Stanford Mesicopter (1999)

[TheXFilesBG]

woooww....... javelin thrower's cheating device!

[21313334]

No0bs think we always had the Wii MotionPlus for quadrocopters. This was god stuff back then, and ehat gave us the foundation to get here.

No0bs, pffft.

[lostintheapplasauce]

stop hating. there were'nt any gyroscopes u could easily buy back in 1999.

[skogpekka]

@lostintheapplasauce ..Yes there were. Hobbyists have had them for decades...

[FordExplorerFanatic]

Oh shit, I see what the fucking did there. It looks like they're lifting the stick, doesn't it? But actually the stick is fastened to a point off to the right of the viewing screen. By increasing the fans' rotational speed it can move the fans, the plastic platform AND the stick upward. So they're actually just using the stick for both control (so it doesn't get a bit wayward and fly off in some odd direction) and as a weight (to test what load the fans can carry). Clever.

[Gazzz87]

IT DIDN'T FUCKING DO ANYTHING

[oleksandrgrytsenko]

Looks that stick is balanced and copter placed in that balance point, so it carries only itself weight. According to video, such small aircraft can handle itself in the air. But yeah, need to add some boobs to fix ratings.

[Erinija03]

geeks



[SavageInsight]

You guys are morons. This was built 12 years ago as a proof of concept. In 12 years there's probably a powerful version of one of these actually in use.

[Samyaza69]

very, very gay!

[socksformonkehs]

Oh my glorb it flies! Alert The President! jhabsbpdabdiqwbsdh

[2010soto]

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[2010soto]

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[ranger518]

nice lifting the stick.... i can do that 2... even without propellers..... =.=

[Hopfolk]

Lifting the power source, be it battery or solar panel is the real challenge. A helicopter with a powerline might as well be... a stick without one.

[momixdj]

Useless crap !

[GALAXYSI9100]

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[starchingllc]

who the fuck is holding the stick??

[MrNotoriousNinja]

failcopturr coming in. over.

[phineas155]

come on  you built something and it does not fly stupid

[ivancito54]

stupid

[davet1515]

those better not be my tax dollars paying for this shit!

[CarpeDijem]

looks like half of the thrust force is vented against the body of the mesicopter... like blowing against the sailes of a sailingboat your standing in...

[Gr8Success]

:))  fail....

[FelipeSepulvedaR]

mmm, nice fan :S ....

[Viewindo]

I think you're supposed to paint the stick blue...?

[figue2685]

debe ser algun tipo de ventilador jaja

[thefatmoop]

Cellphone motors and tiny props are amazing... This video probably had so much attention because this type of motor was new in 1999

[fogarty23]

Interesting, but the problem now is that you will have to incorporate a power supply into the weight being lifted. But amazing that the device is so small.

When you have a micro-drone that can be used to spy on the Prime Minister, then let me know....

Keep it up.

[andrichj420]

someone was lifting up the stick

[aeco15]

messycopter

[johnhi00]

You lifted the fan with sticks . . . so?

[bartybum]

because you're totally not moving the stick with your hands...

[heribertor88]

It's tethered so it'll never reach production until they figure out how to beam energy to the vtol!

[TigerSlashX]

Great job stanford, now try 5 fans on a stick.

[jesuit101]

I promise you I could drink a fifth of jim beam and make that shit in my garage

[KrykoStorm]

Do people really not get the coolness of this? The motors are 3mm wide.

[xchvcwryb]

No, they invented 4 fans on a stick.

[nightman19842001]

dumb camera guy

[motconheocon]

i "invented" this when i was 9 years old in 1999. i just took a motor off a broken toy car. stick a fan blade i got from a broken toy helicopter on it. plug it into a pack of batter i found in the yard. and it flew! yay!

[JeromeDemers]

give them a break, it was in 1999!!

[buttlescutt]

back the camera off a little next time so we can see who is holding the end of the stick, lifting it up...

[SuperMindwar]

Phillips Norelco comes to mind.

[Joebone18974]

I wonder how much money went into making that toy...

[surfcello]

If you go to their website you'll see that this is how far they had got in 1999!

[MrUAV100]

A lolli pop stick (that's a popsicle for you in the US) and a couple, well four, prop's. Give up on the quadcopter idea too many people are making way more advanced propullsion systems than this now.

[Nadan0302]

allright.... four propellers on a stick! now all my problems are solved!

[sarnox]

"Very nice!" .... I'd like a second opinion.

[bakuaeater]

is he using his hand on either side of the wood?

[yangkairen]

u forgot to make the stick invisible.....

[MrItsmine91]

@yangkairen lol

[Davmm96]

wonder wich other strange videos i could find on Youtube...

[Stephanator88]

impressive that it can lift that much of the stick, granted it doesnt have on board batteries or flight computer but still impressive.

