The Dronee- Autonomus,Low Cost ,Programmable,Open-source, Open-Design UAV plane.

1 month before, after my Shenzen,China trip, i found out that there is a way to make a drone plane for a very low cost to make it achievable by everyone. After a little bit search on internet, it is clear that people love Raspberry Pi. there are a lot of project on DIY Drone blog with a drone raspberry Pi attached.I decided to make a low cost autonomous airplane that everybody can write code and make applications without spending a lot of money on prototyping, etc.

And i would like to give a brief introduction about my project Dronee.

Low cost (200-300 $), open-source,open-design (3d printable as well), and Raspberry Pi2 inside for 3rd party applications. for image processing, etc

Airframe has light weigh durable advanced structure that can be printable from SLS ,high precision printers, but it is not cost efficient because i checked the price from Shapeways &materialise it is around 1000$ . I am ging to build from molded EPP or EPO, i will test both.

I havent finished working prototype yet, but i am working hard to show working prototype untill end of july.

Purpose of publishing here in DIY Drone, i want to share my project with the people who love drones , who work with drones,and how are interested in drones, And i want to get valuable feedback to improve the dronee to make it better

All your ideas (positive or negative) are valuable for me.

Thanks in advance.

and dont forget the follow ~(https://www.facebook.com/dronees) )

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Dronee July 22, 2015 at 2:16am

While i am waiting for radio links,shipping will take 4-5 business days) I would like to share what i did so far.
Dronee July 17, 2015 at 12:31pm

Hi Jason Franciosa,

I have already tested this airfoil on different flying wing. it flies great
Jason Franciosa July 15, 2015 at 8:45am

I will be interested to see how that airfoil works for a flying wing as well.
Dronee July 15, 2015 at 8:42am

I just created a facebook page ,(https://www.facebook.com/dronees) i will post updates regularly, you can follow from there as well)

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Dronee July 14, 2015 at 10:56am

I it is nice to see that people are interested in Dronee project. it is the main idea of Dronee , drone development tool that everybody can add any feature and use on their projects
Dronee July 14, 2015 at 10:53am

Thanks MarioSpeedwagon,

I am working on prototype to make flight video, will take 1-2 weeks. then i will post 3D file on dronee website with all documentations. that they can use.
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MarioSpeedwagon July 14, 2015 at 6:49am

Dronee,
I met with the owner of one of the companies again yesterday. The conductive filament doesn't sound like it's to the point where it's practical and efficient enough yet, but he's interested in playing around with it on a UAS as a proof of concept example.
They are very interested in printing some airframes out of their new high strength and high temperature filaments, though. I did tell them to check out your blog on here in case they wanted to collaborate.
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davidbuzz July 12, 2015 at 11:01pm

this UAV design is fully 3d printable: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:51580 :-)
Dronee July 12, 2015 at 1:44pm

MarioSpeedwagon

I am looking forward to see your tests.
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MarioSpeedwagon July 12, 2015 at 1:21pm

My plan was to have wiring routed to different locations, including wingtips, and use a simple connector/cube that can be swapped out easily for a different connector.

I could ramble on for an hour without really getting my point across because I have no background in electrical engineering, but I'll send you a message when I start testing. I'm planning to test on a ground vehicle first, and see how well the signal wires are shielded.

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