We are Benjamin and Marc from Germany, and our mission is to help solve the climate crisis by developing affordable, highly profitable, and resource-efficient (100 times less material compared to a wind turbine) airborne wind energy systems that can be deployed everywhere, quickly. We believe that an open source strategy can achieve this. Our first system, scaled for maximum affordability, will make powerful renewable energy available to everyone, even in winter and at night. Our prototype is already capable of everything that is needed for fully autonomous operation. See it in operation at kitesforfuture.de and on our Youtube channel! Now, we need to make it fit for everyday use. For that, we would like to call on like-minded enthusiasts and supporters to join our endeavour. Until now, we have developed everything ourselves - from the aircraft and the ground station to the PCBs, and most importantly, the autopilot and control software, including web control and OTA-Update functionalities. In doing so, we have found clever solutions to produce the most simple yet safe system so far, building on Open-Source platforms such as the VESC motor controller wherever possible. Ever since our first steps in 2020, our progress could be followed on Github and Hackaday. Our vision is to develop a powerful global community that together overcomes the problems that so far have plagued closed-source projects in airborne wind energy. There is a lot of exciting stuff left to do: From testing and improving the control software to developing the first anti-collision system for Airborne Wind Energy based on transponder data and optical image detection...

https://kitesforfuture.de/

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@kitesforfuture577 Github: https://github.com/KitesForFuture/powerplant Hackaday: https://hackaday.io/project/188136-kites-for-future-flying-wind-turbine