Scoff ye not: Chap carves crunchy carrot-copter

We're obliged to Gary Mortimer of sUAS News for flagging up an entertaining piece of tomfoolery in the form of a quadcopter hewn from vegetables - the entirely convincing "Carrotcopter". The Carrotcopter Sadly, there's no information on the avionics, or indeed the variety of carrot used to create this magnificent flying …

[king of foo]

Eh,

what's up, doc?

[Neil Barnes]

Re: Eh,

Damnit, too slow. Have a carrot!

[spudmasterflex]

Whole new meaning

Of UAV

Unmanned aerial vegetable

[Stoneshop]

you may have time to eat most of the evidence before the cuffs go on

That's why you use a frozen lamb chop to bash someone's skull in.

[Cliff]

Re: you may have time to eat most of the evidence before the cuffs go on

"Lamb to the slaughter", Roald Dahl short story - he's great.

[Mark 85]

Re: you may have time to eat most of the evidence before the cuffs go on

So I the lambs have stopped screaming, Clarice?

[Cliff]

Some gag about software Bugs

That's all.

[John Bailey]

Re: Some gag about software Bugs

Or a whole new meaning for carrot fly?

[Robert Helpmann??]

Re: Some gag about software Bugs

Sounds a bit Daffy to me.

[Steven Davison]

@ Cliff : I remember reading that story as a kid, but I don't recall it being a Roald Dahl story... interesting. :)

[big_D]

I read it at school. It is definitely Roald Dahl.

[M7S]

When do vegetables finally die....

....and could this be thought of as a new class of cyborg?

(Presumably with "see in the dark" capabilities)

[Message From A Self-Destructing Turnip]

Wheeeeeeeee..... there's a great view from up here.... oh damn...

batteries...byeeeeeee...

[RobDog]

Drone/quad/UAV - please use in context

This isn't a UAV, as most quads aren't. I am a quad enthusiast, not a UAV builder, and not everyone who builds quads wants to strap an Arduino & GPS to it and have it fly away to A then B then C under it's own control...most of us build a quadcopter then fly it ourselves...at which point it is just another hoverable RC aircraft.

So please - don't get all Daily Fail and mix up your terms and frighten people...

[Stu]

From what I could tell, this is an 'off the shelf' Hubsan X4 stripped down to the PCB, shoved in a carrot frame, and, to my amazement, still flew with those crappy one or two inch propellers! And was that super glue sticking the carrot bits together!? :-)

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Next trick, buy the bits from the far east - custom flight controller, four electronic speed controllers, four brushless DC motors, a 3S battery, and four medium sized props. Reflash ESCs with SimonK firmware, upgrade flash on custom flight controller. Pop down to the market and get, I dunno, a few sticks of celery, make a somewhat more impressive veggie based flying machine.

GO...GO...GO!

[Andy Gates]

If I were a betting man, I'd say he pranged his X4 (quadcopters being crashing machines that sometimes fly) and rather than faff with repairs, got wonderfully silly.

It's a pity cruciferous veg aren't more cruciform or we could crew up the Sprout Patrol...

[Anonymous Coward]

It's not really green yet ..

Call me if they manage to power it using some lemons or apples with electrodes..

[Martin Budden]

Re: It's not really green yet ..

Definitely not green: it's clearly a bright orange colour.

[Gene Cash]

Weaponize it

Air droppable tomatoes. I see a great need.