» The Hummingbird Bot
I want this open sourced. But that’s unlikely to happen.
Previous nano-UAVs of similar size used a tether system for power and/or control. What makes the nano-UAV even more attention-grabbing than prior UAVs is biomimicry — it looks like a hummingbird…AeroVironment tested 90 different wing designs before settling on the hummingbird design. Like a pencil balanced on its tip (or a human walking), the design is inherently unstable. It constantly wants to tumble out of control, and is only corrected by an automatic control system.
