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I build hobby scale drones for fun, mostly sub250g micros with no military value. I’d pay more for domestic parts, because I think the capability is strategica
by showerst 9mo ago
I build hobby scale drones for fun, mostly sub250g micros with no military value.
I’d pay more for domestic parts, because I think the capability is strategically valuable, and the quality of Chinese stuff is super variable.
There’s basically no industry here because the aliexpress parts are so cheap, so I support some protectionism, understanding that it will make the hobby more expensive.
I think you’re probably right, but I think going for million dollar drones from anduril while wiping the rest of the market is a miscalculation.
- bethekidyouwant 9mo agoWhere is the ban of cheap motors, escs, cameras, radios from aliexpress? How does this affect hobby drone market at all?
- lazide 9mo agoBased on the article, it says it also bans motors, controllers, etc. pretty much all major parts.
- bethekidyouwant 9mo agoWow, the title of the article really buries the lead as this is a much bigger deal than banning new versions of fully assembled drones made by a Chinese company. I can’t even think of another country that makes 4S Lipo batteries or the motors or the ESC’s or the VTX or the GPS module..
- lazide 9mo agoYup, it essentially defacto bans civilian drones - unless something pretty major changes with domestic manufacturing anyway.
- bethekidyouwant 9mo agoNo, I imagine that they will start assembling the pcbs in Vietnam from Chinese chips
- lazide 9mo agoWon’t help them since the Vietnamese chips will likely be similarly banned.
- tucnak 9mo agoWhat makes you think U.S.-manufactured parts would be less "variable" than Chinese stuff? I would guess the opposite to be the case: reliability comes from scale, and there's very little scale in U.S. electronics manufacturing in the first place. Chinese stuff ranges from cheap to expensive, super reliable and super unreliable, too.