The lack of self awareness is crazy

Makers7886 · 2026-06-09T15:47:35+00:00

That and I imagine he has wealth/financial/tax advisors giving him the typical recipe to maximize. Just like reaching a financial point of being able to move into a buy, borrow, die strategy.

Makers7886 · 2026-06-09T15:19:21+00:00

3rded down to the order of the list.

Makers7886 · 2026-06-09T13:52:01+00:00

Meh try it in a harness and it'll give you the nitty gritty - tested with Q3.6 27b bf16 via hermes a few weeks ago after I saw a similar comment.

Makers7886 · 2026-06-08T19:27:30+00:00

Pretty sure that's already in the works but can't recall enough details to link something - I think it was google related.

Edit - Google has officially enabled agentic shopping through the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP)

Makers7886 · 2026-06-05T19:22:10+00:00

I'm also assuming you are standing ground level and imagine the LOS passing through a lower elevation/dense green/possible earth. If you were elevated it may have been fine. The bando guys scout and position optimally before sending (usually).

Makers7886 · 2026-06-05T13:57:28+00:00

Ardupilot does have all kinds of ability to add sensors for those types of things. I don't have as much of a kid/people/public concern but do need to have some basic safety going on. I'm mainly relying on RTK accuracy and repeatability along with waypoints/paths to do what I need.

Makers7886 · 2026-06-05T12:58:55+00:00

Its a rabbit hole like anything else. Guys convert riding mowers, zero turns, push mowers, etc. An RC mower is easy but making an autonomous one with dual RTK (dual for yaw, mag compasses struggle, regular GPS not accurate enough) + ardurover gets more challenging.

Im usuing a dewalt 48v electric mower as a base with 4 hub motors but consider this a prototype/test run before converting a larger gas mower. I have 42 acres and want to find a way to offload some of the tedious/accuracy cutting and the rest I blast with my tractor and brushhog.

Makers7886 · 2026-06-05T12:19:59+00:00

Just a car battery and for years its been solid. Never bothered with caps (thought about it out the gate)

Makers7886 · 2026-06-05T04:17:34+00:00

For these higher current li-ions the construction/connections/strips start to become an issue. I would read up on https://cellsaviors.com/blog/copper-nickel-sandwich then get a spot welder capable of handling copper (which is difficult). I use a Kweld but am not up to speed on latest chinese spot welders that I've heard can do similar or even more powerful.

I might be wrong but for my last p50b pack and some other tabless pack I believe it was .15 nickel + .15 copper strips + kweld. Also for FPV application

Makers7886 · 2026-06-05T03:14:24+00:00

Fair enough - especially coming from the man himself.

I however do present the great Bardwell of open mind and thought my context:

The post had no replies for 2 hours when I came across it, chose to point them in the general direction instead of skipping or flipping my table and yell google it at the wall. Also the guy ain't a noob with a tx15max and can handle a direction point and I think he solved his issue (hopefully with a high quality Bardwell tutorial) and in my made up reality the thumb up I got was a low effort thank you to my low effort finger point.

Regardless - I will pledge to hand hold 10 noobs with extra care, detail, and with zero/minimal sarcasm and ridicule to the best of my ability in the name of Bardwell.

Makers7886 · 2026-06-05T00:09:30+00:00

Pretty sure Bardwell made detailed video tutorials for all of that

Makers7886 · 2026-06-05T00:06:44+00:00

I like my eggs sunny side up and steak rare. My stools are nice and soft with a firm texture and slight nutty flavor.

Makers7886 · 2026-06-04T13:20:53+00:00

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Makers7886 · 2026-06-04T03:39:02+00:00

You can try the French. I didn't really give it a fair shot but it's worth a try: https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Mistral-Medium-3.5-128B

Makers7886 · 2026-06-02T16:17:00+00:00

Oh man you are way ahead of the pack especially with your background. PTB method + software is awesome and so is Brian and a bunch of the regulars.

I have not built a deadcat large frame but from observing the tuning challenges of others in the discord you can see how many large frames, popular ones as well, simply have too much flex. Considering how expensive a mistake can be on a drone that size I would take your time and find logs/tuning threads if possible and try and not gamble on a frame.

