Johann Borenstein
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Motorcycle Heaven (or Hell): Hairpin Curves on the Gavia Pass in Italy - 360 deg Camera, HD, 6/2023
I used a helmet-mounted Insta360 X3 camera for my ascent to the Gavia Pass, coming from the south and going to Bormio across the Gavia. With the 360 camera I could select unique viewing angles to capture the tightness of many of the hairpin curves of that pass.
While the nearby Stelvio pass also has many hairpin curves, some of which are just as tight as those of the Gavia pass, the asphalted road of the Stelvio is generally wider than that of the Gavia pass. For that reason the Gavia pass is widely considered to be technically more challenging for motorcyclists than the Stelvio.
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Stelvio Pass in Italy on a Motorcycle. 360 deg Camera, HD, June 2023
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This video shows the passage over the Stelvio Pass by motorcycle. Bikers love this pass because of the many challenging hairpin curves and the marvelous views. The 360-deg camera used for this video allowed me to select the most interesting viewing angle at any time. I had mounted my Insta370 X3 camera on my helmet to assure an unencumbered view in all directions. Music by Esther Abrami
Skiing a Black Diamond Trail at Breckenridge - After a 42-year Break from Skiing (4K, GoPro 9)
zhlédnutí 63Před 2 lety
I had a chance to ski again after not having skied for 42(!) years. The question was, would I remember anything? something? No better way to find out than trying to ski a Black Diamond trail at Breckenridge, Colorado. See how it went in this video.
The Marvelous Magnetic Marble Machine - 3D-printed, Arduino-controlled, Full HD
zhlédnutí 314Před 2 lety
I had some time at my hands and decided to make a marble machine. It ended up taking four months, but I am pleased with the results. The video is narrated and there isn't much to add, so I'll just offer some technical details below, for my fellow geeks. 3D Printer: Qidi Tech X-Plus Filament: Mostly PLA, some ABS Arduino-compatible microprocessor: Teensy 4.0 Elevator motor: N20 form factor, 6V 3...
Motorcycle Group Ride with Tampa Police under the S.M.A.R.T. Safety Program
zhlédnutí 216Před 2 lety
Last weekend Laurie and I took part in an advanced motorcycle safety course conducted by Tampa Police over the course of two days. 10 hours on Saturday (from 7:00 am - 5:00 pm) and five hours on Sunday. The highlight on Sunday was an 81-mile group ride. There were only five "citizen" riders and five Tampa Motor Police officers. With this 1:1 ratio between instructors and students, no mistake, s...
Gavia Pass in the Italian Alps - Not for the Faint of Heart. 4K, Motorcycle, Hairpin Curves, U-turns
zhlédnutí 15KPřed 2 lety
My wife Laurie and I traveled through the Alps in Italy in September 2021. I rode a motorcycle, she drove an SUV. A GoPro Hero 9 was mounted to the front of the motorcycle windscreen and recorded 4K video wherever it was legal to do so. The video here documents our easy ascent of the Gavia Pass from its north side and, with more detail, our descent on the south side, which was challenging and, ...
Villages and Towns in the Italian Alps - 4K, Motorcycle, Dolomites, Cortina, Canazei, Bolzano, Como
zhlédnutí 6KPřed 2 lety
My wife Laurie and I traveled through the Alps in September 2021. I rode a motorcycle, she drove an SUV. A GoPro Hero 9 was mounted to the front of the motorcycle windscreen and recorded 4K video wherever it was legal to do so. The video here is a collage of clips captured while passing through villages and towns in the Italian Alps. We felt that the unique architecture and cityscape of such ru...
Stelvio Pass Italy - Italian Alps by Motorcycle - 4K, GoPro Hero 9, 3D Terrain Preview, Telemetry
zhlédnutí 16KPřed 2 lety
My wife and I traveled through the Alps in September 2021. I rode a motorcycle, she drove an SUV. A GoPro Hero 9 was mounted to the front of the motorcycle windscreen and recorded 4K video wherever it was legal to do so. We recorded tens of hours of high-quality video and also got some good 4K shots with a DJI Mavic Air 2 drone. Back home after the trip, we extracted full telemetry data (e.g., ...
Beginner Kiteboarding about 25 hours after graduating from One-on-One Instruction
zhlédnutí 73Před 3 lety
I recorded this video about two years ago but didn't post it in hopes of making a better sequel later. That didn't happen, so this is what I got. At the time I had spent one season or about 25 hours of kiteboarding on my own, after my instructor had cleared me to do so.
Motorcycle Ride through Zion National Park, Utah, in April 2021 - Highlights
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This ride took place in April 2021 on a BMW F750gs, rented at Hertzride.com in Las Vegas, NV. This video shows some highlights of the trip. Check out our other travel videos from the highest mountain passes in the Italian Alps: "Stelvio Pass in the Alps in Italy - 4K" www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYXi5... "Gavia Pass in the Italian Alps - Not for the Faint of Heart" czcams.com/video/gJ12hZ88Wzc/vide...
Persistence of Vision (PoV) Clock
zhlédnutí 694Před 3 lety
I recently created this PoV clock. One of its less ubiquitous features is that it employs a strip of individually controllable LEDs. This makes it easier to place the microcontroller (an Arduino-compatible Teensy 4.0) and electronics in the base of the clock, rather than on the rotor. However, this approach necessitates the use of an Arduino/Teensy library which imposes tricky timing constraint...
Infinity Mirror by Jonas
zhlédnutí 249Před 3 lety
Infinity mirror made from these parts: 1. one off-the-shelf shadow box; 2. one custom-cut conventional (one-way) mirror made of glass; 3. one custom-cut two-way mirror made of glass; 4. two strips of WS2812 addressable LEDs, each with 58 pixels; 5. An Arduino Nano. Music by Esther Abrami
DJI Mavic Air 2 Used as a Fixed Rearward-facing Dash Cam on Motorcycle
zhlédnutí 219Před 3 lety
I wanted to videotape my wife riding her Kawasaki Z650 behind me. The simple rearward-facing dashcam on my bike doesn't serve this purpose well because it leans with my bike (thus tilting the horizon) in curves, and the subject doesn't stay centered in the picture in curves. To overcome these issues I strapped my DJI Mavic Air 2 rigidly to the luggage rack of my bike. The drone's FocusTrack fea...
HoverBot - First Quadcopter Drone - Concept Demonstration in 1992
zhlédnutí 770Před 10 lety
The HoverBot was invented by Dr. Johann Borenstein at the University of Michigan in 1992. It is believed to be the first ever drone based on a quadrotor or quadcopter concept. The project lasted for only three months before the funding agency, the Department of Energy, decided to discontinue the project because they felt it would be too dangerous to have drones performing video surveillance in ...