How to Make an Ornithopter Adafruit Industries Makers, hackers, artists, designers and engineers! [Video]

September 4, 2024 AT 7:22 pm

How to Make an Ornithopter

With the increasing popularity of Dune, why aren’t more people building ornithopters? This video is a few years old but is still a fun build. The sensibility is almost nostogic for its straightforward/how-to feel.

How to make an ornithopter, a rubber band type flying machine that flies by flapping its wings.

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