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Design, build, and pilot custom drones no prior experience
necessary! This fun guide shows, step-by-step, how to construct
powerful drones from inexpensive parts, add personalized features,
and become a full-fledged pilot. DIY Drones for the Evil Genius:
Design, Build, and Customize Your Own Drones not only covers
safety, mechanics, drone design, and assembly, but also teaches the
basics of Aerospace Engineering. You will discover how to add video
transmitters, GPS, first-person view, and virtual reality goggles
to your creations. The book walks you through the FAA licensing
process and takes a look at advanced concepts, such as artificial
intelligence and autonomous flight. * Learn about aircraft parts,
control mechanics, and safety practices * Become an expert
pilot-even handle flips and high-speed maneuvers * Pick the perfect
parts for your high-performance drone * Find out how to solder and
start assembling your drone * Program the aircraft, calibrate the
motors, and start flying! * Add LED lights, GoPro mounts, and
self-balancing camera gimbals * Explore the world of
first-person-view (FPV) drones and high-speed racing * See how
artificial intelligence can be put to use in the drone industry
In this step-by-step guide, you ll learn how to build 40 miniature
models of race cars, airplanes, ships, trains, and more. These fun,
compact designs will inspire you to get creative with as few as
nine LEGO (R) pieces. Imagine what you can build with just a
handful of LEGO bricks almost anything! In Tiny LEGO Wonders,
you'll create miniscale models of real vehicles ?like: A ?space
shuttle ?Jets, planes?, and helicopters Flatbed trucks and cement
mixers France s high-speed TGV train F1 racecars Muscle cars Cargo,
cruise, wooden ships, and more!? Let your creativity run wild!
Scenes from nature spring to life in Mike Doyle's latest curated
collection of LEGO art, Beautiful LEGO: Wild! From botanical
marvels to adorable critters such as a sea otter family made from
3,500 LEGO pieces every page is sure to delight the artist and
naturalist in all of us. Interviews with LEGO masters from around
the world give you a glimpse into the inspiration behind these
incredible works of art. Discover amazing landscapes, insects,
mythical creatures, and more, all within the enchanting pages of
Beautiful LEGO: Wild!
In this volume of the LEGO Adventure Book series, Megs and Brickbot
face their toughest challenge yet. The Destructor is on the loose
again, demolishing LEGO models and shaking things up! Join Megs as
she rebuilds the models and meets some of the world s best
builders. Learn to create a Renaissance house, a classic movie
theater, sushi, Miniland-scale marvels, an ice cream truck, street
lamps, and even a chicken coop. With 40 step-by-step breakdowns and
nearly 150 example models, The LEGO Adventure Book will surely
inspire you and keep you building!
Nathan Sawaya is renowned for his incredible and sometimes
surreal sculptures and portraits - all made from LEGO bricks.
The Art of the Brick is a stunning, full-color showcase of the
work that has made Sawaya the world's most famous LEGO artist.
Featuring hundreds of photos of Sawaya's impressive art and
behind-the-scenes details about how these creations came to be, The
Art of the Brick is an inside look at how Sawaya transformed a toy
into an art form.
Follow one man's unique obsession, and see the amazing places it
took him. Sawaya's story and beautiful, surprising works are sure
to inspire you.
However well equipped the workshop may be there seems to be an
incessant need to make up special gadgets of one sort or another.
These may range from mutilating a clothes peg to act as a 'third
hand' up to major modifications to an existing machine tool. The
making of such devices can be fun (indeed, some may appear to do
nothing else!) but nevertheless the time taken up in 'devising the
device' can often delay the completion of an important project.
Shared experience is a most potent tool in reducing such delays,
and can, moreover, often provide solutions to problems hitherto
believed to be intractable. Tubal Cain has enjoyed more than sixty
years' experience in designing and building engines and machines
(in both full size and model dimensions) and over this time has
made many ancillary devices. In this book he shares 52 of them with
you. A number of these had been published in magazines from time to
time and some were assembled in volume form about thirty years ago.
The opportunity was later taken not only to reprint that book but
to revise some of the entries to take advantage of user experience,
to add new material and to introduce it into the popular Workshop
Practice Series.
With 12 inspiring patterns in nature infused tones, these Rowan Big
Wool projects will knit up fast, providing a satisfying sense of
accomplishment.
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