Hey everyone,
I'm sure most of you have heard about the techpod and the kickstarter campaign I just want to give one more shout out here for help. Its been a long journey getting to this day. I lot of you have been following and supporting the development of the techpod for years. The countless hours of designing, building and flying seem compressed into just a few moments. I know this will be a success heck I just got a $10,000 backer on Saturday. I think bigger things are on the way. I am going to have a very large amount of airplanes soon and I am going to need some help getting Techpods into peoples hands.I just want to take a moment and thank everyone who has supported the project .thanks to all the people who encouraged me through out the years. Thanks to everyone who help to get the word out. Thanks to all me friends and family who have surrounded me and made me strong. Thanks to Chris Anderson and the rest of the diydrones community for giving me a place to express myself and to learn and grow beyond what I thought was possible. Thanks to my wife for putting up with all my crazy ideas. And most of all Thanks to my mom the hardest working person I have ever met.
love you all!
wayne
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Good luck Wayne....
Good luck Wayne, TechPod is a great aircraft for the cost.
It sure seems like more then a few people on this site have had extremely good luck with foamies. I can't speak to far on the structural design but aesthetically it is not unpleasing and the videos posted did show good flight characteristics. It is apparent that a lot of work went in to it, I am sure a lot of people will find this a great airframe to fly.
@wayne best of luck to you man
ramboky, I agree. Steve Jobs was harsh too and see where Apple right now? No big names like HP, Dell, Acer etc. can come even close in making a laptop similar to MacBook Air. Why? Because Jobs was harsh? No, because he was always first to tell you: "you can do better than that". Nobody can come close in prices, performance and design quality to Apple. Get the Dell with the same tech specs and it will be 100-200 bucks more than Apple (if Dell has such a hardware).
It's not a harsh statement, it's a reality. You can't build a T-tail with servo on the top with tail fin that is equal in strength from bottom to top. It's just mechanically and weight-wise wrong.
I did read a full report on Techpod. Idea is great but looks and feels amateurish (please pardon me for being straight, it's not personal). I am for independent development but be a pro, learn about structural stability and how to develop properly. I would care less for all the awards or diplomas people have, I only judge them by the work they do.
As for penetration - foam never as good as smooth surface. Drones are designed to stay in the air for a long time and we see most of them (in real life) are more like gliders with smooth wing surfaces. Speaking of purpose - foam is not a right material for drones wing and flying sufaces. It's durable and so on, but not a good material here.
Drone does not have to look nice, but it does not have to be ugly either. I am not saying Techpod is ugly but what makes any aircraft look nice is how one part fit to another. Simple and graceful looking aircraft is always catchy.
Look at the Predator and especially at Global Hawk. They are not pretty but being built for the purpose you see a natural lines fitting nicely. It's a natural flow in mechanics that make it look nice. Nothing that sticks-out for no reason or overstressed-looking structure. Even uneducated in structural design people have expectations while looking at something mechanical like cars, motorcycles or aircraft.
And I am not saying it's all true - all of the above is just my personal opinion.
If we want to do something - it always worth to do it right.
The videos show it meets and exceeds the mission without any trouble and looks nice.
Go Wayne! Go Techpod!
I pledged for 2 kits!!!!
I hadn't been following the techpod's development... and I didn't know about the kickstarter project until reading this post.... sorry....
When you invest in a business you invest in the people running the business, The product is secondary. Idea's are cheap. But it people with the passion and knowledge to bring those ideas to market are valuable. Invest in the right people and the product will develop over time, and be a success.
Ardupilot is a great example. So many people have invest their time and money because they see value in the passion and knowledge of the other people involved, and the product continually evolves.
Good Luck Wayne!!
Yes Sgt Ric, I built more than 20 successful airframes back in 70-80'. I am an engineer for many years and calculated many structures (none of them failed). After more than 30 years of hands-on experience you can spot a bad design.
Do you have a background to support this constructive critism, especially during this campaign?
Don't forget your godfathers.
Sorry,
I can see a few structural errors in design: tail will be very flimsy, wigs are stronger with two wingtips attached to a centerpiece.
If you want to sell things - make them look nice. Pretty planes fly nicer.
Foamies do not have good air penetration. I would not spend $200 on a foamy. Sorry.
Although nowdays people tend to buy ugly things and pay big bucks for it, i.e. any Nissan car.
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