World's 1st Penis Transplant Done In South Africa 221
PolygamousRanchKid writes The world's first successful penis transplant has been performed by surgeons in South Africa, Bloomberg News reported Friday. The 21-year-old recipient has made a full recovery and regained all functions in the transplanted organ. The nine-hour operation was done Dec. 11 by surgeons from Stellenbosch University and Cape Town's Tygerberg Hospital, the university said Friday in a statement. The unidentified patient had his penis amputated three years ago in a life-saving procedure after he developed complications from a traditional circumcision. "Our goal was that he would be fully functional at two years and we are very surprised by his rapid recovery," said Dr. Andre van der Merwe, head of the university's urology division, who led the surgical team.
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It's a good thing the other guy had a spare to share
Actually, I was wondering if they had a one-per-patient policy. Having a "Kerberos" or a "Ghidra" would be quite amusing . . . a great Halloween gag! But it might get you on the sex-offenders list.
I think men would sign up on the donor list. Think about it . . . you can keep on fucking, even after you have died!
Now I am waiting for the post, "Why is this News for Nerds" . . .
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you can keep on fucking, even after you have died!
You do realize that this only works if 'you' are a dick.
Just sayin'.
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Perhaps you obsess about this a bit more than the rest of us.
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Perhaps you obsess about this a bit more than the rest of us.
What - loosing a penis? Hardly :-) But there was a local case where a guy driving his motorcycle had an accident, and his helmet only protected is "big head", not the "little one." Imagine him having an itch he can't scratch. I'm sure many people in a similar position would jump at the chance.
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I don't want another man's dick on me, in me, or near me.
The boy doth protest too much methinks.
"very surprised by his rapid recovery" (Score:2, Funny)
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Not the first (Score:5, Informative)
According to the very article, there was a medically successful transplant in 2006 that was later removed only because of the patient's severe psychological reaction.
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The surgeons in the article imply that they themselves do not consider it successful unless the psychology angle is also a success.
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Indeed. It was a Chinese patient, I think it's because the donor was from Congo.
Sources: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.u... [huffingtonpost.co.uk] and http://www.shortnews.com/start... [shortnews.com]
Why wasn't this done sooner? (Score:2)
Besides the "ick" factor why aren't there trans people walking around with donated penises? Even doing organ swaps where a male-to-female trades with a compatible female-to-male? I realize tissue rejection can be a bitch but I can't imagine the artificial organs they make from the patient's own cells are particularly useful.
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Serious question:
Besides the "ick" factor why aren't there trans people walking around with donated penises?
Let me try to answer with a car analogy.
This is like asking why there aren't Toyota Camry's driving around using transmissions from a Ford Mustang. In order to do a transplant you need to have components that are fundamentally compatible in the first place.
On the other hand, my understanding is that surgeons can craft (to some extent) a penis from the tissue in a FtM patients vagina.
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Serious question:
Besides the "ick" factor why aren't there trans people walking around with donated penises?
Let me try to answer with a car analogy.
Your analogy fails when it comes to chick cars tho'
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from the add-a-dick-to-me and lop-it-off-a-me depts
Serious question: Besides the "ick" factor why aren't there trans people walking around with donated penises? Even doing organ swaps where a male-to-female trades with a compatible female-to-male? I realize tissue rejection can be a bitch but I can't imagine the artificial organs they make from the patient's own cells are particularly useful.
First, in this case, the penis was taken from a dead relative. The patient still needs to take anti-rejection drugs - otherwise ... "it was there when I went to bed ..." (okay, not quite, but you get my point).
In the case of an m2f transsexual, you can see here how it's done [garyalterp...urgeon.com]. As you can see, they don't just "chop it off", which is why orgasmic function (which starts and ends in the brain) is successful in 80% or more of all cases post-op.
One techniqu [genitalsur...lgrade.com]
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I'm going to pass on clicking on your links. This sounds like something I don't want to scar my mind with, as it's something you can't "unsee", much like the goatse.cx picture. The before and after pics are probably OK, but I really, really, really don't want to see the during-surgery pics.
