Photograph by Anne Anderson
HOMEBREW My Lego UAV
I didn’t have my children to justify playing with Legos, but it certainly didn’t hurt. Yet after a while, we (OK, mostly I) wanted to do something with Lego that had never been done before. But what?
The answer came to me while out on a run, and it combined three geeky things that were on my mind: Lego, R/C airplanes, and gyro sensors. Suddenly it came to me. Gyros are what you use for autopilots. An R/C plane with an autopilot? That’s an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), or drone. ...
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