Build your own ornithopter

Posted by Rob Beschizza, May 2, 2008 11:11 AM | permalink

Dune fans rejoice: you can now indulge your dreams of soaring over Arrakeen toward the shield wall by constructing your own mini-ornithopter. You could even put a little mouse inside it!

Build an Ornithopter [Metacafe via Make]

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#1 posted by markmarkmark , May 2, 2008 12:06 PM

cool.
now we need to make crysknives and stillsuits so we'll beready for global warming to turn our little green planet into a desert world.

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#2 posted by Robbo

, May 2, 2008 1:04 PM

Where's my worm? I wanna go fer a ride on my worm!

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#3 posted by eustace , May 2, 2008 7:25 PM

It's been over six hours since Robbo posted and no one has jumped on that straight line. Remarkable restraint.

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#4 posted by Xenu , May 3, 2008 2:26 AM

The spice must flow.

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#5 posted by Anonymous , May 3, 2008 3:29 AM

I hear that it is pretty still indoors.

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#6 posted by oliver dyas

, May 3, 2008 1:00 PM

@eustace: you just have a dirty mind ;)