Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

Post by carleverett » Sun, Oct 27, 2013, 4:07 PM UTC

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That is a sick looking plane! I would fly that thing in a heartbeat. Make no mistake though, if that plane makes it to the market it will be extremely expensive and will burn a whole lot of fuel. The engine they're using, the 200 HP Deltahawk, costs more than our entire plane at $70,000,[1] and while it is very fuel efficient for an engine with that power, it will still be burning 7-11 gph in flight.[2] It is unreaso…

you can't release a minimum viable product in aviation since any product defect will mean death. Do you think the increasing popularity of whole-aircraft parachute systems (which I note is an option on the SD-1) will improve the situation? It's my impression the Cirrus gets away with being hard to recover from a spin by making parachute deployment the standard recovery procedure.

Post by cpncrunch » Sun, Oct 27, 2013, 4:14 PM UTC

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That sounds great. As someone who has a lot of interest in aviation and stuff that's related to aviation, the lack of flight simulators on the market is bothering. I tried almost every simulation that's out there, but none of them fit to my needs (good, simple UI with extremely realistic controls. that's not too much to ask, is it?). Hopefully you'll make something that's more appealing than other products. Speaking…

Thank you for the interest! Right now, x-plane basically is the only player in the flight sim market (MS has officially stated they've left - though I doubt it's for good, FlightGear is the only other flight sim worth mentioning, and it's nowhere near as good/accurate as what I need), which, as you (indirectly) pointed out, is troublesome - the market is ripe for disruption. I'm aiming to at least provide healthy com…

Post by tsumnia » Sun, Oct 27, 2013, 4:26 PM UTC

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Is there any wireless communication? I've been building a similar pH monitor using XBee communication. If your buddy would like to someone else to work with, I've been doing this in my free time.

the controllers, the heart of which are industrial PLCs, do have ethernet modules but no wifi since the reliability is critical in automation. however with a wifi router and some quick config, you can get this fairly easily, assuming the client talks modbus/tcp and knows how to query the controller's register maps. i'm working on a plan to replace the ethernet module with a BeagleBone Black + Arch and a nodjs-based t…

Post by mazumdar » Sun, Oct 27, 2013, 4:51 PM UTC

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mazumdar wrote: post #402

SilverAir - An athletic shirt that doesn't smell and designed to be worn at the gym and for everyday wear. demo@ http://www.yathletics.com It's cool because: It's made using pure silver which kills the odor-causing bacteria in your sweat, so you can -wear this shirt for your entire day and feel fresh, -reuse the shirt more often (i do). The fabric is completely new and something I made with my manufacturers from scra…

You should market the environmental factor also. I saw a youtube thing a while back that pointed out the majority of energy usage in clothing is from washing, not from manufaturing. If this shirt neds washed half as often, that should be a major bonus.

Post by fbnt » Sun, Oct 27, 2013, 4:56 PM UTC

Unnatural_Log wrote: post #656

fbnt wrote: post #642

I'm working on a news reader that works in the opposite way of traditional news reading apps. It uses Twitter as a sort of enhanced RSS feed and ranks news based on how much they are shared in real-time, and lays them down in a newspaper-like format specifically designed for mobile devices. It allows you to find what's important for people rather then what matters to newsroom's editors, and put you in a whole differe…

Not available in the app store in Canada. It puzzles me why people do this, because it is just as easy to make the app available everywhere as it is to limit it to a particular country. Anyway, interesting idea. Pity about the gunshot wound in your foot. Hope it heals.