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DIY Power Distribution

There are various power distribution boards out there but none really were able to accomplish what I wanted for a previous hexacopter build (six battery inputs, six ESC outputs, and a small power lead for the receiver). I'm in the process of building a new small quadcopter so I figured I document the power distribution this time around. This example is less complex than the first one I made for the hexacopter but it illustrates the same process.

The basic idea is to…

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Added by Luke Olson on December 20, 2012 at 9:00am — 13 Comments

Yellow Plane 1800mm Scratch Built Coroplast FPV Platform 2

 
Yellow Plane now has a battery box and nose for the FPV gear, The centre of gravity is on the wing center line with these batteries, the whole pod can be relocated on…
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Added by Nick Goodey on October 27, 2012 at 4:30pm — 6 Comments

pyXY - Synapse SM700 Dev Board May Be better than Xbee

pyXY - Synapse SM700 Dev Board May Be better than Xbee and seems cost effective

8 X 12 bit analogue inputs could do a RC controller without Arduino's  



This Data Sheet details the SM700PC1 module, which…

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Added by Nick Goodey on October 26, 2012 at 5:30pm — 6 Comments

Afghan home made cheap and quiet drone

This guy had a fleet of 5 drones made of bamboo and chainsaw engine or electric motor.

I found only news in French so far :…

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Added by Bertrand Duchiron on April 10, 2012 at 8:30am — 11 Comments

Homemade Lifesize Chinese "Octocopter"

Added by Gian Carlo M. on September 1, 2011 at 9:05am — 35 Comments

Gravity Plane as UAV platform?

Alright, so if you watched this, and you thought what I thought then your thinking... (Helium!)
A VTOL using Helium is genius, a little complex by their description.. but the idea is simple enough to mold!
I like the fact that the engines are only running for a short time, to the the plane high enough to glide down, using very little power after the first climb! 

Added by Anthony Bee on February 18, 2011 at 7:36pm — 5 Comments

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