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Designing paper airplane Options (1) model airflow using hybrid particle/volumetric fluid simulation (2) put paper airplane on thread on motors and plot staged flight path
Recent daydream puzzle project (I;ve been doing bulk printing and refilling ink by hand :s lots of paper) Was, make a robotic paper airplane. Maybe with modern security in flight computer.
How to do?
Well, need actuators to direct the paper airplane. Some way to bend wings
hmm
And paper airplanes are made of _paper_. Nobody wants to shove big motors, engines, hydraulics in wings —
Lots of half ideas around thread and tiny motor But what about, take apart motor and throw out heavy housing, and use tiny coils and magnets to pull on wings? missing: compare weight of power source to motor (although wireless power!)