Jon

I can just see this thing getting stuck in my hair.

Smallest RC helicopter, much easier to control and $30 at Toys R Us.

I’m gonna get one of these and it’ll be a battle royal!

Learning to move with an up and down was surprisingly easy. I think a big bonus with something like the Dragonfly is that it could take a lot of punishment without exploding. In addition, the relatively slow flight makes it a little bit easier to correct any errors (such as going down instead of up).

The problem with hacking this likes this is that these models/toys are really bareboned, so hacking is pretty difficult because most of these toys simply can’t handle any more wingspeed without motors burning out or batteries frying or wings flying off. But hopefully the designers built enough safety factor room that we could have a little fun with it.

I have personally never flown an airplane or even a toy plane, but I think the difficulty in flying such a device comes from our inate inability to navigate in 3d. I think evolutionarily we are wired to only move in 2d. For the most part, we never do travel on the Z-axis and thats why its really difficult for us to navigate such a device as can be seen in the video.

I had a question to the people who have personally flown a toy plane or even a real one, how is the learning curve? (I want to treat myself to a plane, obviously a toy one)

It is hard enough to built the actual plane that will last long enough to have any sort of fun, but developing the system to control it at the same time is quite a feat.

Flying however looks like a pain, it’s a lot of ups and downs to avoid stalling and the subsequent divebombs into the cement floor, but I guess that comes with the unique motor system.

Hopefully however there will be no lame commercials for this like there have been for the Robosapien.

It would be great if it was easy to control, flew for a real long time on one battery charge and… Well, that’s all I can think of because it seems rather cool otherwise.