The world's most useless hobby

The answer is yes. There is a hobby more useless than UAVs. Meet musical instrument hacking. For all their uselessness, musical instruments always crush UAV's in the electronic hobbyist contests. A musical instrument beat out a UAV to win the latest parallax.com contest. Musical instruments R everywhere in the Maker Fairees.

Musical instruments may be more insane than UAVs. If U want the best piano sound, U still have to buy a $100,000 Steinway D. U can't even buy a house big enough for one in USSA. U need to get on a government waiting list. The best UAV's R just in the $10,000's.

So with our piano key test mockup, the optical angle sensor gives a 5mV swing if it's precisely aligned, but it's pretty unreliable.

As you've probably gathered, we've abandonned VicaGlider. It's mainly too expensive to operate 2 vehicles & the mission has changed from long duration telepresence to short, preprogrammed camera shots.