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Behold the Land-Bear-Shark, a quadcopter on a rather grand scale. At a full eight kilograms it's an easy target to compare the [Howard Hughes] behemoth, but in addition to the weight, this still has yet to make its first flight. To give you some scale to the image above, the board at the center is an Arduino. It controls the beast, along with the help of a SparkFun IMU board which rides atop. … [Read more...]
The team over at the Flying Machine Arena has been busy combining two of our favorite toys - quadrotors and Kinect. Like many other hacks, they are using Kinect to monitor their joint positions, mapping a handful of actions to the operator’s movements. Once the quadrotor is aloft, it can be directed around the room using the operator’s right hand. The gesture recognition system responds … [Read more...]
While quadrotors might just become the killing machines of choice some time in the future, we’re pretty sure it will be awhile before they run amok and wipe humans off the face of the planet, if the following video is any indication. The team over at UPenn’s GRASP Lab film everything they do when it comes to quadrotors for posterity’s sake. When your awesome job consists of directing … [Read more...]
This pair of quad-rotor helicopters does a better job of keeping a ping-pong ball in the air than we could. The two flying drones are performing inside of the flying machine arena, a 1000 cubic meter indoor space surrounded by nets with a foam-padded floor. This makes for a prototype-friendly space, protecting the copters from hard landings and the experimenters from the maiming that might … [Read more...]
Here's a great tutorial on building your own quadrotor helicopter. This build isn't necessarily less expensive than others we've seen since quality motors, propellers, and control circuitry aren't cheap. But the design and assembly is well documented and presents a well-planned building procedure. The carbon-fiber tubes that make up the frame have extensions to protect the motors and propellers in … [Read more...]
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