Jérôme» Robotics http://www.jeromedemers.com/blog Half robot, half g33k. Mon, 19 Sep 2011 13:48:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Flying quadracopter PCB http://www.jeromedemers.com/blog/2011/06/flying-quadracopter-pcb/ http://www.jeromedemers.com/blog/2011/06/flying-quadracopter-pcb/#comments Wed, 01 Jun 2011 23:42:43 +0000 Jerome http://www.jeromedemers.com/blog/?p=1097 I am 100% you saw this in the news a couples of weeks ago.

crazyflies_quadracopter_flying_robot

I was blown away by the design until I read a comment that linked to this:

 

nconev2_quadracopter_flying_robot

This is NC one V2

In my personal opinion, I think that the bolt holding the motor should be replace by something else. There is 4 of them, it’s heavy! When I worked in Hong Kong, on RC toys helicopters they use to remove every single grams of weight they could! 1 grams can change everything on very small craft like this one. I would of tried a press fit plastic adapter. The plastic adapter clips in the PCB and the motors is the press fit.

NC one V2 flying robot cnc cut out PCB

NC one V2 quadracopter flying robot PCB layout

Look at that sexy components layout! Very well done!

NC one v2 getting cut in CNCThey get a normal squared PCB and they cut with the CNC.

 

Here is NC one v1
NC one v1

nc one v1 in hand

Very small!

You can visit there website here : http://www.nanokopter.at/tiki_v6/ ( in German). They are working on V3! It should be ready this summer… June 2011.

Here is the link of the first quadracopter: http://www.daedalus.nu/category/crazycopter/

If you like flying things, check this other amazing German builder: http://www.smartflyer.de/index.html (In German) He has been building quadracopter for years!

Smart Flyer III

If you know about other small quadracopter, please leave a comment!

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUCDza0Kz94

If you want to build your own, please visit :

http://www.instructables.com/id/Solar-Powered-Battle-Symet-BEAM-Style/


Here is the embeded instructables. Have fun!


Solar Powered Battle Symet -- BEAM Style -- More DIY How To Projects

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]]> http://www.jeromedemers.com/blog/2010/02/battle-symet/feed/ 0 The “wanna be miniball” robot http://www.jeromedemers.com/blog/2009/11/the-wanna-be-miniball-robot/ http://www.jeromedemers.com/blog/2009/11/the-wanna-be-miniball-robot/#comments Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:44:00 +0000 Jerome http://www.jeromedemers.com/blog/?p=435 Check out my project I made for Solarbotics. It is a rolling robot inside a plastic ball.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwIRV_WmQ7A

If you want to build your own wanna be miniball, please visit :

http://www.instructables.com/id/Solar-Powered-Miniball-Wannabe/

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This is the first time trying to embed a instructables!


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