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For folks who are interested in UAV physics, I wrote up an explainer[2].
[1]: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RTEVRd0XCWLuDXY2nkbmYuOaa5x...
You know you're doing a great job, OP, when the peanut gallery here has nothing more substantial to add than to critique your em-dashes; greek-latin root word mix-ups despite the common vernacular having moved on from that; and lack of title brevity. Congratulations --- this is a super cool project. I wonder if you've considered using ultralight filaments and 3dprinting the frame? PLA is stiff but brittle, and I know…
The comments in this thread are overwhelmingly positive by now. Watch out for the contrarian dynamic! (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...).
Needlessly negative comments tend to show up first in a thread, while positive responses emerge over time. (Why? well, I have my theories: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...)
It's a fine thing to counteract that with a positive comment, but if you can, please omit the snarky bits (such as in your first paragraph). I know they're tempting, but they tarnish the positivity and substance that you correctly want to see in the discussion - and in the end they "bond" (in the molecular sense) more with the negative posts than with the outright positive ones.
Your second paragraph on its own would make a much better (indeed excellent) post - and that is the best way to combat the negativity.
(I know my reply here is itself an instance of the thing I'm talking about - responding negatively to the negative bits. Sorry!)
Thanks so much for all the kind words, it means a lot!
Will follow a fellow Polish inventor! :)
Amazing: I'm watching lots of homemade builds atm. I've got a question: why CNC milling and not just FDM 3D printed parts? TFA doesn't talk much about it except saying she went to a machine shop. > 2. CNC milling forms out of G-10 fiberglass (arms) and 5mm carbon fiber (body) TFA also says this: > The solution for this is to 3D print a 0-tolerance assembly jig to hold the arms in perfect position while the center of…
Stiffness. Important for how the frame behaves under load and buffetting etc.
You know you're doing a great job, OP, when the peanut gallery here has nothing more substantial to add than to critique your em-dashes; greek-latin root word mix-ups despite the common vernacular having moved on from that; and lack of title brevity. Congratulations --- this is a super cool project. I wonder if you've considered using ultralight filaments and 3dprinting the frame? PLA is stiff but brittle, and I know…