If you thought those 4 propeller drone copters are cool, check out what you can do with 8 motors. The Hexacopter can lift 2.2 pounds and continue to fly even if a propeller or two gets damaged. For details on building your own check out Mikrokopter.
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Archive for the 'Vehicles' Category
MIT’s Indoor Autonomous Four Wing Helicopter – Video
Posted in Experimental, Robots, Vehicles, Videos on Oct 15th, 2009
Cool project by the MIT Robust Robotics Group – Micro Air Vehicle made to autonomously seek out a target without GPS in a tight environment. The MAV uses a real time laser to detect walls in 3D which allow it to detect a window and fly trough it.
[MIT Video]
Obama’s High Tech Presidential Limo Made By Cadillac
Posted in Tools and Equipment, Vehicles on Jan 21st, 2009
President Obama will roll into the White House is a new luxury limo made by Cadillac. Sporting high tech security features, the 44th President can rest assured his road trips will be as safe as possible.
DIY Combat Robot
Posted in Blogroll, Diy, Experimental, Rc, Robots, Vehicles on Mar 12th, 2008
DIY Combat Robot
Rechargeable Lithium Battery Powered Street Car
Posted in News, Renewable Energy, Vehicles on Oct 30th, 2007
A streetcar that recharges itself during breaking, eliminates the overhead wires commonly found on modern streetcars. This technology could improve and eliminate some barriers from streetcar’s in modern city public transportation.
The Railway Technical Research Institute in Kokubunji, Tokyo, has developed a streetcar powered by a lithium battery that can recharge in under a minute. The [...]
Systm Podcast: Underwater ROV
Posted in Diy, Experimental, How To, Rc, Vehicles, Videos on Oct 26th, 2007
This weeks systm features underwater ROV’s.
Homemade Nigerian Helicopter
Posted in Diy, Experimental, Vehicles on Oct 24th, 2007
24 Year old Nigerian physics student builds helicopter, using two cars.
Mubarak Muhammad Abdullahi, seen here, a 24-year-old physics undergraduate in northern Nigeria, takes old cars and motorbikes to pieces in the back yard at home and builds his own helicopters from the parts
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If this isn’t DIY, then I don’t know what is. This family set out to make a RV Camper on top of a fifth wheel trailer.
Concept Car: Lincoln Mark VIII With Folding Doors
Posted in Vehicles, Video Games on Jul 10th, 2007
“Lincoln executives were concerned about the heavy and wide doors on the Mark VIII in the early 1990’s especially in large cities with tight parking spots. They were toying with the idea of a Mark VIII that had doors that disappeared beneath the car which would require no additional space for the doors to swing [...]
Design by a dutch company the Carver One is a engineering marvel. The technically two seat machine is balanced with a complicated control system called Dynamic Vehicle Control (DVC) system. The system uses motors instead of gravity to tilt the vehicle based on speed and acceleration. The vehicle achieves a jet fighter type feeling when [...]