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DIY engineer builds a battery-free solar-powered drone — and it flies

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DIY engineer builds a battery-free solar-powered drone — and it flies

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Hardware@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago

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DIY engineer and YouTuber Mike Bell has successfully built and flown a drone powered directly by solar energy, with no batteries or any form of energy storage device. He achieved this by attaching a slat made up of 27 individual solar panels onto a carbon-fiber drone.

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Are these YouTuber ads really what we want here?
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  I prefer text articles myself, video has its place, but I personally don’t like it for in-depth discussions.
  
  This just seems kinda cool.

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