New in the Maker Shed – ELEV-8 Quadcopter Kit
The Maker Shed now has the ELEV-8 Quadcopter kit by Parallax! This kit takes a little skill to put together, but it’s a fantastically fun build and even more fun to fly.
Flying
Human-Powered Helicopters: Straight Up Difficult
Check out this great NPR piece about engineering students at University of Maryland that are trying to win a three-decades-old contest for human powered flight.
Flying (and Crashing) Copters with Parallax
Today Parallax came out to MAKE HQ and let us test drive a number of their cool toys. They set up their quadcopters, y-copters, and hexcopters, hooked their ELEV-8 to an Intova camera, and used the video to fly with a first-person perspective. We pulled the feed into a streaming video, and had a great […]
NEWS FROM THE FUTURE – Quadcopter Art – Suspicion of Terrorism?
Quadcopter drone group held in London airport on suspicion of terrorism: Fresh from performing at Science Gallery in Dublin last night during the opening of Hack the City, an English group of urbanists, technologists and architects who created GPS-enabled quadcopter drones, were held at London Southend Airport on suspicion of terrorism and recorded under the […]
How-To: Quadrotor Transport Case
Instructables user Brian Ward posted this how-to for building a wooden storage and transport case for quadrotors. Inspiration for this project came from a falling box that broke the frame of his his own hand-built copter.
No, We Will Not Be Linking to the “Dead Cat Quadcopter”
Because we’re classy like that. So please stop asking. Those of you who cannot resist your morbid curiosity are now empowered with the necessary Googlon. Godspeed.
Meet the Makers: The Viper
Young makers astound with an ambitious Viper flight simulator project for Maker Faire.
