Burgerman wrote:Doubtful. but it will be dangerous! Should be fun to watch.
slomobile wrote:Wow, good point. That had to be fun to watch the first time. Hoping you made it badly enough so you can catch up and turn it off.
Remotes aren't always reliable so I think it would need a watchdog. Push a button at least once every couple minutes to keep it alive. Fail to kick the dog and it stops.
Do you have any references to the work you've heard about? Or search terms. I haven't found prior work yet.
G. O. D. not allowed to type that word apparently.
Burgerman wrote:You DO need to be able to instinctively KNOW without thinking about it which way to push the stick when its facing you... The secret is that I dont look at the wheelchair (or helicopter) from my own position. In my mind I am sat in it. Once you learn that it doesent matter if its upside down, going backward/forwards towrds you or away. You steer a chair, by RC naturally and instinctively just as well as you do when sat in your own chair. The only difference is that it LOOKS different to you from your perspective. Put yourself in it mentaly and is easy.
The problem is mentally translating the image I see into a new mental image from seated in chair POV. It just takes me too long to do the mental graphics processing.
Remembering that "chair facing me, move stick opposite of instinct" is a shortcut. It doesn't work if the chair is sideways, so I need to fall back to mental imagery in that case.
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