Human Bird Wings

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jarnosmeets80 posted 8 months ago

Dear all, we are nominated for the Online Competition of the Dutch Filmfestival. If you like us, please visit the Youtube channel, click 'Vote' and find us under 'Human Birdwings'. Please VOTE UP and help us win! Thanks! http://www.youtube.com/nff
jarnosmeets80 uploaded a video 1 year ago

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Flying like a bird | part 14/14

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We did it! This weekend I flew a 100 meters with my selfbuilt wings. I used a GoPro-camera on my helmet to film the flight.

I have always dreamed about this. But after 8 months of hard work, research and testing it all p...
jarnosmeets80 uploaded and replied to a comment from Joeri Smits 1 year ago

Alles puik in orde spiderJoeri. Het weer is goed! Helaas niet zoveel vrije tijd meer. Dus project gaat wat trager nu.

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Testflight with wings made from a kite | 13/14

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The wings did their job! The stakes were high for me, so I was disappointed that I only made a tiny hop in the air. But it worked!

Although the weather this week didn't look good at all! Yesterday in the afternoon the sun...
jarnosmeets80 posted 1 year ago

Wow...the wheather is good!
jarnosmeets80 posted 1 year ago

Last monday: A story about by wings in the the German Financial Times http://ow.ly/9sNEL
jarnosmeets80 posted 1 year ago

For my Dutch followers: In de HUMO van deze week staat een interview over mijn vleugels. Alvast deels online te lezen! http://www.humo.be/humo-archief/87891/jarno-smeets-bouwt-...
jarnosmeets80 posted 1 year ago

A new blogpost is up! Have been busy playing in the snow and fixing the wings --- http://www.humanbirdwings.net/about/snow/
jarnosmeets80 replied to a comment from K Schenk 1 year ago

nee hoor, het meeste bezoek komt uit de VS (gelukkig kan ik meer stats zien dan jij)

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The origins of my flying dream | part 1/14

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It has always been my dream to fly like a bird. I think I found a way how. In this first video I explain why I want to build bird-like wings in ord...
jarnosmeets80 replied to a comment from Gio Canales 1 year ago

the other video is edited, hence the difference and the pan down. No CGI

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Moving wingssystem with Wii controller | part 9/14

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I tested the flapping of the wings with the electronic mechanism with the controllers (see below). And the result is fantastic. It works! This mean...
jarnosmeets80 and 6 others liked 1 year ago

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Human Wings - Programma Tiswat, TV West

by omroepwest • 9,314 views

Jarno Smeets heeft een droom: Vliegen met menselijke vleugels. Deze Haagse Batman demonstreert HOE HOE HOE dat zou kunnen.

www.westonline.nl/tisw...
jarnosmeets80 uploaded a video 1 year ago

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Is this high enough? | part 12/14

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Last weekend I have decided to start testing the wings somewhere in the coming days. The weather was perfect, hopefully it will stay that way. I went outside with my team to check the roof, and talk about the dangers.

BL...
jarnosmeets80 posted 1 year ago

I rearranged my blog a bit. I included a project timeline to give you an easy overview http://www.humanbirdwings.net/project-timeline/
jarnosmeets80 posted 1 year ago

I did a long interview with Tara Roskell from Ideas Uploaded. All you want to know about the project and me is right here ;) http://ideasuploaded.com/inventor-jarno-smeets-talks-flyi...
jarnosmeets80 posted 1 year ago

for the Dutchies: great episode on AVRO television by Tom Waes who builds a glider just like the Wright brothers design. http://avro.nl/tomtesterom/Player/tcm8_171973/#.Tw7Na6Xj5gg
jarnosmeets80 replied to a comment from Santi Suarez 1 year ago

thanks. I will! I am carefully planning.

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making DIY wings: 3D Visualisation | part 4/14

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First 3d visualisation of my Human Birdwings design. It explains the idea and design behind the wings that I will be building coming months for mys...
jarnosmeets80 uploaded and replied to a comment from crazymike65 1 year ago

well...the wings are put together. I have been tweaking these last two days, the finetuning is the hard part! But yes, i had great help getting it all organised so the three months flew by! ;)

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making DIY wings: complete | part 11/14

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The wings are complete! A lot of finetuning still needs to take place, calibrating the system, adjusting nuts and bots etc etc. You know the drill. But doesn't she look beautiful, the wing? Enjoy the video!

Blog: http://...
jarnosmeets80 replied to a comment from thesalty sack 1 year ago

thanks!

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making DIY wings: Harness & Framework | part 8/14

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Watch the start of building the actual wings I will be using to fly. It shows some work we did on adjusting the backpack and creating the aluminum ...
jarnosmeets80 replied to a comment from Jonny Tennant 1 year ago

love the idea.

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Neuromechanics professor about flying like a bird | part 1/2

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Interesting chat with Bert Otten professor in Neuromechanics at the Univeristy of Groningen about the ability to fly like birds do and how I envisi...
jarnosmeets80 uploaded, replied to a comment from crazymike65 and posted 1 year ago

A new video is out! A video on the cutting of the ribs for the wingshape. No, not spare-ribs with BBQ sauce, but the aerodynamic kind ;-)

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making DIY wings : ribs & surfacematerial | part 10/14

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In the passed weeks I worked on the construction of the wing. This is an impression on the milling (cutting) of the aerodynamic ribs that support the shape of the wing and the adjusting of the surfacematerial (Slingshot Fu...
jarnosmeets80 commented 1 year ago

you like my project?

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Blogkientruc Human Birdwings

by Hiển Đinh xuân • 641 views

About Human Bird Wings

Follow my progress of the building process of my own flying device! I am building real wings that will hopefully help me to fly like a bird.

humanbirdwings.net/

by jarnosmeets80

Date Joined Jul 6, 2011

Country Netherlands