MAKE » Tag: UAV

Balloon Imaging “Satellite”

makemagazineuser — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 22:35:10 +0000

Snap aerial photos from 300' up by suspending a hacked camera from 3 helium balloons.

Fijibot, an Autonomous Solar-Charging Robot

Adam Flaherty — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 09:00:14 +0000

Toy vehicles from plastic bottles are pretty cool. Add an Arduino, solar panel, batteries, ultrasonic range finding, a few servos, some beefier tires, and you'll have something like Fijibot, an autonomous, self-charging robot.

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Chris Anderson Packs the House!

Sabrina Merlo — Sun, 20 May 2012 20:38:41 +0000

DIY drones are the rage! Chris flew a quadcopter off the stage, and entertained droves of questions from how much weight the copters can carry, to FAA regulations, and announced that they would have a new ARM-based APM (Ardu Pilot Mega) by Maker Faire New York. Filed under: Arduino, Fun […]

Mini Quadrotors Play the James Bond Theme

Michael Colombo — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 18:00:28 +0000

A group of UPenn Engineering students have taken several quadrotors and turned them into robotic musicians. We've seen the great swarming abilities of these machines recently, but now using various instruments and noisemakers, these aerial drones manage to plunk out a fairly convincing version of the "James Bond" theme.

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Blimpduino and UAV at Maker Faire

Chris Connors — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 02:37:52 +0000

Chris Anderson demonstrates the systems of the BlimpDuino. The Blimpduino kit is a very low cost, open source, autonomous blimp kit. It consists of an Arduino-based blimp controller board with on-board infrared and ultrasonic sensors and an interface for an optional RC mode, a simple gondola with two vectoring (tilting) […]