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David 'Yukon'

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Building flying robots @K9DefenseTech Defense drone dev, dog lover, (🇺🇸/acc) 1 Peter 3:14~15 I'm 🇰🇷🇺🇲 Freedom Isn't Free 🇺🇲🐺 drones, drones, drones

Rome / Atlanta, GA

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David 'Yukon'

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Politics is downstream from culture, culture is downstream from institutions, institutions are downstream from technology, technology is downstream from economics, and economics is downstream from principled philosophy. If you want to make a difference, invest upstream from tech.

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David 'Yukon'

3 months

From F-35 production lines to home sewing projects.

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We should use more projectors in hard tech.

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6 months

Oh cool, your drone is NDAA compliant. But does it have the Preamble of the United States Constitution baked into the drone???? Ours will 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

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David 'Yukon'

11 months

Remix dev prototype I'm working on for the PVS-69 project. Optics has significantly improved over the months, and now lots of work among devs on integrating thermal. Kudos to Vonscherf Arms for making affordable FOSS 3D printable digital NVGs a reality. Digital is the future!

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David 'Yukon'

11 months

Literally using hobby RC jet turbines! I think Western weapons procurement has to be more accepting of COTS-based end products RAPIDLY. That'll yield superior ROI per dollar spent. The terrorists just shot down a multi-million dollar drone for probably like $30k...

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Iran Defense|نیروهای مسلح جمهوری اسلامی ایران

11 months

The parchamdar documentary showed never before seen footage of a 358 loitering SAM downing an American MQ-1 UAV (likely in Yemen), including high resolution seeker footage Confirmation 358 is indeed the official designation. It's been supplied to Ansarallah, Hezbollah & the PMF

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3 months

Okay I don't think I can ever go back go any other printer than the @Prusa3D XL lol.

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David 'Yukon'

3 months

We got you covered, plus perpetrators won't hear ours over their head.

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3 months

We need American-made drone swarms and counter-drone units protecting and surveilling future speeches of Presidential candidates

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8 months

The chaotic urge to build thermal quad nods lol.

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David 'Yukon'

6 months

Swashplateless blade pitch control by @vertiq_ , absolutely mind blowing! Flapping or Tettering hinge plus precise motor speed changes mid revolution. Was cool talking about one of their founder collaborating with @TomStantonYT (how I already knew of them!)

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5 months

They know.

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Members of the German SEK

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2 months

Magnesium alloy extrusions, lighter than alumnium by 35%. Often underrated and overlooked, and in many cases serves as a better replacement to Carbon Fiber. Also these rifle rails feel so good. @ExpoUAV

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4 months

Meanwhile in CCP land:

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5 months

Got both print tolerances dialed first try👌.

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David 'Yukon'

11 months

How many airborne thermal imaging optic payloads are just listed on Ebay is kinda insane LOL.

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David 'Yukon'

28 days

Had a blast with the firearm & airship legend @HoffmanTactical over at the @K9DefenseTech lab!! Talking guns, drones, airships, balloons, defense, and more. I also got to see his sleek 3D printed drone build in person 👌 Tim is a true LEGEND, the modern renaissance man.

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David 'Yukon'

5 months

Hardware dev litmus test question: How many generic cheapo chineseium flush cutters do you ruin a month?

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David 'Yukon'

1 year

I used to think printing dummy parts was a waste of time and material, but now I'm a huge fan. It saves so much time in development having just copies of your parts around for getting a feel for and doing integration tests.

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David 'Yukon'

8 days

In highschool I made a desktop @anduriltech sentry tower out of a pan and tilt security camera. Can't justify the time to do it now, but some nights like tonight I fantasize making tiny flying models of Roadrunner, Ghost, & Altius. It would be so cool!

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David 'Yukon'

2 months

Almost gave myself a heart attack finding this pic from circa 2018. Valor sUAS batt V0; I was spot welding cells in my bedroom with a car battery & cheapo steel strips because I spent all my money on the high current 18650 cells. In retrospect, it was basically an IED LOL...

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David 'Yukon'

10 months

IT'S ALIVE!! I've been freaking waiting/working up for an entire year for this moment! I can't wait to get this up in the air! The ghostly rotor sound is unlike any other drone of this class.

