Drone carrying a toilet

Toilets and Drones: What Toilets Can Teach Us About Drone Prices

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We’ve talked about toilet designs and drones before in an earlier article (which was the beginning of what is now a very exciting “Toilets and Drones” series) entitled, “Why toilet design and your current drone’s design are the same”   And our basic premise in that earlier article was two-fold:  #1. Just like Toilet design, drone…

Cost-Per-(Flight)-Minute and the Battle Against the Idiot Factor

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In our last article we talked about how Elon Musk uses “First Principles Thinking” (FPT) and about the “Idiot Factor,” Elon’s super-sensitive way of describing lazy engineering and, as examples, the massive impact of the Idiot Factor on the cost of rockets and batteries. How does the Idiot Factor apply to drones? Well, the materials…