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In the old days, building a quadcopter or drone required a lot of hacking together of various components from the motors to the batteries and even the control software. Not …read more Continue reading A Deep Dive into Quadcopter Controls
When you own an enormous CNC router, you’ve got to find projects that justify it. So why not shoot for the sky — literally — and build the 1980s-est possible …read more Continue reading Mega-CNC Router Carves Styrofoam Into a Full-Size Flying Delorean
University of Manchester engineers set themselves the task of building and flying the biggest quadcopter drone in history, and to keep things legal with aviation authorities, they made some interesting materials choices.
Category: Drones, Technology
Tags: Quadcopter, drones, University of Manchester, World’s Largest
Continue reading World’s largest quadcopter drone takes flight
Drones are a pain, especially mini ones. When you are designing, building (or even reviewing) them, they inevitably fly off in some random direction, inevitably towards your long-suffering dog, hit …read more Continue reading 3D Printed Mini Drone Test Gimbal
The ground-effect (GE) refers to the almost mystical property where the interaction of the airflow around an aircraft’s wing and the ground massively increases efficiency due to the reduction of …read more Continue reading Exploring Ground-Effect With a Quadcopter
In recent years, we’ve seen a few folding-wing drones that can be quickly and easily launched from a tube. The WASP M4-TL tactical UAS (Unmanned Aircraft System) takes that same concept and applies it to a military-spec quadcopter.Continue ReadingCateg… Continue reading WASP M4-TL quadcopter can be folded up and rocket-launched into action
You can readily buy all kinds of quadcopters off the shelf these days, but sometimes it’s more fun to build your own. [Michael Rechtin] did just that, with a hefty design …read more Continue reading Hefty 3D Printed Quadcopter Meets Nasty End
Commercial industrial agriculture is responsible for providing food to the world’s population at an incredibly low cost, especially when compared to most of human history when most or a majority …read more Continue reading Automated Drone Takes Care of Weeds
Firefighters have a dangerous job at the best of times, but especially so when they’re first entering burning buildings. A new flame-resistant drone could help, by scouting structures to let firefighters know what they’ll be up against.Continue Reading… Continue reading Flame-resistant drone could save lives by flying into fires
Most folks aren’t big-time aerial cinematographers, so they don’t need a fancy $1,000-plus drone – what they do need is something small, inexpensive and easy to use, that still shoots great video. As I discovered, the Hover Camera X1 fits that bill to … Continue reading Review: Hover Camera X1 is the ideal drone for most people