Extremely excited to announce our first air-to-air kill of a flying...
Alex Toussaint@alextoussss
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Jul 15, 2026
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Extremely excited to announce our first air-to-air kill of a flying moth by an autonomous micro-drone. This is a big step towards completely eradicating mosquitoes.
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All the credits goes to the incredible engineers working with me on this adventure. If you'd like to join us, visit tornyol.com
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as with most of our tests, it's first done in HWIL as described here. deployment on embedded hardware should happen in the next few weeks
Alex Toussaint@alextoussss
This is a hardware-in-the-loop simulation. We have a motion capture system, IR lights on the ping-pong ball and the drones. We simulate sonar rendering, run our DSP and control algorithms on a PC, and just send control commands to the drones. It's a (little) cheating.
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some more context on what we're doing here
Y Combinator@ycombinator
Tornyol (@tornyolsystems) is building micro-drones that kill mosquitoes.
They use smartphone microphones, car park assist sensors, and some clever DSP and control to transform 40-gram toy drones into mosquito killers.
They use smartphone microphones, car park assist sensors, and some clever DSP and control to transform 40-gram toy drones into mosquito killers.