this post was submitted on 02 Apr 2024
89 points (100.0% liked)

Free and Open Source Software

17779 readers
16 users here now

If it's free and open source and it's also software, it can be discussed here. Subcommunity of Technology.

This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Gaywallet@beehaw.org
alyaza@beehaw.org
89
DIY ESP32 drone costs about $12 to make (www.cnx-software.com)
submitted 5 months ago by brisk@aussie.zone to c/foss@beehaw.org
7 comments fedilink hide all child comments
top 7 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Is PCB as the structure a new thing or has that always been a thing?

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There are a few PCB drones out there.

Most PCBs, even really cheap ones, are made from FR-4, which is a very robust fibreglass. It's would be a pretty decent choice for drone components in general.

Not drones, but Carl Bugeja on YouTube makes some fascinating machines almost entirely out of PCBs (although he uses a lot of flex PCBs, not just FR-4).

[–] Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 months ago

I've seen some of his videos and thought it was a relatively new service offered by these custom pcb companies.

[–] Thann@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

A PCB drone is essentially disposable =\

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 10 points 5 months ago

Ideal for purposeful rapid kinetic disassembly

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 2 points 5 months ago

ESP all the things

[–] Midnitte@beehaw.org 1 points 5 months ago

Seems like a fairly good option.

I was looking forward to this kickstarter, but it's been months without a launch so I'm thinking it's just vaporware at this point.