What happens when you use ducted fans instead of open blade propellors on a UAV*?
*UAV = Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
The machines get very cool. This is a photo of me holding a QuadPuck prototype. I’m at the Pasadena, CA office of Ashima Devices, Inc., clowning around with the equipment. Yes, we have the patent for ducted fans in a unibody fuselage.
The photo gives you a context as to fuselage form, size (when compared to an old, fat, white hair’d man), etc. (Not quite old enough to spend the afternoons sitting on a park bench feeding pigeons, but close)
This is the competition:
One interesting fact when dealing with unibody fuselages with ducted fans is that you can make the fuselage look like just about anything within the general symmetry needed for a flying object of this type. It doesn’t have to look like a little toy helicopter.
There is a new definition for “drone”…
AWESOME.
And listen, when you reach that pigeon-feeding age in a couple decades you will totally revolutionize the whole thing with one of those gadgets, I'm sure of it.
I'll feed nuts and bolts to robotic pigeons…
It doesn't make any difference what I think about it,
but yours makes so much more sense in stability, functionality, and purpose driven capabilities…
has it been tested for herding game or livestock?
No, I don't think that will be able to match wits with a Border Collie anytime soon. However if you want to take a video of that event from the air to post on Facebook or to use for some other purpose, it will do things that a Border Collie can't. (fly and take a picture while doing it)
Nice! Gen ?3? now??? 🙂
Now it gets REALLY exotic.
Nifty!
Toys are toys.
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