I Tried To Make a Drone Using ONLY ONE Tail Propeller!

Welcome to another episode of Trailmakers! Today I want to try to create a drone that using only a single tail propellor for all of it's thrust. Will only one propeller have what it takes?

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11:48 For power output logic, they simply add onto the values, so with two logic blocks set to 1.0 the output will be 2.0, adding a reverse power to that only knocks it down to 1.0.

[jjlin]

Everybody:I need two or more to create a vtol
Scrapman:one is all I need

[yeeteater]

Vid idea: Carrier battles between 2 carriers over long range launching planes at eachother, where planes can only reload bombs once they reach back to the carrier

Edit: carriers would probably need to either be pretty much floating platforms or be multi part to go with trailmakers build restrictions

[DanyF]

9:40 Flipping the top wedges at the back upside down would probably help it for when you're going forward. More uplift less downlift.
11:39 Having 2 speed sensors means you were sending +2 while your key-press only sent in -1, must be why it didn't work.

Very cool little build btw!

[dasdeutschefinanzamt]

So many years in and the videos are still getting better

[WynterLegend]

It's funny you uploaded this today. I did something akin to this yesterday. The gyros are game-breaking, really. It trivializes making things stable.

[humphrey]

It would be cool to do a battle where everyone starts a fresh campaign and they have an hour to collect as many parts as possible, then you do a battle only using the components you founds.

[DaShikuXI]

You could have saved a lot of weight by removing one of the servos that was touching the propellor. No need to have a servo on both the left and right on that. At 17:38 you could have removed this exact servo without issues, instantly saving 5kg.

[justinpatterson]

A single thrust drone battle would be great.

[communistdoggo]

Interesting note, with the way you made this creation, the fastest way to move horizontally would be to turn diagonally sideways and hold 2 input buttons, achieving maximum propeller angle and minimum lift

[MetalHev]

Scrapman: "I wanna make a drone with a single prop"
Helicopter: "Am I a joke to you?"

[CorruptedVan]

Thank you Sir Scrapman for this wonderful video. Love all of your series, and am always excited to see what you post next.

[DemonHunter-yg]

Hey Scrapman. The solution to your altitude keeping Problem is:
1. Turn the speed sensor 180° so it faces upwards
2. set the activation speed to something slightly higher then 0KPH
3. make it output a Signal when the activation speed is not reached

The activation speed might need some long adjustments to get it done perfectly,
but like this it can keep altitude perfectly.

[DavEboy-mnso]

to maintain altitude, have a speed sensor facing down, hooked into an XOR gate, with an OR gate with 'ctrl' on the positive input also hooked into the XOR. basically, it keeps it there until you press control

[moroblizniak]

0:38 Literally every Tailmaker, ever 😂 This prop is so good.... Stronger than large prop too!

Only one downside is the sound it makes. Can be annoying when using longer.

[TntMaster]

Video idea: More propellers you use more blocks you have to use.
Ex: 1 proeller has no limit, but 2 you have to use 180 blocks, and then 3 260 blacks, or same thing like that.

[niklasburgin]

Hi scrapman, to improve the exeletation of the prop/rotor use a distance sensor and set the range to zero, invert trigger and set the output to 0.03 and hook it into the rotor. That will pretty much negate the spin up time of the rotor and give you better and faster controll while hovering. Keep on doing what you want👍

[VascoCC]

Piece of advice: For hover mode, if you're using a speed sensor at 0 Km/h and you loose altitude, try using it pointing up with the mode "trigger bellow" on and a small speed of 0.1 or something to compensate the response time of the height thrust.

[mithuntherallyracer]

Day 5 of asking scrapman WHERE IS WORKSHOP HUNTERS

[William_Kyle-Yuki_Yuuki]

10:15 into the video, I am wondering if you can offset the drop in altitude by adding a little front facing aerodynamic lift.