Terpentintollwut Posted September 18, 2010 Share Posted September 18, 2010 JET PAK - The (most likely) first ever homemade semi-automated 360° gyroscope ride made entirely from scrap. Multiple complete rollovers included! [youtubehd]x9u4pLlZRmw[/youtubehd] Remember when I asked for some track-suggestions for my mix to accompany that weirdo ride I built in my garden? It's finished now (ride and mix), as for the mix (posted here in watmmixes), I think I didn't use a single track from what I had planned then. But anyways, the event took place at the 4th and it all went down really well, no one died! Look at them go! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spratters Posted September 18, 2010 Share Posted September 18, 2010 That sir is brilliant. I want a go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redruth Posted September 18, 2010 Share Posted September 18, 2010 i'm next ..mememememememememe! me! me! ..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vertsk8er419 Posted September 18, 2010 Share Posted September 18, 2010 man, what a great idea, who would have thought of turning a shopping cart into a public gyroscope ride with electronic music? very IDM. you should release instructions of how you guys build these homemade gyroscopes. i can imagine these sort of events expanding and getting pretty popular. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
o00o Posted September 18, 2010 Share Posted September 18, 2010 awesome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaosmachine Posted September 18, 2010 Share Posted September 18, 2010 very nice. no video from inside the ride, though? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terpentintollwut Posted September 19, 2010 Author Share Posted September 19, 2010 man, what a great idea, who would have thought of turning a shopping cart into a public gyroscope ride with electronic music? very IDM. you should release instructions of how you guys build these homemade gyroscopes. i can imagine these sort of events expanding and getting pretty popular. I thought about doing some tutorial-video on how I built this thing, it's just that I used so many random things ... and I wouldn't know how to explain where to get them shopping trolleys either ... very nice. no video from inside the ride, though? There is one recording of it, but I felt it didn't fit in with the rest of the video (shot with a different camera), and you could barely see the background moving, so the whole rollover thing didn't look all that impressive. I previously built a contraption to attach a tripod to the front so the person sitting inside could be filmed from the front, about a meter away. But I didn't want the camera to crash into anything, so I wouldn't really let the thing dangle around full speed. There's also a shot of the (empty) gondola spinning and then falling off, from the test-phase, luckily I attached the camera to the top bar then, not the gondola. In order to prevent that from happening again I drilled holes through the screws within the hinge and put a pin through. Here's the layout of the side-hinges and how they are attached to the gondola (lacking the pin -bit): And a higher resolution (but crappy quality) picture of the entire ride: http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/5882/jeta.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcbpete Posted September 19, 2010 Share Posted September 19, 2010 Another Awesome Terpentintollwut Project Great job man, though I bet I wouldn't survive a minute on it without puking up everywhere ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terpentintollwut Posted September 19, 2010 Author Share Posted September 19, 2010 Thanks! To my surprise everyone agreed that evening that it wasn't half as bad as it looks. Someone did actually puke (the creator of the "Fly Instructions"-video on the tv screen seen at the end of the youtube vid), but that was on the other ride, the traditional Trolley Twister that only spins horizontally but much faster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dr. Bunsen Honeydew Posted September 20, 2010 Share Posted September 20, 2010 I think you need a counterweight on the top of it to get a bit more fluid rolling action. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terpentintollwut Posted September 20, 2010 Author Share Posted September 20, 2010 Check min 7:12 in the video, the rolling action is pretty fluid I think. The record that evening was five rollovers in a row with a single push. The only thing that slows down the rolling a bit would be the not exactly aerodynamic shape of the whole thing plus human inside. Where I do use a counterweight though is when I want to take a ride myself, as I chose the center of rotation so it would be ideal for the majority of people (who are smaller and lighter than me). I'm almost two meters tall and when I get in, the resting position of the gondola is pretty uncomfortable, about 45° to the front, so I keep staring at the ground. I put a backpack filled with rocks on the back side of the thing in order to prevent that, but then the resulting movement isn't as smooth as it is for someone normal-sized without a counterweight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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