With the advancements in quadrotor parts and technology over the years, it’s become possible to make just about anything fly if you can strap some high-speed rotors to it. Introducing the first edible quadrotor!
[Michael] enjoys building and flying quadrotors. His girlfriend enjoys baking and making chocolates. One day she had a crazy idea — what if they made a quadrotor together, combining their unique skill sets? [Michael] was a bit skeptical at first. After all, chocolate doesn’t really compare to aluminum or carbon for a frame material… and chocolate melts at room temperature. Regardless — they were curious enough to try it out and see for sure.
First they built a wooden prototype and then created a silicone mold from it. Using Styrofoam and metal spacers for the electronics mounts they filled the mold with chocolate and let it set. A bit of assembly later and they had a chocolate quadrotor. It flies too.
On the upside, the next time I’m tuning the controller and a crosswind destroys my quad, I can literally eat the devastation.
If chocolate melts at room temperature, this project would never get off the ground. We’d also never have chocolate on the shelves at the store.
Seriously, who writes something like that? Have they never seen chocolate before?
To be fair, chocolate is usually designed to melt at body temperature, which is ~35 degrees. I’m sure that’s room temperature /somewhere/, in summer…
chocopter :D
Someone in a cold climate should try it with butter. Can you say “butter fly”?
I love you and hate you at the same time. I’d get right on it if it weren’t summer.
Meh I say ice!
pykrete!
I once made a small model airplane with (uncooked) spaghetti and covered in saran wrap!
New restaurant idea: edible RC entrees. No waitress required – they just fly it to your table!
I’d leave the waitress a tip, but I ate her.
What if they order soup?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvw7_ajSoyg#t=104
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51Xkw5qZxdo
Eat it already :D
I’m thinking hoax. No way mere chocolate has the structural integrity to hold together.
Maybe chocolate flavoured epoxy resin, but plain old chocolate – I think not.
But chocolate does hold together…
Not the first edible quad.
Prior art made from a carrot:
http://flitetest.com/articles/the-carrotcopter
Not edible, but it sort of fits in with the theme – the cat copter:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3ctz3RTI-o
Shucks, beaten to it…
Just needs some rainbow streamers attached to the tail… :)
Even in death, cats are still insanely amusing.
I believe that cats are “edible” in China.
shark. jumped.
this point was reached in the foam RC community when someone demonstrated first the 3D capable foam cube, and lastly the perfectly controllable flying cheap grocery store cooler. every other “look what I made fly!” was merely derivative.
Once the flying cat corpse copter was done, everything else is “find something else to fly” but nothing is different other than the shape and the material.
with enough battery and motor, anything can be a multicopter and fly. Hell, people have even demonstrated human capable units. Does it matter if it’s made out of compressed toilet paper, 3d printed out of free range tree latex, or hammered out of parts of old shovels anymore?
True enough, but I still think the flying toaster (for anyone old enough to remember the After Dark screensavers) was a high point in the admittedly-derivative “strap wings to anything” genre. Oh, that one’s actually fixed-wing…
http://flitetest.com/articles/flying-toaster
I would go with a chocolate wafer composite
A KitKat Copter? Deliciously enticing!
Ahh, I miss Girlfriend. Ever since the upgrade to Wife, legacy support for *my* interests seems to decrease with each patch.
(Sorry, oldie but goodie.)
Something something Icarus flying too close to the sun
http://youtu.be/EwTZ2xpQwpA