I attended the Bay Area meetup last weekend.  One interesting thing that Chris Anderson mentioned was his philosophy that it's often more important to make things that are easy to repair than it is to make things that can't break.

I almost immediately had an object lesson in this by crashing my quad.  Two props were broken, so I put it in the car to take care of later. When I got it home, I noticed that one of  the motor mounts was bent to an almost 45 degree angle.  Fixing…