October 16th, 2007:
Two more photos of the windtunnel test/ production phase have been added.
A detailed wing photo, showing the carbon fibre look of the feathers | "Mass production" of all structural parts for the wind tunnel test. |
October 16th, 2007:
Two more photos of the windtunnel test/ production phase have been added.
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A detailed wing photo, showing the carbon fibre look of the feathers | "Mass production" of all structural parts for the wind tunnel test. |
October 3rd, 2007:
The past weeks the team has been busy performing a wind tunnel test in order to verify and optimize the design of RoboSwift.
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One of the windtunnel models in the windtunnel | All the windtunnel models tested |
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One of the windtunnel models from the side | One of the windtunnel models from the top |
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A front view of one of the two windtunnel models. | All the feathers collected |
More photos of the windtunnel test/model preparation will be available soon.
September 2nd, 2007:
More results of the production process are available
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A fuselage | An armwing |
Also, some of the components have arrived:
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One of the micro servos that will be used for moving the feathers | The servo board that will be used for the windtunnel tests |
August 24th, 2007:
Wednesday the team started off building the RoboSwift windtunnel model. The first results are available:
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The fuselage mould | The armwing mould |
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The first feather stiffeners in unswept position | The first feather stiffeners in sweptback position |
July 30th, 2007:
Audio fragment about RoboSwift in the BBC radio programme "Digital Planet"
July 27th, 2007:
Article about RoboSwift on the website of discovery channel
July 18th, 2007:
RoboSwift in the Daily Mail
July 7th, 2007:
RoboSwift in the New Scientist
June 30th, 2007:
RoboSwift in the dutch technology magazine Technisch Weekblad
June 28th, 2007:
Radio fragment about RoboSwift in HOE?ZO! radio (dutch)
June 28th, 2007:
Announcement of RoboSwift on the aerospace engineering faculty website
June 27th, 2007:
Announcement of RoboSwift on Wageningen University website
June 27th, 2007:
Press release available