Drone Building 101

Re:Drone Building 101 by nickthegreek on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @09:17AM (#15131866)

I work at a makerspace and we teach drone classes to kids. We start with the Inductrix Blade (pretty unbreakable), upgrade its motors, solder on a camera to the power leads and use a cheap FPV headset to fly it around. We then hold nano drone races in our space about once a quarter for the kids.

The Inductrix is a great cheap way to get started with indoor flying that wont poke an eye out.

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Re:Drone Building 101 by ep103 on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @01:31PM (#15134123)

wait wait, you fly these things via a VR headset?

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Re:Drone Building 101 by fapjacks on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @01:39PM (#15134212)

Haven't you seen the drone racing league shows on the sports network? I cut my cable many years ago, but every time I head to HQ for work, I get cable in the hotel, and there's always Shark Tank on one channel, and DRL ("Drone Racing League") on another. Check it out! They all fly with headsets. It's actually pretty intense and awesome.

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Re:Drone Building 101 by stephengillie on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @01:41PM (#15134226)

The Inductrix Blade I have comes with an FPV camera built into the drone. It comes with a 6" FPV screen, and a big plastic clamp to hold the screen above the controller. This makes the controller assembly a little awkward, since the FPV display is heavier than the controller to which it mounts.

VR Headset might be a bit too much, but it's probably better than a small screen mounted awkwardly to a lightweight controller.

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