http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2017062404/b-go-beyond
Another cool Kickstarter project. It looks like it works well on the ground, the video doesn't show very much of the flight performance. It does appear to be quite robust at least. Thanks to Ramon for pointing this project out.
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Fundings a tough problem, which is why Kickstarters such a great idea.
In Australia we're quite lucky in that theres an R&D tax incentive. So if you doing an R&D project, you can get 45% of the money back from the government the next quarter. Theres also a couple of tricks, you can withhold your own pay (if the R&D company doesn't have funds to pay yourself) and you will receive 45% of that money, that wasn't paid during the R&D phase but will need to be paid once the company makes money.
We also have a few grant programs like energy efficiency and commercialisation australia, which only give out money to innovative projects. They match funding 50/50, so the grant money plus R&D tax incentive means that we only need to raise cash to pay 1/4 of the project costs.
As you said though Monroe, you do need to still know someone who can chip in 1/4 of the project cost.
One day when I don't have to work and have more time I'd like to start up an open source business incubator to help fund all of the innovative project struggling around the world.
Thats ridiculous that a massively funded group like DAPRA didn't give them the prize money. $100k to the Halo team would have gone 100 times further than $100k staying within DAPRA. Its the same with Tridges team winning the outback challenge but not getting any prize money (Although the guys who put together outback challenge have nowhere near the money DAPRA has).
The concept is very pleasant. That flexible material is great!
A nice addition (for me) is: he's from Poland :-)
There's a load of very neat details in this Wow! concept. I love it and will keep an eye on this. I don't really need another toy hanging around me right now, but this is pretty cool, so I mightn't be able to resist contributing.
It would take a side impact to wreck the props. Very clever.
If upside down, a wheelie flip might make things right side up.
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Very nice design.
Would be very fun if it could go on the water. Seems quite possible according to the actual design.
Olivier
Ghost recon Future soldier comes to mind... Looks very interesting. As more details become available, I might grab one.
It's a lot of money for something I have to fly myself... it really needs to fly itself ;-) Now if we can get a 1:1 to person size I am all for it!
He made it look cool, that's step one! The fact that it actually works is a bonus.
My bad, Just found the full Bio on B's Kickstarted site. Should have looked better.
"My name is Witold Mielniczek.I graduated in Economics and later received a First Class Honours in Product Design and Robotics.
In 2010 I achieved 6th place (2nd in UK ranking) in the prestigious EUROBOT competition with a budget of only 300£ compared to the 60.000£ of the winning team. Two years later, as a vital part of team HALO, I won the UAV Forge contest organised by the DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency of the United States Department of Defense) out of over 150 teams from 140 countries.
Currently I am doing a PhD in the Computational Engineering and Design Group at the University of Southampton, UK."
Money will be where mouth was soon.
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