When we did our Alex Rider contest, one of the kids proposed a tiny spy cam built into a faux maple leaf one could launch with a slingshot. We thought it was a clever idea. Some researchers at the University of Maryland’s Dept. of Aerospace Engineering were similarly inspired by samara seed pods and created the RoboSeed.
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Nice work. I have spent many a childhood hour throwing Billions (OK…a bunch..:) of maple tree helicopters.
44.594986,-72.866617 Right here, according to Google Maps.
You know… I’ll bet if you could have its camera synchronize with its spinning you could have it take one picture per revolution and get a stable image of the same spot each time.