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DIY engineer builds a battery-free solar-powered drone — and it flies

a year ago by Alphane Moon to c/hardware

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DIY engineer and YouTuber Mike Bell has successfully built and flown a drone powered directly by solar energy, with no batteries or any form of energy storage device. He achieved this by attaching a slat made up of 27 individual solar panels onto a carbon-fiber drone.
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mundane 7 points a year ago

Are these YouTuber ads really what we want here?

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Alphane_Moon 8 points a year ago

I prefer text articles myself, video has its place, but I personally don't like it for in-depth discussions.

This just seems kinda cool.

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Ulrich 3 points a year ago

It's a cool technical project funded by YT. Wouldn't exist without it.

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mundane 7 points a year ago

I think it looks like a really cool project. I just hate being duped by what looks like an article but after reading a few lines you realize that it's just a teaser for getting you to click the YouTube link.

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