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The Rise of Winglets
Nice brief article explains winglets & shows some new and unusual concepts
From Things With Wings - AvaitionWeek:…
ContinueAdded by Shannon Morrisey on March 8, 2013 at 12:11am — 1 Comment
HackEDA is the Future of Circuit Design
Another cool plug-and-play EDA tool with circuit template library for EagleCAD - thanks to open XML (aforementioned)
From HackEDA via …
ContinueAdded by Shannon Morrisey on February 16, 2013 at 8:04am — 1 Comment
Major Technology Patent Case Pending
A federal appeals court is about to review a case with broad implications for abstract technology patents.
From …
ContinueAdded by Shannon Morrisey on February 13, 2013 at 5:05am — 2 Comments
UAV Civilian Market Roundtable
Interesting roundtable discussion among UAV 'experts' and opinion leaders
From The Engineer: 'The role of the pilot, or commander, or whatever the person overseeing the aircraft is called, is already covered by the existing regulations…
ContinueAdded by Shannon Morrisey on October 17, 2012 at 4:48pm — 6 Comments
Aircraft Design for Fail
Modern fault-tolerance design for aircraft does little to help when big parts start falling off. This study proposes a design approach / philosophy for keeping things aloft during broader system failure.
From PsysOrg: /
"For example, the group studied the plane’s operation during…
Added by Shannon Morrisey on June 15, 2012 at 8:05pm — 2 Comments
Supersonic UAV School Project Graduates into a Business
A University of Colorado Asst. Professor is transitioning his GoJett Supersonic UAV project into a business.
From University of Colorado News:
"The UAV is intended to shape the next generation of flight experimentation… Its…
ContinueAdded by Shannon Morrisey on February 24, 2012 at 7:30pm — 1 Comment
Industrial Robot Porn
I met some new industrial robots in the flesh at ATX West (Automation Technology Expo). Nothing particularly groundbreaking here, but the speed and dexterity of the latest generation is remarkable (many were too fast for my phone's camera frame rate). There were a ton of these 4 and 6-axis delta robots (ones with 3 skinny steel arms). Also saw…
ContinueAdded by Shannon Morrisey on February 15, 2012 at 8:00pm — 5 Comments
Top-Heavy Airborne Pyramids for Improved Stability
Fascinating NYU experiment reveals surprising data on fluid-dynamics for top-heavy airborne structures.
From ScienceMag (video) via Wired…
ContinueAdded by Shannon Morrisey on February 8, 2012 at 4:30pm — 11 Comments
Congress Passes UAV Bill
The flying robot equality bill aims to end prejudice inside heavily segregated FAA airspace, among other things.
From The Washington Post:
"The FAA is also required under the…
ContinueAdded by Shannon Morrisey on February 6, 2012 at 5:10pm — 17 Comments
Android App for Controlling Arduino via Bluetooth
ArduinoCommander is a sweet new Android app for controlling Arduino with a Bluetooth shield.
From Android Market:
"Control your Arduino board from your Android device via Bluetooth using WYSIWYG…
ContinueAdded by Shannon Morrisey on February 3, 2012 at 1:00pm — 5 Comments
Kickstarter Drone is a Hoax
After receiving much attention over the past few days, the aforementioned Eye3 Drone project on Kickstarter has been officially pulled on account of photoshop shenanigans and overall shadiness.
From…
ContinueAdded by Shannon Morrisey on January 31, 2012 at 6:57pm — 20 Comments
How Fast Can You Fly Without Crashing?
A professor at MIT developed an equation to determine the fastest theoretical air-speed for obstacle avoidance.
From Science Blog: "Emilio Frazzoli, an associate professor of aeronautics and…
ContinueAdded by Shannon Morrisey on January 19, 2012 at 9:43pm — 7 Comments
Universal GSM Remote Control module
TiDiGino is a new open source Arduino-based (ATmega2560) GSM remote control module. From open-electronics via dangerous…
ContinueAdded by Shannon Morrisey on January 9, 2012 at 5:30pm — No Comments
Android Circuit Editor/Simulator App
By far the coolest phone / tablet app I've come across. EveryCircuit is a simple SPICE circuit design tool with a slick touch interface, shows voltage and current animations and more. This is no doubt the look and feel of circuit design tools for the future. Also could be a fun, easy way to…
ContinueAdded by Shannon Morrisey on October 27, 2011 at 3:17pm — 6 Comments
Cool IMU Project
Nice IMU project spotted on Dangerous Prototypes with MEMS gyros and accelerometer, Cortex-M3.
"The IMU is supposed to be high-end, implementing state-of-the-art data filtering, best low-cost MEMS sensors available and many features to compete with commercial IMUs used in…
ContinueAdded by Shannon Morrisey on September 27, 2011 at 6:54pm — 1 Comment
Eagle CAD Tutorial
Nice series of CadSoft Eagle tutorials from HackADay
I have yet to work with Eagle but am now motivated to do so on account of the aforementioned improvements…
ContinueAdded by Shannon Morrisey on September 21, 2011 at 7:11pm — 1 Comment
CadSoft Eagle V6 XML Support
For those into board design, Eagle is a nice free (for non-commercial use) option which has, until now, lacked XML structure. Eagle will soon support importing & translating from other formats among other productivity improvements. Until now, this compatibility issue has prevented myself and likely many others from using Eagle as a primary PCB design tool. I believe the DIYD crew…
Added by Shannon Morrisey on September 13, 2011 at 5:00pm — 5 Comments
Arduino ROV Sub
Added by Shannon Morrisey on September 1, 2011 at 5:15pm — 6 Comments
I2C GPS Shield
Arduino compatible shield simplifies the programming required to get GPS data while improving speed and flexibility. From Hack a Day
Added by Shannon Morrisey on May 24, 2011 at 3:23pm — No Comments
Secret New Firebird UAS Revealed
Northrup Grumman unveiled its new Firebird OPV (optionally piloted vehicle). The aircraft has been conducting secret test flights for over a year and aims to take a large portion of the UAS market dominated by GA's Predator/Reaper.
From…
ContinueAdded by Shannon Morrisey on May 6, 2011 at 3:56pm — 3 Comments
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