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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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Interesting bird style landing "the perching drone"

Posted by Stanley Anak Suab on January 12, 2017 at 9:15pm 1 Comment

I read this on the newspaper today and i think this is one interesting genius way to land a UAV (the bird style). 

Researchers combined a morphing wing drone and machine learning algorithms to create a system that lets the machine perform perched landings on the ground. The fixed wing aircraft also has the ability to land in small or confine places, which deliver aid in disasters

These researchers from the University of Bristol and BMT Defence Services did a great job :-D well done!

The article you can read it here …

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Who remembers Piksi, Colin and Fergus make Forbes 30 under 30

Posted by Gary Mortimer on January 12, 2017 at 3:48pm 1 Comment

Swift Navigation, the San Francisco-based startup building centimeter-accurate GPS technology that will power a world of autonomous vehicles, is proud to announce that two of its co-founders, Fergus Noble…

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NASA simulates Phantom airflow

Posted by Chris Anderson on January 12, 2017 at 2:32pm 5 Comments

From NASA:

For decades, NASA has used computer models to simulate the flow of air around aircraft in order to test designs and improve the performance of next-generation vehicles.

At NASA’s Ames Research Center in…

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Agribotix partners with senseFly for end-to-end ag drone & data processing solution

Posted by Tom McKinnon on January 12, 2017 at 12:03pm 0 Comments

Agribotix has partnered with senseFly to offer a new combined solution for professional agriculture users. This solution combines the eBee SQ drone, Sequoia sensor and Agribotix FarmLens data processing technologies to make collecting and analyzing aerial agricultural data easier…

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PC tablet based sUAS GCS

Posted by Azjeg on January 12, 2017 at 9:30am 6 Comments

Here  is another take on our wearable control tray format, this time with an embedded Win tablet PC that does it all for you. It has the same footprint as our previous trays (e.g.…

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Which one has the highest range: VTOL, helicopter, multi-rotor (or flying squirrel?)

Posted by Bart Theys on January 12, 2017 at 8:00am 7 Comments

With the increasing interest in the use of multi-rotor UAVs for long range applications such as pipeline inspection, large-area mapping, transporting packages or even people, the question arises: “how far can they fly?”.  

In this post I’ll present a theoretical approach, an experiment and a conclusion to answer this question. Let’s start with some basic theory that can be used for all flying things. The distance d that a UAV can cover, flying at a constant…

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Lily closes down

Posted by Chris Anderson on January 11, 2017 at 10:00pm 0 Comments

Sorry to see them go. They had a great idea and worked really hard to get it right, but ran out of time and money. …



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3D printed tray for Graupner MZ-24

Posted by Adrián Nagy Hinst on January 11, 2017 at 11:51am 1 Comment

Hi again, this is my custom designed tray for my Graupner MZ-24. My goal was to build a small tray that can be removed easy without any tools and small enough to be put next to my transmitter in my bag. I think I succeed... :)

Suggested print settings:

  • 0,2 mm layer height
  • 3 layers all…
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FA-18 Releases 103 Perdix Micro-Drones

Posted by noeL on January 10, 2017 at 11:30pm 0 Comments

Naval Air Systems Command, successfully demonstrated one of the world’s largest micro-drone swarms at China Lake, California. 

  • Propellers: 2.6 in    
  • Body: 6.5 in    
  • Wing span: 11.8 in    
  • Weight: 290 g    
  • Endurance: >20 min  …
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German university team wins first place at IMAV with Pixhawk-powered copters

Posted by Chris Anderson on January 10, 2017 at 9:30pm 5 Comments

Congrats to the AKAMAV team for the victory and great writeup (via Hackaday)!

The AKAMAV is the…

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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

Drone Dispatch Understanding The 2017 Drone Landscape

drone dispatch The drone market showed incredible growth in 2016 and Drone Dispatch expects more of the same in 2017. The reasons for the unrelenting rise of drones in everyone’s day to day life are far stretching and all encompassing. We are going to highlight many of the key factors contributing to the rising tide of drones […]

Fourteen year old Indian student develops mine clearing drone

Indian Harshwardhan Zala, a fourteen-year-old Indian from the state of Gujarat, has been granted a 730,000 US Dollar contract with the Gujarati government to produce mine-disabling drones for use in war zones. Zala says, in regards to the purpose of the drone: “The inspiration struck when I was watching television and learned that a large number […]

EuroUSC UK in the hands of the administrator

Announced via Twitter today, EuroUSC UK was put into the hands of the administrator yesterday, the 12th of January 2017. At the moment Companies House has not reflected the change yet: EUROUSC-UK LTD ALEXANDRA HOUSE ST JOHNS STREET SALISBURY WILTSHIRE UNITED KINGDOM SP1 2SB Company No. 10173661 Status: Active Date of Incorporation: 11/05/2016 Country of […]

Sky-Futures Training Academy (SFTA) Launches Basic Drone Certification Course in UK

Sky-Futures Training Academy Sky-Futures is rolling out a Basic Drone Certification Course; the new course will enable persons and organisations in the UK to reach the basic standard required to operate drones under a CAA Permission for Commercial Operations (PfCO). For the past two years, Sky-Futures has established a reputation for safe, high quality and fit-for-purpose drone training, […]

Otherlab Everfly team need you

The Everfly team is building some really different autonomous flying things. Drones but not drones, or UAS but without the bureaucracy. Things that fly through the night. Things that deliver medical supplies to places where there aren’t roads. We’re looking for good people to join our team. We explore what’s possible in aircraft design, taking […]

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