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I also felt like ranting about the ranter. But couldn't find the energy. Thank you for giving a good example. You could just have stopped at "fella who built a

I also felt like ranting about the ranter. But couldn't find the energy. Thank you for giving a good example. You could just have stopped at "fella who built a helicopter" since that in its self is almost always useless :D PS: I love helicopters but could never justify buying anything more than a 3Ch mini helicopter.

eksith 13y ago
If you're feeling adventurous, there are quadrocopter kits now that are quite reasonably priced and not too difficult to build and maneuver. With a bit of tinkering, I'm sure someone will find a way to create a web based interface with CSS/HTML5 and JSON postback to control one live ;)
- Robin_Message 13y ago
  http://nodecopter.com/ http://nodecopter.com/ (no affiliation, but sounds like what you want :-) )
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- jastr 13y ago
  That would be me! I'm hacking an off-the-shelf quadcopter to be flown using an arduino and some python scripts.
clicks 13y ago
You know, this happens a lot here -- this exact same thing. Someone makes an elaborate piece of art with CSS, you get some response saying hey CSS wasn't meant for this and to complete the cycle finally you'd have a comment saying "but he's just being a hacker, this is how we get innovation!". It's great we celebrate hacker culture, -- as we well should, but isn't art via CSS getting a bit hackneyed by now? And are there really people still out there who're unaware that they can do this kind of snazzy stuff with CSS? Certainly though if for example someone mockingly questioned something like Fabrice Bellard's PC emulator in Javascript for its lack of practical good we would rightfully come down on them. I certainly don't mean to criticize the author here -- he is very obviously an expert at CSS, but I'm not sure if we can put 'fella who built a helicopter' in the same category as CSS art.
- eksith 13y ago
  It's not in the same category as CSS art in the sense they're equivalent accomplishments. I imagine a helicopter failure has a potentially lethal outcome vs. carpal tunnel for repeated CSS hacking. They are in the same category as... "because I can". Which doesn't seem like something worthy of celebration, but creative expression in unexpected forms should be admired regardless of medium. > Are there really people still out there who're unaware that they can do this kind of snazzy stuff with CSS? Have you met our species? We're quite varied.

eksith 13y ago

If you're feeling adventurous, there are quadrocopter kits now that are quite reasonably priced and not too difficult to build and maneuver. With a bit of tinkering, I'm sure someone will find a way to create a web based interface with CSS/HTML5 and JSON postback to control one live ;)

Robin_Message 13y ago
http://nodecopter.com/ http://nodecopter.com/ (no affiliation, but sounds like what you want :-) )
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jastr 13y ago
That would be me! I'm hacking an off-the-shelf quadcopter to be flown using an arduino and some python scripts.

clicks 13y ago

You know, this happens a lot here -- this exact same thing. Someone makes an elaborate piece of art with CSS, you get some response saying hey CSS wasn't meant for this and to complete the cycle finally you'd have a comment saying "but he's just being a hacker, this is how we get innovation!". It's great we celebrate hacker culture, -- as we well should, but isn't art via CSS getting a bit hackneyed by now? And are there really people still out there who're unaware that they can do this kind of snazzy stuff with CSS? Certainly though if for example someone mockingly questioned something like Fabrice Bellard's PC emulator in Javascript for its lack of practical good we would rightfully come down on them. I certainly don't mean to criticize the author here -- he is very obviously an expert at CSS, but I'm not sure if we can put 'fella who built a helicopter' in the same category as CSS art.

eksith 13y ago
It's not in the same category as CSS art in the sense they're equivalent accomplishments. I imagine a helicopter failure has a potentially lethal outcome vs. carpal tunnel for repeated CSS hacking. They are in the same category as... "because I can". Which doesn't seem like something worthy of celebration, but creative expression in unexpected forms should be admired regardless of medium. > Are there really people still out there who're unaware that they can do this kind of snazzy stuff with CSS? Have you met our species? We're quite varied.