After a bit of research, he found that he had fallen victim to the drone pendulum fallacy by mounting the heavy components ... has any real advantages over a quadcopter with ducted propellers.

But what if you’re impatient as well as lazy? Aside from being two-thirds of the way to programming greatness, you may have to up the game. A heavy-lift quadcopter, perhaps?

A brain-computer interface, surgically placed in a research participant with tetraplegia, paralysis in all four limbs, provided an unprecedented level of control over a virtual quadcopter -- just ...