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Pun intended?

Anyways, a university experiment video that went viral [0] is the first I recall seeing a quadcopter in action. Maybe the tipping point if you care to investigate further.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQIMGV5vtd4

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Yep, same here. May have seen another article or video that same year but that was the one that stuck in my head. Kind of sad that I didn't even get a "toy" quad until this year but I ought to be building my own sometime this summer.

I feel old. This video is a late addition to the quadcopter world. But then again, while multicopters were popular within DIY scene for some time, they only recently went mainstream and started being sold to "normals".

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