Folding-Wing Glider: Rockets Up … Glides Down!
This balsa wood glider catapults up with wings folded back, wings pop open and it gently glides down.
Stiff wire
Teleclaw: Remote Robot Gripper
It might have been Robots of Saturn that first got my young brain thinking about building a mechanical man. In that obscure 1962 sci-fi adventure novel, Dig Allen and his fellow teenage space explorers transfer their thoughts into the bodies of teleoperated robots to mine Saturn’s dangerous rings for precious Methane-X. Using some of my […]
