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Cheap Scratch-Built Drone from Scrap and Crap (FreePilot) - Part 0 [NEED YOUR HELP]

Posted by Kabir on November 30, 1999 at 11:00am

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I want to share my journey of designing a drone in India, start to finish, hopefully for cheap and mainly built from recycled items to keep the costs down.

I started this project as a free-time project, but I would like to carry it on as a mainstream project with help from you guys.

My aim is to keep the costs down as I am only 13 years old and its a bit difficult for me to spend a lot of money on shipping,etc.

Plans:

Tags: basic, cheap, delta, depron, free, open, pliot, source, surplus
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  • Developer
    Kabir June 29, 2012 at 3:32am

    Pictures!!! All of this is from Martin! Love you Martin!

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  • Developer
    Kabir June 27, 2012 at 11:39pm

    Thanks, everyone who donated the parts!!

    Martin's parts are hopefully arriving today or tomorrow. Thanks for shipping the parts Crasher! Drone building commences on the 1st of July.

    I have almost finalized a design for the delta wing. Planning on adding a Raspberry Pi into the drone for some other stuff. 

    I'll post a picture of the parts as they arrive! Thanks again everybody.

    BTW, I need a LiPo and Charger to get it in the air, if anyone has extras...

  • mquintilian June 17, 2012 at 10:20am

    Have you tried asking your school if they could fund your project? I got 5000+ towards multicopters all paid for by the school.

  • Developer
    Kabir June 17, 2012 at 9:23am

    Thanks for all the parts and encouragement guys. It really means a lot to me that I am getting a positive response on this. I would especially like to thank Martin for his generousness. Respective interested people, please check your PMs.

  • Lyn Rees June 17, 2012 at 8:15am

    Hi Mohammed.

    I certainly have an brand new unused 69Amp ESC you can have, Also an unused x-bee if I can remember where I put it! PM me and I will see what else I have, may even be a HET brushless motor in my box,

    Lyn

  • Moderator
    Gary Mortimer June 17, 2012 at 7:07am

    This is the frog image I see rather than whatever is said to be there.

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  • Distributor
    UnmannedTechShop.co.uk June 17, 2012 at 5:42am

    Also we have some old parts like Ardupilot legacy, or APM1280 boards if you would want to try using them let me know.

  • Distributor
    UnmannedTechShop.co.uk June 17, 2012 at 5:41am

    @ Mohammed

    I think its a great idea that you are working towards.  As Crasher mentioned it would be nice to see more distributors offering help to people doing interesting projects.  Thats why we have always offered student/ project discounts from our shop.  Just send us your details here.  And we can give you even cheaper prices that are listed on our store-front.  Anyone else working on cool projects can apply too.

    If you are wanting to start with a more ready built platform like the Ardupiulot Mega kits. we can help you out.  But if you are after something much more hands on you could look at something like a MPU6050 breakout, or a sensor stick for your IMU.

  • nicolas bush June 17, 2012 at 3:47am

    are you going to publish all your code or put it up for download. likewise i am 14 so cant really spend much but i have an arduino etc.

  • james sowell June 17, 2012 at 3:42am

    i think he will be a very happy camper :) i guess we will c what else he needs

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