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Cam Forset, the operations manager of Falcon Security, asked Mateo
Thomas, CEO, Joni Campbell, CFO, and Alexis Moore, head of sales, to come
down to the small hangar bay to see how the testing of the new 3D-printed
drone is coming along. Mateo asked Cam to investigate the possibility of using
3D-printed parts to make drones in-house rather than buy them from vendors.
This could be a tremendous cost-savings opportunity and give the company
greater flexibility in updating its current fleet of drones.
Cam waves to Mateo and Joni to come over and look at the screen that she
and Alexis are looking at. The screen is showing a live video feed from the new
drone as it flies around the perimeter of the building.
“Well, it works—sort of,” Cam says to Mateo and Joni with a forced smile.
“It’s pretty stable, and we can get streaming video. I just wish it hadn’t taken
2 weeks to get it running.” Cam’s voice has an undeniably displeased tone.
“That’s OK. What was the total cost to make it?” Mateo asks.
“Well, this specific quad cost nearly nothing. We harvested all of the
internals from a couple broken quads we had lying around. Everything else
we printed.” Cam points to a rack of dismantled quadcopters. “We found