Hackaday Links: June 23, 2024

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When a ransomware attack targets something like a hospital, it quickly becomes a high-profile event that understandably results in public outrage. Hospitals are supposed to be backstops for society, a …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: June 23, 2024→

Hackaday Links: February 18, 2024

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So it turns out that walking around with $4,000 worth of hardware on your head isn’t quite the peak technology experience that some people thought it would be. We’re talking …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: February 18, 2024→

Hackaday Links: February 4, 2024

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Things may not have gone as planned last week for the flying cellphone on Mars, but just because Ingenuity‘s flying career is over doesn’t mean there’s no more work to …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: February 4, 2024→

Kawasaki’s supercharged 1,000cc Ninja-copter drone lifts 440 pounds

Armed with a 300-horsepower, supercharged engine from Kawasaki’s fearsome H2R hyperbike, the K-Racer X1 unmanned helicopter is an absolute beast of a cargo drone, the size of a small car. Watch it lifting a national-record weight in this new video.Cont… Continue reading Kawasaki’s supercharged 1,000cc Ninja-copter drone lifts 440 pounds→

Better rotors, higher heights thanks to NASA’s dual-planet presence

There aren’t any organizations other than NASA that can claim they are operating on two different planets (at least none we know of from here on Earth). The space agency is now using that reach to create better helicopter blades on Earth and to push th… Continue reading Better rotors, higher heights thanks to NASA’s dual-planet presence→

World-first automatic safety system lands a helicopter without power

Huge props to these two helicopter test pilots, who have white-knuckled it through one of the most harrowing experiences in rotorcraft flight – an unpowered autorotation emergency landing – allowing an autonomous system to take the controls.Continue Re… Continue reading World-first automatic safety system lands a helicopter without power→