Modovoloの回転翼電動ドローン「Modovolo Lift」、モジュール式で多様な構成が可能。低コストで長時間の飛行時間を持つ
Our good friends at drone.jp review the Modovolo Lift.
Modovolo Lift: Modular drone with technical finesse and very long flight time
Our good friends at Hense review the Modovolo Lift. https://www.heise.de/en/news/Modovolo-Lift-Modular-drone-with-technical-finesse-and-very-long-flight-time-10029579.html
What the Fall of the Roman Republic, the Cost of Death, and Drone Operators have in common
We know that this has been a burning topic for you so we’ll dig right into it. Let’s first do a quick history geek out. We’re talking about the last 50-ish years of the Roman Republic: 88 BC to 31 BC. A near constant state of civil war. And civil war, as the Romans found…
Toilets and Drones: What Toilets Can Teach Us About Drone Prices
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
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…
What Tesla, SpaceX, and the Idiot Factor means for Drones
I have to confess. Elon Musk is one of my heroes so I shamelessly copy a lot of his thinking. One of my favorite things that he does is use FPT (i.e., First Principles Thinking) to analyze and explain problems. Using FPT, Elon asks and thinks about the essence of the problem to its essential…
Modovolo Lift: A New Approach to Drones with Modular Design and Extended Flight Time
https://dronelife.com/2024/11/12/modovolo-lift-a-new-approach-to-drones-with-modular-design-and-extended-flight-time/
Why the Bicycle Wheel is the Future of Drone Flight
A discussion with Erik, CTO of Modovolo, and another shameless pitch for the Modovolo Lift. “I’m a commercial drone pilot myself and it was frustrating to me that flight time was so low for all the drones I was using. I wanted something that would give me at least an hour of flight with any…
The Wright Brothers Were Also Beefy Propeller Freaks
Skinny Propellers versus Beefy Propellers. It’s one of our favorite debates, and, yes, we’ve written about it extensively here and here, but as a quick recap our view of the world is this: We thought that this debate started when we came out of stealth-mode and publicly launched Modovolo in March 2024. But it turns…
Why Beefy Propellers Are Better (or alt title: The Story of Genetic-Algorithm Designed Propellers)
In a previous post entitled, “The Problem with Skinny Propellers,” we talked about how the vast majority of drone manufacturers have made the most unhappy trade-off with their propellers and electric motors: (i) propellers can only spin so fast before there is “boundary layer separation” (i.e., the propeller stops producing lift) but (ii) electric motors…