Check out this krispy stop-motion build of a SAB Goblin RC helicopter, along with some clips of some cool stunts, including upside down flying! [via Frankie]
Posted by John Baichtal | Tuesday March 27th, 2012 11:30 AM
Categories: Fun & Games | 4 Comments
Gizmodo asked the CGI experts at Industrial Light and Magic to look at the human bird wings video that we, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, and a bunch of other sites posted yesterday....
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Wednesday March 21st, 2012 11:30 AM
Categories: Fun & Games | 14 Comments
We saw the mini version last Wednesday. Now meet its big brother!
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Friday March 16th, 2012 6:33 AM
Categories: Fun & Games, Tools, Workshop | 3 Comments
Much as I admire Dukno Yoon's evident skills as a jeweler and metalsmith, I have to say his aeronautical engineering needs a bit of brushing up. There's just no way...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Monday March 5th, 2012 6:00 AM
Categories: Art & Design, Fun & Games, Workshop | 3 Comments
And who said your paper airplane obession was weird and you'd never amount to anything?
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Thursday March 1st, 2012 9:00 PM
Categories: Fun & Games, General | 6 Comments
This Sunday, tomorrow, paper airplane enthusiast and Maker Faire presenter, John Collins will be attempting to set a new world record for paper flight. The world record attempt will happen...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Saturday February 25th, 2012 2:30 PM
Categories: Fun & Games, General | 5 Comments
Steve Lodefink sent me this amazing video of a guy flying his quadcopter around his neighborhood using a goggle vision system. He even flies it through his(?) house. What fun!
Posted by Mark Frauenfelder | Wednesday February 22nd, 2012 7:30 PM
Categories: Fun & Games | 12 Comments
Impressive Kinect-based gesture-controlled RC helicopter.
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Tuesday February 14th, 2012 4:00 PM
Categories: Fun & Games | 4 Comments
It used to be that having your own quadrotor drone was cutting edge. Now that the average joe can pick one up at their local mall for a couple hundred...
Posted by Adam Flaherty | Wednesday February 1st, 2012 3:00 AM
Categories: Fun & Games, Robotics | 24 Comments
These flying swarmbots would fall under the category of things that aren't at CES but we wish were. Maybe next year? They are part of a project at the Laboratory...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Thursday January 12th, 2012 11:31 AM
Categories: Fun & Games, Home, Robotics | 1 Comment
One of the more exciting things to come out of CES so far is the upgraded version of the Parrot AR.Drone. This quadcopter made a splash at last year's show,...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Wednesday January 11th, 2012 2:01 PM
Categories: Art & Design, Fun & Games, Home, Robotics | 1 Comment
Inspired in part by the Plantraco Nanoblimp, Instructables user masynmachien built this impressive 3-axis ultralight R/C blimp gondola. With an 11" latex balloon filled with helium, it will carry its...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Tuesday December 6th, 2011 1:00 PM
Categories: Fun & Games | 7 Comments
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