Collaborate Disseminate
As anyone who’s spent Christmas morning trying to shake a quadcopter out of a tree can attest, controlling these fast moving RC vehicles can be tricky and require a bit …read more Continue reading A Drone for the Rest of Us
There’s no more famous road endurance race than the 24 Hours of Le Mans, where teams compete to see how far they can drive in a single 24-hour window. The …read more Continue reading 24 Hours of Le Airplanes
There are a variety of possible motor configurations to choose from when building a fixed-wing VTOL drone, but few take the twin-motor tilt-rotor approach used by the V-22 Osprey. However, …read more Continue reading Optimising A RC Tilt-Rotor VTOL
Testing any kind of project in the real world is expensive. You have to haul people and equipment around, which costs money, and if you break anything, you have to …read more Continue reading Microsoft’s New Simulator Helps Train Drone AIs
Picking propeller size for any aircraft, but especially VTOLs, it’s a tradeoff between size and RPM. You can either move a large volume of air slowly or a small volume …read more Continue reading Large Tip Driven Copter Turns Very Slowly
“Just add solar panels to the wings” is a popular suggestion for improving the flight times of fixed-wing drones. However, the reality is not so simple, and it’s easy to …read more Continue reading Solar Plane Might Be Able To Last Through The Night
With high-altitude ballooning, you are at the mercy of the winds, which can move your payload hundreds of kilometers and deposit it in some inaccessible spot. To solve this [Yohan …read more Continue reading R2Home Is Ready To Bring Back Your High Altitude Payload
Multirotor drones are significantly more popular than conventional helicopter designs for many reasons, which do not include efficiency. Making use of the aerodynamic effects behind this, [Nicholas Rehm] was able …read more Continue reading Turn Drone Into A Large Propeller To Increase Hover Efficiency
The differences between a drone and an underwater remote-operated vehicle (ROV) aren’t actually that large. Both have powerful motors that move large volumes of fluid (yes, air is a fluid), …read more Continue reading It Turns Out You Can’t Just Fly A Drone Under Water
One staple of science fiction is the ornithopter, which is a plane with moving wings. While these haven’t proved very practical in the general sense, a recent paper talks about …read more Continue reading Up in the Sky… It’s a Bird… It’s a Drone… Oh Yeah, It’s a Drone