LEARN · HOW I FIGURE THINGS OUT

The interactive pages I learn from.

Some things just don’t click for me by reading about them. When I have a very specific question, I ask Claude to build me a small interactive page I can poke at until it makes sense — drag a slider, flip a toggle, watch the thing react. These are a couple of those, cleaned up and put here in case they help you learn them too.

First principles · quad frames
Why a drone frame fights back
Most drone-build “rules” are downstream of a handful of physical realities — arms that flex, frames that ring, weight that sits in the wrong place. I wanted to feel why, not just memorize the rules, so this one lets you drag the sliders and watch the physics misbehave. When something turns Ember-orange, the frame is working against the flight controller, not with it.
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Drone aerodynamics · flow
What a prop guard really costs
My gut said a prop guard “blocks” the airflow. It mostly doesn’t — the real story is a tiny tornado at each blade tip, and whether your guard ignores it or seals it. This one lets you flip between an open prop, a cheap ring, and a tight duct and watch the airflow, the wasted energy, and the trade-offs respond.
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