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Admittedly, it's kind of gross, but the poster was asking why you can't just "swap parts", and didn't think the end result would be all that great.
Guys tend to get a bit squeamish about it, even those who get a "Prince Albert". However, think of the advantages - multiple orgasms and no worry about needing a half-viagra when you get older just to keep you from peeing on your shoes. So if you need to get it done anyway ... :-)
There are, admittedly, downsides. For one, your opinion in meetings all of a sudd
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However, think of the advantages - multiple orgasms and no worry about needing a half-viagra when you get older just to keep you from peeing on your shoes. So if you need to get it done anyway ... :-)
If I live a few decades more, there will be several women alive my age for every man. How often you get it up can be fixed with a pill; how often you get it, not so much. If you're in your 20s, maybe it looks different, as female mortality is converging on male as gender roles in the workplace fade.
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If I live a few decades more, there will be several women alive my age for every man.
Big deal, they're all going to be elderly, white-haired biddies and certainly not anything you're going to be excited about jumping in bed with.
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Some will be, no doubt, but with a high enough F/M ratio you can be picky. The last time I visited my father, we happened to walk through the gym for his retirement community, and I was a bit surprised - there are definitely still women in good shape far older than I would have guessed.
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In the case of an m2f transsexual, you can see here how it's done [garyalterp...urgeon.com]. As you can see, they don't just "chop it off", which is why orgasmic function (which starts and ends in the brain) is successful in 80% or more of all cases post-op.
One technique using penile inversion [genitalsur...lgrade.com], and another technique using a portion of the colon [genitalsur...lgrade.com].
I am unable to come up with a joke for a surgeon named "Gary Alter" who performs gender reassignment surgery.
The ancient prophecies (Score:5, Interesting)
When I was a teenager, if we we didn't like some chick, we'd tell our friends "I wouldn't screw he with your dick!"
Now he will always do that
I'll bet masturbation is awkward to think about as well.
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Didn't read it enough to find out that it was a dead relative that they took it from.
What really gets interesting is when three or four generations all have the same penis, passed down from father to son.
It's a tabu issue right? (Score:4, Insightful)
I mean the underlying cause for this operation, a common procedure done on man without consent in a very young age because?
The last thing I heard about this was a campaign on boys age over 10 getting talked into getting circumcised was to prevent AIDS...
The only mammal on this planet tinkering with their dicks in that manner are humans - supposedly having the largest brain.
Must be progress then....
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Re: It's a tabu issue right? (Score:2)
Yup. With an interesting source.
http://youtu.be/gCSWbTv3hng [youtu.be]
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I have no idea why it became mainstream
That's easy. Dr. John Kellogg (relative of the guy who invented cereal) really hated masturbation, and pushed the procedure as a way to discourage adolescent boys from masturbating. This of course became popular because Victorian-era America hated sexuality.
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No, that's NIH. Jews circumcised (and still do) because of all that Biblical crap. Christians don't believe it's a religious necessity, since they think they're somehow exempt from all the Leviticus silliness (except for tithing), so they stopped doing it ages ago, until Dr. Kellogg brought it back. That's why Christians in Europe don't circumcise (and haven't, ever), while most Americans do.
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It's the evil lube industry who want to circumcise males so they are forever forced to buy lube for their masturbation purposes!
these days I'm not sure which head I'm supposed to put a tin foil hat on.
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It's a tribal prove-you-are-a-man thing in South Africa. A lot has been done to make sure the process is clean and safe, but some of the witch doctors refuse to accept the oversight and do the circumcision with a rusty razor blade in non-sterile conditions.
It's stupid and dangerous, and although the offending witch doctors are getting jail time, not enough is being done to regulate the process to the point that the need for these transplants is eliminated at source.
