I like so many details in this beautiful clock model by Lego builder Matt “monsterbrick” Armstrong. First, he used a very clever series of hinges to form the rounded face of the clock. Second, the camels/llamas/whatever on the sides make great golden decorations! Finally, the frosted transparent panels at the base add an elegant touch. […]
Image by sylvar, via Flickr By Lauren Venell Pricing is one of the most difficult parts of setting up any business. It requires you to put a concrete monetary value on very subjective qualities like style, experience, and care. When writing up a business plan, many people think that pricing is part of sales or […]
Artist Brian Jewett made these modern-material versions of traditional coil baskets using garden hose, cable ties, and spicket handles. He has posted some after-the-fact photos and a written how-to over on Instructables, as part of last week’s Zip Tie Challenge.
Some cookies look almost too good to eat. These fun sets of camera cookies from mangar on Etsy fall in to that category. They’d be such a fun treat for a photographer friend!
What does every Quadrotor enthusiast look for in a landing platform? If you guessed swarming robots, pat yourself on the back. Yes, as if taking off and landing weren’t hard enough, now you’ve got to wait for your landing surface to assemble itself.
Multicopters is an exciting new area of hobby robotics. They are also sometimes known as UAV’s, and essentially they are “flying hobby robots”.
They are made with a center that holds micro controllers, sensors, receivers, transmitters, power and payload. Pointing out from the center are a number of pins holding motors and propellers.
This is the first episode looking at Multicopters, and Frits has a very advanced Hexacopter in the air. Later episodes will look at products you can buy, and some cool cheap and less complex alternatives new on the market will be demonstrated.
Here are some inspiring links to other videos with other types of Multicopters:
Tricopter:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL3KW-zwVTQ
Quadrocopter:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CR5y8qZf0Y
Octocopter:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=517prbwFJo8
Learn how to make a robot:
http://letsmakerobots.com/start
http://twitter.com/letsmakerobots
“Nazca City” is a land art project, the drawing of a true scale map of an imaginary city onto the surface of the Peruvian desert. To do this we built a robot which moves autonomously, plowing the ground to uncover its underlying color. Because of its scale, the map can only be appreciated as a […]
