News

Successful Outdoor Flight (until the crash)

 Last week we flew for the first time outdoors. The hover controller works really nicely. However, we ended the test day with a respectable crash due to a pilot mistake which completely destroyed the second prototype. Airplanes come down, always.

First Flight

 After learning a lot about physics the hard way, we finally got a working system! We are now busy working on improving the controller to stabilize the robot better. See the very first flight in the video below!

Panther UAV by IAI

 As per our knowledge, the phanter UAV of Israel Aerospace Industries is the only commercial system on the market which employs the same actuation principles as our concept. Check out the video below.

Visit us in our new office!

 During the last two weeks we started to move into our office. Visit us in CLA E17.2! Things are still somewhat messy. But we expect new furniture soon. Make sure you check out the pics from our custom made white…

Base Camp

 The project officially startet with the base camp. The base camp was a three day intensive workshop lead by Professor Larry Leifert from Stanford’s D-School. During these days we experienced the basics of user centred design, need finding and prototyping.…
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