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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wjrii@lemmy.world 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.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Wilshire@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This is a workshop for combat FPV drones, so precision is extremely important.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 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.
Wilshire@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They have to operate at very long distances in an electronic-warfare saturated environment. Even the tiniest imperfections can be the difference life and death.
just_an_average_joe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Dunno how to feel… Excited because it looks cool or sad that it will be used to kill someone. The world has gotten depressing
ramenshaman@lemmy.world 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.
SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 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.
Madison420@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s for bulk building drones you have into the faces of occupiers, good enough is necessary perfect is not.
Evotech@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s an automation step for a small scale factory