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DIY RGB Icosahedron(gregdavill.com)
573 points by blutack 5y ago|98 comments
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by blutack 5y ago
Definitely given enough fuel and decent weather.
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by blutack 5y ago
Unfortunately, the 26.5kg empty weight they specify is the bare airframe. That means it excludes the engine, VTOL powertrain (motors + escs + props), general wiring/electronics and VTOL batteries. Their quoted "25kg" payload
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by blutack 5y ago
Yep, Mugin are reselling the majority of the stuff in their electronics category - they mostly make airframes AFAIK. A Pixhawk Cube or similar is around the £250 mark.
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by blutack 5y ago
As per votingprawn, it's 25kg at the absolute most (from the manufacturers website). If you're flying any distance, a lot less than that.
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by blutack 5y ago
Yes, it'll have a Pixhawk or similar in it running ArduPilot (or maybe PX4). Both open source (and ArduPilot is maintained by Tridge of Samba fame).
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by blutack 5y ago
It's a Mugin - https://www.muginuav.com/product/mugin-6000mm-extra-large-hu... Payload is "25kg" and that's probably optimistic.
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by blutack 5y ago
VCMT/Vercer | London, UK | Remote (UK only) | Full time, flexible and/or contractors | Not open plan VCMT, a leading commodities trading firm, is looking for senior developers to join our rapidly expanding business. You will help
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by blutack 5y ago
Excellent, looking forward to it! Right now I run GrafanaAgent separately which isn't too much headache and it works great feeding grafana cloud (especially paired with the Loki docker log driver).
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by blutack 5y ago
Promex is a fantastic and well thought out library which I've deployed into production. One slightly useful trick that the docs don't highlight is that you can run the /metrics endpoint on a different port to the rest of the
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by blutack 5y ago
Military drones also remove part of the political calculation otherwise involved in attacking somewhere. When soldiers are put in situations where they are being killed, in a fairly free society someone is generally going to ask the questio
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Noice – Ad-free/open source indefinite background noises(github.com)
2 points by blutack 5y ago|0 comments
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by blutack 6y ago
Bitwarden is open source (with $10/year for some extra nice-to-haves if you use their hosted cloud service) and better than LastPass for me personally in pretty much every respect. I switched approx 2 years ago after the LogMeIn acquis
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by blutack 6y ago
Sigrok/Pulseview is also compatible with that fake Salae logic analyser hardware if you want an open source solution. https://sigrok.org/wiki/MCU123_Saleae_Logic_clone
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by blutack 6y ago
These links are often used for executing strategies or sending information between different exchanges (a classic example being the cross-exchange arbitrage).
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Latvian drone wrests control from human overlords and shuts down nation's skies(theregister.co.uk)
2 points by blutack 6y ago|0 comments
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MurgaLua – a fast, small GUI runtime(murga-projects.com)
3 points by blutack 7y ago|0 comments
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Futures Exchange Reins in Runaway Trading Algorithms(wsj.com)
1 points by blutack 7y ago|0 comments
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Teensy 4.0 is now available(pjrc.com)
2 points by blutack 7y ago|1 comments
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A little car you can drive in France without a licence (2016)(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by blutack 8y ago|2 comments
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by blutack 8y ago
KTM (large Austrian motorcycle manufacturer) have a EURO-4 emissions compliant 2 stroke by using fuel injection and metering the lubrication oil. https://enduro21.com/index.php/40-general/2184-first-look-20...
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by blutack 8y ago
Vercer | Senior Software Engineer | Full time | ONSITE | ~£80K-120K (total package) | London, UK Vercer is a 2 year old fund operating in commodities, set up by one of the leading figures in the oil derivatives market. Want a price on some
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by blutack 9y ago
Vercer | Senior Software Engineer | Full time | ONSITE | ~£90K-100K (total package) | London, UK Vercer is a 2 year old fund operating in commodities, set up by one of the leading figures in the oil derivatives market. Want a price on some
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by blutack 9y ago
Gadgetbridge claims decent compatibility - does anyone have any experience? https://github.com/Freeyourgadget/Gadgetbridge/wiki/Amazfit-...
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by blutack 9y ago
I completely agree and was in the same boat - I used to use Fusion because until recently the only open source option I knew about was FreeCAD, and I had various issues with stability, features and the interface. OpenSCAD & friends are
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by blutack 9y ago
The problem with OnShape and Fusion 360 is that if (when?) the services are discontinued your designs go away. You can keep the STL/IGES files but they aren't very useful if you need to quickly tweak a dimension. I've been bi
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by blutack 9y ago
One option would be a Navio2 [1] flight controller which runs the PX4 or Ardupilot flight stack on a realtime linux kernel on an rpi. You'd then need to put that on an airframe (a F450 or one of it's many clones is a solid choice
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by blutack 10y ago
Electric motors would need to be orders of magnitude more efficient than turbofans (which they aren't). You also need to compare the overall efficiency developed as thrust, not just thermal efficiency. There's also the issue of th
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Airlander – down but not out(aerosociety.com)
1 points by blutack 10y ago|0 comments
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by blutack 10y ago
For context, the lander did have a radar altimeter. A radar altimeter has maximum distance from ground above which it will not establish a lock. If radar altimeter had never had a lock, either the radar altimeter has faulted in a way you ca

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