Camera mounts, Paramodels, Zeppelins, Marcy 1 bicopter

After a hard week of jury duty, Marcy 1 is getting converted to a bicopter like the Bladestar. In exchange for requiring more wing area for a given amount of lift, bicopters have a smaller rotor diameter & cancelling pitch forces which hopefully allow a smaller balance beam or lower RPM.

A sad finish to monocopters, for the moment. Still hope an outdoor monocopter can be built to give the maximum hover time per mA.

Marcy 1's main problem is a new radio crash where the serial port is suddenly locking up. Looks like a silicon defect.

New camera mounts for Vika 1 press forward. This is supposed to work with a ny tie or a servo. Main issue now is the A490 no longer exposes the shutter signal anywhere accessible without destroying the main board.





PARAMODELS


Paragliders are finally catching on, powered by European ingenuity.

http://opale-paramodels.com

The 1st pocketable UAV's with useful payload & flight time are going to be a parafoils. They spend a lot of time making lifelike male pilot figures, but the general idea is 2 brake lines attach to 2 servos.


Finally, in case your boss doesn't give you enough time off to watch a zeppelin maneuvering, it's the Airship Ventures blimp doing some zigzags & pitching. Unfortunately, Canon autofocus wasn't there, so
the 10MP photos had to be shrunken to 640x480.