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I used to be obsessed with rc ornithopters but I always thought the main problem was that hulking gear ratio/mechanism and the oscillation making it not really

by ge96 1y ago

I used to be obsessed with rc ornithopters but I always thought the main problem was that hulking gear ratio/mechanism and the oscillation making it not really great for flight compared to fixed wing/propeller driven. This one (servo driven) is really light compared to the usual RC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuOw6BUOo78 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuOw6BUOo78 This guy does great work, it's like his obsession https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrB1pKInIu0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrB1pKInIu0

PaulHoule 1y ago
I had a really stylish robot dragonfly that I got from Big Lots at a huge discount, trouble was it could not fly in any amount of wind and the only place I could fly it was in Barton Hall.
- ge96 1y ago
  I might know the one you're talking about, did it have a fan as a rudder? Oh speaking of dragonfly-like ornithopter this one is hardcore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCrS52sM3Zs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCrS52sM3Zs Reminds me of that Chicken Run movie ha
  - PaulHoule 1y ago
    It was this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlyTech_Dragonfly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlyTech_Dragonfly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7j6KPbn4eE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7j6KPbn4eE
JKCalhoun 1y ago
Yeah, totally subscribed to "that guy". I think he's been experimenting with ducted fans (kind of not ornithopters) and also dragon-fly type of flight with four wings (entomopter?).
asdff 1y ago
Advanced bird drones must be born secret technology. It makes little sense how so much can be understood about birds and yet there is no perfect bird replica on the market aside from these pared down maker lab tier efforts. And indeed, lending further credence to the born secret idea is that the CIA has been experimenting on bird drones since at least the 1960s (1), and this was only revealed to the public in 2013. The state of the art must be so far advanced. What a prize for an intelligence agency to be able to create a surveillance system where it does not matter if it is detected on radar, or visualized at all because it looks exactly like indigenous bird populations. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_AQUILINE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_AQUILINE
TYPE_FASTER 1y ago
Of course there is one available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/live/video/0a7d56413360489dbf25611edfcde034?ref_=dp_vse_ibvc4 https://www.amazon.com/live/video/0a7d56413360489dbf25611edf... Also: https://www.amazon.com/Kooteyybhyy-Ornithopter-Generation-Helicopter-Beginners/dp/B0FPLXD5GG https://www.amazon.com/Kooteyybhyy-Ornithopter-Generation-He... Which may be re-branded version of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6nuMDV6n18 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6nuMDV6n18 https://www.amazon.com/stores/Hanvon/page/426FE09E-17DC-4FBB-B593-CBAB0843E7D4?lp_asin=B09MW454PD&ref_=ast_bln https://www.amazon.com/stores/Hanvon/page/426FE09E-17DC-4FBB... I found this forum: https://www.rcgroups.com/ornithopters-101/ https://www.rcgroups.com/ornithopters-101/ Which led to this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWqBoA5CfPs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWqBoA5CfPs - really neat to see it climb and glide.

by ge96 1y ago

PaulHoule 1y ago

I had a really stylish robot dragonfly that I got from Big Lots at a huge discount, trouble was it could not fly in any amount of wind and the only place I could fly it was in Barton Hall.

ge96 1y ago
I might know the one you're talking about, did it have a fan as a rudder? Oh speaking of dragonfly-like ornithopter this one is hardcore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCrS52sM3Zs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCrS52sM3Zs Reminds me of that Chicken Run movie ha
- PaulHoule 1y ago
  It was this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlyTech_Dragonfly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlyTech_Dragonfly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7j6KPbn4eE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7j6KPbn4eE

JKCalhoun 1y ago

Yeah, totally subscribed to "that guy". I think he's been experimenting with ducted fans (kind of not ornithopters) and also dragon-fly type of flight with four wings (entomopter?).

asdff 1y ago

Advanced bird drones must be born secret technology. It makes little sense how so much can be understood about birds and yet there is no perfect bird replica on the market aside from these pared down maker lab tier efforts. And indeed, lending further credence to the born secret idea is that the CIA has been experimenting on bird drones since at least the 1960s (1), and this was only revealed to the public in 2013. The state of the art must be so far advanced. What a prize for an intelligence agency to be able to create a surveillance system where it does not matter if it is detected on radar, or visualized at all because it looks exactly like indigenous bird populations. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_AQUILINE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_AQUILINE

TYPE_FASTER 1y ago

Of course there is one available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/live/video/0a7d56413360489dbf25611edfcde034?ref_=dp_vse_ibvc4 https://www.amazon.com/live/video/0a7d56413360489dbf25611edf... Also: https://www.amazon.com/Kooteyybhyy-Ornithopter-Generation-Helicopter-Beginners/dp/B0FPLXD5GG https://www.amazon.com/Kooteyybhyy-Ornithopter-Generation-He... Which may be re-branded version of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6nuMDV6n18 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6nuMDV6n18 https://www.amazon.com/stores/Hanvon/page/426FE09E-17DC-4FBB-B593-CBAB0843E7D4?lp_asin=B09MW454PD&ref_=ast_bln https://www.amazon.com/stores/Hanvon/page/426FE09E-17DC-4FBB... I found this forum: https://www.rcgroups.com/ornithopters-101/ https://www.rcgroups.com/ornithopters-101/ Which led to this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWqBoA5CfPs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWqBoA5CfPs - really neat to see it climb and glide.