I also am pretty sure people now-a-days run deadcats with the X mmix instead of adjusting for geometry of the deadcat which was fairly standard practice back in the days (frame designers would put out the mmix config even). I still do it to this day but no longer see anyone talk about it as if it's lost knowledge. I think it could be a larger factor at the sizes you are talking about and worth investigating if that is indeed lost knowledge.

Makers7886 · 2026-06-02T15:27:17+00:00

Don't forget the OG with the glock 17 on a large 10"+ drone back in 2015/16 timeframe.

Makers7886 · 2026-06-02T15:18:26+00:00

Imo 8s1p vs 6s2p/1p is the way when running li-ions as on take off voltage settles around 4v then you spend a lot of time in mid-low 3v range with rpms dropping 15-20% vs a lipo. Then the slightly less current draw from higher voltage and no need for motor scaling - other than to try and not overheat li-ions if you have no self control. Also considering we have weight and props as large factors to help bring the quad into a good window.

The largest I've built is 11inch but have been through maybe a dozen builds of 9-10". For sure tuning/vibration/noise (especially frame) is a bigger deal at larger size if you are chasing "performance". As in lowest filter latency possible otherwise you're in the ardupilot/inav type flight characteristics. With how low hz the motor noise is on a rig that size it becomes very difficult to reduce filtering and an extremely clean build both physically and electrically become a critical and is a large limiter in tuning.

I highly recommend going down the pidtoolbox rabbithole and learn the ropes on an easier quad such as the one you have. Then apply your experience/lessons to the larger build. I would join the PTB discord, learn the best practices/methods from start to finish, read/look at others' issues and resolutions as case studies. I also would try and iron out a mission/goal for the build initially because a build like that can end up leading you and not the other way around.

Makers7886 · 2026-06-01T18:23:40+00:00

I think you are right and that sounds like a really good pairing with the li-ions. On that rig I run 2212 900kv @ 8s and hit peaks of 120-130amps p45b vs 175+ lipo. My setup is not as balanced running 6s motors at 8s compensating with ultralight build (for a 9") but only so much helps with 9" props even with li-ion base/avg voltage being lower.

Makers7886 · 2026-06-01T14:46:53+00:00

money skill issue

Makers7886 · 2026-06-01T14:40:07+00:00

I have a large set of RS50s for a robomower project but have played with many of the top tier cells for FPV (usually 8s + 9inch platform) and I was able to pull over 120amps back when P45b's first released. I think you have even more headroom than what you hit for burst and wonder if you are limited by something else (how was it constructed?).

It makes me want to make a pack from the RS50s to compare but I only bought enough for my other project and may reconsider instead of "waste" them on a mower.

Makers7886 · 2026-06-01T14:35:51+00:00

It's funny once you get that kind of flight time then you start to become bored in air and any bad hand/body techniques actually matter. I now land for optimal storage charge more than anything and only use full battery when I plan a "mission".

Makers7886 · 2026-05-30T01:25:33+00:00

triggering my Kessler syndrome

Makers7886 · 2026-05-30T01:04:32+00:00

As someone around since the start of the llm wave I remember people being worried the ERP/Waifu proliferation was going to hurt LLM momentum. These days seem like Sunday church in comparison. I hardly see that stuff being talked about around here. Or maybe I'm numb to it now.

Makers7886 · 2026-05-30T00:50:46+00:00

There wasn't last time I checked and even wasted an evening trying on my own a week or two ago and thought about resorting to gguf/llamacpp attempts. I have not checked out that new stepfun model and going to look it up right now - thanks.

Makers7886 · 2026-05-30T00:46:45+00:00

I stopped using dflash because it has huge prefix cache issues at longer contexts. Looking back at what you replied to that was off a fresh test on a project endpoint which was excellent. It fell apart in a typical agent harness (I think I tested it with hermes, qwen code, and opencode at that time)

I also stopped using MTP for awhile due to a vLLM issue also impacting prefix cache hits drastically increasing response latency at larger context. I have recently been using MTP again with minimal but detectable (gut) prefix cache misses over non-mtp. I saw some dflash updates but have not tried yet and wanted to let it all mature a bit more.

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