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Parrot AR.Drone torn to bits, can be rebuilt with ease
Parrot’s AR.Drone received the mandatory teardown treatment and scored an excellent 9/10 on the repairability scale. So if you crossed the AR.Drone off your holiday list because you just know you’d...
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Quadcopter video gives pilot’s-eye view of the action
For those of you that curse gravity because you wish you could experience Superman-like flight, check out the video above. Depicting a four-minute journey of a remote controlled quad-copter through a...
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Quadcopters preparing to deliver tacos via GPS
When quadcopters first appeared they looked like a very cool toy you could control with a smartphone. Then students and researchers started experimenting with the quadrotor machines, and got them...
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Quadcopter modified to carry machine gun
Update: There’s growing doubts about the authenticity of this (very well done) video. The best guess at the moment is that this might be a promo for an upcoming CoD game. Your guesses…
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Widow Maker: a super-agile DIY quadcopter
We’ve all seen the stunts that remote control helicopters can pull off, but I’ve never seen a quadcopter that could demonstrate anywhere near that level of agility. That is, until a video of…
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AirBurr robot designed to crash and keep on flying
Flying robots have made huge advances in the last few years, in particular in the area of quadcopters. Their small size, agility, and ability to carry a payload such as a camera to…
View ArticleFlying Buddy 2 is a mind-controlled quadcopter
Being able to control things using your mind isn’t exactly new technology, but it never stops being impressive. Mind control input devices have been around for a number of years, and now researchers…
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Leap motion controller used to control a quadcopter
Microsoft’s Kinect continues to be the standard for motion control that doesn’t require you hold a device, but back in May a serious competitor appeared. Leap Motion started showing off the Leap motion…
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DIY kit appears for 3D-printed quadcopter
Will there ever be a creation made on a 3D printer that isn’t super cool? Not if Adam Polak has anything to say about it. He just designed a quadcopter made out of…
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Review: Heli-Max 1SQ, the $100 quadcopter
Every time another quadcopter drone video surfaces, where a handful of engineers have managed to program a couple dozen of these little robots to fly around performing utterly fantastic choreographed...
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Flying Lego drone built out of quadcopter remains
Quadcopters are getting cheap, and they’re being built through less conventional means. C++ programmer Ed Scott and his sons Nicholas and Joshua went with those two trends and built a quadcopter frame...
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Secom’s autonomous surveillance drone follows and spies on intruders
Installing surveillance equipment at a location usually means setting up several stationery cameras that at best can rotate to track suspicious activity. But they are limited, and in a lot of cases...
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Open-source, DIY quadcopter Crazyflie is super tiny, super speedy
We’ve seen small quadcopters, and we’ve seen do-it-yourself quadcopters, but this new quadcopter from Bitcraze combines both a very small size with the pat-on-the-back feeling you get from completing a...
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These quadcopters are juggling an inverted pendulum
We all know by now that quadcopters can do impressive things, such as be made out of Lego, be controlled with your mind, or be impervious to crashing, but did you know that…
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Hunter-killer claw drones will one day snatch smaller drones from the sky
Keeping safe from birds of prey is as easy as keeping an eye on your Jack Russel; how will you keep safe from a drone that can do the same thing?
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Festo BionicOpter is the robotic dragonfly science fiction predicted
It’s always fascinating when reality catches up to science fiction, and with the current advances in quadcopters and robotics, it seems like that is happening on a daily basis. Today’s mind-blowing...
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Hybrid quadcopter RC car project is every kids dream
As quadcopters become more popular and less expensive it seems like it was only a matter of time before hybrid vehicles arrived… today is that day. B Go Beyond in a unique take…
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Make anything a quadcopter with Drone it Yourself
The only real requirements for a quadcopter is that it has four propellers and is light enough to light enough to leave the ground for some length of time. Based on those rules,…
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MAV lab creates world’s smallest autopilot for micro aircraft
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) or drones need some kind of autopilot system regardless of how big or small they are. The autopilot handles such tasks as establishing communication with a ground station...
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FAA grounds another drone, this time at MLB Spring Training
The Washington Nationals had a pretty sweet idea for a promo video this spring: shoot footage of their players working out at their Viera, Florida compound with a quadrotor. Drones. Action cams....
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