[ExI] Single motor drone

[Ben Zaiboc]

On 22/10/2026 05:10, spike wrote:
> Ben how do we know Bird didn't use AI to build this?  Perhaps AI did design
> it.


Well of course we don't. He probably did.

It could be argued that he'd have been silly to not use AI in helping to write the control software.

Writing the software isn't the genius part. The basic idea, though, is something hardly anyone would think of. I'd never have thought that varying the speed of a motor could be used to control the drone's direction, let alone figure out the angled hub needed to make it work.
Although less impressive, the high speed camera thing was also pretty clever.

I'm also wondering if reversing the motor half the time would be a good way to stop the drone spinning, then it wouldn't need that massive bit at the bottom, and he wouldn't need to solve the IR beacon problem.
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Ben
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