Using Drones to Make a Flying X-Wing from Star Wars

We all want to be Luke Skywalker on the trench run in an X-wing starfighter. With each passing day, we're getting closer to making that dream a reality. Rodger Cleye made this 5-foot long model as a part of that ongoing effort.

It's made of PVC pipe which is why it looks hollow. That was necessary because anything more would have been too heavy for the 3 drone motors that make it airworthy. Check it out in action:


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-via Hack A Day


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I think that they reached the optimum of practicality with the all purpose optical mouse. (2 regular buttons, one clickable scroll wheel.) This design cannot be improved upon.

That gyroscopic mouse for example is all nice and dandy, but I want to see you hold a mouse up in the air for 8 hours. At best it's basically a (bad) game controller and mouse combined. I'm not talking about game controllers.
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