>pixhawk orange box>raspberry pi 5>mosaic x5 gps>xt30 power board>carbon fiber/3d printed framehttps://x.com/FPGAX_/status/1962179402076410322this isnt only off-the-shelf chips/hardware this is all whole boards you can order right now on aliexpress for 50$. you can build the whole thing with the knowledge/skill of a typical FPV drone hobbyist.we're gonna have slaughterbots 1 youtube tutorial away soon theyre already making ai models that handle noisy fpv video.
>>64198707So how much do you reckon this would cost assuming I have a 3d printer?
>>64199185pixhawk (orange thing) is ~500$ (but that's a very gucci flight controller you can get alternatives with the same features for 50$-100$).raspberry pi 5(thing with fan) is ~80$ its just a computer you can open a browser and post on /k/ on itthe mosaic x5 high-precision (RTK) gps board (bottom right) im not sure but im seeing similar boards selling for ~600$the top right and bottom left boards are voltage regulators/stabalizers, probably 20$ a pop from aliexpress.a starlink (pic related) is ~400$).motors for a drone that size are ~200$ a pop (where's my 5 inch fpv quad has 20$ motors).the top left (raspberry, basically a regular computer running linux) connects to the flight controller where the radio should connect to it(pic related) im guessing they use the computer as the middleman between the flight controller and the starlink
>>64198707retard here, what is the significance of this?
>>64199259>>64198707This seems very overdone. What are they putting general purpose SoC computers in drones for?
>>64199264Because they are readily available off the shelf in massive quantities
>>64199261They are cheap, effective, easy to make and you can buy all the parts and have them delivered to your home.
>>64199264they need to translate ethernet/internet from the starlink to serial communication somehow and its a very quick and easy way to do it.pic related is something ive built doing something similar taking the coordinates of my drone from my radio controller and feeding them into an antenna tracking system (all the computer does is run a python script i wrote in literally 5 minutes on launch)
>>64199267Don't underestimate the software stacks. Each of those boards has a manufacturer or community legacy codebase that can be hooked up by a noob looking at a wiki tutorial and instructing an AI (little bit of testing). Starting from further back - why?
How do you 3d print "carbon fiber"? It's just plastic.Stupid propagandashills don't even know wtf they're talking about.
>>64199329its a carbon fiber frame that has 3d printed components bolted on to hold the electronics inside look at op pic.the carbon fiber itself is just a flat plate cut by cnc + carbon fiber tubes for the arms
>>64198707Good to see the ArduPilot flight controller getting some love, I'm putting one on my next FPV quad.
>>64199261Long range drones are being made with hobbyist hardware, you could watch a dozen youtube tutorials and build your own next weekend.>>64199264What the others said + powerful enough to run realtime 2 way encryption.
>>64199364why not betaflight
>>64199373Running betaflight on my little whoop, want to fuck around with ardupilot for GPS waypoint nav.
>>64199310this is pretty much it, on sites like hackaday you'll see nerds whinge about people using an arduino when a 555 timer would do, or a raspberry pi when an arduino would do, but its for this reason: you can very quickly get up to speed, iterate, and add features without running into resource constraints. vlad notices a problem, slams out 200 lines of sloppy python code that uses way more cpu time than it should but improves responsiveness? great, take that crate of prebuilt drones and start flashing them, no need to think furtherYou see the same thing regularly with startups: the first generation of a product is seriously overbuilt because they slapped it up on whatever was easiest and didn't want too many limits, but by gen 3 the features are stable and they're optimising the build cost.
>>64198707>you can build the whole thing with the knowledge/skill of a typical FPV drone hobbyist.no skills needed, just ask the AI walk you through the whole thing
>>64198707I didn't know they were on star link . I just read a report that said China did a 2 watt transfer of 36k km 1gb. So. Guess what we are gearing up for boys. If you believe in practical progression.
>>64198707Okay but what about the explosive charge you dipshit? Order that off AliExpress?
>>64199329The same way you spray concrete with a stabilizer like fiberglass. Just stop if you don't understand material science.
>>64199504>whingefucking reddit
>>64200239I would use a Tannerite shaped fragmentation charge with some sort of electromechanical firearm cartridge based detonator. Safe, well within my knowledge and everything is available easily off the shelf and widely used enough that it wouldn't set off any dragnets.
>>64200239>>64200405Why not just make some homemade napalm and drop it on your target? You could just make molotovs and drop them on your targets. Could even re-use the drones that way if you wanted.
>>64199329It's not what's in the Op pic but carbon fiber imbued thermoplastics have been a thing for years anon.They aren't as effective as real carbon fiber and you may as well just use normal PC / Nylon in my opinion, but it is available.
>>64198707>tfw im just a low level hobbiest and have used 3/4ths of these partsJesus with the dawn of AI literally the dumbest idiot out there can cobble these parts together into a weapon
>>64200227>the AIMouthbreathers stop overestimating and worshiping LLMs challenge (Impossible)
>>64198707It just means the government will do the same thing they did with meth. All of the ingredients are legal to own and possess. But you purchase even a couple of them and they'll hit you with "intent to manufacture" if they decide to. It's entirely up to their discretion. They'll apply the same logic to drone laws.
>>64201799luddites always lose, no exceptions
>>64201799>overestimating No, I've literally had chatgdp build me drones and routers and even custom internet protocols with nearly 0% personal knowledge on the subject. You are massively underestimating the situation
