Show HN: The Jankest Autonomous Drone Built and Programmed from Scratch
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Re: Show HN: The Jankest Autonomous Drone Built and Programmed from Scratch
#2I've only seen the word written as jank, janky or jankiest. First for jankest.
Where can I view photos of the various physical build attempts?
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#3I've only seen the word written as jank, janky or jankiest. First for jankest. Where can I view photos of the various physical build attempts?
“Most jank” is the correct superlative when using the noun as an adjective according to Wiktionary.
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#4Blog post on design process please! Would be fun to read about the various hardware iterations.
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#5I love this. I've been a professional dev for almost a decade now, and over the last couple of years have started migrating toward a blend of hardware and software/firmware development, and I can't get enough of learning to build physical things from scratch. I don't often get to iterate in this way at my job, and rebuild the same thing over and over, so I tend to spend my free time with projects like this that start out shitty, and you get to take the time to comb over the details, making constant prototypes.
I started a deep dive in electronic music and synthesizers in the last couple of months, and have been thoroughly enjoying playing the productions units I own (Korg Monologue, Elektron Digitakt, Roland JV1080), but have even more so enjoyed the sort of free form effort of building my own instrument:
That started out as a nightmare breadboarded voltage controlled oscillator, to a nicely breadboarded vco, to a rebuild on perf board, and then obviously I needed a perfboard power supply. But, once I wanted a mixer, I needed +/- 12v, not just 5v, so that led to a better iteration of the power supply, etc. It's a rabbit hole, but an immensely educational and fairly inexpensive one. I figure I'm about 3 months and a couple of YouTube tutorials away from my first Kicad developed oshpark printed PCB, and I have a ton of ideas for next steps, and prototypes in flight (CES3340 based VCO, Arduino MIDI control and CV translation, Lowpass/bandmiss filters, so on and so forth).
Back to the subject of the original post, this totally looks like Pennsylvania, and if it is and the engineer who built this is in the job market, and has any interest in working for a smaller, established (20 year) shop that lives in one of the automotive spaces doing a lot of cool custom hardware/software development, I'd happily accept a resume.
Re: Show HN: The Jankest Autonomous Drone Built and Programmed from Scratch
#6For a minute I thought the drone algorithm was somehow running on Scratch, and I was curious as to how the author had managed to accomplish this feat...
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#7I love this. I've been a professional dev for almost a decade now, and over the last couple of years have started migrating toward a blend of hardware and software/firmware development, and I can't get enough of learning to build physical things from scratch. I don't often get to iterate in this way at my job, and rebuild the same thing over and over, so I tend to spend my free time with projects like this that start…
Awesome vco build! Have you read the MAKE book about building the Noise Toaster? It's great!
I ran into my own discouraging brick wall when trying to figure out how to fabricate metal control panels/enclosures and printing labels on them without expensive cutting equipment.
Re: Show HN: The Jankest Autonomous Drone Built and Programmed from Scratch
#8I love this. I've been a professional dev for almost a decade now, and over the last couple of years have started migrating toward a blend of hardware and software/firmware development, and I can't get enough of learning to build physical things from scratch. I don't often get to iterate in this way at my job, and rebuild the same thing over and over, so I tend to spend my free time with projects like this that start…
Awesome vco build! Have you read the MAKE book about building the Noise Toaster? It's great! I ran into my own discouraging brick wall when trying to figure out how to fabricate metal control panels/enclosures and printing labels on them without expensive cutting equipment.
Thanks man! I have not read the book yet, my synth education has basically been a ton of googling, the synthdiy and synthesizer subreddits, muff wiggler, and all the awesome old school websites like mfos, birth of a synth, ken smith's designs, etc. I always knew of electronic music production and had some friends who are super into the DAW way of doing things, but I had no clue the level the hobby/eurorack scene was at.
Re: Show HN: The Jankest Autonomous Drone Built and Programmed from Scratch
#9I've only seen the word written as jank, janky or jankiest. First for jankest. Where can I view photos of the various physical build attempts?
At Twitter in the early days it was janky/jankiest. “Jankest” is also new to me.
The opposite of janky was prostyle. There was no middle ground.
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#10If you want to build a really cheap drone that can actually do autonomous GPS-guided stuff, the Kakute F7 can be flashed with Arducopter (Arudpilot), and is $49 with a power distribution board. Mostly intended for small racing drones, but can be used for other purposes.
https://www.getfpv.com/holybro-kakute-f7-aio-flight-controll...
https://shop.holybro.com/c/kakute-f7_0486
Or you can get the version that combines a four motor ESC in a stack with the version of the Kakute F7 that doesn't have a built in PDB (power distribution board), for under $120.
https://shop.holybro.com/kakute-f7-amp-tekko32-f3-metal-4in1...
other parts needed to complete something: motors, propellers, frame, battery, video tx (for something like 5.8 GHz band goggles), RC receiver, wiring, ublox m8n GPS receiver.
want a cheap frame? It'll be heavier than ordering a $45 carbon fiber frame from banggood or gearbest or aliexpress or such, but you can 3d print one at the cost of maybe half of a spool of $18 PLA filament: