RoboFly is Wireless Thanks to a Flexible Circuit (IMAGE)

University of Washington

RoboFly is Wireless Thanks to a Flexible Circuit

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To make RoboFly wireless, the engineers designed a flexible circuit (yellow) with a boost converter (copper coil and black boxes at left) that boosts the seven volts coming from the photovoltaic cell into the 240 volts needed for flight. This circuit also has a microcontroller brain (black square box in the top right) that lets RoboFly control its wings.

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Mark Stone/University of Washington

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