Alright. Time to clue y’all in 👀 on what we’re building right now Project Mini Me 1/7th scale prototypes of the full size Dynamo GigaDrone. - Ford F-150 sized.
- Two 8 foot rotors.
- 250 lbs.
- 180 peak horsepower.
- Twin EMRAX axial flux motors with DTI inverters. Why build them? We have a few big architecture calls left to lock on the full-size aircraft. Driveshaft or no driveshaft. Rotor spacing. Rotor overlap or not. General airframe structure. We've modeled all of it to diminishing returns. Now it's faster and cheaper to build and test. Mini Me is also flight school. Deploy, test, and iterate flight software, control laws, and flight dynamics. Learn how to actually fly a tandem. Iteration cycle in days. All of this informs decisions for our GigaDrone. Right now we’re mid build on an iron bird: The entire drone minus the airframe, bolted to a table. Motors, inverters, high voltage, flight computer, sensors, software. Next up: - Rotor spin-ups on test stand - Airframe fabrication - Integration into airframe - Tethered tests Flights - Broken parts - Fixes - Data - Decisions More to come! Just bought some GoPros 👀

Building an absolute gigachad of an enclosure so we don’t die or destroy our building while testing [REDACTED] 😬

Got juice? Inverters for our Emrax motors just showed up. Almost ready to wire everything up and see if it blows up 😬

If it fits it flies?

Emrax 188’s arrived. 60kW and 100Nm peak. This should be fun

Build stuff and go fast

Babe 😍 J58

I call your bet and raise you this

Update: found the breaking point

Bendy bendy to find out at what point it becomes snappy snappy 😬

real ones know this pain

T E X A S

Listening to Yacht Rock while assembling drone components absolutely slaps

Weekend side project: 120 psi air cannon. What should I yeet first?

Tracking for testing [REDACTED] in July 👀

Whirly bois showed up today Should we see how many RPMs they can take?

Oh baby

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