"Western experts, who else could they be?" Captain Han said with a laugh, but then a helpless expression appeared on his face.
They say that polar bears and we, in order to develop high-end rockets, even buy high-end household appliances at high prices.
We import huge quantities of these home appliances, and while they're making money off us, they're also trying to disgust us with malicious intent.
Back then, if someone bought an imported gadget, the whole neighborhood would brag about it; it was simply a symbol of our wealth. A family with ten thousand yuan would parade around adorned with red ribbons and colorful decorations, just to announce that their child had become rich.
They all followed along, learning how to get rich.
They even organized a special seminar for these millionaires to share their experiences in making money.
This is a glorious deed, and it also reflects our pursuit of material things.
But Western experts say a completely different story. They say that buying these high-end home appliances is not about showing off wealth or celebrating anything, but about taking the chips out and using them in our scientific research.
Anyone with a brain would think this is a pipe dream. Who would be so foolish as to build a microcontroller? And the price is ridiculous!
It's like you just bought a brand new electric bike, only to remove one of its bearings and put it on your old, beat-up bicycle that you've been riding for fifteen or sixteen years.
Unfortunately, there were far too many people who didn't understand chips back then. Experts still had a high level of credibility at the time, and the public still trusted them.
No matter how we refute it, we can only raise a few protests, saying that the other party is talking nonsense.
It might work for precision instruments, but for rockets, only a tiny fraction of people are knowledgeable about them. I absolutely do not believe such irresponsible nonsense.
The rocket uses inertial guidance, and these things cost way more than chips.
Without satellite positioning or precision guidance, the technology relies on inertial guidance. While some chips were added for computation in the 1980s and 90s, everything before that was mechanical.
What is mechanic? Just like a mechanical watch, no matter how expensive your electronic watch is, it can never be more expensive than a mechanical watch.
They calculated two things back then: distance and fuel. How much fuel was needed to fly how far was calculated in detail.
That thing plunges headlong into the ground, and the error is precise even if it's within one or two kilometers. The key is that the radius of the flower at the center of that thing is several kilometers, so an error of one or two kilometers is not a big deal.
As technology continues to advance, inertial guidance systems are also improving. Some systems also incorporate computing chips, which have specially designed architectures.
It is only responsible for the functions that a chip should have, and it also has a special feature: it can self-repair damaged transistors.
Civilian-grade products are simply not good enough for the high-end market.
A single high-end beam of light from the other side could burn up a civilian-grade object, rendering it completely unusable.
That's why self-repairing transistors are so important.
Removing the chips from washing machines and refrigerators is, in our old saying, like taking dog meat for a banquet.
When all the high-end equipment is exhausted and there's no other way, it's possible for a genius to come along and do a DIY project with some microcontrollers.
Legitimate practices are not allowed.
Xing Baohua and Captain Han's chat was awkward. One dared not speak, and the other dared not ask; what could they possibly come up with?
We drank water, smoked, and chatted about the weather.
About half an hour later, Captain Han finally left. Xing Baohua, however, started to think about something.
Whether it's the Long March carrier rocket or a giant firework, the gyroscope inside is definitely mechanical.
However, mechanical gyroscopes have a drawback: you cannot affect them with electronic devices.
How can we combine mechanical gyroscopes and electronic sensors to create an electronic gyroscope that can process relevant data? This would allow for the development of small, civilian-grade drones.
With the digital video recording technology developed by MIMINI and Nikon's high-definition cameras, shooting aerial videos and wedding videos represents a huge market!
Except for the lack of an electronic gyroscope, Xing Baohua had all the other accessories.
He has a dedicated research lab for brushless motors. Although his predecessor specialized in making motors for portable music players, that was still a profession!
Lightweight propellers can be made with carbon fiber scraps; is there any material better than carbon fiber?
Battery life: lithium batteries! Not only are they lightweight, but they also have long battery life.
Add a camera and a bank card. Wouldn't it be worth the materials if it didn't sell for tens of thousands of dollars?
The motherboard chipset programming is handled by a team of software engineers, and wireless transmission is also readily available.
What else is needed?
Real-time image transmission—that's a challenge. Video files can't be scaled down to handheld devices with current equipment; at best, they can only be transmitted to a tablet.
Whether it's a tablet or a laptop, especially outdoors when exposed to sunlight, the entire screen becomes completely black, and you can't see anything.
Technically, there's still room for improvement. At worst, we could add a remote control with a small 3.5-inch screen and a cover to make do with it.
Believe it or not, this thing can actually be used as a project.
Use the rice series.
I originally wanted to use the Nikon brand name, but then I thought, I can't let Nikon benefit from this for nothing!
Just provide professional digital products and accessories; let them do whatever they want with the rest.
I spent the night with Su Ya, and the next morning I received a call from Director Xu saying that he would take Xing Baohua to the Fifth Research Institute.
This institute is the department responsible for researching and developing everything that goes into space.
After agreeing on a time, Xing Baohua and Su Ya quickly went out to get some breakfast. Since it was close to Su Ya's school, there were many snack stalls nearby.
These days, there's no one to clean up the streets. Breakfast stalls are all clustered together, selling steamed buns, fried dough sticks, tofu pudding, wontons, fried pancakes, and donkey meat sandwiches.
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