One really big quadcopter that is following in the steps of the Spruce Goose

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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...]