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chgxvjh [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net to technology@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 day ago

Tech hobbyist makes shoulder-mounted guided missile prototype with $96 in parts and a 3D printer — DIY MANPADS includes Wi-Fi guidance, ballistics calculations, optional camera for tracking

www.tomshardware.com

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Tech hobbyist makes shoulder-mounted guided missile prototype with $96 in parts and a 3D printer — DIY MANPADS includes Wi-Fi guidance, ballistics calculations, optional camera for tracking

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Tech hobbyist makes shoulder-mounted guided missile prototype with $96 in parts and a 3D printer — DIY MANPADS includes assisted targeting, ballistics calculations, optional camera for tracking
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  • Esoteir [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    • 3D Printer $200
    • Plastic Spool $30
    • Missile $50,000
    • Raspberry Pi $56

    someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying

    • DasRav [any, any]@hexbear.net
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      Easy: Ignore your family. Once they are dead, you can fully commit to your project.

    • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]@hexbear.net
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      spend less on roman candles

    • plinky [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      seems like an easy decision, if americans weren’t treatlerites, for a year salary downing some car-related billionaire jet

      • Le_Wokisme [they/them, undecided]@hexbear.net
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        a year salary

        i fucking wish

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    at first I was like >:( but then I was like 8^)

    imagine having a whole arsenal of these at your next protest when the cops start indiscriminately beating, pepper spraying, and shooting people

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      fedposting

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        I think the fbi will need to get off the computer if they want to stop $96 manpads

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          The implication is that the FBI wants to instigate people bringing diy manpads to protests.

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    Saw this on rednote yesterday

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      xhs-doge

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    Better clone that git repo ASAP

    • Robert_Kennedy_Jr [xe/xem, xey/xem]@hexbear.net
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      The github for the launcher and rocket system was already taken down.

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        Looks like it’s right here, or is something missing?

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          Huh, kept telling me the page didn’t exist when I tried the link.

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    Okay maybe there’s some hope for revolution in America

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    Just in time for Easter!

    • JustSo [she/her, any]@hexbear.net
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      ROCKET DELIVERY!

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    You need to load it with a warhead though right to blow up a drone?

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      if one can pre-deliver it to engine intake, one needs only some tungsten cubes and that’s it

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      yeah but like, … it is not hard to find a friend who played with redacteds when they were a kid. delivery systems are way more complicated than… that bit.

      edit: I mean if you were in a shituation were you really had a use for something like this, it wouldn’t be hard to find such a friend, not that it’s that ez during every day life or w/e

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    nicholson-yes

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