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Re: Show HN: I made a 3D printed VTOL drone

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Post by tonyhart7 »

ponector wrote: post #31
firesteelrain wrote: post #25

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Ukraine has dozens of drone producers, many are capable of producing 10k+ per month. This one is quite expensive (2000$) and more is for home-grown terrorist (like 3d-printed firearms)

"like 3d-printed firearms"

is this even a thing lol???

I thought manufacturer already have a safety in place like printer that refuse to print money for that

Re: Show HN: I made a 3D printed VTOL drone

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Post by xnx »

tsungxu wrote: post #27
xnx wrote: post #17

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Very similar design already used by Wing. I'm guessing they did a fair bit of analysis and modeling of the cost, range, complexity, safety, etc. etc. tradeoffs before settling on what they're using currently. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wing_Aviation#/media/File:Wing...

Two impressive things about Wing's design are 1) load paths are designed to break the airframe in controlled ways 2) the 4 blade props have alternating shorter and longer blades for quieter aeroacoustics Adam Savage did a video tour of their factory recently, worth a watch

> Adam Savage did a video tour of their factory recently, worth a watch

Thanks! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BXm6dTHvY0

I'm a big Waymo and Wing fan, but hadn't seen that.

Re: Show HN: I made a 3D printed VTOL drone

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Post by tsungxu »

xnx wrote: post #36
tsungxu wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Two impressive things about Wing's design are 1) load paths are designed to break the airframe in controlled ways 2) the 4 blade props have alternating shorter and longer blades for quieter aeroacoustics Adam Savage did a video tour of their factory recently, worth a watch

> Adam Savage did a video tour of their factory recently, worth a watch Thanks! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BXm6dTHvY0 I'm a big Waymo and Wing fan, but hadn't seen that.

It's great, check out the Slo Mo guys video from that same tour for the prop smoke vortex https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yaAFLpLmVg

Re: Show HN: I made a 3D printed VTOL drone

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Post by cooper_ganglia »

tonyhart7 wrote: post #34
ponector wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ukraine has dozens of drone producers, many are capable of producing 10k+ per month. This one is quite expensive (2000$) and more is for home-grown terrorist (like 3d-printed firearms)

"like 3d-printed firearms" is this even a thing lol??? I thought manufacturer already have a safety in place like printer that refuse to print money for that

I would hope printer manufacturers would not ban you from printing certain items! I would never buy from any 3D printer company that did that.

Re: Show HN: I made a 3D printed VTOL drone

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Post by tonyhart7 »

cooper_ganglia wrote: post #38
tonyhart7 wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"like 3d-printed firearms" is this even a thing lol??? I thought manufacturer already have a safety in place like printer that refuse to print money for that

I would hope printer manufacturers would not ban you from printing certain items! I would never buy from any 3D printer company that did that.

Yeah but for certain countries or places, its necessary noo??
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