RC helicopter shoots steadycam like photos from the air
Here’s some amazing video of the new “Draganflyer X6 UAV RC” helicopter that can be rigged up to shoot professional quality aerial video and take digital photographs. DraganFly
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GeekDad at Rocket Mavericks
In response to our high power rocket post, Ken Denmead of GeekDad points us to coverage on their blog of the Rocket Mavericks event, with some awesome pics. The first one above is a time-lapsed night photo. The author of the piece, Steve Jurvetson, writes: …the motor failed, and broke the rocket in two, but […]
High power rocket pics
Erik Charlton has some nice pics on Flickr of his NAR Level 3 Certification flight at the recent Rocket Mavericks event. The rocket he flew is a 10″ Polecat Bullpup which is 80 lbs and 110″ tall. It flew to 4,500 feet on an Aerotech M1419 motor with twin G Wiz LCX flight computers. Liftoff
Syd Mead Talks Blade Runner and His Lego Spinner Car
I’ve been enjoying Joel Johnson’s fawning fanboy coverage of Syd Mead on Boing Boing Gadgets. Hey, I’d fawn, too. I’m also a huge fan of Mead’s and even thought about becoming a conceptual artist or industrial designer on his inspiration. In this episode of BBtv, Joel talks with Mead about the awesome one-of-a-kind Spinner police […]
Sew your own aviation goggles
Patrick Wilson made a template from his father’s WWI aviation goggles and made from it generated his own pair. He shares the template and plans below. Scale drawings of my father’s aviation goggles (WW1)
Quadcopters video
Via DIY Drones comes this video of the Stanford STARMAC (Stanford Testbed of Autonomous Rotorcraft for Multi-Agent) quadcopters: STARMAC, the Stanford Testbed of Autonomous Rotorcraft for Multi-Agent is a testbed of 6 quadrotor helicopter unmanned aerial vehicles that fly indoors and outdoors to experiment with autonomous agent algorithms. This video presents an overview of the […]
R/C helicopter dragonfly mod
Here’s Crabfu’s latest quick and easy project to add a “dragonfly canopy” to a sub-micro helicopter. I-Wei does complain that the added weight was significant and really changed the flight dynamics. Sub Micro Helicopter Dragonfly
