Micro UAV, rugged with ducted air. I can't wait until these are childrens toys.

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/09/spooky-new-micr.html

by ivankirigin • 19 years ago

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Wow, thats cool. So it just uses thrust vectoring to move around and hover? It would have to be pretty advanced to cope with the rotation forces of the impeller.

Seeing this fly reminds me of Armadillo Aerospace's Pixel: http://www.armadilloaerospace.com/n.x/Armadillo/Home

But obviously Pixel is intended to fly into space and is rocket powered..

ivankirigin3• 19 years ago

I _also_ can't wait until we have rocket powered children's toys.

shadowplay• 19 years ago

The first version of the Terminator hunter/killer. SkyNet will be pleased.

axiom2• 19 years ago

Here's a toy that's close enough. A group at Waterloo made one of these things autonomous, and had it navigating GPS waypoints.

http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/rc/79c7/

ivankirigin3• 19 years ago

RC heli's are plagued with stability issues. I suppose what I'm looking for is the performance at a toy's price. Considering the MUAV costs probably around $60,000, this might take some time.

axiom2• 19 years ago

The product spec for this thing says it's automatically stabilizing, but I've never played with one so I can't vouch for it. I've seen some demo videos and it looked really impressive.

In any case, you can always buy one of these for a mere 90-450k http://www.moller.com/videom200x.htm

Micro UAV, rugged with ducted air. I can't wait until these are childrens toys.

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