Category: Drones
UAS Drone Competition
I highly recommend checking out the news article written about us!
https://www.news-journalonline.com/news/20170426/fpc-hosts-drone-competition
During my senior year of high school I participated in the pilot UAS competition which brought people from all around Florida to compete in building and programming a both autonomous and manually controlled drone. Our team won third place!
My Current Drone Lineup
3D Printed Micro Quads (2017)
camera protector 
camera mount 
3d “Frisbee” design 
light prototype v2 
Racer v1 
light prototype 
attempt at a ducted fan design 
Racer v2
Having a 3d printer gave me the ability to make and test various frame designs.
All frames are built to fit 8mm brushed motors and when built had an all up weight of under 50 grams!
More Drones!
First 4 in Quadcopter
450 Quadcopter
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point I was pretty familiar with building drones and I figured it would be interesting building a larger one with some outdated parts.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!
My Intro to Quadcopters
I always had a fascination with all things remote control from a young age but once I discovered drones I knew I found something amazing.
30 days later and my box of goodies arrived 
Despite it’s messy construction and low quality components it flew! (eventually)
Projects 