[xHAZARD78x]

what the fuck did i just watch?

[captwasabi]

@xHAZARD78x a very small yet incredibly powerful quad-rotor helo.

[ghostman982]

FAKE

[joefunfl]

why they never show the end of the stick...

[RandomDude5421]

WTF IS IT!!!

[DOWNwithDICTATORS2]

I watched the entire video and I still don't know what I saw!

[GusCam100]

i bet there was someone holding it cos you never see the whole thing

[ginolongmire1]

what if there is any wind? or a person breathing..

[weezing22arbok]

.......uhm... even if it DOES work, what will it do? Lift a stick?

[wh1ter4bbit]

that looks like some one just lifting it off the ground with the stick

[Krog32]

@wh1ter4bbit Amazing observational skills there.

[Subtalvik2]

Guys, before you reply to my comment, look at how old it is first please.

[nanu3456]

fake fu ck u



[hurricanefloyd1]

Numbnuts, this is the forefather of the now popular quadrocopters.

This video is 11 YEARS old.

[THEJOKEYJOKER]

oh woow !! the fans r moving !

[datzfast]

i found these same motors in disposible electic vibrating razors. for i think five bucks. i made a prop for mine not this nice the do put out some thrust for being twice the size of a grain of rice.

[Poisonseed]

Just imagine the uses for this,

cos I can't.

[dseng]

@Poisonseed that's because you're not an engineer

[tompants2010]

ahh the 90s, best we could do was put a few small fans on a stick and make out that its groundbreaking!

[xmads132]

wow three guys holing a stick... im impressed!

[7Stark]

1999, old...

[bestamerica]

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4 spins are same time is not good,,,

must be 2 left spins and 2 right spins

[GodsGayLover]

I am impressed by its inability to fly without someone of camera holding it up.

[axeljordan1]

a 10 year old kid can do that

[Hitman271]

These have to be the funniest comments I've ever read

[mulletcar]

the v-22 osprey was invented before this, our generation sucks ass.. prop motors on a balsa stick....... wow, quit dropping acid...

[xach1090]

Sweet! 4 DC motors on plexi-glass and balsa wood! Greatest..Project...Ever!! So this is what they teach at Stanford...

[MrPunk73]

you can tell that there is someone picking it up from the side, i mean, what kind of helicopter lands like /

[Bogdan841]

uhh wtf is that supposed to be and do?

[NuclearReality]

bird killer

[CallMeSparky1]

remember these were premitave days

[thesparkflyer]

well it seems they made it from scratch(BLDC motors and propeller), and the wood is supposed to be a flight stabilizer. to sum up the website, I guess it just says that the thing would be used for weather exploration and stuff like that, and at the time (1999?), manufacture of this scale devices was rare or something, so they made all from scratch except the electronic control?

[TheBeardieandtheLeo]

I am disappoint...

[EmperorOfMars]

They invented a fan on a stick?

[ralekriver]

@EmperorOfMars HAVE YOU NO CLUE AS TO THE IMPLICATIONS OF SUCH A DEVICE?! The fan on a stick makes EVERY fart a DOWNWIND FART!!!

[EmperorOfMars]

@ralekriver YOU SIR ARE BACKWARDS!!! You want to ignore the root of the problem, THE FART PROBLEM. This would only delay the inevitable world war; we need to attack this problem head on. NOT WITH FANS ON STICKS!!!!!

[cosmotcat]

@EmperorOfMars

They got a huge government grant so they could do FOUR fans on a stick.

[911bobiscool]

@EmperorOfMars i think it is a helicopter, that can lift a stick

[TrollSturm]

Wow you're all a bunch of fucking idiots. Let's see you do better cuntwads.

[imnotshaunwhite]

gay

[laflaf3d]

amazing! four motor that turn! whoaw incredible? How it's possible? someone discover electric motor recently? Tomorrow, I will make a video of an amazing new object : the wheel!

[AnimeNox09]

why do i have this idea that theres some lame ass dude on th left side just lifting that stick on its own??

[TiagoTiagoT]

once the engines are fine tunned and tested under all the expected conditions i imagine they will gradually move to an untethered prototype

[bstmanversusskeletor]

Amazing, propellers on a stick!

[BrandonJay1983]

NERDS!

[lucbessonium]

Umm.. I hope that's not someones life's work..

[ninjaraku]

umm..... guy holding stick on the right side? ITS A MINIATURE FAN!

[Garitina3657]

That is so fake it isnt even a robot

[bulletfingrz]

@Garitina3657 its not a robot its suppose to be a mini heli

[MyHamburgerjungs]

bullshit

[conman33311]

1:06 look at bottom right theres another one -.- comeone get a better cammera man if you gona make a fake vid

[GuuruDave]

lame

[yeebeascurvydawg]

it's definiteley a fake, guys

[AsoClothing]

Oh yeah theres no way that a little quad propelled mechanism could life something as heavy as Balsa Wood.

