Ask HN: What is your hardware/garage side-project?

Re:Ask HN: What is your hardware/garage side-project? by ohstopitu on Monday December 05, 2016 @04:26PM (#13109795)

me and my friend are working on something similar. We prefer to call it a drone though :$

My friend was looking into the material strength and feasibility while I was looking into the software.

We intend to use a 3d printer to build a small scale model and progressively keep making it bigger.

We would love to collaborate if that's ok with you.

Based in Canada (Toronto) and we put ~10 hrs/week max on this project.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your hardware/garage side-project? by jimnotgym on Monday December 05, 2016 @07:12PM (#13111135)

The only person I ever saw get a human off the ground was this guy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soxxPyaAT1k and several build vids. He would have really benefited with some fly by wire help

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Re:Ask HN: What is your hardware/garage side-project? by ohstopitu on Monday December 05, 2016 @07:23PM (#13111190)

that + [0] + [1] inspired us to get started...

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Yn2uyQJ1jc

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAdCt6qgj9k

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Re:Ask HN: What is your hardware/garage side-project? by skanga on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @03:54AM (#13113182)

Terrafugia is awesome. They have tremendous respect from me.

But I dislike any type of folding wings. They will need to make a massively strong hinge/joint for this type of machine since the entire car hangs off that hinge. This makes is heavy, inefficient, painful to maintain, vulnerable in fender benders, etc, etc.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your hardware/garage side-project? by skanga on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @03:47AM (#13113148)

Sounds good to me - call it what you like. Perhaps we can start a conversation. I'm skanga at google's email thingy.

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