October 30, 2026
Why Finding Schrodinger’s Cat Creates Ultra-Efficient Propellers
Cats, Propellers, and Syracuse Start-Ups. This is a story of a cat, propellers - and two Syracuse-area start-ups. One is BQP, a group of some...
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October 01, 2026
Why Ants, 100-Year-Old Math Equations, and Shameless Promotion of the Modovolo Lift Define the Future of Warfare
In the grand tradition of the Modovolo blog, this post is all about things that are completely (or seemingly) not related to drones at all....
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September 15, 2026
The Garage Days
The humble garage is the birthplace of many storied American companies: Hewlett-Packard, Apple, and….Metallica. And Modovolo is just like those storied American companies. Well, Modovolo...
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August 31, 2026
Zen and the Art of Beefy Propellers: How Quantum Computing Changes Everything in Drone Propeller Design
Two Upstate NY start-ups are radically changing the worlds of quantum computing and drone design. At the same time. And they’re starting with the debate...
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July 16, 2026
Why the Big Mac is the Answer to Scaling Drone Production
The Big Mac. It has two all-beef patties. It has the special sauce. And it has lettuce and cheese. But, to our knowledge, it’s never...
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July 01, 2026
Why Toilet Paper, Medieval Knights, and the Battle of Midway Predict that the Shahed Drone is a Temporary Phenomenon
$35,000 vs. $1 million. That’s the cost difference between the Iranian Shahed drone and the AIM-120 AMRAAM missiles being used to shoot down the Shahed. ...
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June 16, 2026
The Top Ten Reasons Why We Love Upstate NY Winters
After our first Top Ten list about Upstate NY (that we ingeniously titled, “Top Ten Things to Know About Upstate New York”) became one of...
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June 02, 2026
How the Ancient Greek General Themistocles Would Beat the Chinese in Drone Combat
In our last post entitled, “Themistocles, the Best Drone Warfare Tactician No One Has Ever Heard Of,” we talked about how Themistocles engineered a way...
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May 18, 2026
Themistocles, the Best Drone Warfare Tactician No One Has Ever Heard Of
The Persian Wars. For those of you with little appetite for grasping the obvious, this will come as a shock: the ancient Persians were one...
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