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Canine Defense Technologies

10 months

It's alive! The first static test of the Valor sUAS flight test airframe with all four of its stealth props! More ground testing and tuning will be done in preparation for flight testing.

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David 'Yukon'

7 months

Drone Bros: Build cool hacker drone, so cool. Boomers: OMG THEY'RE BUILDING SKYNET! Drone Bros: Let's make the light turn red when it starts hacking lol. Thanks @uavbro for the silly suggestion, I laughed multiple times soldering in that red light lol!

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Canine Defense Technologies

7 months

DragonDrone entering hacking mode.

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David 'Yukon'

4 months

-We don't have child labor/cheap labor - We don't do massive IP theft - We don't have domestic chip production at scale - We don't have lax environmental laws for rare earth refinement - We're no longer a manufacturing economy...

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David 'Yukon'

6 months

If anyone wants to make a poor man's Menace-X, let me know. It won't have Lattice though, just chat GPT and ATAK because we're on a budget lol.

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Johnny Ni

6 months

Trying to buy one of the @anduriltech Menace-X vehicles so me and the boys can go off roading

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David 'Yukon'

2 months

Another weekend, Another order! Made a hotkey so the minute a prototype is done in CAD, it can be ordered.

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David 'Yukon'

10 months

It's going to be a long night LOL...

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David 'Yukon'

2 months

Absolutely beautiful! My first order from ; I know this is the beginning of many more orders to come! It's unbelievable to order & get the parts in hand on the same week! This is going to be tremendously valuable & allows me to iterate so much faster.

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David 'Yukon'

30 days

Completely new drone gimbal designed from scratch, built, balanced, tuned, and shipped to customer in 48 hours, new personnel record and I am wasted lol. The more and more gimbals I build, the more I understand why there's entire companies just dedicated to it.

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David 'Yukon'

3 months

First time ordering at That was the fastest and smoothest quote/ordering of any cut service I've ever used, and @KennethCassel sent me a video of my parts getting cut; how cool is that!!!! 2.5 hours later, it's shipped. LEGENDS!

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David 'Yukon'

8 months

What a freaking world class event! Congratulations to the top three teams! I was awestruck by the shear volume of talent and innovation in this single space! Special thanks to @0xPHBD @anishgoel_ @the_simonpastor @rasmusdeymeyer @apollo_defense @ADoricko @join_ef @8vc

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David 'Yukon'

3 months

One of my favorite online videos of all time is the FF Opening Notes video. Here's a Defense/Aerospace version I've been working on little by little on the side. Go and maintain deterrence 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

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2024 has delivered on this energy so far.

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David 'Yukon'

3 months

Zero to mission altitude in less than 3 seconds, we've been cooking. Exciting hardware in the works, stay tuned @K9DefenseTech !

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Canine Defense Technologies

3 months

Welcome to the future of warfare. Are you ready?

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David 'Yukon'

3 months

TPU print with PLA supports on the @Prusa3D XL. Very impressive! I have not been using TPU as often mainly because the supports were such a pain to deal with. Not an issue anymore!

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David 'Yukon'

6 months

Builder to builder, no gift is more special than a tool that will serve the other for many years to come. This was the best surprise gift I've ever received! Thank you so much @uavbro , this is truly special, I'll be flying so many cool stuff off of this!

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David 'Yukon'

1 year

I don't think it was meant to be an easter egg, but one of the panels on the B-21 makes a mini B-21!

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David 'Yukon'

8 months

I wanted @K9DefenseTech to have the most futuristic business card ever. If you were at the Gundo Defense Tech Hackathon, you probably picked one up!

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David 'Yukon'

10 months

Special thanks to: @MichaelJGTZ @the_simonpastor @0xPHBD @anishgoel_ @HoffmanTactical @uavbro @cemaxecuter @ArkElectron @0xBA60FF1EA5 @Wild_Arms_RandD @Chemist_John_ (& others not on X) You've all made a significant positive impact through my 2023 journey!

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Canine Defense Technologies

10 months

It's been one heck of a year of building, accelerating, and iterating. Things are about to get insane in 2024, the year we plan to make our major moves in democratizing American tactical sUAS technology. LET'S GO!!

