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Bad Munki posted:https://i.imgur.com/pgTWFir.mp4 Is there any advantage to this over just making a small helicopter? Do the quad blades make it more stable and easy to control, or something? And if so, why wouldn't you at least make sure they weren't level with the cockpit?
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Helicopters need an expensive rotor mechanism, multi-rotors just brute force it with fixed props. (I don't know if this is why, best I can think of.)
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I guess it lets you have an open cockpit without being constantly blasted with downwash. But the open cockpit is itself one of the big safety issues...
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Log082 posted:Is there any advantage to this over just making a small helicopter? Do the quad blades make it more stable and easy to control, or something? And if so, why wouldn't you at least make sure they weren't level with the cockpit? it's cheap as poo poo and doesn't require any kind of license to fly.
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theres a little cock in every vinyl
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Log082 posted:Is there any advantage to this over just making a small helicopter? Do the quad blades make it more stable and easy to control, or something? And if so, why wouldn't you at least make sure they weren't level with the cockpit? A helicopter crashes if its single motor dies or rotor fails. This thing crashes if any of its multiple motors or props fail. The multi-rotor deathtraps also can't autorotate in an emergency.
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Log082 posted:Is there any advantage to this over just making a small helicopter? Do the quad blades make it more stable and easy to control, or something? And if so, why wouldn't you at least make sure they weren't level with the cockpit? Any techbro jackass can get a carbon fiber tube chassis done up by a local bike shop and attach absurd DC motors and CF props to it. Same flight control computer as a regular camera drone, just using much larger motor controllers and it also flies just like the camera drone. The only difference between the drones that fly around the RED 8k IMAX cameras and this thing is if you crash and kill the camera, something of value was actually lost.
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I can't wait until people start racing these things, and neither can the emergency rooms.
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Methylethylaldehyde posted:Any techbro jackass can get a carbon fiber tube chassis done up by a local bike shop and attach absurd DC motors and CF props to it. Same flight control computer as a regular camera drone, just using much larger motor controllers and it also flies just like the camera drone. The only difference between the drones that fly around the RED 8k IMAX cameras and this thing is if you crash and kill the camera, something of value was actually lost. Interesting. What are the odds that we can get billionaires in on doing this racing themselves?
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Benagain posted:The guy in the back suddenly realizing he should cover his beer is killing me newbie, my 2nd coffee of the night usually has cutting oil swirling around top, metal shavings fall to the bottom because we still respect gravity
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shoeberto posted:Yeah ok smart guy, so what happens when the atlantic drains entirely into the pacific and floods everything. Dumbass. Easy-peasy! The tide will rush back and forth 2x per day, keeping the oceans balanced and aiding with widening and dredging the canal!
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Bad Munki posted:Same, and if you're fighting the stuff, Sonar AS is spendy as hell but it loving WORKS. What naturally limits the growth of, or eats, duckweed? I feel like if it gets that bad at all, something's off with the local ecosystem.
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PurpleXVI posted:What naturally limits the growth of, or eats, duckweed? I feel like if it gets that bad at all, something's off with the local ecosystem. Bird life, but only in areas its native to. Its very invasive so if its introduced the native wildlife gets scared. Its actually very nutritious and is grown for food for humans in a couple of countries. Its also bei g bioengineered currently for biofuels and cattle feed since its basically ideal for either.
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I have duckweed in my aquariums and my chickens go nuts for it so yeah get a few hundred chickens I reckon.
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Dirk the Average posted:Interesting. What are the odds that we can get billionaires in on doing this racing themselves? unfortunately impossible, it's not nearly expensive or exclusive enough to interest billionaires.
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Mozi posted:I have duckweed in my aquariums and my chickens go nuts for it so yeah get a few hundred chickens I reckon. I think you mean ducks.
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dwarf tossing
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New Zealand can eat me posted:Coke guy rules, I bet that smelled incredible I once had to extinguish an engine fire with 2 liters of Dr Pepper Code Red and can confirm that it does not smell good.
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`Nemesis posted:unfortunately impossible, it's not nearly expensive or exclusive enough to interest billionaires. Yeah, it has to be space, deep ocean trench, and hopefully soon diving into hot magma near the center of the Earth.
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:I once had to extinguish an engine fire with 2 liters of Dr Pepper Code Red and can confirm that it does not smell good. Dr. Pepper, Mountain Dew code red, or some kind of horrible mixture?