HA, Fake....what is so fake about it?

[MegaLichking]

fake

[fidlekid]

anytime rudy... i'm still waiting

[alexandergtji]

fake

[thebarathrumm]

seems fake

[CALLIKABT]

hahaha lol, qx motors 3v , can't lift themselvs

[KrisRamJ]

Nice, that's a cool little machine

[nathanasoulas]

one of the stupiest uploader ever!!!

Who believed that you actually lifted that up?

[ilovehd831]

@nathanasoulas Well it's a very early concept. Very small vehicles need even greater sensitivity in sensors and more processing power. When that time comes there will at least be some premise for how to turn this into something practical.

[JClemente1980]

not LiPo... Those have the discharge rate and low weight required...

[Corey497]

useless, ANY kind of battery supply would be too heavy

[tourbeu24]

waw ils vont voler une paille non on s'en fou !!!

[Rorasauras]

all of a sudden you see fingers hanging on to it! lol

[historysky]

there is no gyro to keep it balanced... fake

[heathinv]

Actually it is real, the Mesicopter is just hooked up unnecessarily to a hinged piece of wood.

FYI, google Mesicopter.

[2000jago]

Since you don't actually see it lift (all of it) off the ground, I'm going with "fake". How do we know someone's not on the side there moving the stick?

You're bright enough to build this, but not bright enough to realize it's pointless unless we can see it properly... I'd say the latter eclipses the prior in this case.

[2007TypeR]

it's 4 little motors, like the ones you get in vibrating pagers and stuff, with some fucking blades on? what the fuck are they trying to prove? that it has lift? of course it has lift it's a fucking rotor spinning. Get it to fuckin hover and fly and maybe someone might give a shiat.

[dseng]

@2007TypeR At such a small size like this, the aerodynamics is totally different giving rise to more viscous effects.

[gldys45]

what did you watch?, the mesicopter lifts at the end of the video, it is attached to the wooden arm no doubt to measure lift without the machine flying away and potentialy breaking

[2000jago]

What comment did you read? I said: you don't see ALL OF IT lift.

Tell me exactly what part of this video illustrates that it lifts _on it's own_ and that there isn't someone manipulating the stick out of camera view and lifting it?

...hmmm? - my point exactly!

For a bunch of Stanford whiz-kids, they sure don't know much about filming a clip that will withstand scrutiny. Probably better to stick with building mesicopters and forget about the filming it for youtube part...

[seeinstripes]

and what a valuable machine this is?! fail

[cr1tterp0wer]

fake!, why show a close up the entire time?  "any time now....">>>

video is fake

[dawky101]

look at the uploaders name...

its gerbal god

how can it be fake!! lolz

[jigglesnap]

I'm not impressed

[MW2Master36]

@jigglesnap me to

[dranoel1963]

....boring stupid little flying object

this is totaly fake, theyre not showing the right half of the....helli

[offhishedted]

Wow you made a fan on a stick! YEAH MAN you go dude! or perhaps not! some people were born to live off the state, think i may have found your future career... that or film school!

[11282RDS]

ah ha 110% right

[Subtalvik2]

This will change many lives. Starving children and families with their houses being foreclosed will praise this.

[Aurelovanovalopta]

@Subtalvik2 Yeah, because the scientist are the cause of that -.-

If your stupid brain does not get that, it is called sarcasm.

[Fentanyl3]

@Subtalvik2 why is it Stanford's problem to solve that, the best help you can ever receive in times of need is your own. That's the problem with today's people, they think their own problems are someone else's duty to solve them, and this is only aggravated by the people that believe it is their duty to help them solve them.

[datzfast]

@Subtalvik2 as for the foreclosed houses truth is they were always owned but the banks and the citizens never owned them. as for the people losing their jobs well you can blame government and news media for fostering a horrible climate. or you can point middle fingers for something we did to ourselves. the only really certain thing is we are not going back. 700 billion didnt create jobs it never could. 7000 billion wont create a job either. remember how horible it was five years ago?

[zigzom24]

@Subtalvik2 I just love how there are so many dicks like you, That can't appreciate this kind of technology, and are bashing scientists. If they specialize in robotics and do this sort of thing for a living, its what they are going to do.

[ghostman982]

@zigzom24 it is fake !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[cha0sx]

@Subtalvik2 and what have you done for the starving children and their families having their houses being foreclosed upon because they took out loans that they couldn't pay off.

[CoTaHack]

@Subtalvik2 i bet this was done in Hardva

[CoTaHack]

@Subtalvik2 i bet this was done in Hardvard

[emolosersunite]

@Subtalvik2 HA HA HA! BURN!

