Arduino Powered Helicopter with Four Rotors
We’ve seen loads of superb Arduino projects, but few which involve complex aeronautics. Here we have the “quadrocopter” – an arduino powered, remote control helicopter with four rotor blades. It’s...
View ArticleSuperb DIY RC Helicopter with Six Rotors
We’ve seen an Arduino powered 4-rotor copter, but if that’s not enough you can upgrade to six individual rotors with this hexacopter. As you can see in the video above, this thing can reach some...
View ArticleArduino Powered Remote Control Lawnmower
We’ve seen loads of great Arduino projects and even a few RC lawn mowers, but we’ve never seen the two combined until now. Â This project walks you through the entire build process step by step and...
View ArticleSnowpocalypse? Build a Remote Control Snowblower
While the east coast of the U.S. was covered in a thick blanket of snow this year, a robotics expert was in locked in his lab building an remote control snowblower. So instead of having to go out in...
View ArticleDIY Arduino Helicopter with Obstacle Avoidance
Here’s another neat Arduino helicopter project featuring four infrared sensors and one ultrasonic sensor for obstacle avoidance. We’ve seen an Arduino powered helicopter with four rotors and even one...
View ArticleCornell’s Top Microcontroller Projects 2010
The students of Cornell have posted their year end microcontroller projects for us to admire. Some projects involve creating commercially available products, but a few definitely stood out from the...
View ArticlePlay Chess on a 12′x12′ board with 100,000 Lego Pieces
Team Hassenplug has created a chess set which uses 32 Lego NXT Kits to play out a giant game of robotic chess. Each individual piece contains an NXT kit and is capable of moving to any square on the...
View ArticleDIY Model Airplane Built using Recycled Materials
As it whizzes overhead, you might think it’s a military drone, but it’s actually just a hobby project using recycled materials. The main body is made of cardboard and the electronics are salvaged...
View Article2-Meter Long Starship Enterprise Zepplin
We’ve seen our loads of RC projects, and here’s another superb example of remote control circuitry. This DIY RC Starship Enterprise build is a surprisingly simple machine: It’s essentially a...
View ArticleFirst Person RC Plane Captures Stunning View of New York
Flying a first-person view RC plane around a city like New York can either land you in jail or on the popularity leaderboard of YouTube. Thankfully, it was the latter otherwise this awesome video of...
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