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World's Smallest Homebrew RC Unit
MC68040 writes "I assume you've seen the mini-helicopters and airplanes that are becoming increasingly popular as office toys out there. Well this guy decided the market wasn't filled enough, luckily =)
He's built the by far simplest and most functional mini Remote Controlled unit. It weighs under 7 grams, is made of carbon fiber and it's smaller than your thumb (or a hamster, as the author seems to prefer to compare).
Go check it, it's truly a amazing feat."
playing for all the dumbasses who failed FP.
From this page:
Pixels are unique prototypes, and are not for sale. I am sorry for all those who would like to buy one.
Too bad I can't buy one... Do you know if it's possible to buy an equivalent or to build my own? Is it a hard work?
Looking at the pictures it doesn't seem hard to do...
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IF IT'S TOO SMALL TO USE!?
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Neat that he eliminated the swashplate, but he is a bit mysterious about the details:
Interesting development though. It certainly cuts down on the weight and complexity. Wondering if it is workable in full-size aircraft? Well, that is an assumption that it is not a variant on the "Rigid Rotor" system that the Cheyenne AH-56A and other aircraft used.
More history of Army aircraft here
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I hope it flies better than his server.
I love the smell of burning computer components...
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- He must be running it on the worlds smallest webserver
- Insert Hamtaro joke here
- Does he have the worlds smallest hamster?
- GNAA
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Mookore!Now all he has to worry about is the toy going out of his sight range, not the radio range.
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Damn, when I saw the title of this article, I was imagining a minature home beer brewing kit, with a remote control to deliver beer to my desk! The disappointment upon reading the rest of the story was overwhelming.
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THREE Messages and already the site's
What's the record?
I wonder if being posted on slashdot has over loaded the server banded with, i threw "Gansta Nation" - Westside Connection music video and the webpage was still wasn't loaded after the end.
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Could anybody who knows the physics behind this please explain how this thing will perform/behave compared to a normal RC heli, and then compared to a full size heli?
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Heh.. Aiming for the fastest Slashdotting again, aren't we?
Well, I am unavailable to retrieve the whole page, but what I see is "New Page 1" as the page title (thanks /.)
Now, that is what I call a professional page!
Quantum hacker.
IF IT'S TOO STUPID TO READ!?
oh dear, seems this guy's server is smaller than a hamster too.
One of the research groups here has a RC helicopter that has mounted on the bottom a video camera, a still camera, location system and 4 FM 56kbps transmitters. It has an embedded xscale and embedded PPC processors.
:)
It's supposed to be a testbed for data compression and transmission type stuff, but in fact they mostly use it on hot summer days to look in local gardens for sunbathing women
Beep beep.
how do i make one?
I would like to see someone post some mini-RC howto sites. Some instructions on how to build a little chopper or plane would be some nice reading.
He should really attach a little beeper thing to it. Like a car in a parking lot, this thing could be lost very easily.
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Since the technology has been patented . . .
Stop right there with that incorrect premise. A patent was applied for in 2001, no mention of any patent being granted.
http://216.239.41.104/search?q=cache:Q2NWz3JwXhIJ: pixelito.reference.be/+pixelito&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
...especially when it drives you to /. his site. You're like this 9 year old boy who would rather smash up your best friend's expensive toy, than live through another day knowing that he had something better than YOU! Go sit in the corner.
This patent has not been granted yet.
So they are keeping it a secret.
If the patent is denied, they can have an advantage by rolling it out earlier.
If it is granted, you can go look it up.
Now I can feel like a kid again!
Oh, wait...
a Beowulf cluster of these things!
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I was getting dozens of junk emails about the "new mini RC cars! the smallest RC car available" around christmas time last year. I wonder if he had anything to do with those emails....... hmmmm.....
http://github.com/gbook/nidb
Great, now the EvilCorporations will find him and erase him thanks to you!
That is one serious slashdotting.
Look at the site's URL. Alaxender isn't in the United States. Why assume he filed the patent with the uspto? Still, the "secret" may be a matter of public record, but not likely at the link you gave.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
there's a nice article here
on the meboy website
by James A. G. Joyce (755532) on Sunday February 29, @05:07PM (#8424693)
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I have managed to get a picture off the slashdotted webpage. Appears small might be an overstatement of its size.
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"A device for rendering a site made inaccessible by 'SLASHDOT' accessible once again."
Another hobbyist's site decimated by an irresponsible unwarned link from Slashdot.
Its good to know we have teh power to single-handedly drive independant servers off the net by eating their bandwidth and overloading their systems.