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There's a similar thing with ultra-orthodox Jews. It's only a tiny minority - most Jews are perfectly happy with sterile surgical scalpels. The ultra-orthodox though are ridiculously averse to change of any form (thus the name), and many insist on using the 'oral suction' technique in which the rabbi, having removed the foreskin with a traditional unsterilised blade, proceeds to suck upon the damaged penis in order to ensure a strong blood flow to flush the wound and promote healing. It's very prone to infe
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No, you have an improper mental model. The issue is pathogens contacting living cells of a mucous membrane rather than keratin of dead cells.
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Meanwhile, you can read online of peer reviewed studies showing circumcision does decrease the transmission rate of certain STD
If you're relying on circumcision for public health your country is already screwed. There are countries where circumcision is virtually non-existent that have HIV rates considerably lower than the United States. Conversely, there are countries where it's nearly universal that have rates considerably higher than the US. The US, incidentally, falls somewhere in the middle, and circumcision rates vary based on ethic background, age, and region.
The WHO would be better served promoting condom use than circu
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Was not claiming circumcision was better than condom or dam protection at all, just pointing out there is some benefit to be considered with all the downsides of which I could list a few also
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Those two sentences are not part of one argument, the first just a PSA (you're welcome)
The second was only pointing out there is perhaps *some* value in circumcision
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You seriously have no idea why? Wow.
Cleanliness is the reason. To help prevent the spread of STDs amongst other things.
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Some of us have large brains and some of you apparently do not.
Thanks for the limited brain compliment. I like those, qualifying the author right off the bat.
As I mentioned before, it's a taboo issue.
I can be polemic as well: Old impotent males getting off on playing with babies dicks and reducing their sensitivity for life - perversion to the highest degree!
For the facts:
Penis foreskin removed, some consequences:
1. Glands penis is no longer protected and exposed to abrasion which causes a hardening of glands penis surface skin - also named orange peel - causing sensi
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Cleanliness might be a reason today, as there is some evidence that circumcision can reduce STI transmission (Though research that has yet to be reproduced and suffered from some flaws). That is not why it was introduced, nor is it the main reason the practice persists.
It was introduced in the US because it was thought at the time to be a prudent medical precaution against the dangers of masturbation in later life - something known to all at the time to be a cause of muscular atrophy, epilepsy and blindness
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And even if it lowers your chances of contracting an std by 5% (which is about the most seriously verified number I've seen so far), I certainly hope you don't ever have a daughter, because you are sure to cut off her tits to keep her from ever having breast cancer, right ?
Wondering whatever happened to ... (Score:3)
Re:Wondering whatever happened to ... (Score:4, Interesting)
He just got his own dick back. No someone else's. Big difference. Recently some rapper wigged out on PCP and chopped of his as well, and then tossed it off the balcony. It was sown back on successfully.
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Well... (Score:3)
I guess he won't need his Corvette anymore...
Putting the organ in organ donor (Score:2)
Er, on, I guess.
How long before cross-species transplants start happening? Horse cocks for everyone.
Do you get to pick the donor? (Score:3)
I mean, who wouldn't want to be able to choose one? That opens up all kinds of possibilities.
A new F2M sex chnage procedure (Score:2)
Will this be offered as an option for Female-to-Male transsexuals? Instead of a constructing a penis, transplant a 'real' one.
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Maybe, but you'd need a compatible donor (like a relative), and you still have to take anti-rejection drugs for the rest of your life. With current arficially-constructed penises (made using the patient's own tissue), you don't have the rejection problem.
Add a Cock to Me (Score:2, Funny)
I believe the operation is called an "adacoctomy".
Did you hear... (Score:5, Funny)
...about the guy with five penises?
His underwear fit like a glove.
poor guy (Score:2)
what happened to the donor?
Good job. (Score:2)
I still remember the first heart transplant in 1967, also done in South-Africa.
My heart (and cock) goes out to them.
3d printer (Score:2)
A part what? (Score:2)
Are we now to revisit the apartheid era with the emphasis on PART as the white supremacists in South Africa (you KNOW they're still there) start harvesting organs from hapless African men in order to retain the sexual fidelity of their Jungle Fevered wives without beating them (the way you just KNOW they beat their children and even dogs)?
