufficient to flat-foot at a standstill.
Pressing the Ryno’s nose up a couple of degrees, leaning you back merely a touch is enough to inform the gyro sensing unit you desire to reduce your speed.
That’s the general style of riding the Ryno, it’s completely instinctive, when you let go of your two-wheeled habits. Every little thing seems goofy until you comprehend the reasoning behind it. The Ryno isn’t really in reverse, your assumptions are.
Precariously balancing on a single moving wheel really feels a great deal like … precariously stabilizing on a single balancing wheel.
When you lean left or right, all wagers are off.
“It’s like using a snowboard, or a skateboard, or some type of an item that demands that you get involved,” Hoffmann details. (He’s likewise fast to qualify that it’s not as difficult as either.) I prefer comparing it to using a bike without any handlebars– the tiniest motions mean big adjustments in your course. In the beginning, it’s not entirely clear which activities to execute to get the anticipated reaction.
The normal learning curve is about 20 minutes Hoffmann says.
Once your mind adapts, the Ryno is astoundingly surefooted as concerning has it might be, being a unicycle. Inside the large wheel, mounts the dual electric motors and also controllers, three gyroscopes, 2 detachable batteries, and all the accompanying computer brains inside the center of the 18-inch wheel. With a center of mass between your shins and the software program that interacts instantaneously to your every lean, the Ryon feels nearly un-toppleable.
On a six-hour charge, the Ryno can travel approximately 15 miles. With a spare batteries you can make a trip to the inner city and back home again easily. The top speed is merely 10MPH, which sounds sluggish and slow, however it places the Ryon in the very same regulative classification as the Segway, meaning it’s allowed on pedestrian pathways, bike lanes, as well as inside public buildings depending on your local regulations. Chris Hoffmann claims you wouldn’t desire to go much quicker, but I bet that’s not the case with the general public’s perception.
Who’s the Ryon for? Chris states authorities and also protection agencies enjoy its tiny impact and low seat, which places the biker at eye level with pedestrians.
I’m not exactly sure that Ryno’s will unexpectedly surpass bicyclists any time soon. The Segway specifically got off to a really slow beginning if I recall. However as the very first such gadget, the Segway had an uphill climb, specifying both the market for personal movement automobiles and the policies that differentiate them from road-going devices. Now those hurdles have actually been cleared, as well as with an increasing number of bike streets and also pedestrian zones showing up in our cities, there are more places where motor vehicles like these make sense.
If there’s one factor that will certainly make the Ryno a success. Standing on a Segway has always felt notably nerdy. Straddling a Ryno between your legs makes you feel way more bad-ass than any individual riding one of those grandpa electrical mobility scooters.