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Why would they be cheaper to build? A quad-copter is ridiculously simple in it's design - 4 motors is all the moving parts it needs. The rest is sensors and sof
by askvictor 6y ago
Why would they be cheaper to build? A quad-copter is ridiculously simple in it's design - 4 motors is all the moving parts it needs. The rest is sensors and software.
- mrfusion 6y agoWouldn’t a gyro just have one pusher motor and maybe one motor to turn a rudder? So less motors at least.
- 0134340 6y agoI'm going to guess you'd have more software complexity to account for more dynamic conditions, as OP's link alludes to, along with more redundancy in safety. I'm pretty sure most 4 motor drones can function fine with just three blades/motors and possibly two even. Source: I'm an expert flyer with dozens of seconds flying. I once bought my kid a tiny 2" drone and eventually took over as pilot. Now I didn't take it from him, he just stopped playing with it (What's wrong with kids these days? I would've loved it as a kid) but those little things are so fun to fly.
- TylerE 6y agoA gyrocopter requires a tilting rotor blade for control. This is massively more complex than the fixed blades of a quadcopter. Quadcopters don't really scale past a fairly small point before the efficiency nosedives though.