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Festo's Drone Dragonfly Takes To the Air
yyzmcleod writes "Building on the work of last year's bionic creation, the Smart Bird, Festo announced that it will literally launch its latest creation, the BionicOpter, at Hannover Messe in April. With a wingspan of 63 cm and weighing in at 175 grams, the robotic dragonfly mimics all forms of flight as its natural counterpart, including hover, glide and maneuvering in all directions. This is made possible, the company says, by the BionicOpter's ability to move each of its four wings independently, as well as control their amplitude, frequency and angle of attack. Including its actuated head and body, the robot exhibits 13 degrees of freedom, which allows it to rapidly accelerate, decelerate, turn and fly backwards."
to overthrow the government. The chairman better watch his back....
A corrupt slashdot luser has infiltrated the moderation system to downmod all my posts while impersonating me.
Nearly 170++ times that I know of @ this point for all of March 2013 so far, & others here have told you to stop - take the hint, lunatic (leave slashdot)...
Sorry folks - but whoever the nutjob is that's attempting to impersonate me, & upset the rest of you as well, has SERIOUS mental issues, no questions asked! I must've gotten the better of him + seriously "gotten his goat" in doing so in a technical debate & his "geek angst" @ losing to me has him doing the:
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A.) $10,000 challenges, ala (where the imposter actually TRACKED + LISTED the # of times he's done this no less, & where I get the 170 or so times I noted above) -> http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3585795&cid=43285307
&/or
B.) Reposting OLD + possibly altered models - (this I haven't checked on as to altering the veracity of the info. being changed) of posts of mine from the past here
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(Albeit massively repeatedly thru all threads on /. this March 2013 nearly in its entirety thusfar).
* Personally, I'm surprised the moderation staff here hasn't just "blocked out" his network range yet honestly!
(They know it's NOT the same as my own as well, especially after THIS post of mine, which they CAN see the IP range I am coming out of to compare with the ac spamming troll doing the above...).
APK
P.S.=> Again/Stressing it: NO guys - it is NOT me doing it, as I wouldn't waste that much time on such trivial b.s. like a kid might...
Plus, I only post where hosts file usage is on topic or appropriate for a solution & certainly NOT IN EVERY POST ON SLASHDOT (like the nutcase trying to "impersonate me" is doing for nearly all of March now, & 170++ times that I know of @ least)... apk
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I just got back from a once-in-a-lifetime trip to old Havana. It's no secret that the Castro regime is desperate for hard currency (especially U.S. dollars). I'd also heard that the Cuban Ministry of Tourism was pulling out all the stops in a last-ditch effort to attract white upper class U.S. males (translation: disposable income) who were seeking nontraditional vacations.
Fellow members of the above target group, stop and think a bit about what you'd like in a no holds barred tropical vacation:
1) Smooth, aged in wood, dark rums for around $2 a bottle?
2) Absolutely stunning senoritas who do anything you want for $100 a night, or if you're on a budget, a first-class blow job for $20, no extra charge for a facial cumshot?
3) Primo Columbia flake cocaine at $500 per oz? This is absolutely fresh unstepped-on high quality nose candy -minimum 95% purity. WARNING: Do not, under any circumstances, try to leave Cuba with even a trace of this shit on you.
4) A wild deep sea fishing expedition where you fish with hand grenades and belt fed machine guns?
All this and more is available on what the Ministry of Tourism has dubbed their "Silver Bullet Package." The package consists basically of prepaid hotel accommodation and prepaid meals. The hotel was clean, comfortable, but a little run down. Even the best hotels in old Havana seem a little seedy by American standards, but the staff go out of their way to make sure that the package members are pampered. The meals were a very pleasant surprise-unlimited quantities of fresh seafood, fruits, and fresh bread - but be warned that lunch and dinner are strictly BYOB. The hotel provides setups and mixers of course. This could have been a problem except that black marketers hawking good rum are numerous in the neighborhoods around the hotels. A small tip to a bell hop will put you face to face with a fellow selling hootch out of a suitcase. The bottles are unlabeled, but the dark rums I tasted put Myers Dark, Mount Gay, and Bacardi Dark to shame for about $2 a bottle!
As you might guess the day to day routine involves lots of eating, drinking, snorting, dozing, and loitering. Taxi rides to the foreign beaches are fairly easy to find but I found the beaches strangely boring - most of the USDA Grade A pussy centers around the hotels and doesn't really get strutting 'till early evening. The ritual is as follows: Interested gents should sit out on their balconies an hour or so before sunset and look for young girls sauntering down the boulevard. The "working girls" are hoping to make eye contact. If you see a senorita you particularly like, wait 'till you catch her eye and give the universal "come on up" hand signal. The more seasoned pros will find your hotel room from your balcony's location. Sometimes it pays to run down to the lobby to meet her but it's usually not necessary. My favorite was a young slender brunette who called herself Maria. She claimed to be 14 (but was more likely 16 or 17), was light-skinned and a dead ringer for Paula Abdul. I nearly ejaculated when I heard her prices - $100 U.S. for the night, any sex I wanted, or if I was in a hurry $20 for a blowjob. I've never been comfortable with long term relationships, so I was leaning towards the latter option. I asked her if she was an expert at oral sex. She must have read my mind -she swore she gave the best blowjob in all Havana, then smiled, and put her arms around my neck and added: "If I like your cock you can cum all over my face." God, that settled it. I slipped her a $20 bill and she put a pillow on the floor to kneel on. This wasn't one of those midtown Manhattan "hurry up and come so I can cook up another shot" blowjobs, no siree. This was more like "Honey, I really really love my new mink coat. " Full eye contact, lots of licking and teasing. She must have liked my cock, because when I was ready to shoot she lifted her head back, positioned the head of my cock just over her chin and jerked me off - my favorite way to cum. She got up smiling an
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Who am I supposed to contact to whine about the new vote up/down buttons on stories? I was under the impression /. users voted on stores before they got to the main page. If I wanted Reddit, I'd be reading Reddit.
Where is Slashdot's change log for the new features it tries to implement?
lemme know when they got the bee robot from the richie rich movie.
have you seen my sig? there are many others like it but none that are the same
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I was under the impression that a control system implies a closed loop or feedback mechanism i.e. a system that measures the current state, and decides an actuation mechanism to get to where it wants to go. Do they mean autonomous and non-autonomous modes instead?
Patent trolls take note - 40 year old prior art.
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
You of course meant the /dev/zero.
/dev/null is only good for writing into.
All hope abandon ye who enter here.
it's made out of Lego.
I think they mean a negative force of acceleration.
Very nice. Festo, which is a German industrial robotics firm, does a technical tour de force every year. They built a robotic bird two years ago. In 2009, they built a robot penguin" which swims beautifully.
Festo does this to sell their industrial robotics systems, which are very well made.
Bug-A-Salt
While angle of attack is accurate in describing rotor action, it's more commonly used to describe the angle at which a craft's nose cuts into the wind to offset the angle of sideslip in determine a heading. Collective pitch is the more commonly used term for the angle at which a rotor blade is set to provide downward or upward pitch in descriptions of airscrews and helicopters.
The vast majority of flying robots in operation around the world are now military or police, and are either equipped with weaponry or surveillance gear. We're all getting used to the idea that whenever a flying robot comes into view, you should hide. Since this one can go forwards or backwards, it should have a poisoned spike on the end of the tail and a poison dart blowgun mounted on the front.
13 Degrees Of Freedom - great name for a band
63cm wingspan? I don't know where this inventor is from, but I've never seen a live dragonfly with a wingspan anywhere near that.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meganeura
I read that book in my childhood - great to see it finally come to real life!
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/727375.Danny_Dunn_Invisible_Boy
Makes me shudder to think how many other sci-fi stories from childhood will come to real life.
Much smaller though. But very impressive never the less, considering the available technology at that time.
http://www.engadget.com/2012/07/30/cia-dragonfly-drone-uavs-40-years/
It doesn't seem like that big an improvement on the Wowee Dragonfly from 6+ years ago. Maybe a tad more stable and definitely bigger, but it still seems quite awkward. (Probably need to figure out how to do the proper figure-8 wing flap motion from real insects before a significant improvement is seen. Might also need something lighter to drive the wings in a more responsive way like a countersprung linear actuator rather than gear drives.)
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The Russians have won. They have made the world a cesspool of distrust, greed, fear and hate.
It should be noted that while helicopters can do all of these things, it really isn't that good at it. Hovering is actually quite a stress inducing activity, and most helicopters will completely avoid this as much as possible. This could in theory create a viable alternative that could be run with a simple up/down, turn, and movement interface.
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Yes, thus answering the question "Who am I supposed to contact to whine about the new vote up/down buttons on stories?".
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
I want to think this is really cool, but in a way, the video was just plain creepy. Made me think of a kickstarter company to make bigger fly-swatters.
"With a wingspan of 63 cm and weighing in at 175 grams..."
Would it not just be blown all over the place?
2 ft seems like a rather large dragonfly...
...a German industrial robotics firm, does a technical tour de force every year.
It's interesting that what you call a technical tour de force, I call a mildly interesting R/C model aircraft of little technical value and no practical use.
THIS is why he's doing it & proof of it, here -> http://interviews.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3585927&cid=43295193 when others pointed out Jeremiah Cornelius forgot to submit one of the "first post spams" masquerading as myself as AC, & mistakenly submitted one of the impersonations of myself as his registered 'luser' name here on /. forums.
Pretty pitiful actually, but like every up to no good idiot does? He screwed up & submitted it under his registered 'luser' name here, instead of his ac submittals he's been doing.
* Jeremiah Cornelius: DO YOURSELF, and the rest of us, A GIANT FAVOR MAN: Seek professional psychiatric help!
(Since Jeremiah Cornelius obviously can't get over the fact he made a spelling error on what it is HE ALLEGEDLY DID FOR A LIVING? That's not MY fault... it's HIS!)
APK
P.S.=> I seriously must have dusted JC (in his mind @ least) for his BAD spelling error & it "got his goat"...
I.E.-> Catching what he claimed to do as a job, for YEARS he left "PENETRATION" (correct) spelled as "PENTRATION" (incorrect) on his resume on LinkedIn & I pointed it out as he & his friends trolled me as usual (webmistressrachel, gmhowell, & crew (probably ALL JC no doubt using alterate emails or TOR to do it as a possible - I've caught "them & theirs" doing it before, ala Barbara, not Barbie = TomHudson (same person))).
So THAT is what has gotten his goat in a technical debate & his "geek angst" could only come up with *trying* to "impersonate me" in every news thread on /. for the month of March 2013 so far!
(Just to attempt to 'discredit me' as a spammer here obviously)
Doing so, by posting that "$10,000 challenge" &/or reposts of my old posts on hosts file value to end users into EVERY SINGLE NEWS ARTICLE POSTED on /. ...
It's all I can think of that *might* cause such a mentally troubled 'reaction' like the Jeremiah Cornelius is doing & there's NO QUESTION he's the one doing this spamming of nearly every posted article masquerading as myself...!
... apk