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David 'Yukon'

6 months

"want to work on the next meme drone with me?" ~ @uavbro Me: HECK YES.

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David 'Yukon'

12 days

No way! @anduriltech Bolt has the OG Anduril Remove Before Flight Tags (which I am a proud owner of)

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David 'Yukon'

9 months

If you were wondering, this is what all those zipties were for lol. Companies quoted me upwards of $3k for a drone test cage this size, so I bought some nylon netting and a pack of zipties and made one with a budget of $60.

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Canine Defense Technologies

9 months

Latest addition to the drone lab, a drop down indoor test flight cage. Drones can now be built and safley test flown in the same space!

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David 'Yukon'

1 year

Hot take but drones will render the rifleman relatively obsolete, non visual line of sight surgical engagements is a reality no one is prepared for.

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Datawalker

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1 year

@YukonK9 Drone flying is a more useful skill than CQB.

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David 'Yukon'

9 months

And you my little friend are going to go right there.

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David 'Yukon'

4 months

- Flight controllers for prototypes ✅️ - Internal parts inventory system ✅️ - Workstations with internally developed procedures ✅️ - New wiki docs ✅️ - Tool balancers & torque drivers on the way ✅️ WE ARE SO CLOSE. iykyk.

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Canine Defense Technologies

4 months

Flight controllers & computers are the critical neural centers of a drone, crucial for determining its final capabilities & performance. Our systems proudly feature the best American UAV hardware in the industry from @ARK_Electr0nics 🇺🇸

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David 'Yukon'

6 months

How many guys about to transform the U.S. drone industry can you have on one table? What an EPIC night with @uavbro @OHichwa @ArkElectron @IkeLAtkinson and Josh Henderson! Special thanks to @ArkElectron for hosting! Neros, ARK, Momentum, K9, Ardupilot 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

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David 'Yukon'

11 months

It's not that complicated!!!

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@goblinodds

goblin in limbo

11 months

god why are men so hard to get gifts for wtf do u people want

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David 'Yukon'

2 months

EW DEV DRONE EW DEV DRONE EW DEV DRONE

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Brandon Tseng

2 months

The DoD must 100x the amount of electronic warfare testing it currently does. Near all of our unmanned assets and a large number of weapon systems will simply not work when GPS and communications is jammed. We are not training how we will fight and this will be paid for in blood.

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David 'Yukon'

7 months

Thanks to @chianlihang for visiting @K9DefenseTech yesterday! Underground drone dev from @pipedream_labs meets flying drone dev, how cool is that! Also did a SUPER sketchy manual hop of Valor inside the flight test cage lol (Valor has only flown outside due to its sheer size).

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David 'Yukon'

9 months

My feed is flooded with Apple Vision Pro posts, but my mind is on how such mass consumer electronics tech can be pooled into the even more exciting defense uses for AR spatial computing!

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David 'Yukon'

2 months

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@SpaceBasedFox

SpaceBasedFox 𝖕𝖊𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖊𝖊𝖆𝖊𝖗𝖔.𝖈𝖔𝖒

2 months

Starliner crew reports hearing strange "sonar like noises" emanating from their craft. This is the real audio of it:

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David 'Yukon'

6 months

Today there were two Paul Allen's on the show floor @XPONENTIALshow : @K9DefenseTech and @Momentum_Drones ;) We both may be startups now, but we're going to go big or go home, starting from our business cards!

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David 'Yukon'

5 months

This never gets old!

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David 'Yukon'

10 months

Remember when Huawei was putting cell towers near our nuclear missile silos?

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@aphysicist

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David 'Yukon'

1 month

Steamers look so freaking cool through thermal!

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David 'Yukon'

8 months

Heck yeah! Hardware from @K9DefenseTech and @Momentum_Drones making it into the recap video. Let's go!

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@ADoricko

Augustus Doricko

8 months

The City of El Segundo put together a recap of the defense tech hackathon TLDR is dudes rock, the Gundo rocks

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David 'Yukon'

1 year

For 2kg+ folding drone platforms, the market only offers complex and bulky locking arm mechs (pictured below). We used commercially available cam levers to make a dead simple and super compact arm lock that just works, no need for very complex and expensive custom solutions!

