Resources

Kit Assembly

• How to Build a Tuna Blimp
• Introduction to soldering
• Brushless motors
• Electronic speed controllers
• Servos

Structural Engineering

• Goodyear Blimp construction
• Freebody diagrams
• Free body diagram of a tuna blimp
• Understanding & analyzing trusses
• Balsa wood trusses
• Gusset plates
• Making structures strong
• Moment of inertia
• Thin-walled structures
• Framework for rigid aircraft patent
• Plimp airships
• Prospective Concepts AG Stingray
• How does nature create structures?
• Centers

Aerodynamics & Hydrodynamics

• NASA aerodynamics lessons
• Aerodynamics
• Airflow across a wing
• Osprey goes fishing
• Non-Newtonian fluids
• Gallery of Fluid Motion
• Wing sweep
• MIT OpenCourseWare on hydrodynamics
• Added mass of a beach ball
• Balloons on Venus
• Drag of blunt bodies and streamlined bodies
• Using Matlab to calculate pressure
• Helium and buoyancy
• Kite aerodynamics

Biologically Inspired Propulsion

• Flapping shark
• Jellyfish balloon
• Jellyfish reproduction
• Jellyfish feeding
• Jellyfish propulsion
• Jellyfish propulsion, with visualization
• RoboJelly
• Cyro robotic jellyfish
• Tuna feeding
• TunaBot
• GhostSwimmer
• Manta ray feeding
• MantaDroid
• Mantabot
• Cuttlefish-inspired propulsion
• Life cycles of jellyfish, tuna, and rays

System Design & Integration

• Systems design documentary
• Systems thinking
• Systems of love analogy
• Systems engineering overview
• Verification versus validation
• Integrated systems
• Biologically inspired design
• System design and integration: engineering a complex system

Swarm Dynamics & Agent-Based Modeling

• NetLogo
• Swarm dynamics