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Welcome to DIY Drones!


Welcome to the largest community for amateur Unmanned Aerial Vehicles! Use the tabs and drop-down menus above to navigate the site.

This community is the birthplace of ArduPilot, the world's first universal autopilot platform (planes, multicopters of all sorts and ground rovers). Today the Pixhawk autopilot runs a variety of powerful free and open UAV software systems, including:

  • PX4, a pro-quality copter, plane, rover and VTOL software stack from the Dronecode Foundation
  • ArduCopter, a fully-autonomous multicopter and heli UAV system
  • ArduPlane, a pro-level UAV system for planes of all types
  • ArduRover, a fully-autonomous ground-based vehicle system

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Blog Posts

3D printed FPV racer - 170 mm size - Rev5 - Final Design

Posted by Adrián Nagy Hinst on January 6, 2017 at 9:35am 0 Comments

Hi guys, let me introduce the final version of my 3D printed FPV racer. Since the last blog entry I made some further small modifications according to my experiences. All files can be downloaded…

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New: QGroundControl 3.1 adds surveys and improved geofencing

Posted by Chris Anderson on January 5, 2017 at 8:33am 3 Comments

Great news from Don Lake

Announcing the release of QGroundControl V3.1. Notable changes in this release:

- Survey mission support

- GeoFence Support in…

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Advanced Aerials, Inc. - UAV Pioneers Bringing Ideas to Life

Posted by Kevin McCarthy on January 5, 2017 at 6:00am 0 Comments

It is the beginning of 2017 and drones, and their related technology, are coming off an explosive year of growth in both popularity and innovation.  The FAA estimates that 2.5 million consumer drones were unwrapped during the past holiday season.  To further prove the popularity growth, the FAA also announced that there are currently more drones registered through their registration program than there are registered manned aircraft!  Today’s consumer drones are now capable…

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Parrot/Pix4D Climate Innovation Grant - Deadline Jan. 31st

Posted by Greg Crutsinger on January 4, 2017 at 9:30am 1 Comment

 Parrot/Pix4D Climate Innovation Grant Deadline of Jan. 31st

Grant Guidelines

To submit you application, go to at…

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Evolution of our prototypes. PART 1

Posted by Cactus Robotics on January 4, 2017 at 9:00am 1 Comment

On the right our very first prototype, on the left our latest protoype.…

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RC Blimp Drone Autopilot

Posted by Dmitriy Ershov on January 4, 2017 at 4:00am 5 Comments

The autopilot on the blimp is enabled whenever the hardcore 80s music is playing

RC Blimp with Rapsberry Pi +Navio2 and autopilot algorithm written in Go: 

True Story Follows

A few years ago I worked on an …

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Episode of Drone Dish Featuring Top Hawaii Drone Pilot

Posted by Mike Israel on January 3, 2017 at 1:30pm 0 Comments

Episode of Drone Dish profiles Ryan De Seixas, one of the top aerial videographers in Hawaii,  

Drone Dish Profile of Ryan de…

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Pixhawk-powered ornithopter

Posted by Chris Anderson on January 3, 2017 at 11:42am 11 Comments

Displaying both manual and autonomous modes. Wow!

Neopixel LEDs as status LEDs for Ardupilot

Posted by Stefan Gofferje on January 3, 2017 at 5:49am 0 Comments

Sometimes there's just no good place to mount the external LED to on a copter or one simply wants more light output... While developing my own little light controller, I wrote a decoder which decodes the I²C control signals for the external LED and controls arbitray amounts of Neopixels accordingly.…

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Droiko is now live on Kickstarter

Posted by Cactus Robotics on January 2, 2017 at 9:08am 0 Comments

Gaming drones are about to change. It's time for drone battles, drone racing, challenges and games. Single player or multiplayer.

First of all...What is Droiko?

Droiko is a high technology gaming micro…

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Season Two of the Trust Time Trial (T3) Contest 
A list of all T3 contests is here. The current round, the Vertical Horizontal one, is here

UAV news from sUAS News

French armed forces buy 70 Thales Spy’Ranger

Spy’Ranger Thales’s latest-generation Spy’Ranger mini surveillance and reconnaissance Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) has been chosen by the French Defence Procurement Agency (DGA) to equip the French forces. Up to 70 mini-UAV reconnaissance systems (SMDR) will be made available from 2018. Each system consists of three mini-UAVs, a ground segment and the associated technical support. Starting in […]

Dear Nick, about those GoPro Karma 2 specifications

Karma Well done for trying again with Karma I saw that you had a chat with Ben Popper from The Verge. He wrote that you said: “Of course. The reception for Karma was very strong. It was unfortunate about the recall, but what we learned was that our existing customers and new customers are really excited about Karma’s […]

Yuneec International Expands Commercial UAV Offerings with All-New H520

Yuneec Yuneec International, a world leader in electric aviation, today announced the expansion of its commercial UAV offerings with the unveiling of the H520, an advanced six-rotor drone for commercial applications. The H520 builds off Yuneec’s proven six-rotor platform and incorporates industry-first commercial-grade cameras and applications for high-end commercial use. The H520 offers longer flight time, […]

OmniVision’s 8-Megapixel OS08A Image Sensor Delivers True 4K2K Video

OmniVision OmniVision Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of advanced digital imaging solutions, today announced from the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) the introduction of the OS08A image sensor built on OmniVision’s advanced PureCel® technology. The OS08A’s PureCel pixel architecture features next-generation backside illumination (BSI) technology for low-light sensitivity and high-resolution image and video capture, delivering true 4K2K video […]

MMC A6 Plus Drone Finishes Power Line Stringing Project in Bhutan

MMC Stringing power cables between towers with a drone. This might be the first time that I have seen anybody actually doing this. I have seen it as a use case. Cleverly they have kept the weight of the A6 Plus to just under 55lbs. Well done MMC. The consumer drone market may be moving at […]

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