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I built a drone with only one motor [video]

Hacker News Top ↗ · 6d ago Cached

The author built a drone driven by a single motor, using hinged propeller blades to achieve pitch and yaw control. Getting it to fly successfully required substantial software and testing work, including custom firmware, an infrared lighthouse, and a homemade strobe imaging system. It is currently known to be the smallest and fastest-spinning hinged-blade drone capable of flight, with the code and 3D files open-sourced.

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@xiangxiang103: https://x.com/xiangxiang103/status/2110948324543193560

X AI KOLs Timeline ↗ · 2026-10-16 Cached

With zero commands and zero model costs, the author used DSH (DeepSeek Harness) along with the free DeepSeek V4.1 Flash model to flash a ¥128 Lichuang ESP32-S3 dev board into a XiaoZhi AI speaker. The entire process — looking up the docs, verifying, and flashing the firmware — was handled automatically by the Agent.

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16-bit Fully Functional DIY Magnetic Core Memory

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-10-15 Cached

A video about building a working 16-bit DIY magnetic core memory using magnetic cores made in East Germany in the 1970s, and selling it as a kit on BOOTH.

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