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Most multi-rotor aircraft are about as aerodynamic as a brick. Unless all its motors are turning and the control electronics are doing their thing, most UAVs are quickly destined to …read more Continue reading Clever Control Loop Makes This Spinning Drone Fault-Tolerant
Even in technical disciplines such as engineering, there is much we can still learn from nature. After all, the endless experimentation and trials of life give rise to some of …read more Continue reading 3D Printing With a Drone Swarm?
Don’t you just hate it when you walk out of the bathroom with toilet paper stuck to your shoe? That’s a little bit like what happened when the Mars helicopter …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: October 9, 2022
Drones are pretty common in the electoronics landscape today, and are more than just a fun hobby. They’ve enabled a wide array of realtors, YouTubers, surveyors, emergency responders, and other …read more Continue reading Winged Drone Gets Forward Flight Capability
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
We always love when people take the trouble to show information in new, creative ways — after all, there’s a reason that r/dataisbeautiful exists. But we were particularly taken by this …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: September 18, 2022
Audio synthesizers can range from vast racks of equipment with modules stitched together by a web of patch cords to a couple of 555s wired together in an Atari punk …read more Continue reading This Simple Light-Controlled Synth Has a Surprisingly Rich Sound
Flying drones have been a part of modern warfare for a good few decades now. Initially, most of these drones were built by traditional military contractors and were primarily used …read more Continue reading Militaries Are Rushing To Get Anti-Drone Lasers Operational
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