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> Shu managed to hover for 10 seconds at about 1 meter He would have probably done better if he had read a detailed article on the Wright brothers first. Succe
by zeteo 15y ago
> Shu managed to hover for 10 seconds at about 1 meter
He would have probably done better if he had read a detailed article on the Wright brothers first. Successful flight is a matter of control, and eight engines do not compound well with a lack of background in electrical engineering.
- bprater 15y agoAgreed. There are ropes tied to the edges. He won't go beyond a meter without some serious flight control software. Even with software, this octopus will be a tough beast to tune.
- bsmith 15y agoAssuming he didn't study mechanical engineering either, the fact that he's still alive proves he's good enough at self-teaching to figure that one out well enough. (Hell, he didn't even wear safety glasses.) Given that, I bet he wouldn't be too hard-pressed to sort out the control part in typical hacker fashion. How many hackers on HN are expert programmers who weren't formally trained?
- softbuilder 15y agoI don't recall any of my programming mistakes chopping my head off.
- dorian-graph 15y agoThen you can't say you're truly living. :P
- Groxx 15y agoThis is easy to fix. You just need to hook Jenkins up to a real rocket launcher, rather than this: https://github.com/codedance/Retaliation https://github.com/codedance/Retaliation You can even keep most of the readme intact :)
- tintin 15y agoUnless you are programming something like this: http://www.stfj.net/art/2009/loselose/ http://www.stfj.net/art/2009/loselose/ (Space Invader deleting files on your drive) ;)
- wicknicks 15y agoI would guess he barely has access to Western literature. And even if he did, he doesn't seem to be fluent in English to read technical material. Check out this interview: http://io9.com/5843571/chinese-farmer-builds-eight+propeller-flying-saucer http://io9.com/5843571/chinese-farmer-builds-eight+propeller...