Autonomous Flight, with a Few Lines of Javascript The first-ever flying drone competition for Silicon Valley’s developer community lands today (Dec 1) at 385 Grove Street, San Francisco, CA. Organizers of...
Posted by Dale Dougherty | Saturday December 1st, 2012 9:47 AM
Categories: Robotics, Fun & Games | 2 Comments
The Maker Shed now has the ELEV-8 Quadcopter kit by Parallax! This kit takes a little skill to put together, but it's a fantastically fun build and even more fun...
Posted by Eric Weinhoffer | Tuesday October 30th, 2012 10:31 AM
Categories: Fun & Games, General | 3 Comments
Check out this great NPR piece about engineering students at University of Maryland that are trying to win a three-decades-old contest for human powered flight.
Posted by Jake Spurlock | Tuesday October 16th, 2012 3:34 PM
Categories: Education, Energy, Fun & Games | 12 Comments
Today Parallax came out to MAKE HQ and let us test drive a number of their cool toys. They set up their quadcopters, y-copters, and hexcopters, hooked their ELEV-8 to...
Posted by Brookelynn Morris | Wednesday September 5th, 2012 7:30 PM
Categories: Electronics, Fun & Games, Robotics | 2 Comments
Quadcopter drone group held in London airport on suspicion of terrorism: Fresh from performing at Science Gallery in Dublin last night during the opening of Hack the City, an English...
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Friday June 22nd, 2012 3:00 PM
Categories: Fun & Games, General | 10 Comments
Instructables user Brian Ward posted this how-to for building a wooden storage and transport case for quadrotors. Inspiration for this project came from a falling box that broke the frame...
Posted by Matt Richardson | Sunday June 17th, 2012 6:00 AM
Categories: Fun & Games | 2 Comments
Because we're classy like that. So please stop asking. Those of you who cannot resist your morbid curiosity are now empowered with the necessary Googlon. Godspeed.
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Tuesday June 5th, 2012 6:00 AM
Categories: Craft, Fun & Games | 53 Comments
Young makers astound with an ambitious Viper flight simulator project for Maker Faire.
Posted by Melissa Morgan | Friday May 18th, 2012 2:00 PM
Categories: Crowdfunding, Fun & Games, Kids & Family, Makers | 1 Comment
Complete instructions for this Weekend Project can be found at http://makeprojects.com/Project/10-Rail-Model-Rocket-Mega-Launcher/243/1 Nothing is more exciting to model rocket enthusiasts than a multi-rail launcher that can blast several rockets off at...
Posted by makemagazineuser | Friday May 4th, 2012 7:29 PM
Categories: Electronics, Fun & Games, Kids & Family | No Comments
James Price converted the nosecone and cockpit of a 1967 Boeing 737 into his own DIY flight simulator. Built in his garage over the course of three years, 90% of...
Posted by Matt Richardson | Wednesday April 18th, 2012 4:00 AM
Categories: Fun & Games | 5 Comments
MAKE responds to Breck and Splinter from Brooklyn Aerodrome's Youtube video about their "Towel" R/C Stunt Plane on the cover of MAKE Volume 30.
Posted by Paul Spinrad | Tuesday April 17th, 2012 5:08 PM
Categories: Fun & Games | 6 Comments
Tacocopter has been trending for awhile, now, but I wanted to hold off on covering it until the hype wore off a bit and a more sober analysis appeared. And...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Wednesday March 28th, 2012 9:00 AM
Categories: Fun & Games, Robotics | 5 Comments
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