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by Tomdf on December 13, 2012 Table of Contents Mini-Ornithopter Prototypes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Intro: Mini-Ornithopter Prototypes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Step 1: Initial Design and Material Testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Step 2: Version Two - Less Yap more Flap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Step 3: Going Further . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Step 4: Inspiration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Related Instructables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Advertisements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2 3 5 7 8 9 9
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Author:Tomdf
My online portfolio I'm a graphic designer and eclectic tinkerer. I believe that art, information, and engineering are all facets of the same gem. I like to take my toys apart just to see inside.
Project Goals 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Design and fabricate a palm sized flying machine using 3D printed parts Non-3D printed pieces, such as structural material and electrical components, must be cheap and easily to find. Printed parts should total no more than $10 when being made from ABS plastic or similar. Total cost should not exceed $40, including RC. Design and fabricate a Infra-red receiver and transceiver for remote control Small is the name of the game! I'm shooting for a wingspan of less than six inches.
Materials Used 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Spring Steel, aka Music Wire. hobbylinc.com Guitar Wire Miniature Motor, common pager style solarbotics.com 40mAh Lipo Battery sparkfun.com Tissue Paper Plastic Film, various thicknesses Sewing Pins Gorilla Glue
Design Software and Tools Objet Printer Up3D Printer 123D beta9, Autodesk Inventor Fusion Dremel, scissors, wire cutters, micro drills
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Step 4: Inspiration
People have attempting to build ornithopters for a very long time, even before Da Vinci did his famous sketches. Unlike my prototypes, there has been much success in getting them to actually flutter about, they are even available as toys. Universities are working on ways to make them smaller and smaller and the Air-force dreams of swarms of microthopter spies. Rubberband Ornithopter Instructable www.ornithopter.org www.ornithopter.de These are videos of some of the more interesting models that ultimately gave me ornithopter fever.
Butterfly Mimic Hiroto Tanaka of Harvard University and Isao Shimoyama of the University of Tokyo
Harvard Monolithic Bee I'm not sure if this one actually flies, but the fabrication is really neat. The unit is created as though it were a circuit board, and then popped up and soldered into a mechanical structure.
Hummer / Da Vinci RC Ornithopter 10cm wingspan 1.1g Winner of MAV-07, developed by Petter Muren. It was later made into a toy, but was never mass distributed.
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