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LoneRCRanger said:
Beyond just flying, these are smart machines.
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They are pretty smart machines in their own right but to be fair pretty sure all the computation and locating is being done on a control machine outside the quad. There is one out now that has like 13 cameras on it and does on board processing with an Nvidia GPU on board but goes for $2500 or so will edit with the name if I can find it again here.
 
Very interesting and entertaining.

Except for his early flub at 56 Seconds. "wireless radio" As opposed to the very popular "wired radio" Bazinga:p
 
Tentoes said:
So, who wishes they'd paid more attention in Calculus?
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Hah no way! I took way too many calculus classes (forced to for Computer Science degree) crazy thing is I've literally used calculus 0 times in actual programming directly... I'm sure I've measured the rate of change of something from sensor input before but can't recall ever feeling the need to get the derivative or integral of that data :)
 
I took 3 years to pass 3 semesters of Calculus trying to get an engineering degree. Went into Computer Science instead where I survived Linear Algebra but enjoyed Combinatorics and Chaos. I did once do "numerical integration" in a program. I occasionally have used some trig in programs and many times algebra, though I have no idea how to "complete a square" or why I would want to.
 
I began programming computers probably before most of you guys were born. I did COBOL68, COBOL76 and COBOL85, UNIX100, FORTRAN on Burrough 6700's, 7000's and IBM 360's, 370's and 900's before I began on the first IBM PC1. I programmed long before TCP/IP was a thing and the GUI Interface was invented. The World Wide Web was an idea and the Internet was used by Universities and the US Military. My first cell phone was a 100mW, Hand Held Walkie Talkie! My generation Invented and Built all the wonderful devices you all take for granted now. Go back to the 1970's and see Pay Phone Booths on every other street corner. No cell phones at all. No computers other than the big Mainframes. Cars had carburetors and could go 0 to 60 in 6 seconds. My first car, a 1968 Ford Torino Fastback with a 302 V8 Engine cost $1,100.00 Out The Door! A have a Associates In Arts Degree. Period. I knew more than most computer engineers today!
 
Hmm thinking back. 8 meg hard drives the size of refrigerators. Entire telephone switches being run by an 8 bit cpu. I could go on but I will fall asleep:p
 
Ah, the "good old days"! Programming machine code into the old 8080...

I remember when we got our first IBM PC/XT at work - we all looked at it, with that "huge" 10Mb hard drive and we kept asking ourselves "How will we EVER fill up that drive?"
 
LoneRCRanger said:
Today, that's easy!
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One 10 Megapixel RAW photo nowadays would fill it up. I started off with a 386 as my first machine but was using DOS and then Windows 3.1 and on so only did BASIC programming from the back of magazines back then, still notepad and netscape navigator was enough to teach myself HTML/JS and keeping me employed today.
 
My first computer had 1200K 8 inch floppy drives. Even after AT's were common in the mid 80's people were amazed to see my CP/M computer, "Romana" running.
 
My first Personal Computer.
Sinclair ZX-80
CHICLET KEYBOARD
ONE KILOBYTE OF RAM
CIRCA 1980
 

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