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Fubo

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***Update 17/05/2012*** Fubo assembled and partly wired … Read more
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Second static test firing of DoubleSShot rocket motor failed big (again)

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May 17, 2012
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Second static test firing of DoubleSShot rocket motor failed big (again). CATO of the rocket motor.

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Elektro

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***Update 05/05/2012*** Elektro's brain under construction. The main power supply is in the moment a 7.2 V/4600 mAh NiMh battery. I have soldered Li-Po-battery … Read more
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Elektro

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April 18, 2012
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Just a sneak preview: Elektro. Robot entry is following soon...

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Rubik's cube solving robot

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March 27, 2012
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This blog is dedicated to build a Rubik's cube solving robot. I'll not give you any guarantee to even update this blog or finish it. I just want to share and discuss some ideas.

The first thing I did was to buy 3 Rubik's cubes at taobao.com (a kind of Chinese Ebay), each around 10 RMB.  I bought 3 pieces, because I wanted to avoid one or two samples are getting damaged during my experiments and evaluations and I needed then to find exactly the same kind of probes for my experiments again, which can be quite annoying.

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Sky observer V3

Observes the sky with a video camera, transmits a ring tone to all walkie-talkies in a range of 2km, beeps to find it again

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****Update 2011/8/18**** Video from a successful flight is up. The HD BoosterVision camera is awesome. Telemetry worked perfect. Recovery took me and my father in … Read more
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Second flight with a hexaphenox rocket motor (Success)

Flies now:)

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***Update 2011/8/19*** First experiment using white wood glue (polyvinyl acetate) as a binder for the propellant hexaphenox. The advantage is that polyvinyl … Read more
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RoverX mini

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This is my attempt to build a very small and light but offroad vehicle. The accelerometer acts as a tilt sensor. A bandwidth of 1Hz has been set with according … Read more
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RoverX - A lunar rover study

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This is a lunar rover study I am doing for the Google Lunar X Prize. RoverX is a so called wheg robot. I was inspired by the work of the Case Biorobotics Lab. I … Read more
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