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Robot Butterfly Flying With Glowing LED Wings This 70 g Robot Butterfly Actually Flies, Flapping Two Servos From an ESP32-C3

Propellers make flying easy. Flapping wings do not. Maker Max Imagination still built ESP-FLUTTER, a 70 g remote-controlled butterfly that lifts off on its own wings, glows at night with LEDs along the wing edges, and can be flown from a phone browser. The firmware is open on GitHub, and the project was picked up by Hackster on 2 November.

Two servos…