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KennethKennedy wrote: I see, 450 size so not too expensive if it crashes, windows are usually omitted on scale helicopter bodies for cooling reasons.
That and I might also mess up building the scale details. It's more like scratch building a model and I'm improvising a lot. At the moment I'm finishing the rivets, but I still have the entire underside to go. Anyway, my first try at a scale model should not be the most expensive one I can find.
KennethKennedy wrote: Considering the need to keep the weight down too, most/all 3D slicing programs allow setting of the infill percentage, quite strong parts can be printed with surprisingly low infill values.
The whole body is dead weight that has to be carried around. I have two options to compensate it. First, I already replaced the symmetric rotor blades with half-symmetric ones. They provide more lift while limiting aerobatics, so I can go easier on the throttle. If that's not enough, I might also replace the battery by two separate ones in parallel withn a higher total capacity. This may also free up the space for a scale cockpit. Just try to find some accurate pilot figures at 1:16 scale. 
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CodeWraith wrote: Just try to find some accurate pilot figures at 1:16 scale.
Autodesk make a 3D scanning package that can generate a 3D model using the camera on a Smartphone. Grab a 3D model of yourself in a sitting position, then print it and you could be the both the remote and on board pilot. 
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Oh no! That would provoke something nasty from our 'Admon'. He has not much hair left on his head and I joked that he served in Vietnam and got a good dose of the defoliating agent.
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Do you have a FabLab[^] or similar close by? I dabbled a little a few years ago using Blender & Sketchup(?), but I think something like that would be very difficult with those tools and no prior experience. The people there there were very helpful though.
Of course, I expect the tools have improved massively since then.
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I know. I have played around with CAD programs, usually for 3D graphics, but drawing detailed parts to scale is not so easy. But I do know a young lady who used to draw parts for a car tuner. I don't doubt that she can do it, provided we get enough pictures and /or drawings from the web. As an alternative, we can also use a small plastic model kit as reference, but they often have made some mistakes.
FabLab, you say? Google's database will soon know about my interest in this and combine this information with what I bought for the last bachelor's party. Who knows what they will deduce from that.
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CodeWraith wrote: drawing detailed parts to scale is not so easy
If you can find an old-fashioned draftsman, he/she can teach you the basics. You can then move onto the automated tools with some idea of what you're doing.
I'd expect that most of them are retired by now...
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
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I do know a young lady who did this for a living at a car tuner.
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And people are writing server side code with it.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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You will always find morons everywhere 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I guess you could call me a moron, because I do write server side code in JavaScript (Nodejs that is) and a full SQL Server accessing one no less. I happen to like it better than using IIS. Only thing I missed in NodeJs is EF capability.
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VB6 is still used too  
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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It kind of sounds like you just don't care enough to learn how to do it correctly. Don't judge others just because you have issues with it. ALL programming languages have their nuances, as well as pros and cons depending on your goals. I really don't mean to offend but I feel like your being very critical...
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and it kinda sounds like you don't know how to distinguish a joke.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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It's going to get a little better soon though.. ECMAScript 6: New Features: Overview and Comparison
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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And in n years from now, when this pile of (brown mass) has finally reached an acceptable state, then everyone except the last surviving fanbois will be fed up with it and someone will reinvent the wheel and everything starts all over again. They will never learn.
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CodeWraith wrote: And in n years from now, when this pile of (brown mass) has finally reached an acceptable state, then everyone except the last surviving fanbois will be fed up with it and someone will reinvent the wheel and everything starts all over again. They will never learn.
I thought I'd seen you out and about today..
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Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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You can't become a CodeWraith until they have drained every bit of enthusiasm and interest from you. JavaScript (or being threatened with having to work with it) makes flipping burgers not so bad a carreer choice after all.
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Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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I don't think you can make $80K - $100k a year flipping burgers.
No matter where you go, there you are...~?~
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Thereb are some things you just can't buy with money, like keeping your sanity.
I need a perfect, to the point answer as I am not aware of this.
Please don't reply explaining what method overloading is
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If you love JavaScript then you get to keep your sanity and make money at the same time, which I do.
No matter where you go, there you are...~?~
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That's nice for you. I know some ladies who make that kind of money without having to play with a lacking interpreter. Still, I have no intention to join them. Sorry.
I need a perfect, to the point answer as I am not aware of this.
Please don't reply explaining what method overloading is
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It's still around because it, like most of the things that are beat upon in a tribal unison, does its job. My only complaint, really, is that it fails silently, taking other code with it if in the same <script> block. The solution to part two is rather obvious.
Take that affront, VB6 (notice tribal chant!) - my director's primary language is SQL. He can write very elaborate applications in VB6, when called upon - and sure, their a bit of a mess compared to when I convert them to C++ or even a web page - but externally, they look just like the others. To the users - no difference.
So - I really embraced strong typing, once I got used to it (so many decades ago). Yet, the ability of javascript (and PHP) to treat things as both values and strings - well they're for making web pages, damn it - which are composed of characters. Relaxing the rules on one end makes life much easier on the other.*
It's a balance. Once gotten used to, the simplicity it(they) add(s) to the processes it(they) was(were) designed to facilitate are facilitated. It's one less bit of worry when I build pages that usually include four languages, sometimes five.
Nothing's for free: strengths are offset with weaknesses or difficulties, somewhere else. C++, for example, take a bit more savvy than C# - yet, managed and unmanaged code has IJW in C++. In DOS, I could access the ROM bios - and did so routinely w/inline assembly (C) - but in NT, all those applications went down the crapper. On the other hand, the O/S was now protected from accidents, usually only single instance crashing instead of the whole machine being taken out because of a pointer error. Win and lose. Yin and Yang.
So - the fallibility of javascript - as you see it - is because it's realm gives you some slack to get on with it's purpose.
* I'll save others of proposing the analogy of allowing bad food in one end make things way too easy on the other.
[edit]Just fixed some of the typos[/edit]
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I have to completely agree with Balboos with one minor addition:
If you are frustrated by JS it's because you're trying to treat it like C#/Java. It's not the same thing, it doesn't work in the same way, and it's like being mad at a spoon for not being a fork.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
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