Arduino Mini-powered UAV
Here’s some video of Sean Reynolds’ UAV that uses an Arduino Mini, Maxbotix ultrasonic sensors, and a HMC6352 compass module for autonomous flight control. Wash UAV: Final Demo [via SparkFun]
Flying
Bar from airline drink cart
Todd Lappin, of Telstar Logistics, made this sweet mobile home bar from an old SAS airline galley cart he got in an aircraft boneyard. The Beautiful Utility of Airline Galley Carts
Cincinnati Jr Makers’ rockets
The Cincinnati Junior Makers group started as a bunch of bike riding fathers with young kids. The group used to go on rides hauling their cherubs around on bike trailers and tagalongs. Now the kids are old enough to ride on their own, but not quite up for the challenge of traffic. Since they like […]
Planeboat Memories
Photograph by Albert W. Starkweather It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a … boat? Technically, it’s a planeboat. And to Dave Drimmer of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., the live-aboard craft was home for 20 years. The vessel has a colorful history. Its name, Cosmic Muffin, comes from singer Jimmy Buffett, who caught a glimpse of […]
Bring back the airships!
For this weekend’s Steam Powered: The California Steampunk Convention, the band Abney Park and Airship Ventures have teamed up to offer dirigible rides to conference-goers (for $785 a ticket). Airship Ventures just brought one of their Zeppelin NTs over from Germany and it will be moored at Moffett Field. MAKE contributor Todd Lappin was lucky […]
Flying vehicle: The Spyder prototype
This is a really cool looking quad-rotor flying vehicle. It uses a Parallax Propeller chip to handle all the complex tasks of flying and remote control. I really like the sound it makes when it lands at the end of the video. More about the Spyder prototype [Parallax forums]
Maker Faire Austin: Call For Flyover
We would love someone to take to the sky for a nice aerial photo of the make-tastic-ness that is Maker Faire Austin 2008 next weekend. Can anyone help us out??
