What’s the cheapest quadcopter you can build? As [Circuit Digest] demonstrates with their variant of the ESP-Drone project by Espressif, you only need a minimum of parts: an ESP32 MCU, an ine… ...

Building a drone isn't as easy as just buying parts and piecing them together. Don't forget, this thing needs to get off the ground, ... or 1,500 grams per motor on a quadcopter.

University of Manchester engineers set themselves the task of building and flying the biggest quadcopter drone in history, and to keep things legal with aviation authorities, they made some ...

Because the Bells equipped Peregrine 2 with a camera to document its flights, the quadcopter also technically beat yet another world record, this time for the fastest camera drone.

By the 2020s most quadcopter drones cost about $500. More importantly, suppliers provided drone components so you could build, and often design, your own. In 2023, a year after Russia invaded Ukraine, ...

For his capstone project, the Bayfield High School engineering student is building an autonomous drone that would use an infrared camera for nighttime car wrecks, can travel 45 mph – whereas ...