Hazah for pro only hosting!
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I just read about this nifty contraption in Backyard Flyer magazine, a publication for miniature RC planes and such. there's a little column on it, with a URL that they haven't posted yet.
It says that the first one he built was in 1997, and it weighed 125 grams. "20 prototypes later, the Pixelito still has 4-channel control and weighs just 6.9 grams--almost 20 times lighter!" Apparently, it is controlled by IR from a modified futaba radio, so he wouldn't have to worry about it going out of sight, lol.
btw: the body is made out of a single 1mm-diameter carbon-fiber rod. sweet.
68.3% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
You know, i haven't seen anything on how long the battery lasts in this thing. This article says it has a 45 mAh lithium-polymer cell, which would last about 5 seconds on a regular RC copter.
I'd give the pixelito a generous estimate of lasting 90 seconds.
68.3% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
Oh great - now I can't SSH into my freeshell.org account. Thanks a lot ;-)
Every time someone mentions hamsters I always think of EBICHU THE HOUSEKEEPING HAMSTER
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This is the sig that says NI (again)
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Reposting the AC's link: Didel, PicoBird.
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One small problem: You won't be able to control this new toy because internet-over-power-lines is interfering with your radio signal!
There was a story about these same things last year.. ( summer perhaps? )
Was disappointed to see they weren't for sale back then. Seems things haven't changed yet.
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If you ask an Anonymous Coward like me i would say that this guy is a genius artist. the simble beuty if his design is wonderfull .
white text on white background... doh
...has bitten off my thumb, you insensitive clod!
There you are, staring at me again.
must have been runing his webserver on one
How do powerlines affect an infrared signal?
Even though the guy does not sell the ones he builds he got together with a German company a while ago called Ikarus. You can now buy micro-helicopters all over the Internet at places like http://www.slyshobbyden.net/fun_piccolo .
Smaller then a hamster? What kind?
What we really need to know is how many library of congresses this thing could remotely control...
I'd like to try my hand at one of these. You can easily buy straight carbon rods at a hobby shop, but does anyone know of a away to bend them into a desired shape, like the helicopter chassis in pixelito?
The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
You can get them in the US from Bob Selman (http://users.joplin.com/~bselman/JMPCombo.htm).
Use a small RC-controlled helicopter, outfitted with a wireless camera pointing downwards. Fly in a criss-cross pattern over the area you want a photograph of. Use software mentioned on /. couple days ago for generating a high-resolution aerial photograph of the area. Could be also useful for espionage.
Improvements: Use a fleet of microcopters with infrared uncooled bolometer cameras for patrolling over an area when eg. searching for a missing person or guarding a space. Load other instruments on board for eg. environmental monitoring, eg. taking air samples from the immediate vicinity of eg. factory chimneys - useful for eg. underground ecology groups without much funding.
Speculative idea: Could it be possible to put some helium-filled balloons to the sides of the copter? That could offset the weight of the additional onboard equipment, and could serve as cushioning for expensive instruments in case of crash-landing (or as floating bags for crash-landing into water). It'd be a cross of a helicopter and a blimp/dirigible, though. But would make it possible to have a quite large frame with balloons and multiple rotors, capable of carrying considerable amount of equipment. Could also be pretty stable in flight.
In Short Circuit 2, he had a REALLY tiny multifunctional remote control on his head... which he used to fly a toy airplane into the bad guy's butt.
Where are these amazing feet the poster spoke of?
That sure brings back memories.
instead of a swashplate, it uses one piezo contoller that adjusts the angle of the rotor blades (tilt is longitudonally (sp?)) The peizo element is driven by the current running between two contact pairs.
1 for forward/reverse 1 for sideways.
(now for some -i know it better than this guy- ramblings:
It could be done even simpler with a little more logic in the controller: eliminate the divided pickup ring and replace it with two continous contacts on the rotorshaft. determine the rotor speed from a optocoupler or the motor, and have your controller output the right pulses at the right time. More electronics, less moving pairs. better control over the rotor angle at all parts of the cycle)
This space is intentionally staring blankly at you
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This space is intentionally staring blankly at you
Where is the radio?
...part of the "tinkering" world is to sell or make available plans so you can build your own. By posting this website all this wanker is doing is saying, "Ha Ha, I have one, and you don't"
Does this amazing miniature RC video-controlled kit remind anyone else of the plot of 'Danny Dunn, Invisible Boy', a preiscient book I read repeatedly as a kid.
I thought it said world's smallest homebrew unit.
Oh well, back to my 20-quart boiling pot and carboys . . .
(sigh)