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Originally Posted by jamesqf
It's really a matter of scale. Try making & assembling a heilcoper-like swash plate &c at the size of a typical drone. Then try repairing it :-) Where with electric motors, you can use electronic PWM to change rotation speed in microseconds.
But scale that up to a full-size helicopter, and try to find an engine which will respond quickly enough for quad-copter style control...
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I've got this XK110 heli (collective pitch / swash plate), which can be purchased for about $60. It is more expensive than some drones, which I've paid as little as $10 for. It has a gyro for maintaining heading, so it should be a relatively simple matter for a computer to also control cyclic and collective to hover in place.
