• Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    16 days ago

    A drone is just a bunch of plastic parts, a motor, radio transmitter, simple circuit board ESCs, camera and some wires.

    An entire diy drone project could be produced. The complex parts could also be homemade but require more than a 3d printer. They’re all parts you can get for over the counter cash from hobby shops though. What’s missing is someone actually putting together the kind of online project guide for it as a genuine tool. There are build your own fpv drone guides but not a “build your own fpv suicide drone” guides.

    The biggest benefit of going this route is cost over the pre-made alternatives, bringing it right down to parts cost would enable people to use it in all kinds of ways.

    • MLRL_Commie [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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      16 days ago

      I guess I mean like: a drone is useful for a war like Russia-Ukraine for reasons that wouldn’t be really relevant for defense of leftists. I feel like I’ll be fed-posting if I go too much deeper in my descriptions, but just the scenarios that communists are preparing for defense aren’t much similar to the scenarios where drones are now dominating. But that might be a paradigm shift thats just not yet clear in every case…