16 Year Old Landon Kohtz Built a Kite Taller Than He Is
“Indecisive” is a kite built by teenager Landon Kohtz. It’s 7 feet tall with a wing span that almost reaches 10 feet.
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7 Wind Swept Projects to Celebrate National Kite Flying Day
Let’s go fly a kite, up to the highest height!
Pan-and-Tilt Rig for Kite Photography
Thingiverse user miles created this cool kite photography rig consisting of an aluminum camera mount manipulated by a pair of servos. miles used a double thickness of 2.5mm plywood for the sides, with aluminum tubing holding it together. I’d love to see this in action!
Math Monday: Kite Geometry Takes Flight
Here are some mathematical ideas for making kites from any number of pure geometric forms.
Raspberry Pi in the Sky!
PublicLaboratory is a fantastic citizen scientist organization with really useful projects like DIY spectrometers (for finding out what’s really in stuff) and aerial mapping for monitoring of oil spills, landfills, etc. They’ve done some fantastic work using the continuous shooting mode of consumer cameras, including converting them to near infrared. The problem is that there is […]
Alt.SXSW: DIY Balloon and Kite Mapping
The Public Laboratory’s Matthew Lippincott and Shannon Dosemagen were at SXSW demonstrating their successful DIY Balloon Mapping Kit taking aerial views of the Knight and O’Reilly/MAKE booths.
MAKE: television Episode 2: Aerial Kite Photography & Burrito Blaster
Make: television Episode 2: Maker Cris Benton takes spectacular aerial photographs by rigging remote-controlled cameras to high flying kites. In the Maker Workshop John Park builds a Burrito Blaster, which can propel a burrito 50 yards, and Mister Jalopy shows off his giant iPod. The Maker Channel features vegetable flutes, cool remote control robots, printer […]
