For their "Problemsolving and design" project, 2nd year engineeringstudents of the Katholic university of Leuven (Belgium) designed and built multicopters out of the departments waste materials stream. The electronics were given and the focus of the project was on frame materials and design. Therefore they only got a limited budget of 20€ for the frame.
All 6 teams succeeded in designing and building a flying copter.
Some notable designs were a sandwich composite frame called ROXXY, which can be seen flying in the video and a frame base on spokes from a bicycle wheel. Both frames turned out to be rather crashresistent, as the students had never flown a copter before.
Feedback from the students about this project was very positive and they clearly enjoyed themselves doing it.
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