nowfound

Life & fun · May 7, 2026

The Swift, bird-like flying robot

Nature-inspired flight with flight sensors and app control

What it does

Bionic Bird – The Swift is a biomimetic flying robot inspired by bird flight. Instead of propellers, it uses flapping wings for a silent, smooth, natural flying experience. Ultra-lightweight and aerodynamically designed, it mimics real avian motion for realism and agility. Controlled via mobile app and joystick, it offers intuitive, immersive flight for hobbyists and tech enthusiasts. Key features: flapping-wing propulsion, portable design, stable control, and nature-inspired flight experience.

Does the same job

all alternatives →
  • Bionic bird2014 · ▲82

    The world's 1st smartphone controlled bird (pre-launch)

  • Flappy Bird2014 · ▲87

    Flap your wings to fly...

  • Lily2015 · lily.camera · ▲865

    A drone with a camera that follows you. Throw it in the air.

  • IM
    I’m Building a Nerf Dart Missile Defense System [video]2022 · youtube.com · ▲175

    I’m building a robot that can track nerf darts and shoot them out of the air. I’ve worked on other projects in robotics and object tracking (perception for self driving cars), but this has a whole different set of challenges. Nerf rival rounds travel at over 100 feet per second and shooting them out of the air requires aiming systems that are precise to less than half the width of a human hair and timing precision of 600 times faster than the blink of an eye. This is the first part of the series of me building the project (and my first video!) so I’d love to hear what you think!

  • FB
  • DJI Spark2017 · ▲368

    A mini drone that features all of DJI's technologies

More life & fun this month

the category →

Launched alongside, May 2026

the whole month →
  • Brew 905

    Like Claude design for email marketing

    AI · May 2026 · brew.new

  • Parallel agents, diff reviewer, and multi-model comparisons

    Dev tools · May 2026 · kilo.ai

  • StoreClaw805

    Grow your store profits with agents that know how to sell

    AI · May 2026 · storeclaw.ai

  • Give your agent a real number and voice to make calls.

    AI · May 2026 · pollyreach.ai

  • NW

    Hey HN, Henry here from Cactus. We open-sourced Needle, a 26M parameter function-calling (tool use) model. It runs at 6000 tok/s prefill and 1200 tok/s decode on consumer devices. We were always frustrated by the little effort made towards building agentic models that run on budget phones, so we conducted investigations that led to an observation: agentic experiences are built upon tool calling, and massive models are overkill for it. Tool calling is fundamentally retrieval-and-assembly (match query to tool name, extract argument values, emit JSON), not reasoning. Cross-attention…

    Life & fun · May 2026 · github.com

  • FM

    Dev tools · May 2026 · github.com