Comment by Aboutplants
7 hours ago
Perhaps there are specific applications where the payload spinning could be an advantage, imaging/scanning perhaps (which in the video is going to be in the next iteration for the builder).
7 hours ago
Perhaps there are specific applications where the payload spinning could be an advantage, imaging/scanning perhaps (which in the video is going to be in the next iteration for the builder).
I don't think it would be all that useful, give the very way it works (modulating motor speed) - your rotation would not be consistent in speed during even a single turn, which makes exposure times different each frame, and possibly too low.
A student and I once made a ground robot that had a single IR laser range measurement. The robot span as it drove, and we used the single range with an IMU to do early realtime SLAM to assemble the 1D ranges into a 2D view of the room. This flying drone would naturally make a 3D scan due to wobble around the vertical axis. Maybe not super useful, but potentially a fun curiosity to use such a minimal device and turn the unwanted motions into something helpful.