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05-07-2016, 08:13 AM
Single-propeller 'drone' flies when you throw it like a frisbee
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A drone (https://hameed.nwar.uk/vb/mashable.com/category/drones?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=), or quadcopter as it's technically called, typically has four propellers to generate e**ugh thrust to let it hover in the air. The propellers are arranged in such a way to counterbalance the weight of the drone itself.
Researchers at the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control at ETH Zurich (http://www.idsc.ethz.ch/) have created a new kind of flying machine (http://robohub.org/the-mo**spinner-worlds-mechanically-simplest-controllable-flying-machine/) (technically, **t a drone) that only needs one blade to fly.
SEE ALSO: The Air Case is the ultra-thin battery case Apple should have made (http://mashable.com/2016/05/02/air-case-iphone-battery-case-review/)
The flying machine is called the Mo**spinner (http://flyingmachinearena.org/) and is billed as the "simplest, controllable, flying machine in existence" since it lacks actuators and aerodynamic surfaces. It only has one moving part: the rotating propeller. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/05/06/mo**spinner-single-propeller-drone/)
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A drone (https://hameed.nwar.uk/vb/mashable.com/category/drones?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=), or quadcopter as it's technically called, typically has four propellers to generate e**ugh thrust to let it hover in the air. The propellers are arranged in such a way to counterbalance the weight of the drone itself.
Researchers at the Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control at ETH Zurich (http://www.idsc.ethz.ch/) have created a new kind of flying machine (http://robohub.org/the-mo**spinner-worlds-mechanically-simplest-controllable-flying-machine/) (technically, **t a drone) that only needs one blade to fly.
SEE ALSO: The Air Case is the ultra-thin battery case Apple should have made (http://mashable.com/2016/05/02/air-case-iphone-battery-case-review/)
The flying machine is called the Mo**spinner (http://flyingmachinearena.org/) and is billed as the "simplest, controllable, flying machine in existence" since it lacks actuators and aerodynamic surfaces. It only has one moving part: the rotating propeller. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/05/06/mo**spinner-single-propeller-drone/)
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