Ratio Drones Inc

@YukonK9 Will consider

@RatioDrones Plz not the cube orange, you should go with the V6X.

🚨 Urgent: Hiring Embedded Electronics Engineer for Heavy Lift Drone We’re on an extremely aggressive timeline and need more hands on deck for embedded electronics immediately. Contract: Full-time starting ASAP (ideally within days). 4–8 weeks preferred, but we’ll take two weeks from the right person who can jump in right now. Real path to full-time in-person role + equity. Compensation: Competitive rate + cut of competition winnings if you commit through the first week of August. Already in place: • Cube Orange + ArduPilot • GPS integrated • Custom servo board + RC transmitter commanding servos i.e. the basics Your role: be the bridge between mechanical and software • Integrate FADEC with ArduPilot (throttle, start sequence, telemetry, etc.) • Close the control loop between the powerplant, servos & flight controller • Debug power systems, wiring, grounding & final avionics • Bridge powerplant, software & mechanical teams • Drive us fast to tethered hover and first flight Must-haves: • Strong ArduPilot / Cube Orange experience (tuning flight controllers) • Hands-on FADEC/ECU integration (turbine experience a big plus) • Embedded systems (C/C++, serial/CAN, MAVLink) • Ability to deliver under extreme time pressure This is a hands-on position at our shop in Austin (travel covered). Bonus points if you've built large RC helicopters and/or worked with turbines. Email contact@ratiodrones.com Subject “Turbine Drone” + short note on your ArduPilot + propulsion integration experience + availability + rate. Let’s get this bird flying! #Drone #UAV #Hiring #ArduPilot #soldersniffer

@0x369Q What?

@RatioDrones Would a quick start training program that can produce base line competency’s in 4-8 weeks be in any sense feasible?

@steveMmattison @Xaraphim Are you going to the lift comp?

@Xaraphim @RatioDrones That is one badass Drone design!! Brilliant! I have my own Brilliant (secret) Drone design, that is like nothing else ever seen.🤌🖖

I joined @RatioDrones as one of the founding engineers we are building the MGC 1 for the DARPA LIFT Challenge in august its a turboshaft powered tandem rotor UAV with an 8:1 payload target and it can lift quite insane amounts of payload for its size and weight its been incredible to work with such a cracked team im the turbomachinery and simulations guy (big shocker) our team is small but dammit everyone is so good at what they do @LifeofRileyATX is one of the best mechanical engineers I've worked with, genuinely dont think ive seen a person work as proficiently as him

@petebiggam Austin tx

@RatioDrones Location?

@realmasroork @Xaraphim V1 no

@Xaraphim @RatioDrones Are there two separate turbines? I can’t see a shaft connecting front and rear

I would like to formally introduce you Ratio Drones and our logistics platform concept. The Liberator Payload/Weight: 6:1 (conservative) Fuel: diesel, a1, gas, propane configurable. Power gen: 20kw+ Starlink included. This is the future of frontier logistics. Delivering atoms, electrons and bytes to every forward deployed engineer, researcher, technician, and farmer for the next generation of progress. This platform will run field hospitals, research stations on the side of a volcano, feed cattle stuck across a river, deliver a wellhead to remote exploration sites, and that's just v1. I can't think my team enough for helping me get this off the ground. Soon that will be a literal statement. Shout out to @LifeofRileyATX @0x6D6163 and my close friend @slumber_ship for helping make this possible. And to @Xaraphim for working with us to validate our concepts for the DARPA Lift challenge. If you want to know more about Ratio Drones, send a DM. Otherwise we'll see you from the podium at the Lift competition.

@Utkarsh51557661 @Xaraphim Mostly just timelines.

@Xaraphim @RatioDrones that sounds intense. curious about the challenges you've faced building something this complex.

@LaraOnRockets @Xaraphim Hella

@Xaraphim @RatioDrones Turbomachinery and simulations on a clean sheet DARPA turboshaft. Big shocker. What SFC target are you chasing for that 8:1 payload?

@ICS_Hunter @Xaraphim Yes

@Xaraphim @RatioDrones Whoa! Turbine shaft to transmission or turbine to generator?

@Xaraphim @noneundersun Easy, take superconductor out of the fridge. Wait a while.

@noneundersun @RatioDrones how to make a room temp superconductor

@noneundersun @Xaraphim What's your composite game like?

@Xaraphim @RatioDrones Nice, rooting for you guys - unless you need a very bad mechanical engineer I don't think I could help lol. Unless you need help with materials - most mechanical engineers can handle that most of the time though and most of my experience is in maritime.

@snurosnare @Xaraphim

@RatioDrones @Xaraphim @Xaraphim hey have you thought about unions and unionising at your place of employment

@snurosnare @Xaraphim We don't care.

@Xaraphim @RatioDrones I don't think that's healthy!

@BowTiedNiners @Xaraphim What you want to work with us too?

@Xaraphim @RatioDrones Soon

@snurosnare @Xaraphim Don't worry, part of his contract mandates a certain amount of hours per week on this platform

@Xaraphim @RatioDrones Noo you won't have any more time for posting

@Xaraphim @MaxQBasedLord 👀

@MaxQBasedLord @RatioDrones let’s just say i already have

i’m in the weeds

@Emir_Rommel @Tri_Stanisaurus @LifeofRileyATX This is just a test frame, we definitely have different geometry and material specs for the competition version

@Tri_Stanisaurus @RatioDrones @LifeofRileyATX Did you think about the pultruded bars options instead of tubes for the shear strength? Maybe lighter and cheaper.

The frame weighs in at single digits. Literally. @RatioDrones @LifeofRileyATX is delivering on his pinky promise for frame mass targets.