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DJI will no longer stop drones from flying over airports, wildfires, and the White House
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this post was submitted on 15 Jan 2025
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So, just like how pretty much every other drone manufacturers drones already work. Somehow people only give DJI shit over this and develop a curious blind spot about everybody else.
It is trivially easy for anyone with thumbs to kit-build a drone with no regulatory compliance whatsoever, in nearly any size, with absurd range and capabilities, for just a few hundred dollars. Despite that state of affairs having been the case for years, this has mysteriously failed to cause the Earth to fall out of its orbit into the sun.
IDK, most of the kits require soldering (because the industry is fundamentally braindead) and if you go look at the various online communities, you'll quickly see that this is one hell of a filter.
We were taught that at high school....
Same here, but I'd still be pretty annoyed if I had to do it to put together a drone, it's a pain in the ass.
Soldering is so easy.
I find it interesting more than anything else.
In high school electronics we also used a tesla coil (that can kill you if you touch the wrong place) so they disconnected the mains cord so it had to be rewired prior to use to keep us safer.
They taught us how to wire plugs the following week...
You got taught how to rewire a plug in high school?
Middle school for me. Was about a month of machine shop. We built a breadboard, demonstrated the difference between series and parallel using light bulbs, that kind of thing.
Did half the class also make tazers after learning what a capacitor does, which wasn't three best thing to know with wooden desks....
Nah, purely resistive loads in that class. Was pretty basic since it was a required course. Electronics in high school, an elective... yeah there were some dipshits that earned the Sparky nickname.
Now tech school, where we were left unsupervised for lunch... yeah there were a lot of blown out voltage regulators from using our hand-built power supplies to pop capacitors in various ways and degrees of safety. What can I say, some guys just love the smell of burnt peanut butter.
Did you also have the group that had competition to see who could hold hot glue the longest, wacked eachother with metal rulers held over bunsen burners, and snorted citric acid when you made sherbert?
I had some of those in my school too...
If those kinds of things happened I wasn't around to see it.
Did have a guy do some embroidery on his palm during sewing class though (we got the kitchen sink thrown at us in middle school, was actually kind of neat). Same guy intentionally turned the oven up to max while making pretzels in home ec. Not the brightest bulb.
Yup. Was told clearly at the start to not plug it in to the wall sockets located just underneath us.
i'm scared of the magic cancer smoke
Just get the lead free solder and no clean flux, it's much less cancer
Yeah lead free solder is perfectly fine.
Where I live, lead solder is even illegal to sell and buy unless you have a permit which is impossible to get for individuals
Interesting, I haven't heard about that.
For systems that...may experience some degree of vacuum...it's common to use lead solder still because it doesn't tin whisker so unfortunately it's still around for some of the stuff I've worked on.
is it still magic tho
Oh 100% magic. And SMT hot air soldering is voodoo magic
so what if no other manufacturers do it? Maybe they should be forced to.
the hyperbole at the end of your comment is not necessary or helpful. We literally just saw a drone ground a firefighting plane in Los Angeles, so we know they can cause major problems at the worst possible times. Maybe it's not a big deal on an everyday basis, but in disasters like the Los Angeles Fires of course more idiot content creators than usual are going to have their drone in the air collecting footage.
more and more people are getting drones so there are only going to be more and more problems as they grow in popularity.