Self-Balancing Staff: Weighted Walking Stick Stays UprightBlind
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Looking to develop a self balancing walking stick for old people. So whenever they stop or sit or do anything else they simply let go of the stick. the stick will balance it self and never fall down and it will stay upright. im open to new approaches and idea that gets what i want which is easy to use walking cane with self balancing ability and good looks
2. CAD Drawings with detailed drawings
3. Assembly drawings
4. bill of material
5. realistic size same as the normal walking cane
6. it has to be light in weight
7. strong and wont break with weight
8. always will balance it self and never fall
9.need to look stylish, classic and simple
10. the stick will not get stuck on the ground and will have one center
2. the heavy weight material
3. the over size dimensions
4. bad looks and unmodern
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It seems, it may get heavy as 3-4 kg to design the stick with self-balancing based on ball concept.
Otherwise it need to incorporate inverted pendulum balancing concept to make it self balancing. This also increase weight and cost. Needless to say it is complex.
Heavy stick is not useful design for you according to your comments.
Please consider about this.
BR,
Designer
Thank you for your time.
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can you provide the maximum weight permitted?(weight that old people can handle)
Designer
thank you for your review
i just want some clarification about the contest:
*my first design is just a proposition about how the stick will balance itself (the machinism),i&;ll improve the outer appearance as requested
*having different weights for the base and the stick is not enough to design a self balancing stick,because there is also other property to take into consideration,if not taken,the stick will continu balancing for a long time (having a stick that not stop balancing is not a cool thing to see)
*the stabilisation study i&;ve send you can provide a real time simulation with that follows the laws of physics,and that helps me configure those property
*TESTING THE DESIGN : prototyping this design is not an easy task,not a cheap one also,it will cost a lot on money for a design with so many parts
BEST REGARDS
NABIL
Buyer
Please note that im looking for the same concept of outer appearance with hollow grip to be light yet thick outer diameter so it wont break
The base has to look good same as picture number 3 with rubber end so the user wont slip and the base center weight has to be little heavier than the whole stick
so it will balance it self with the weight difference yet it wont be so heavy that the user can feel it (lets not forget that the user would be an old man and they cant handle weight) and please note that i would like you to print your design and try it yourself after all if it doesn&;t work then its no good right ? so please test it yourself
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Very interesting contest
i&;ll submit my design ASAP
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Looks good need to change grip design to more comfort and good looking ... the one you have looks like an axe
Whats the base ? and how will it balance it self ?
Designer
Shall I use Unigraphics Nx by Siemens.
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