This was my gripe with the write up as well. Like everybody, I’m interested in the least expensive option with similar features to the $130 option. Surely there’s something in the $20-30 range they could’ve studied?

Sure, I’ll take one

The answer might be impossible or impractical like a Dyson Sphere.

Yeah, Neanderthals were famous for their efficient large-scale manufacturing capabilities

Governments are one of the few entities that are able (and occasionally willing) to spin up a mass production endeavor without the profit motive necessarily present.

Sometimes they essentially do this themselves via federal employees, or contractors. Sometimes they achieve the ends indirectly by incentivizing private companies with subsidies and the like.

Regardless of how it gets done, everyone shows up for work in the morning motivated by something. In the Soviet Union this was often the fear of imprisonment or other such violence, which was a really shitty situation for a lot of people to be in. In the modern world, it’s typically the hope that the money made will pay for food and housing and such.

Without the motivation to make a profit, few entities are both willing and able to engage in the considerable expense, risk, and effort required to spin up a mass production line.

Basically the same thing…

I’m gonna guess pacemaker

It came straight out of my dad brain! The mythical fabled original content!

As a Texan, I rarely have good things to say about Texas these days, so I’ll take the opportunity to say that this shit would literally not fly around here. It would be a great way to chew through your drone budget in record time, anyway.