Ornithopter

[Gidon Yuval]

Thanks Csaba.
Is this the kind of program used to make video tutorials and presentaions?

[mateo soletic]

Gidon,
Yes it is, but as You can see I had also made a
recording of Your Ornithopter flight with it.

[Gaieus]

I also downloaded Wink which I believe Coen uses for his online Flash tuts here. Actually, there are quite many good (and even some free) applications that one can sometimes hardly choose.

I'll test this latter one out (haven't installed yet) and see what it knows for 300 bucks that other freewares do not.

But now let's go back to "on-topic" and talk about Gidon's ornithopter!

[Gidon Yuval]

@gaieus said:

But now let's go back to "on-topic" and talk about Gidon's ornithopter!

OK, here's an update.
I built a very rough version of the drive mechanism and found that because the configuration utilises the pulling power of the rubber band rather than twisting the rubber band it was much more powerfull. Much more. This of course means that this configuration, while not being any larger than the twist configuration, can flap much larger wings and in a larger motion. It also means that I can make the body longer to accomodate more stretching of the band because the larger wings would have more lifting power.
At least, that's the theory

[Gaieus]

So whereis that update?