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Canine Defense Technologies

1 year

New ultra fast toolless arm locks for Valor sUAS. Tactical drones need to be able to deploy FAST. It was challenging to develop a low profile and low mass lock mech strong enough for Valor. Previous iterations required a field tool and took up to 30 seconds per arm.

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David 'Yukon'

3 months

True story. 2018: Asking dumb amateur questions on drone group chats/communities. 2019: Started asking defense implications, gets banned from a lot of groups. Mid 2022: sneak back in with alts just out of curiosity, everyone posting Ukraine combat footage...

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Tricky

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3 months

is anyone in a drone gc? and if so, can I join?

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David 'Yukon'

8 months

I forgot about this project! I found these pictures while moving project logs! A few years ago I took apart a pan and tilt security camera to make a desktop @anduriltech sentry tower:

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David 'Yukon'

8 months

5 a.m. vibes building out parts organization for drone production and R&D. We're going to pump out so many airframes!

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David 'Yukon'

1 year

$1,000,000 Wecam MX-15 Optics package on a $100,000 Cesna:

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Scott Lowe

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1 year

Neat look at CAP's "Green Flag" capabilities - acting as a lower cost, surrogate Reaper drone during military exercises -

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David 'Yukon'

1 month

. @ArkElectron 48 hours later! GIGACHAD 🔥🔥🔥🔥

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Alex Klimaj

1 month

Making progress on the ARK FPV Flight Controller. Will run @PX4Autopilot and @ArduPilotTeam initially and later @teambetaflight . Fully NDAA compliant and made in the USA. #drone #drones #uav #uas #madeinUSA #NDAA

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David 'Yukon'

10 months

Yes it's RGB. That is a mandatory feature! Feels so cyber, I freaking love it.

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Canine Defense Technologies

10 months

Introducing the latest extension to the dev lab, the new manufacturing shop! Ready to support small-scale production and R&D efforts entering into 2024. WE ARE SO BACK.

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David 'Yukon'

3 months

We are about to see a lot more drones with Satcom!

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David Zagaynov

3 months

Long range comms have arrived, thanks Elon

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David 'Yukon'

2 months

In 12 hours: Received parts from -> test flew on drone -> crashed drone -> found design flaws -> redesigned -> ordered new frame from @KennethCassel is literally fueling my dev cycle!

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David 'Yukon'

2 months

Absolutely beautiful! My first order from ; I know this is the beginning of many more orders to come! It's unbelievable to order & get the parts in hand on the same week! This is going to be tremendously valuable & allows me to iterate so much faster.

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David 'Yukon'

8 months

Wait till you see PAV-1, 10X cooler and performance boost, and a crazy optics package. Any Aviation geeks out there who know the reference? Hint: PAV-1 is black, PAV-2 is grey!

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Canine Defense Technologies

8 months

Valor sUAS PAV-2 🇺🇸

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David 'Yukon'

7 months

The best $2 I've ever spent are probably these guys from @digikey , now we got one on every work station!

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David 'Yukon'

8 months

Got a tour of Rangeview and Neros yesterday. MY MIND WAS BLOWN. Both operations are so freaking dialed in, it's a total balance of art and engineering. I unfortunately had to leave early :( It was a honor to finally meet @cameron62s @OHichwa and @soren_ma !

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David 'Yukon'

10 months

What an amazing event today! Didn't expect to be on stage demoing what I've been building @K9DefenseTech , but it was exciting!! Thanks to everyone who chatted with me! Special thanks to @teddyfeld @the_simonpastor @TechSqATL Joe Ros and all the guys @startupxchange

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David 'Yukon'

5 months

Late night crack ideas coming to fruition, but you can use a 5w UV laser to burn off the silkscreen and solder mask of PCBs to expose the raw FR4 and copper. Heat warping is an issue, I will experiment further. Could be a useful technique for reverse engineering, evaluation, etc.

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David 'Yukon'

6 months

It's funny @uavbro 's @redbull drone is more red bull than red bull's own drone lol Can't wait to see these cans fly!

