Similarly to the reasons I built my motorized bicycle I was looking online and found that I could get a crazy good deal on motors and ESCs on ebay and built this setup for somewhere near $60.
off brand motors
At this point I was pretty familiar with building drones and I figured it would be interesting building a larger one with some outdated parts.
The drone worked like a charm and to my surprise the tuning processes for this drone was extremely easy (usually not the case with cheep ESCS).
Also similar to the motorized bike, after having my fun I sold it on ebay for about twice what I payed!
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