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

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