{"id":9371,"date":"2006-12-21T17:55:54","date_gmt":"2006-12-21T17:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9371"},"modified":"2006-12-21T17:55:54","modified_gmt":"2006-12-21T17:55:54","slug":"more-on-the-wowwee-flytech-dragonfly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9371","title":{"rendered":"More on the WowWee Flytech Dragonfly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" width=\"300\" align=\"right\" valign=\"top\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/dragonflight.jpg\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/modules.php?op=modload&#038;name=News&#038;file=article&#038;sid=1570&#038;mode=flat&#038;order=0&#038;thold=1\" target=\"new\">posting<\/a> of the T3 video showing the forthcoming WowWee Flytech Dragonfly &#8212; an R\/C robo-dragonfly that actually uses its beating wings to stay aloft &#8212; created quite a stir in the geeksophere. The wireheads over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robotsrule.com\/\" target=\"new\">Robots Rule<\/a> wrote to tell us that the WowWee Dragonfly was actually based on a rubber- band- powered Ornithopter designed by a high school student, Sean Frawley, and that he&#8217;s now a consultant to WowWee. Robots Rule has a page dedicated to the Flytech Dragonfly and a discussion forum. The Flytech page points to Sean&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ornitech.com\/index.html\" target=\"new\">Ornithopter Technologies<\/a> website where you can buy a US$20 kit to build your own paper\/ balsa\/ rubber band flyer (shown above). Cool! <\/p>\n<p> BTW: The Robots Rule Flytech page has a second video of the Dragonfly. This one looks like it was shot in WowWee&#8217;s offices. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digg.com\/submit\" target=\"new\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/img\/badges\/91x17-digg-button-alt.gif\" width=\"91\" height=\"17\" alt=\"Digg!\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The posting of the T3 video showing the forthcoming WowWee Flytech Dragonfly &#8212; an R\/C robo-dragonfly that actually uses its beating wings to stay aloft &#8212; created quite a stir in the geeksophere. The wireheads over at Robots Rule wrote to tell us that the WowWee Dragonfly was actually based on a rubber- band- powered &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9371\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;More on the WowWee Flytech Dragonfly&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}