Latest extreme heavy lift multicopter entries in HobbyKing competition
Hackaday has the latest on the cool extreme lifting designs for the HobbyKing competition:
If you have a quadcopter and are looking for a beer delivery device, HobbyKing isputting on a beerlift competition The rules for the HobbyKing beer lift are pretty simple: lift the most beer with a quad/hex/octo copter and win a HobbyKing gift card.
There are 3 classes: Unlimited, which means a vehicle of any size goes, a 700 class for copters with a motor-to-motor diameter of 700 mm or less, and a Disaster class for the coolest crash.
So far the largest lift is a monsterous 2 meter octocopter by [Muresan Alexandru Camil] capable of lifting just over 47kg. In the 700 class, a bizarre looking 9-rotor copter built by the Whac-A-Mole flying team was able to lift 28kg.
The disaster category, a smaller quad built by [Gabriel Devault] was barely able to lift four cans of
Coors Lightwater, while the current disaster class leader made a few valiant efforts to lift a keg. Protip: if you’re doing a blooper reel, Yakety Sax is definitely the way to go.
-
Comment by Maxime Carrier on July 6, 2012 at 9:11pm -
2 of these thing may easily lift one person, you realize.
-
Comment by Andreas on July 7, 2012 at 12:13am -
Hmm, which flight controller can I trust with my life? How much did the spend on parts for that copter? My guess is $1500.
-
Comment by Tom in ON on February 18, 2013 at 9:29am -
Maxime, that's a good point. Reliability is a big factor and until that's solved not many would risk their lives. The winner multi-copter of this contest above could lift a small adult (47kg/103lbs) in the air. Wonder, how long battery would last.
I think it's possible that within a few years we may see a one-man multi-copter kit available.
Comment
Social Networking
Top Content
Contests
Season Two of the Trust Time Trial (T3) Contest has now begun. The fourth round is an accuracy round for multicopters, which requires contestants to fly a cube. The deadline is April 14th.A list of all T3 contests is here.
Groups
-
ArduCopter User Group
1295 members
-
ArduPlane User Group
687 members
-
Turkish Ardu Group
7 members
-
Moderators
24 members
-
Documentation Editors
51 members
Advertisement
© 2013 Created by Chris Anderson.
Powered by
You need to be a member of DIY Drones to add comments!
Join DIY Drones