Homemade RC Millennium Falcon Is the Drone You've Always Dreamed of Flying 51
MojoKid writes Here's a dose of Rebel goodness to tide you over while you wait for the next Star Wars trailer. A drone enthusiast in France recently graced the web with a few videos of a self-built quadcopter with a shell designed to look like the Millennium Falcon. It's enough to make a Star Wars fan tear up. The drone features a blue thruster light, just like the real Millennium Falcon, and has bright front lights as well. Its creator, who goes by "Oliver C", has some serious modding skills. The shape of the Millennium Falcon presented Oliver with some challenges, but he has the balance more or less handled by the time the spaceship (or quadcopter) takes its first flight outside.
Well Done! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Well Done! (Score:4, Funny)
Downside is that its handling resembles Jar Jar at the wheel
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Hyperspace ain't like dustin' crops, boy. Without precise calculations you could blast yourself through a star or a supernova, and that'd end your journey real quick.
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Mini turbines $10K.
Mini pulse jets $100.
A quad pulse jet would be very cool. Kind of loud.
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Yo Dawg, I heard you like flying drones, so I
http://www.cnet.com/news/hobby... [cnet.com]
will it (Score:5, Funny)
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Arabs dream of 72 virgins, western virgins dream of star wars drones.
You don't really want to bang a virgin.
I think Dana Gould said it best. [youtube.com]
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Sorry, it's not "Arabs" that dream of virgins as the reward for al jihad al asghar against their hated infidels, it is Muslims (subscribers to the political ideology invented by Caliph Abd al-Malik called "Islam"). There are many Arabs who are Christians (Assyrians, Copts, etc), Druze, Yazidis, even a few Zoroastrians have not yet been slaughtered by the various Muslim sects. An Arab is a member of an ethnic group who may or may not believe in the ideology called "Islam", and tens of millions of Arabs d
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You do realize that the Koran literally contains the Bible which literally contains the Torah right? Islam is to Christianity as Christianity is to Judaism. Mohammed considered himself a profit of god, and also weirdly enough considered Jesus to be a prophet, not the son of god. I always kind of laugh when Christians say things like screw Allah, not realising that Allah = God = Yahweh, they all supposedly worship the same god.
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Everybody is laughing at you, smartypants. Nothing like posting a condescending comment that is _completely wrong_.
The Koran doesn't contain the Bible or the Torah. It does contain stories that are based on 5th century mistranslations of the bible into Arabic.
The Koran is just like the book of Mormon. It can be definitively shown to be the work of man based on inclusions of period mistranslations in their versions of earlier 'holy books'.
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Funny, cause you said the same thing as I did.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q... [wikipedia.org]
Wikipedia also says the same thing.
I would agree on the book of Mormon, it is much like the Koran as it is a further book on the bible. Of course it includes period mistransilations as they included the books from the time, not from the future.
You could claim that I was wrong in saying it "includes" the Bible and Torah, as it appears to be more of that they tell the same stories from the same sources, but that is just a matter o
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You understand there is a big difference between including all of something and including small parts of it.
Their problem isn't that they included the mistranslations. It's that they claim they were independently given the same stories from god, paraphrased in a different language. But the stories include the errors that were present in the copies in their hands. Clearly Joseph Smith just copied those books from his King James Bible. He claimed he independently translated the books from reformed Egyptian
meh. (Score:2)
this hit G+ several days ago. I'll be impressed when it comes with two quad-cannon emplacements and smugglers nooks.
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hopefully unoccupied...
Definitely don't want no Wookie in my nookie...
Have seen some that qualify as Wookie nookie...
snowspeeder sound (Score:2)
It sounds very similar to a snowspeeder. Maybe he should make one of those next.
Was a drone (Score:2)
Before he removed the GPS, and Gopro . Now it's an RC quad covered with a shell. Now it's impossible to fly without line of sight and is significantly less efficient than it was before the "show" mod.
Personally, I rather have FPV, RTH and the ability to program autonomous flight. Show and no go!
Re: Was a drone (Score:4, Insightful)
I don't remember (Score:2)
four massive holes in the middle of the Millennium Falcon. Maybe my memory was wiped by the sequels.
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Re:I don't remember (Score:4, Funny)
four massive holes in the middle of the Millennium Falcon
Well that's what happens when you let a Star Destroyer shoot first.
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He made some custom modifications himself...
What a Piece of Junk! (Score:4, Insightful)
n/t
Missed title opportunity... (Score:2)
Oblig. (Score:2)
Great, kid! Don't get cocky.
No it isn't (Score:2)
Homemade RC Millennium Falcon Is the Drone You've Always Dreamed of Flying
Stop telling me what to think. Does no-one have any opinions of their own any more?
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Homemade RC Millennium Falcon Is the Drone You've Always Dreamed of Flying
Stop telling me what to think. Does no-one have any opinions of their own any more?
OK fine. This is not the clickbait you're looking for...
Post-"Return", obviously (Score:2)
Since it lacks the sensor/communications mast knocked off during the attack on the second Death Star, it is post-Return. Maybe that's when the lift blades were added.
Required Quote (Score:2)