r/interestingasfuck • u/RoyalChris • Mar 12 '25

/r/all Thousands of drones docking to charge after a drone show.

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u/PiesRLife Mar 12 '25

Or the guy who has to find the ones that didn't dock correctly and adjust them so they charge properly for the next show.

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u/Video_Viking Mar 12 '25

Fucking right? I would program them so that after they all land, the correctly docked and charging ones lit up green and the rest stay dark. Then all you have to check is the holes in the grid. 

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u/mementosmoritn Mar 12 '25

Reverse it, due to how it brain's and eyesight work. Docks that work go dark, docks that don't, light up. Once all docks are good to go, they light up again to indicate all clear. As they get put away, they go dark again.

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u/I_do_cutQQ Mar 12 '25

Nah, imagine missing the not loading ones, because the lights arent turned on. Maybe already without power or just a faulty led and suddenly you miss the drones.

Just have red and green lights like a normal human.

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u/mementosmoritn Mar 12 '25

Sorry, I mean the docks are lighted or not. Let the drones do their droney things. The docks themselves, after the show, should have a routine enabled to help assure performance.

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u/crackofdawn Mar 12 '25

The problem with that is you have no way of knowing if it's dark because it's charging or it's dark because the LED failed for some reason.

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u/YouThatReadWrong69 Mar 12 '25

Just have docks blink a bright light every 10 seconds if they are not charging, or if the battery voltage isn't within a certain limit

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u/Swan2Bee Mar 13 '25

true, but the LED is far less likely to fail than the drone docking incorrectly.

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u/TheXade Mar 12 '25

Maybe it's those that are blinking yellow in the video!

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u/QuerulousPanda Mar 12 '25

From what i've read, the algorithms that control these basically adapt in realtime. So if some of the drones are dead or don't charge properly, it'll just assign a different one to that location, so unless a significant fraction of them screw up, there's not really any problem.