Building a custom octocopter from scratch with no prior hardware experience
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Building a custom octocopter from scratch with no prior hardware experience
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Re: Building a custom octocopter from scratch with no prior hardware experience
#2Will follow a fellow Polish inventor! :)
Re: Building a custom octocopter from scratch with no prior hardware experience
#3Nit pick:
The name "octocopter" does not make sense. "Helicopter" is a compound word made of "helico-" and "pter", which means "screw-wings". "Octo-" means eight, "-co-" means nothing.
"Octopter" would be a correct compound word meaning "8-wings", but that would be ambiguous, so the object discussed in TFA is better named just "8-propeller drone".
Re: Building a custom octocopter from scratch with no prior hardware experience
#4Nit pick: The name "octocopter" does not make sense. "Helicopter" is a compound word made of "helico-" and "pter", which means "screw-wings". "Octo-" means eight, "-co-" means nothing. "Octopter" would be a correct compound word meaning "8-wings", but that would be ambiguous, so the object discussed in TFA is better named just "8-propeller drone".
The -copter suffix is very common in the drone community.eg quadcopter is widely accepted https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadcopter
Re: Building a custom octocopter from scratch with no prior hardware experience
#5Nit pick: The name "octocopter" does not make sense. "Helicopter" is a compound word made of "helico-" and "pter", which means "screw-wings". "Octo-" means eight, "-co-" means nothing. "Octopter" would be a correct compound word meaning "8-wings", but that would be ambiguous, so the object discussed in TFA is better named just "8-propeller drone".
The -copter suffix is very common in the drone community.eg quadcopter is widely accepted https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadcopter
Hence a nit.
Re: Building a custom octocopter from scratch with no prior hardware experience
#6Nit pick: The name "octocopter" does not make sense. "Helicopter" is a compound word made of "helico-" and "pter", which means "screw-wings". "Octo-" means eight, "-co-" means nothing. "Octopter" would be a correct compound word meaning "8-wings", but that would be ambiguous, so the object discussed in TFA is better named just "8-propeller drone".
Counterpoint: -copter is a perfectly cromulent suffix. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-copter
gyrocopter, helicopter, quadcopter, hexacopter, octocopter, parcelcopter, and—most famously—
roflcopter, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/roflcopter#/media/File:Roflco...
They all have their own dictionary entries.
Octocopter makes perfect sense. Everyone understands immediately what it means, and that's the only purpose of language: to convey ideas. It should be clear, which this is, and concise, which this is.
Fidelity to ancient Greek is not, and should not, be a goal for English.
Re: Building a custom octocopter from scratch with no prior hardware experience
#7Nit pick: The name "octocopter" does not make sense. "Helicopter" is a compound word made of "helico-" and "pter", which means "screw-wings". "Octo-" means eight, "-co-" means nothing. "Octopter" would be a correct compound word meaning "8-wings", but that would be ambiguous, so the object discussed in TFA is better named just "8-propeller drone".
The -copter suffix is very common in the drone community.eg quadcopter is widely accepted https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadcopter
Are you trying to say that it’s been co-opted? Did anyone consult the Egyptian Christian community about this?
Re: Building a custom octocopter from scratch with no prior hardware experience
#8Nit pick: The name "octocopter" does not make sense. "Helicopter" is a compound word made of "helico-" and "pter", which means "screw-wings". "Octo-" means eight, "-co-" means nothing. "Octopter" would be a correct compound word meaning "8-wings", but that would be ambiguous, so the object discussed in TFA is better named just "8-propeller drone".
Blame language evolving over time rather than OP, octocopter is a widely-used term for '8 propellor drones'.
A nit pick with your post - you use the word 'ambiguous' but really this is from the latin root 'ambiguus' so we don't need the supurflous 'o' in between the two u's.
Re: Building a custom octocopter from scratch with no prior hardware experience
#9If I were to get a dirt cheap Chinese drone, would that be more likely to use RL or MCP? What’s the “standard”?