Piccolino |
Born on Monday, Marsh 05, 2006 |
1.69 grams 2 channels full carbon no servo's no swashplate InfraRed control |
Alexander van de Rostyne never written this page. His site, pixelito.reference.be, no longer exists when he created the Piccolino. Therefore, to faithfully recreate the most this page, I used his words on RCGroup and rcpilot-online. |
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The Pixel Family
The buttons below show some of the ancestors of the Pixelito . There are quite some famous ones. The Pixel 290 was actually one of the prototypes for the Piccolo from Ikarus. The Pixel 2000 became as famous as the chick next to it, and was for years the lightest RC helicopter in the world at 49 grams.
Click on one of the small pictures if you want to visit my old site for more details. Be aware that this site dates from 1999 and is a bit 'shaky'.
I must admit that the race for making smaller and
smaller is starting to hit barriers . One day it will become very difficult for
even de most skilled modeler to cope with that. The biggest challenge for the
Pixelito was the size of parts. Manipulating, gluing, adjusting, even just see
them is a problem. The funny thing is that it was relatively easy to make the
Pixelito compared to the effort required to make the first Pixels. The main
reasons for this are the progress in battery technology, the availability of
micro motors, and the flood of micro electronics that come to us.