• wjrii@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I have no idea if this is a clever bypass around expensive commercial offerings, a clever waste of time that barely improves over doing it by hand, or somewhere in between, but it sure looks like a nice design and print.

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      1 month ago

      Yeah, definite neato factor but by eyeball at least I feel like I could do that bend by hand within a mm tolerance of this. Hard to imagine this precision is needed. Makes sense if mass producing these I guess.

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        This is a workshop for combat FPV drones, so precision is extremely important.

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          1 month ago

          Interesting. Important for balancing? Or does the signal reception really depend on that much precision? I’m Suprised to learn that either way.

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            They have to operate at very long distances in an electronic-warfare saturated environment. Even the tiniest imperfections can be the difference between life and death.

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        1 month ago

        I make a lot of stuff and I don’t think I could bend it that precisely by hand. Also I would take much much longer.

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        1 month ago

        I think the black thing they show at the end is the usual tool to do it, this just looks like 20 extra needless steps.

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        It’s for bulk building drones you have into the faces of occupiers, good enough is necessary perfect is not.