Using a Webcam to Make an A.I Co-Pilot - Dragonfly Project EP04

Maybe you should align your Pilot with the Flightdirection?!

When you take apart a computer keyboard (Desktop keyboards usually, laptop not so often), there are usually three clear sheets of plastic inside, a middle sheet with holes in it, and two of them with patterns on them to make up the circuits between the keys and the PCB. These patterned sheets would make excellent wing textures/material for a sci-fi dragonfly, and would only need to be glued to a wing frame, and they'd still be pretty light-weight. Also the keys from a keyboard are as you already know, great greeblies.

Creative use of an old webcam, I wouldn't have thought of that myself but it really fits the dragonfly. The sandpaper evaporating got a genuine laugh out of me too.

Question: Nail Salon Tool?? Can you share a link? Love your techniques

The eye turned out very cool! Thank you for sharing. God Bless to all in this Advent season.

The eye looks great! I definitely agree that was the right direction to go with the design.

To enhance the dragonfly aesthetic, I would suggest very thin, transparent wings.

I think that this build would look better as a spaceship with jet engines in the back instead of helicopter blades.

if you design the wings as a solid in 3d software, then the fun part, use a hexagon as a boolean shape, and use it to cut out a hexagon pattern down the wing, around a 1 cm size, it will then look like a dragon fly wing which is made up of segments, it will look really cool, plus you can see through it to the model.

The eye is great, only suggestion is to add a rear eye to the tail because the rear left is a blind spot.

Thank you for your excellent work & content. This channel is tops!

This new project is a treaty on how to achieve double curvature surfaces and blended intersections with analog techniques. Keep on, please.

Thought you did a magic trick with the sandpaper 😂. Now the pilot side gonna need an upgrade, because the AI side looks amazing.

Think the eye needs more internal components to be visible it's an internal organ of a machine so cables cooling fins circuit boards heat vents capacitors etc

The eye looks sick lol

The muktiple kenses gives this cool impression that the eye would focus per lens based on what optics would be needed, like say its a long range on in the center, but suddenly theres an up-close engagement from underneath, so then the eye flips to the side and looks down with the infrared lens or whatever

Very cool vibe

Looks like a Halo Monitor, love it!

What about making the rotors from clear plexiglass covered in Mylar which would give it a insect appearance like a real dragonfly.

That eye is next level awesome. I love it. And, unless you're incorporating metal into the wings, I think it's probably sturdy enough. Check out the ornnithopters from the Dune movies if you're stuck for ideas on wing mechanisms.

SO cool! You could add some fine detail cables to the eyeball’s surface to make it even creepier/cooler.

Great work as always. This is going to look awesome.

This one is so cool. I think the asymmetric camera and pilot was definitely the right choice, you could bring back some balance by having his dashboard unit that's semi-spherical

Its looking great, hope the next build is a big mech of some kind.

Maybe put a lense on top of the human occupied eye, so the Ai can have a better feeling of what's happening around the ship!

A red LED in the lense would be very cool. Give it that creepy HAL vibe. Great work!

Nuts and bolts are a great way to hold parts together while keeping them detachable, though I would suggest to try to stick to a single or maybe 2 profiles, i.e. hex m5 countersunk, to keep the bolts manageable, things could grow out of control quickly.

thats such a cool concept, and the finished result is just incredible

Excellente idée la webcam

Ese ojo quedo genial, todo el proyecto se ve cada vez mejor.

here is an idea: what about six wings? to diferentiate it even more from Dune film ornitopter?
imagine it as a less bug coppied design and more science based thing.

I'm too invested in this build. It's looking amazing.

Absolutely LOVE the eye!

Oh boy that eye looks awesome. I can imagine it darting around, being on look out, tilting side to side rapidly for the side and top cameras. Really cool!

This is really great!

The eye is a real nice touch, I feel like it would look better without the glass canopy above it - just my opinion though.

I'm excited to see what's next with this build, definitely an existing one, especially because of the more organic forms.
Great job, love your work!

why do you call it spooky tho? It's kinda cute

I love the pilot on one side, and the eye on the other! I do like the idea of four wings to be more dragonfly like.

This video is the first I discover from your channel. As a neophyte modelmaker I have to say this is very, VERY inspiring. Instantly subbed, will have to comb through your whole catalogue for more dopissimo ideas. Incredible work brother, one day I'll have models that look as mind blowing as yours I swear <3

Nice work ✨✨

Awsome idea with the AI copilot. Great video!

Maybe multiple eyes in the same direction.

I kinda wanna recreate this in Lego

Really great job! Congrats!! Are you brasilian?

The eye has the perfect creepy factor 😊

need a micro LED to turn that lens into a HAL eye. The A-eye copilot is a great addition.

Oh that's SMART! Awesome! Subscribed.

Neat. I would just hide some metal spars in there to reinforce the wings.

Excellent build and video as always! It's great to see your channel growing up so much from when I subscribed. Happy to see Brazilian fellows getting the recognition they deserve. Keep up the good work! <3

By far my favorite kit bashing type channel. I'm an engineer, so the fact that you use collected pieces, 3d printing, and "unorthodox" or unique techniques like using knock-off Legos to attach things REALLY gets the dopamine going for me. I'm really excited for this channel to blow up.