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6 months

@ti_morse fueled this innovation. Thanks @YukonK9 for the collaboration on the motor mounts. This is just a mock-up. The final version will likely have an additional Red Bull on each arm. Thanks to @ARK_Electr0nics for the excellent electronics that will go in it!

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David 'Yukon'

1 month

Perfect form factor to mount inside a polycarbonate single piece visor, enough of a forehead gap to put EO/IR, you know what I want to hack it for!

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Bilawal Sidhu

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Okay it happened! Snapchat Spectacles AR glasses. Fully standalone. 46 degree field of view. 37 pixels per degree. That’s roughly like a 100” TV screen! 2x snapdragon chips. 45 minutes of battery. Auto transitioning lenses. Designed for co-presence. Spectator mode and more.

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David 'Yukon'

4 months

Poast home defense (I spot you half a kilometer away before you even get near my house, checkmate)

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Ronnie Adkins (Funker530)

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Poast home defense

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David 'Yukon'

10 months

So many of you have been asking for the diy drone 101 crash course, I've been very busy working on it on whatever free time I have!

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David 'Yukon'

27 days

Interesting!

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Anduril Industries

27 days

The @USArmy has selected Ghost-X for its Company Level Small Unmanned Aircraft System Directed Requirement (DR). Ghost-X offers a unique, highly-modular aircraft that builds upon Ghost's multi-mission capabilities proven in a range of operating theaters and contested

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David 'Yukon'

6 months

I thought this was fake for a second lol, no way... I can't believe Anduril went from the "Tech’s Most Controversial Startup" to making it onto a Mark Rober video. Defense Tech is winning the narrative, let's freaking go! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

@anduriltech

Anduril Industries

6 months

“Thank goodness we got Anvil" We recently hosted YouTuber @MarkRober at Anduril HQ to talk about the challenges of countering drones and why smashing them out of the sky with Anvil is the best approach. Check it out:

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David 'Yukon'

2 months

Why is it eating grass? I designed it to be a menacing predator!!!!

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David 'Yukon'

9 months

Got my company issued Graphene phone from @DigitlAnalogLLC about a week ago, really loving Graphene OS! Robert made sure to send the @DoomerTapes special too, pretty sweet.

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David 'Yukon'

1 year

Cool experiment. With 0.25 3d printing nozzles, you can cheaply print most solder stencils for SMD projects!

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David 'Yukon'

2 months

Check out how tiny the start/stop points on these laser cut parts from are! With other places, I ususally have to sand them off before using, not with parts from rmfg!

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David 'Yukon'

2 months

Absolutely beautiful! My first order from ; I know this is the beginning of many more orders to come! It's unbelievable to order & get the parts in hand on the same week! This is going to be tremendously valuable & allows me to iterate so much faster.

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David 'Yukon'

1 year

I did a presentation on 3D printing, & 3D printed guns in middle school. Most of the articles I found referenced the single explosion of the Liberator in the ATF Lab as an analog for all 3D printed guns. That's where the false notion about it blowing up in your hand comes from.

@kyleprintspews

Kyle Prints Pews

@kyleprintspews

1 year

Not only ILLEGAL, BUT extremely unsafe. I small mistake in temperature, thickness, length or width will create a BOMB in your hand. I will not FIRE much less OWN a 3d printed weapon.

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David 'Yukon'

26 days

It's a sad day when Ebay notifies you that the FLIR Ultra Force II Airborne Thermal Imaging Pod is no longer available lol.

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David 'Yukon'

8 months

Hardware iteration is this incubating days on end, and every move you make dollars are literally flying away. There's no guarantee it'll even work and you may need to start all over and take a huge loss. When it's time to deliver you need to solve manufacturing, supply chain.....

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@pmarca

Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸

8 months

Hardware people think software is easy; software people think hardware is easy. Why? Hardware people know how hard hardware is; software people know how hard software is.

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David 'Yukon'

10 days

THIS. It's 2024, why do we still not have proper linear servos!?!?

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Nicholas Rehm

10 days

Slap a servo lead on there and mass produce these at $20/pop so we can finally lay these pieces of junk to rest and have a decent linear servo

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David 'Yukon'

6 months

PAV-2 was dev gen 4. Just pulled the 2nd all nighter in a row today to complete the entire base system architecture for dev gen 5, the production variant. Same form factor, completely new airframe allowing for some insane variants of Valor, stay tuned!