[Realfoxhawk]

@Subtalvik2 Yep. No doubt thats what people thought about the first helicorpter. What a load of rubbish they were. No helicopter has ever saved anyone.

[Klikkitse]

@Subtalvik2

You dude have no idea from how far I can post replies to your comments. You are now the target of eternal Internet hate, even though there are worse comments on this video. Also, you would not deserve those thumbs, but it's okay, cause I can just click whatever I want. :)

Srsly, to all you guys, check the link. It clarifies things a bit.

Srsly, to all you trolls, you are an successfuls.

[EdvinSoderman]

WTF are those good for? :S stupid idea

[dinmagic]

Try making rotor blades that small that can produce upward lift..

[G1o3Eshadow]

If you look in the background you can see an arm of one of the developers, it appears that he is pushing the right side down...Causing lift on the left side. I'm not understanding why they were using a stick... Why not attach the mini props to a lightweight base and test weight capacity with fiberglass or plastic bearings\weights.

[fabricekanda]

its easy to tell that someone 's holding it to make like its flying lol

[Twist9]

If you go actually look at the research you will realize the actual achievement has more to do with the design and production of the rotor blades at this scale than with anything else, producing an aerodynamic blade at the 50um scale is a great achievement and this test was only to prove that they would in fact be able to produce upward lift.

[ShootBigBird]

Twist9

Commercial reality 101.

Why build an insect sized flying toy, which WILL eventually sell for 30 bucks, and break in 5min, only to have the chinese copy and mass produce it in just 6 weeks????? DUMB!!!!

Economical high power motors, batts and blades SELL.

A light 3000Watt motor/Batt combo that can run for 200sec continuous without overheating, will sell for over 2 grand.

Put that combo into this, and youre a multi millionaire!

Slow Motion, Casio Exilim EX FC100, Thermik XXXL

[satweavers]

4 cell phone vibrator motors on a counterbalanced, pivoting arm... barely able to provide enough thrust to rise. Good luck. You'll have more believers if you back off and show the entire device with no human intervention.

[Ndorfin96]

WOW! Four dollar store face fans on a stick! Way to make that education pay off...BTW, next class should be Videography 101...

[anarkia1ces]

Not only this is the WORST youtube video by far, it isn't a great achievement.

It would have been 10 times better if it was zoomed out so you could see the whole thing instead of wondering if it was lifted by the stick or not. aww fuck it

[robinoi]

with the blue screen so they can superimpose it on some cityscape as well.

what a load of FUCKING SHIT

[jwiska]

string

[ryanschan]

its not lifted by the stick- notice the right side of the stick still points to the same place? thats because its hinged there like a lever. Therye testing to see how much load the little bugger can lift.

[CAFEYHUMO]

Lame!!

[mikaroo222]

held up no sh!t...

[sonicfox5]

gay

[Unbannable]

i t was obviously lifted up by the stick.

also, i was trained by the starship trooper people

[HiusLighting]

i dont got it ;(

[tunaluca]

FAKE

[batlin]

BAKE

[Perktube1]

If they would just show the whole stick...

btw this will probably wind up as a prosthetic device for handicapped insects at MIT.. lol.

[pabletediaz]

FAKE

[Lawyerdude]

This is a fraud. Fuck you.

[soldjahboy]

You are a fucking idiot. Shut up and log off, you are too stupid to use the internet.

[Lawyerdude]

No, you are the idiot if you fell for this crap. Did you finish high school? Or do they even have high school there?

[soldjahboy]

This was testing early micro motors 10 years ago. What makes you think it was fake? Are you an electrical engineer? The engines were testing lifting ability, the bar is there to stop them from flying away. Moron.

[Lawyerdude]

Electrical Engineering is not the appropriate field. MECHANICAL Engineering is the correct field. And yes, I do have my degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana.

[soldjahboy]

I am an astronaught trained by NASA, and also an elite special forces agent trained by the starforce... i also have a masters degree in bullshit detection. either way, electrical or mechanical engineers should know that 4 micro motors (now commonly used in RC helicopter rotors) are more than powerful enough to lift a puny stick which is attached to a hinge on one side.

[endlessrskies]

you were trained by NASA and you don't know how to spell astronaut? .....i pray they don't send you into space....

[soldjahboy]

Yeah, because I was being so literal and everything. I mean, you can totally tell I wasn't being sarcastic or fecicious in any way and that, while being an astronaut, I am also a brain surgeon, rocket scientist, biochemical engineer, torpedo repai man, and your mum's date for tonight.

[endlessrskies]

was just kidding, sorry, forgot to say that, and as for my mum, please do, she's one vicious bat out of hell to no end, she needs to get laid lol