Geeking out aero-style for a hundred bucks - Dan Shapiro

When Dan Shapiro was a kid, radio control flight meant spending thousands of dollars to put what was essentially a slightly aerodynamicized lawnmower in the air. You spent thousands on engines and electronics and balsa, months building your plane, crashed it your first flight out, and then repeated.

Over and over, and over again.

Enter lithium polymer batteries, rare earth magnets, miniaturized solid state inverters, 2.4 GHz spread spectrum frequency hopping transmitters and receivers. Then stir it up in a huge domestic Chinese market for RC gear that has pushed remote control aircraft off a Moores law cliff of price and performance.

Watch Dan explain how you can get off the ground for a single Benjamin.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• geeking
• out
• aero
• rc
• airplane
• hundred
• bucks
• danshapiro

[narnyslip]

If you bring your plane home in one piece you didnt have fun!! Sounds good to me.

[jerseymonkey721]

Awesome video. Shocked this isn't spammed with comments.

[SisterLoquacious]

Why am I third to comment?

[serefiny]

why am i second to comment??

[najahmcbryde]

why am i first to comment??