leetZeppelin - Arduino powered blimp with TV-B-Gone

Community Exhibition / Gallery
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leetZeppelin was build by me and Fredrik (@fleijon) for an exhibition that the company we work for, tretton37 (tretton = thirteen), had at a software conference. The blimp is powered with an Arduino fio that communicates with a computer using xbees and is controlled with a Wiimote connected to the same computer. For fun we added a tv-b-gone to it that could be triggered if the secret key combination ]:D

More info and build log can be found at http://tretton37.com/blog/2011/11/25/leetzeppelin/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geMrAmBJsls

Hardware - Zeppelin Arduino FIO XBee Servo motors 2 x Servo motor or motor controller Motor Proppeler Blimp Balloon Envelope (rctoys.com) IR Led Carbon fiber tube Lego Gears Lipo Battery – 1s 1000 mAh

Hardware - C&C XBee XBee Explorer USB Wii mote Computer running Linux Bluetooth dongle

Have fun! /Marcus

#2

looks good but the video says "an error occurred please try later"

#3

try to reload the page or go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geMrAmBJsls

#4

yup fine now! it must be later already good looking machine how do you control altitude?

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we controlled the altitude by change the direction of the motors

#6

er I meant how do you make the blimp go up and down?

#7

the servo on the first picture change the angle on the motors so it change the direction of the trust from the motors.

#8

and the angle is controlled by the wiimote

#9

ah that makes sense!

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