Very impressive design and what looks like top-quality components. [UPDATE: It appears to be a stock Xaircraft frame that costs $160. Thanks to the commenters for catching this]. You can back the project here ($999 for the copter, $1,499 for the full deal with APM 2)
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<</body>Oops, I've got Octo on my brain. Guess what I'm planning to build soon.
I saw the video , looks like rehashed video's we have all seen before, just thrown together .any of us on diy drones can offer a "off the shelf multicopter" and make a profit..I think it is wrong that someone can just post a frame and electronics that someone else spent time and money designing and get money , basically no effort on her part on the designing and tooling
Good analysis Ellison. But why are you assuming $52 motors? That's nuts. I searched for the quoted HQ35W motors and found nothing. Could be anything.
@Elison: just a note: You're showing a "octo-list" to build an hexacopter.
Oh, and it seems that Kickstarter will take 10% off the top.
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Ok, here's the shopping cart for what this Octocopter will cost if I decided to build one, using her list.
I used the most expensive motors available at HK and slightly over spec ESCs. I lumped the spare parts, end user shipping, and value added into one item. which ends up to be $275.19. Assuming that shipping to end user is included in the $1499 price, this doesn't leave much room for profit, and I didn't factor in any taxes or duties.
Maybe if she uses cheaper motors, and ESCs they can squeeze another $100 or so out of this. I'd say net profit is realistically going to be about $100-$150 per kit. Not that outrageous.
Nothing wrong with building and selling a multicopter kit using Xaircraft frames and APM hardware at whatever price someone is willing to pay for it. The problem is when the KickStarter system is misused to finance getting the parts to build the already designed kits.
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