What a waste. (Score:2)
He lost his penis once because of circumcision.
And now he's gonna do it again with his new penis.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/... [bloomberg.com]
The transplanted penis wasn't circumcised and it will be at least several months before the patient can return for the medical procedure
Britain Beaten By a Hair's Breadth (Score:2)
Clarkson has not announced new job yet.
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This is the one time you would want to pray for gang warfare.
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brings new meaning to the phrase.... (Score:5, Insightful)
I never thought there would be a time the phrase "I wouldn't fuck her with your dick" might stand a chance of being modded insightful.
Re:brings new meaning to the phrase.... (Score:5, Funny)
Try not thinking about this next time you tick the "organ donor" checkbox on your driver's license form.
Re:brings new meaning to the phrase.... (Score:5, Funny)
This is Slashdot. Most of us would be glad to see someone get some use out of the thing.
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What are you pissing through nowadays, then?
Re:brings new meaning to the phrase.... (Score:5, Funny)
I've never checked it, but I might now just as a cruel joke.
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Try not thinking about this next time you tick the "organ donor" checkbox on your driver's license form.
Come on, don't you want to have people talk about how at least part of you "rose from the dead?" Or are you worried that you'll be at the resurrection without an erection?
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Yeah, in the past I never ticked it but, just the other week, I put a little tick next to Hammond.
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I can already see a new category in the organ black market...
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Indeed. Now how long before a Nigerian prince can offer me low cost penile transplants?
Funny you should say that.
Only this morning I received an email from the director of the St Peter Private hospital in Benin City, stating that I was the only surviving relative of Nigerian prince who had died in a horrendous accident. Do to the nature of that accident they only managed to save his penis, and that in order to maintain the royal line, they needed to transplant it onto me as soon as possible (something about the royal house's flag having a rampant penis - and requiring that rampant penis to be displayed on state occasions). Once this operation was performed I would be awarded all the rewards of that royal household (money, women, power - the usual stuff), but due the death of the prince causing the country to fall into paralysis, they needed me to send $5K to them so that they can fuel up the royal plane and send it out to collect me.
It all sounds legitimate, so I am off to pack my bags.
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Was his name John Thomas of St. Peter's, famous son of Richard Burns?
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Not so far ago, somehow my foreskin slipped off. I couldn't adjust it immediately, and chafing was so bad I was hardly able to walk. This makes me think: those circumcised must be bereft of nearly any feeling in their penises due to callusing.
Those who suffered genital mutilation as newborns don't know the difference, but men in tribes like this that practice circumcision on adults should have known better. Is the religious custom so strong to force them anyway?
Re:Circumcised at age 18? (Score:5, Interesting)
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My parents let me make the decision.
Which is exactly how it should be.
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Indeed. Anything else (except a medical emergency, of course) is mutilation and should land the ones doing it and the ones requesting it in prison. The main aim of male circumcision these days is to make masturbation more difficult. If that does not constitute sexual assault, I do not know what does.
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You are correct. You do not know what does. You do not know what does are few a few grammar fundamentals as well. Perhaps you might want to do a simple Internet search before ranting online. Here's a quote from the World Health Organization:
The benefits of circumcision that accrue during childhood include a marked reduction in urinary-tract infections, which affect one in 100 uncircumcised boys, mainly during the first two years of life, and inflammation or infection under the foreskin, which affects around
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Funny, none of these things are observed in Europe. We have medical research here too. Go figure. The other things these "studies" conveniently leave out is that all observable beneficial effects in the rest of the world vanish with reasonable personal hygiene. Cutting something off of people without their informed consent is not an acceptable solution to that problem either.
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incision
I think that was the original title and plot of a Leonardo DiCaprio movie ...
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I looked into this when it came time to decide whether to circumcise my son. There are certain medical conditions which are treated by adult circumcision, and according to the literature there doesn't seem to be any patient reported impact on function other than a slightly higher propensity for premature ejaculation.
