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Quadcopter Workshop

Posted by Stephen Dade on March 28, 2013 at 6:51pm

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Over the last 4 weeks in Canberra (Australia) I've been a running a build-and-fly-your-own-quadcopter workshop, based on the APM.

We had a dozen excited people attend the workshop and all were successfully able to build their quadcopters. The flying lessons were mostly successful - we only had a 25% crash rate (mostly broken arms, easily replaced).

Full documentation for the workshop is available at https://canberrauav.readthedocs.org/en/latest/lessons/quadcopter-workshop.html if others in the community want to run their own workshops, which I definitely encourage!

It's a great way to promote civilian usage and education of multicopters/drones. I've also found these workshops to be massively popular. I only had 12 spots available in this workshop, all of which filled up within 48 hours. I think this demonstrates the massive interest in multicopters.

Finally, a time lapse video of one of the workshop sessions:

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  • Stephen Dade May 19, 2013 at 6:42pm

    Hi Richard,

    The extent of my advertising was this message to my local hackerspace's mailing list:

    http://www.makehackvoid.com/pipermail/makers/2013-January/004559.html

    To be fair, I (and a few others) had been showing off and demonstrating the quadcopters at hackerspace meetups in the months before this. I found it's an effective way of building up interest.

    No fancy flyers unfortunately :(

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    Richard Boyhan May 19, 2013 at 5:58pm

    Hi Stephen,

    Been trying to hookup with a local university to put on a workshop here is South Florida.  Did you have a flyer that you used to advertize?  Can I get a copy?

    Thanks,
    Richard

  • Stephen Dade March 30, 2013 at 4:07pm

    Rob - I advertised it through our local hackerspace's (Make Hack Void) mailing list.

  • Rob Swynnerton March 30, 2013 at 9:47am

    Hi Stephen,  How did you advertise for the workshop ?

    Regards Rob

  • Stephen Dade March 30, 2013 at 6:28am

    Richard - we did 7pm to 11pm. One night per week for 4 weeks.

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    Richard Boyhan March 29, 2013 at 7:23pm
    4 hours that's a long time. What time did you start and end?
  • Stephen Dade March 29, 2013 at 3:53pm

    Richard - each evening class went for 4 hours. We held them at Make Hack Void - a hackerspace in Canberra. I'd suspect a university electronics lab would work just as well. As long as you've got a place with lots of benches and tools, you should be good.

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    Richard Boyhan March 29, 2013 at 11:16am

    Very cool.  How long was each nights class?  Also, where did you hold the clasess?

  • Dave Wicks March 28, 2013 at 11:38pm
    What a great idea!
  • Stephen Dade March 28, 2013 at 11:05pm

    Thanks Kevin :)

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