Rubber Band Powered Ornithopter

Ornithopter Print Parameter Optimization             This post summarizes the printing parameters that were used in the production of the original and final ornithopter designs.  Both designs were created on the Ultimaker machine, and the following …

In the past week we printed another prototype of our last design, using a Stratasys printer. Unfortunately, the minimum layer height of that printer (0.25mm) proved to be too large compared to the Ultimaker 2+ (0.1mm), which made our design impossible to …

Initial Optimization: In the first optimization steps for our ornithopter design, the intent was to reduce the build time and minimize the support structure.  The original design consisted of three pieces, with many cut-out sections …

Hello World, We would like to introduce our ME514-project, which we will continuously report about here. We have decided to build a rubber band powered ornithopter.  An ornithopter is a flying device which uses beating …