Wayne "Hakan" Polatkan

Aerospace & AI

[Wayne "Hakan" Polatkan @WNoxchi]

I made a video on how AlphaZero is able to train without external data: https://t.co/w9BdQ7H1Wu

[sunil pai @threepointone]

@qiqing I always try to get my enemies to play factorio

[Wayne "Hakan" Polatkan @WNoxchi]

@joebarnard wonder if it being a lot of youg guys who grew up in an echo chamber is related. there just isn't a lot of empathy and introspection.

[Wayne "Hakan" Polatkan @WNoxchi]

@Tri_Stanisaurus I need to try my hand at custom firmware on an elrs board. apparently 'simulating' signals over wire is a thing? siren song of RF beckons...

[Wayne "Hakan" Polatkan @WNoxchi]

I ❤️ 月饼

[Wayne "Hakan" Polatkan @WNoxchi]

@BishopAerospace 🫡🫡🫡

[Wayne "Hakan" Polatkan @WNoxchi]

I’m going to disappear into the Adirondacks and learn as much as I can about supersonic aircraft design.

[Wayne "Hakan" Polatkan @WNoxchi]

you know what, sure, let's try and build a supersonic plane after darpa lift, why not.

.. where the hell am I going to test this thing?

[Wayne "Hakan" Polatkan @WNoxchi]

we've had supersonic planes since the 40s, you just take one and make it smaller right?

[Wayne "Hakan" Polatkan @WNoxchi]

@Hunter_Weiss I hear the vast majority of fpv drones in Ukraine are domestically made, and there’s a very strong preference for local companies & manufacturers over outside sources, except for special cases. Also I heard they don’t like neros, lol

[Wayne "Hakan" Polatkan @WNoxchi]

@chesterzelaya I read wifi was how DJI got started with video. Might be a good step towards doing cameras in house.

[Wayne "Hakan" Polatkan @WNoxchi]

@boxcardavid Do you make motors for heavy lift drones? Say 18 kgF continuous, +32 kgF max static?

[Wayne "Hakan" Polatkan @WNoxchi]

video unavailable, ah that's a shame.

[Wayne "Hakan" Polatkan @WNoxchi]

Starting down the road of making my own simulation tools. Everything out there is gated by so many steps and calls and subscriptions, and meetings and ahhhhhh'Ill just do it myself.

[Wayne "Hakan" Polatkan @WNoxchi]

Just got a response from the FAA that reeeeally sounds like an LLM trained on too much Reddit

[Wayne "Hakan" Polatkan @WNoxchi]

One man with a set of Torx security bits could bring society to its knees

[Wayne "Hakan" Polatkan @WNoxchi]

@boxcardavid Looks like the x11 g2, 14S motor with a plastic inlet for air cooling on top

[Wayne "Hakan" Polatkan @WNoxchi]

@lavie154 Heh, hoping that boom competition is a step in the right direction. Never designed a plane before and I am not leaving ny metro

[Wayne "Hakan" Polatkan @WNoxchi]

@boxcardavid hey do you guys make motors for 100-200 lb drones btw? I need to start taking stock of who in the US can.

[Wayne "Hakan" Polatkan @WNoxchi]

@lysandrou_ @TheBrianMcManus Hope to see you in the air!

[Wayne "Hakan" Polatkan @WNoxchi]

@lysandrou_ Do It!

[Wayne "Hakan" Polatkan @WNoxchi]

Unfortunately that's hard to sell, but fortunately the results speak for themselves very clearly.

[Wayne "Hakan" Polatkan @WNoxchi]

This is the main theory I had for DARPA Lift. When you make a drone everyone asks you what makes it special, looking for some shiny tech.

Competent execution is more important than technology. See how helicopters and multirotors dominated the top-5.

[Robotbeat🗽 ➐ @Robotbeat]

@GeorgeRoush Yeah, a lot of it was just reliability. The benefits of the different powertrains and configurations often didn’t get realized because they weren’t able to fly reliably.

[Wayne "Hakan" Polatkan @WNoxchi]

Underlying tech: battery chemistry, powertrain, etc. will change your margins, but how well you build and integrate what you have dictates whether you have a solid platform or junk.