It’s a DJI Phantom, made entirely of plastic - the battery has about 50% of the weight of the drone, the weight should add to about 1400g, the motors are probably 2312 with 900-ish Kv (it’s like the HP of a car), stock propellers are about 10 inch in diameter - that would give it roughly 2.5 times more power than weight, so a maximum lift off weight of about 4000g (a little less than 4 lbs). Maximum speed is, according to the internet, 45 mph.
For clearance: my self-built drone with a carbon fiber frame has 1200 grams (with battery), motors are 2207 with 1980Kv and propellers are 5 inch - a quarter of the size. I calculated about 12 times power to weight, making it able to lift off with up to 12 kg or 20 pounds. I think the maximum speed should be around 80 mph.
Yeah, the eagle probably destroyed it without getting hurt.
I feel like you just wanted to tell people about your drone.
Weeeellll originally no, but I figured that showing a little more knowledge on this topic would make me sound a little more competent.
What resources are reputable to look into custom drone building? That sounds like a cool hobby for my teenage sons and I
Definitely Joshua Bardwell on YouTube! He even has a website https://www.fpvknowitall.com/ where he even has blueprints of builds and a lot of info! Reddit r/diydrones is very helpful, as well r/tinywhoops (small drones) and r/fpv (I posted my soldering there and was corrected multiple times.
I’m deep into FPV where you fly with goggles, so I’m no expert in programming, but I’ve seen quite some posts about fully automated drones there!
Thank you so much for the resources, I’ll be going down the rabbit hole tomorrow and this weekend, my boys are going to be really excited, you made my day.
send your blueprints to Ukraine and watch your intellectual newborn become the bane of the autocratic world
The animal vs robot war will be epic.
Is that a wedge-tailed eagle? Those birds are huge.
Golden Eagle I think
I can literally hear the eagle saying fuck off cunt
I hope that doesn’t hurt to do. it’s cool as hell to see but I’m unaware of how many rotor blade impacts a hollow bird bone can take
This plastic bomber can’t really hurt much.
If I remember correctly the strength of these is quite low. They just spin really fast. They cannot even break skin and give you a cut afaik.
They can cut the shit out of you. They won’t sever a finger or anything with the stock props (some aftermarket carbon fiber stuff might though), but they’ll fuck up flesh.
The mythbusters tested this a while ago so things might have changed but even their heavy duty camera drone with carbon fiber could not go through bones if I remember correctly. Most drones will not seriously cut you or even break skin. The one in the picture definitely will not.
Just looked up the episode (2015, Ep8). (also some cool U2 stuff)
They’re investigating whether it would be deadly by cutting through your neck. Drone tech has also changed significantly in the last decade. They literally have trouble flying straight and level and hitting the neck of their dummy. But their main problem is the drone hits something and falls away. They put the same smaller prop on a stick and saw into a plucked chicken. Their bigger one did actually slice the neck open before falling away.
Modern drones have much more powerful motors. From personal experience even the folding blades will give you at least surface cuts. Do not randomly assume they will not cut you, especially if you grab them.
This a dumb argument in general
It would fucking hurt like hell to say the least and the bird doesnt deserve that
A phantom will absolutely break skin. I flew one for years.
Lots of newer drones like the Mavic series have folding props that won’t break skin, but those fixed-blade props were like getting hit with a weed-whacker.
that’s good. I’m glad the birb isn’t at risk while killing the robit
Birb v robit, I love it. Should be a tv series title or a comic.
Until it becomes an arms race, blades will be made of lightweight metals that are super thin to save weight and therefore sharp, and motors be built with more torque.
Nearly every consumer drone uses plastic blades and every modern one like the whole DJI lineup uses the folding ones which hurt much less as they can tilt back when hitting something.
The Mavic series has folding blades. But the Phantom series pictured has rigid blades that are stiff enough they’ll fuck up flesh.
Well birds are robots, so prolly a lot.
Birds are real and this isn’t reddit
Then why are you losing?
How much are the NASA LIEntists paying you to say that?
17 shekel
I used to be a drone hunter like you, but then I took a rotor blade to a knee
Bird: FUCK THIS SHIT IN PARTICULAR!
Who shot the photo?
Nice username bro
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez… (My required reaction when I spot a reddit mention).
Most of the users were cool though and I miss some of them.
Edit: a few of us are here now ♥️
There was a second eagle for taking a picture of his bro
Technology.
But who invented technology? Eagles.
only 25 years in
Reminds me of Xkcd.com/1842
There is always an XKCD for everything dear god
Next step, train eagles to drop bombs on Russians.
I’m envisioning an eagle shaped locomotive, send help
So the Russians can shoot at the birds too? No, that’s a very cruel idea, let’s stick with drones.
how can Russians shoot at birds when they aren’t real?
Ah yes, birds are government drones I forgot, my mistake.
what are you talking about?
Russians don’t exist. they’re a myth that the west uses to scare the populace into funding the military with more money.
Haha right, almost forgot what instance I was on.
