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A drone can lift itself only through the power of a solar panel (thelemmy.club)
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Some amazing engineer built a drone that can lift its own weight using only the electric power that it gets from an on-board solar panel and nothing else (no battery).

Video: I Built a Solar Powered Drone and it WORKS by Luke Maximo Bell

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[-] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

plus it can lift off all by itself. so if it wants to go on a multi-day journey, it doesn't have to ask a passer-by to lift it up and throw it into the air to get it going.

this post was submitted on 16 Feb 2026
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