Despite claims on both sides I found no conclusive evidence of benefit either way, so I decided not to on the theory it's easier as an adult to get circumcised than it is to get un-circumcised.
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...I strongly disapprove the hysterical, one-sided tone of the intactivist movement, which I think has potential to harm the body image of circumcised children who grow up with it.
Interesting. Are pro-choice activists 'hysterical' for pushing their particular "my body, my choice" argument? And do they deserve criticism for making women in Ireland who couldn't get abortions feel bad?
Re: Circumcised at age 18? (Score:2)
Well actually yes there are some very offensive hysterical pro choice nut hubs out there. I knew one of those in university.
In Canada where I am there are literally no restrictions at all on abortion. The court struck down laws decades ago and it is such a sensitive topic no restrictions or regulations have ever been put in to replace them. Though in reality medical professionals would never do so, from a strictly legal standpoint a woman could abort a healthy viable fetus at full term for any reason at al
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While anti-vaxxers are just in denial (and dangerous), circumcision is a non-reversible modification of a sexual organ and that _has_ significant impact on the person it is done to. Unless it is an emergency or there is informed consent by the person itself, it is rather bad doing that to somebody. Without strong religious customs, this would land the people doing and ordering it in jail. Said religious customs are also why information about the negative effects are routinely suppressed in the US, or study
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There are antisemitic posts that make me angry and want to reach through the screen to punch the poster.
And then there are ones like these that make me laugh and want to mess with the poster.
And, yes, I'm Jewish. Oh, no. We're on Slashdot too! Boo, Mr. Anonymous Coward!
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I got myself circumcised at age 25 because my foreskin was too tight (when fully retracted, an erection would hurt like hell). The urologist pointed out that my problem could be alleviated by a partial circumcision, but I had come to despise that piece of skin and so specifically asked for the old-fashioned deal, a.k.a. a "religious" circumcision.
When I had healed to the point where the bandage could come off, I was very sensitive for a while, and walking felt weird. But what happens after a while is that t
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of course there's no chafing - the body has spent years building a keratin [blogspot.com] layer on the glans to protect the normally-sensitive skin from chafing.
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By that logic, why won't you chop off your dick and replace it with a piece of wood? Even less sensation, and it will stay erect forever!
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Frankly I think the procedure should simply be banned outright, with very long prison sentences for anyone performing a circumcision without a good solid medical reason. It's barbaric, no different than female circumcision which seems to be the cause célèbre of modern women's rights activists. And yes, I know circumcision can confer some health benefits (my understanding is it slightly reduces HIV transmission, as well as protecting against some kinds of infections), so does a woman having double
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the problem is that if there is no circumcisn then the dong looks just plain weird. you want your kid growing up with a weird looking dong?
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A massively lower death rate for one difference. I don't disagree with your conclusion but you don't get to make up your own "facts" when reality doesn't fit.
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They can both cause destruction, but one is a much larger destruction.
You're comparing one, specific procedure on males (circumcision) to absolutely anything done to a female. It's the equivalent of calling everything from cutting a dorsal slit in a man's foreskin to castration to completely removing the genitalia MGM, and saying it's much worse than merely nicking the clitoral hood.
And of course this argument originates in politics. You're not going convince Americans to go ballistic over FGM if they think it sort of like what they're used to (which is, for exactly the opp
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It must be peculiar to have one's center of being and entire sense of self revolve about one's foreskin. Tell us, what is it like?
It must be peculiar to have one's center of being and entire sense of self revolve around telling other people what they're allowed to care about. Tell us, what is it like?
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Doctors say South Africa has some of the greatest need for penis transplants anywhere in the world.
Made me laugh [bbc.co.uk], but it's obviously a serious problem.
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or every time you wank...
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Calm down, i'm sure someone is working on a 3D printed, arduino compabitle and IOT enabled solution with brushless motors that can use a software defined radio to talk to a raspberry pi to control an quadcopter.
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Wow some piece of shit moderated this down, can someone *please* fix this? It is entirely factual based on real world experience.