What does he know the rest of us don't?

I think he knows the truth

@@ddegn Yes, some engineers, makers and drone enthusiasts willing to donate time on a lark for yuks.

Exactly what I was thinking

Yes, the Movie Event Horizon has something similar with Lawrence Fishburne.

Yes, while these hard working (though unnecessary) underlings are making models fly, Terrance is doing the heavy lifting, as it were, refactoring the firmware - for months he's been debugging why, when he sets "MaxThrust = (1 * 1)" , the measured thrust stays the same instead of doubling. This has delayed production indefinitely and is why linchpins are not seen hoisting 55 gallon drums of liquid gold proton bonding compound W.

its not just that. there is more to it than that. go read the information.

Indeed. :)

Who is Terrance Howard He is an actor (Iron Man, others) but apparently a friggen genius. He did a Oxford Union talk 6 years ago which I saw for the first time 2 days ago. But I saw a snippet from that talk one or two days before. It is awesome what he is talking about. It has to do with math yes but it is way deeper. There is a guy named Randall Carlson who is like a freelance investigator who is into geology and paleontology. He has been studying structures like the Sphynx, The Pyramids, caves and cave art etc., river bed formations and actually the destruction of land surfaces in America and around the world for 40 years. He delves into what generally has been described as “religions” as well. He is also into what he has found to be described in many of these structures: Sacred Geometry. This is what Terrance Howard describes in his talk about the “flower of life”. It is fascinating.

There's nothing shown in the video that defies the laws of mathematics or physics. Lynchpin is a cool but inefficient drone. You could get most of the benefits by using a normal drone and a 3-axis gimbal. There are likely a few applications where the Lynchpin design makes sense to use but most aerial video applications would be better off using a conventional drone.

@@ddegn yep, I'm struggling to think of an application beyond maybe the rolling camera platform demonstrated. And "bonding" these things together is a non-starter outside a video game. Edit: hmm, maybe a continuous laser target designator or yagi antenna director for something that's transiting above to below, etc? though there seems to be stability hiccups when handing off thrust between facets, i dunno. EditEdit: So I went ahead an read the whitepaper. This hiccup may be address though propulsion - adjustable/reversible pitch props instead of reversing rotation? Not clear. Seems like no ones sure what to do with the modular bonding stuff - land on shapes, catch a ball maybe? If you assemble an ad hoc structure, not sure when will inter-drone interference or top-heavy dead weight would be a problem, but maybe you could unfurl a reflector or similar?

@@user-pd5ot4zd4b Thanks for the info. I haven't read the white paper myself. There are a couple of quadcopters with variable pitch blades (I have one myself). These types of quads (variable pitch) have smoother transitions to inverted flight than quads which have to reverse motor direction. Of course this ability comes a the cost of efficiency. Variable pitch blades generally don't have the added twist which makes normal propellers work better than their variable pitch blades. You can only add twist for one direction of motion. The Lynchpin has to carry around a bunch of extra weight (in motors) which isn't contributing to thrust. There's a reason no one uses the design commercially. A gimbal is so much more practical.

Thanks.

I was also wondering that. Something is not adding up or maybe we misunderstood Terrence describing exactly what he did patent (...?). Groundbreaking tech tho either way..

Yes.

yes

@@Nuru_77 if I'm right engineers can always build but can't always use or sell

Terry wrote a book and it is online for free at www.TCOTLC.com

You can probably find a local club of drone/rc enthusiasts near you that can join up with. Lot's of great material in books and videos. You could build a linchpin and all manner of wild and wonderful flying machines.

@@chrismonksellye4608 yup, I downloaded it. Great info..

saemobilus.sae.org/content/01-16-03-0018

No. We are not associated with or related to Dahir Insaat.

Lol. I hope so one day soon. Hahaha

It was yes. The project / patent dev has been abandoned presently.

@@chrismonksellye4608 how come it's being abandoned, are you having problems with the powers that be???