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Suppose that you want to get rid of a whole lot of mosquitoes with a quadcopter drone by chopping them up in the rotor blades. If you had really good …read more Continue reading 2024 Hackaday Supercon Talk: Killing Mosquitoes with Freaking Drones, and Sonar
Unless you work for the government or a large corporation, constrained designs are a fact of life. No matter what you’re building, there’s likely going to be a limit to …read more Continue reading Budget-Minded Synthetic Aperture Radar Takes to the Skies
It seems like the widespread use of delivery drones by companies like Amazon and Wal-Mart has been perpetually just out of reach. Of course robotics is a tricky field, and …read more Continue reading DIY Drones Deliver the Goods with Printed Release
Throughout evolution, the concept of powered flight has evolved and refined itself multiple times across both dinosaurs (birds), mammals (bats) and insects. So why is it that our human-made flying …read more Continue reading Avian-Inspired Drones: How Studying Birds of Prey Brings More Efficient Drones Closer
Flying a first-person view (FPV) remote controlled aircraft with goggles is an immersive experience that makes you feel as if you’re really sitting in the cockpit of the plane or …read more Continue reading FPV Flying in Mixed Reality is Easier than You’d Think
If you’re looking to get into flying first-person view (FPV) remote controlled aircraft, there’s an incredible amount of information available online. Seriously, it’s ridiculous. In fact, between the different forums …read more Continue reading DIYFPV: A New Home for Drone Builders
When we look at how everyone’s favorite flying dinosaurs get around, we can see that although they use their wings a lot too, their legs are at least as important. …read more Continue reading Flying Drones That Can Walk and Jump into the Air: An Idea With Legs?
Fresh off a world record for the fastest quadcopter, [Luke Bell] decided to try his luck with something more own to earth, namely trying to tackle the world record for …read more Continue reading Trying to Shatter the World’s Fastest RC Car Record
Birds have long been our inspiration for flight, and researchers at Princeton University have found a new trick in their arsenal: covert feathers. These small feathers on top of birds’ …read more Continue reading Small Feathers, Big Effects: Reducing Stall Speeds With Strips Of Plastic
Most RC planes follow a simple control scheme: elevators for pitch, rudder for yaw, and ailerons for roll. This one-to-one mapping keeps things straightforward, and fewer actuators means less weight. …read more Continue reading Experimental Drone Flies Like A Bird