Jan 29
A flapping-wing drone! 🦅
It's an ornithopter with a six-axis gyro and precision G-sensors designed specifically to deal with the chaotic dynamics of wing flapping.
Sensor fusion tuned for flapping flight, not propeller stability. Ultra-light motors and custom kinematics. Biomimetic wings that alternate between flapping and gliding.
Instead of forcing nature into quadcopter physics, they designed the control system around how birds actually fly. The challenge with ornithopters is vibration. Propeller drones spin at constant speed, so the control system can filter out predictable oscillations.
Flapping wings create violent, asymmetric vibrations every stroke cycle. Standard IMUs designed for quadcopters can't tell the difference between intentional movement and wing-induced noise.
BionicBird solved this by tuning the sensor fusion specifically for flapping flight. The control system knows what vibrations to expect from the wings and filters them out, leaving only the meaningful inertial data.
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I guess I’m the only one who noticed this JavaScript snippet is literally stripping the market bare in real-time.
I accidentally dug into the network requests of an old extension and found a hidden WebSocket feeding a wallet named BionicBird.
This isn’t "analytics" or luck it’s 40 lines of Node.js code that turned Polymarket into a personal ATM.
While you're trying to figure out where the price is going, this script has already finished 3,585 trades, taking your money before you even blink.
The logic is dead simple: the bot sees the price change in the page code 200ms before it even renders on your screen.
It enters at the old price and instantly locks in profit while you're staring at a frozen chart.
The owner extracted $40,000 just by exploiting your slow reaction time and your faith in fair trading.
He doesn't guess the winner he just robs everyone who enters the order book without automation.
Stop acting like a strategist; you're just a free sponsor for a coder who's smarter than you.
The market isn't a battle of brains; it's a battle of your ping against his script. And you’ve already lost.
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スマホで操作する羽ばたきドローン(オーニソプター)
youtu.be/nPtSjjrzf-U
#robot #ornithopter #drone #metabird #metafly #birddrone #remotecontrol #BionicBird #X_Fly #Biomimicry #オーニソプター #ラジコン #羽ばたき飛行ロボット #生物ロボット #生物模倣 #バイオミミクリー
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スマホで操作する羽ばたきドローン(オーニソプター)
youtu.be/nPtSjjrzf-U
#robot #ornithopter #drone #metabird #metafly #birddrone #remotecontrol #BionicBird #X_Fly #Biomimicry #オーニソプター #ラジコン #羽ばたき飛行ロボット #生物ロボット #生物模倣 #バイオミミクリー
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i just bought an ornithopter drone on Amazon on a whim lol
edit: This one, btw -- METABIRD by BIONICBIRD App a.co/d/j3z59cj
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Un énorme carton pour le X-Fly de Bionicbird, un nouveau drone « biomimétique » conçu pour voler comme un oiseau #Drone #kickstarter
neozone.org/?p=208428
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Die X-Fly Drohne – Vogel Design für realistisches Fliegen
Die X-Fly Drohne ahmt mit ihren flexiblen Flügeln die Flugbewegungen von Vögeln nach und ermöglicht so agileres Manövrieren.
coolsten.de/x-fly-drohne-bio…
#xflydrone #Drohnen #kickstarter #gadgets #startup #bionicbird
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X-Fly: The Drone Designed to Soar Like a Bird - Experience the next evolution in drone technology - realistic flight, innovative design, & endless expandability.
Check it out:
👉 bit.ly/xfly
#drone #drones #xfly #biomimetic #biomimeticdrone #bionicbird
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X-Fly: The Drone Designed to Soar Like a Bird - Experience the next evolution in drone technology - realistic flight, innovative design, & endless expandability.
Check it out:
👉 bit.ly/xfly
#drone #drones #xfly #biomimetic #biomimeticdrone #bionicbird
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2 Dec 2022
Le défi de Edwin Van Ruymbeke : réaliser un drone qui vole sans hélice ni turbine. Les drones @mybionicbird utilisent le vol battu, comme les oiseaux #MetaBird #MetaFly #biomimetisme #biomimetics #drones #BionicBird #EFPL #Lausanne #Deftech #Invisibility #future #battlefields
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Captain Drone will be trying this out soon. Looks interesting.
#MetaFly #BionicBird #BiometricDrone #CaptainDrone #Drones
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16 Feb 2022
#France develops flapping-wing #UAV #BIOFLY #BionicBird #MetaFly #Drone #UAS #sUAS #sUAV
airrecognition.com/index.php…
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BionicBird _ Hooded Crow via @artstationhq artstation.com/artwork/4X6Dl…
#conceptart #design #Blender3d
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9 Aug 2021
Smartphone Controlled Flying Bird
youtu.be/m85oXvhpGcM
#drone #MetaBird #UAV #biomimicry #robotics #mybionicbird #BionicBird #バイオミメティクス技術 #鳥型ドローン
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L’armée Française mise sur le savoir faire de BionicBird pour développer... youtu.be/GTgvvNqfCb0 via @YouTube
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