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Tiny Flyer Navigates Like Fly

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the build-a-bigger-flyswatter dept.

Assassin bug writes to tell us the Discovery Channel is reporting on a new ultralight autonomous aircraft that could be the next 'fly on the wall'. From the article: "The 10-gram microflyer, being developed by a team of researchers lead by Dario Floreano at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, has a 36-centimeter (14-inch) wingspan. But it could one day be shrunk to insect size and used for search and rescue."

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  1. whoopie by alcmaeon · · Score: 1, Informative
    I made one of these when I was 5 from a little balsa wood kit they sold in the local supermarket.

    Difference was, mine had real wings instead of a metal hoop and had a rubber-band for the engine.

  2. Videos and Pictures here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://lis.epfl.ch/index.html?content=member.php&S CIPER=111729

    Click on projects