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ComradePyro posted:Dr. Pepper, Mountain Dew code red, or some kind of horrible mixture? *Dr Pepper Red Fusion. One of the terrible concoctions that sustained me in college.
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"this is unit 12 calling in, we've got a code red situation! send the hazmat teams! i repeat, we've got a mountain dew code red situation!"
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GotLag posted:She's also loving terrible at it: I'm gonna need to see a good one, because that looks pretty excellent to me? Edit: She is gonna get her hair caught in that thing though. High speed rotating things and loose hair already don't mix, add in some wind and 
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By popular demand posted:Searching for information, I found a page beginning with this perplexing choice of image: LimaBiker posted:Does anyone know exactly what solvents are used in b7000? I've heard that some of those glues from the same manufacturer contain carbon tet (or a similar chlorinated solvent) which is not something i wanna gently caress around with. But so far i haven't found any hard evidence about what's used in which glue.
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Log082 posted:Is there any advantage to this over just making a small helicopter? Do the quad blades make it more stable and easy to control, or something? And if so, why wouldn't you at least make sure they weren't level with the cockpit? Methylethylaldehyde posted:Any techbro jackass can get a carbon fiber tube chassis done up by a local bike shop and attach absurd DC motors and CF props to it. Same flight control computer as a regular camera drone, just using much larger motor controllers and it also flies just like the camera drone. The only difference between the drones that fly around the RED 8k IMAX cameras and this thing is if you crash and kill the camera, something of value was actually lost. Yeah the main thing is that designing a bespoke helicopter from scratch takes at least some level of engineering and knowledge, but scaling up a DIY drone kit with bigger parts is just a matter of how much money you want to dump into the project to get a useless toy
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Either palm trees don't obey the laws of physics, or there's something hokey going on with the perspective/stuff-out-of-frame there. edit: yea it's cropping, you can see the rope at 0:12.
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Methylethylaldehyde posted:Any techbro jackass can get a carbon fiber tube chassis done up by a local bike shop and attach absurd DC motors and CF props to it. Same flight control computer as a regular camera drone, just using much larger motor controllers and it also flies just like the camera drone. The only difference between the drones that fly around the RED 8k IMAX cameras and this thing is if you crash and kill the camera, something of value was actually lost. So you think local bike shops make their own frames. Got it
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Bad Munki posted:https://i.imgur.com/pgTWFir.mp4 put a paraglider on it as a backup, dust your hands and call it a day. (perhaps, your last!)
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The Wiggly Wizard posted:So you think local bike shops make their own frames. Got it
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KoRMaK posted:do you work in the industry or at least follow it? because manufacturing carbon fiber frames is most definitely a thing that local bike shops can do now Fascinating. Got any reading or sources about that?
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The Wiggly Wizard posted:So you think local bike shops make their own frames. Got it A lot of bike shops around here will build a custom frame for you, beside selling brand name bikes. e: missed the CF part. gbut fucked around with this message at 17:22 on May 19, 2024 |
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KoRMaK posted:do you work in the industry or at least follow it? because manufacturing carbon fiber frames is most definitely a thing that local bike shops can do now Yeah just bust out the autoclave. What the hell are you talking about lol Bike shops can buy pre-made tubes from China and glue them into aluminum joints, you can make joints by wrapping tow and epoxying them, but a random LBS is not going to be making frame tubes from scratch unless it's some $$$$ bespoke place in San Fran selling to dentists.
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reading? hell nah this comes by way of a bicyclist's YouTube channel that i follow, wherein he at one point described the custom frames his partner's shop started to make by laying the carbon fiber on a jig and then putting it into a container that cures it. the shop that i thought was doing this was affinity based in Brooklyn or maybe im wrong KoRMaK fucked around with this message at 17:30 on May 19, 2024 |
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KoRMaK posted:reading? hell nah The "container that cures it" is probably an autoclave, they are huge, hugely expensive vacuum ovens. LBS do not have those. They would have to contract that out to a composites shop. Otherwise they got prepreg that cures at low temp and rigged up their own vacuum chamber. Saying local bike shops can do it by asking the nearest aerospace contractor to do it for them is a take. If they didn't use vacuum bag and use an autoclave they're going to have voids of air that compromise the structure. Post this video so I can see what you're on about. edit: nice edit about being "maybe wrong" lol
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At what point does a jump turn into a fall
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was really hoping for a clip from Motocross Madness to be in there
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Flipperwaldt posted:At what point does a jump turn into a fall Peak altitude I guess
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