Nectarine
Infamous OneLiner
mirrorbird
(20:54:55)
what else have you printed, zoi?
mirrorbird
(20:54:39)
the plasticky media is cheap
zoi
(20:54:01)
maybe Instagram has a picture of my old 3d printed one
mirrorbird
(20:53:58)
along with the original piece. tolerance was very low, so -- pretty cool. if you shell out on the printer, you can print for almost zero cost
mirrorbird
(20:53:39)
bumped into sister's 90s ex the other week (yes, the guy whose shoes i vomited on, after stealing a pint glass), he is really into 3D printing at the moment, he showed me a little "piece" he had made to replace part of his bike or something
zoi
(20:53:33)
yes, quadcopters are dead easy. the US army made mechanical ones back in the 60s
zoi
(20:53:00)
thing draws more than a blender
mirrorbird
(20:52:52)
i woulda thought actually it would be really hard to get the "balance" right, homebrew-wise -but i don't know anything about it. maybe there's some component that does it for you (accelerometer? must be)
zoi
(20:52:48)
yeah, I had some 200g batteries for five minutes of flight time
zoi
(20:52:20)
the rear rotor needs to tilt with a servo, but the control loop gets really tricky