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The latest toy here at the ShadeTree is a home built quad copter... A new fangled toy that uses some cutting edge technology for fly by wire control. These helicopters, that can have anywhere from 3 to 8 motors, with regular airplane type props controlled by a microprocessor, that has at a minimum 3 gyroscope's on the roll, pitch and yaw axis's to stabilize the helicopter and make something that otherwise would not fly... a stable and easy to fly helicopter.
The latest versions use motion sensing devices found cell phones to not only stabilize flight but even auto stabilize. They can fly hands off and will recover from attempts to destabilize it... such as touching and moving it with your hand while its hovering.
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About the FeedsThey have feeds everywhere now so I've added a few here that show up in the column on the right. I just got a new Android phone so it seems appropriate that I include a feed from Engadget on the home page here. The feeds on the other pages are generated by a search of Yahoo News for Glass Art, Recumbents, and Pottery Carolina. These searches sometimes have unexpected results but are an easy way to provide some related links to this site... besides most Internet searches end up in places you weren't looking for anyway.... It's like the proverbial box of chocolates... you never know what you gonna get. |
