{"id":10365,"date":"2024-02-12T21:59:22","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T04:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=10365"},"modified":"2024-01-09T22:09:34","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T05:09:34","slug":"a-flying-umbrella","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=10365","title":{"rendered":"A flying umbrella"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qNTv5SgM0BM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Combine the flying parts of a drone with an umbrella, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@ibuildstuff\">I Build Stuff<\/a> is onto something. It doesn&#8217;t follow you autonomously, but it would be easy enough to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Including some French guys&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5O-iwzP9QNU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Add some lights under it for dark nights, and I think they&#8217;ll be really onto something. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They&#8217;ll need to solve a few problems: limited battery life (include the regular collapsible handle as backup), needs to be foldable for going into buildings (likely solvable), able to withstand fairly heavy rain\/wind (might be hard), probably very noisy (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cined.com\/mit-researchers-develop-quiet-and-less-annoying-sounding-drone-propellers\/#:~:text=Researchers%20at%20MIT%20have%20designed,weight%20or%20increasing%20power%20consumption.\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.cined.com\/mit-researchers-develop-quiet-and-less-annoying-sounding-drone-propellers\/#:~:text=Researchers%20at%20MIT%20have%20designed,weight%20or%20increasing%20power%20consumption.\">interesting attempts to quiet them<\/a>, but definitely not a full solution).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Combine the flying parts of a drone with an umbrella, and I Build Stuff is onto something. It doesn&#8217;t follow you autonomously, but it would be easy enough to do. Including some French guys&#8230; Add some lights under it for dark nights, and I think they&#8217;ll be really onto something. They&#8217;ll need to solve a few problems: limited battery life (include the regular collapsible handle as backup), needs to be foldable for going into buildings (likely solvable), able to withstand&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=10365\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-2Hb","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10366,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10365\/revisions\/10366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}