Decided today to make the Orly ornithopter project from Make vol. 8. Kind of a cool one day project. Learned a few things from it. Mostly about the importance of the crankshaft in an ornithopter. Kind of screwed up on the first one and the speed of flapping was very slow, made a second one and it works much better. Just have to tune it up a bit and get a better flight out of it. Right now it banks to the left a bit, so have to deal with that. Also want to lighten it up with some sandpaper and get some better performance out of it. Once I get this one working I am going to probably try some more complex ones. Found a bunch of old article reprints online from different aviation model magazines.
Also put some liteflight 2" wheels on the arduino vehicle platform. Much better traction with that; doesnt slide around all the time like before. Now its time to add some more software and design some good sensor modules for it.
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