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Canine Defense Technologies

8 months

Valor sUAS PAV-2 🇺🇸

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David 'Yukon'

1 year

Whoever is responsible for this many standards for a single connector type should be in jail. USB C integrators like me are agonizing daily.

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David 'Yukon'

2 months

What a way to end @ExpoUAV , with the drone squad @ArkElectron @IkeLAtkinson @mrpollo ! On the show floor, got to meet legendary founder @curt_lary , drone wiz @goods_savage8 , and @legitflyer @MnMFehler Great people is what makes this industry so rewarding to work in 🔥!

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David 'Yukon'

1 month

Fixing it!

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@chesterzelaya

chester — drone/acc

1 month

@JonestechDev open source FPV drones lack documentation

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David 'Yukon'

9 months

CNC machining drone rotor hubs coincidentally yields waste pieces that are the perfect carbon fiber ninja stars lol.

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David 'Yukon'

10 months

Something so sci-fi about a rusty sea hardened drone boat, a worn down giant rocket grappling robot, and a charred space hardened rocket booster. RIP B1058

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@johnkrausphotos

John Kraus

@johnkrausphotos

10 months

Falcon 9 B1058 🫡🇺🇸🚀🪱 A portion of the record-setting Falcon 9 booster remains on board the Just Read the Instructions droneship. After its 19th launch and landing, the vehicle tipped over in rough seas during the transit back to Port Canaveral, and its top portion broke off.

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David 'Yukon'

8 months

On the 3 day drive back to Atlanta from El Segundo, I got to experience Texas for the first time. I am literally falling in love with this state, Texas is amazing 🇨🇱!

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@JoshuaSteinman

joshua steinman (🇺🇸,🇺🇸)

@JoshuaSteinman

8 months

God Bless Texas. I will not elaborate.

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David 'Yukon'

11 months

I think this is the ultimate giga chad revenge you could pull of as an EE to your entire OCD occupied department LOL!

@DatasheetDigest

Datasheet Digest 🧐

@DatasheetDigest

11 months

this is art

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David 'Yukon'

3 months

Hey all the cUAS guys who are struggling with filtering out birds, you may just have to shoot everything that flies lol. Also throwback to Project Aquiline.

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@clashreport

Clash Report

3 months

Birds aren't real: A bird-shaped drone used by the Chinese PLA Marine Corps.

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David 'Yukon'

11 months

Painted the new @K9DefenseTech shop. Grey floors and white walls, very aerospace, just how I like it!

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David 'Yukon'

1 month

Something I wish I learned earlier is using more adhesives with 3D prints rather than trying to use screws or printing geometries with supports.

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David 'Yukon'

9 months

@Hoplite_Ind Your supplier was Chinese right? Thing to note about wholesale suppliers off of Alibaba, they're usually the ones who also run the stores on Aliexpress, so trying to wholesale order and then re-sell goods on your site from Chinese suppliers means they'll always dupe you.

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David 'Yukon'

1 year

Found the best combination for the 3D printable solder stencil: 0.05 layer height, 3 perimeter layers, PLA+ Flexible and durable! Going to pit a write up on the @K9DefenseTech dev wiki.

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David 'Yukon'

1 year

Cool experiment. With 0.25 3d printing nozzles, you can cheaply print most solder stencils for SMD projects!

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David 'Yukon'

11 months

I didn't know it's now 5 a.m., I also didn't know building drone tech at scale would require scraping concrete this late into the night lol.

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David 'Yukon'

11 months

Day 2 of construction, new small scale manufacturing floor for drones in the works for @K9DefenseTech !

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David 'Yukon'

1 year

Designed a new CNC shroud with lights, coolant pump, new motor air cooling vents, and camera! The camera is perfectly focused at the end mill, so no need to pause an operation to check on the condition of the tool head.

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David 'Yukon'

7 months

I did not expect to spot this in Hunstville today!

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David 'Yukon'

5 months

Not everyday you see a B-17 flying overhead!

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David 'Yukon'

2 months

Never stop the dynamic test campaign.

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