Batbot: Building a functionally correct bat wing robot

batbot

Batbot is a project wherein the researchers are attempting to mimic the biological structure of a bat wing for flight. The desire is to attain the maneuverability and agility you see in bat flight due to the ever changing shape of their wings. Also, bats look really cool.  In attempting to mimic the structure, they have decided to use SMA based artificial muscles and steel tendons as opposed to … [Read more...]

Build a simple bat detector

[Tony Messina] had been fascinated with bat's echolocation since he was a kid. After he retired, he decided to act on this fascination and built a simple bat detector.The simple bat detector uses frequency division to lower the bat's chirping to a frequency we can hear. For example, if a bat is calling at 91kHz the system will divide it by 16 and put out 5.7kHz. The system is digital, so all … [Read more...]