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Ornithopter Frame (Rubber Band Powered)

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March 27, 2011

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A first pass attempt at printing the frame of a small, toy, rubber-band powered flapping flying machine. This small ornithopter is based on the tutorials I've seen for wooden ornithopters on Instructables, most particularly on the tutorial by Captain Molo http://www.instructables.com/id/Ornithopter/ Known Issues Please note, this is WIP - mostly because I couldn't get it to reliably fly. It prints - it assembles - it flaps in your hands. But when I try to fly it, it manages only a few flaps before stalling. I suspect that wobbly axles are losing me most of the rubber-band power, but it could be anything at this point. I also suspect that massive weight savings could be made on future iterations of this ornithopter - the one I've uploaded here is SOLID. There is no flex, even when it's crashing nose first into the grass. There's fat to be trimmed here, for certain.

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