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instead of a flying drone can you make one thats a snowblower?
LOL, an autonomous snowblower? Sure, why not!
This is amazing. Watching, will probably pick one up sooner or later.
Look forward to your order!
Ok, I'm intrigued. How much for a rotor wing drone?
Although a fixed wing one is pretty awesome as well... hmmm... How about larger ones with more flight time? How do these do in wind?
I can do multi-rotor with all the same capabilities, no problem, I build a few quad copters and am working on a heavy lift hex-copter. Anyway, I could build a quad for the same price, but if you have specific needs - let me know, I can build a custom quote.
Yes, the larger ones do have more flighttime. The larger one I use can fly an hour no problem. It's a bit nose light with a 5000mah battery, which only has about 3000mah left. (It's old). So, with a new (and larger) batter it would certainly do better. Plus with Panasonic 18650 cells, I think 3-6 hours should be possible.
I dont know if he is offering multi-rotors or not. The thing I would worry about is flying beyond control range with the turnigy radio. But with the autopilot and proper fail safes it should keep loss of control to a minimum.
I have not had any issues with turnigy radios, but I have not range tested them either. Most of the flying I would expect people to do with this is done with the computer and autopilot anyway. Once the plane is in the air, I turn off the radio. However, bitjet is correct that the autopilot and failsafes can deal with it, they can be setup to return the airplane to its launch point if the signal is lost. Also, if you want to do FPV with real time R/C control, I can build one with whatever radio you want for the actual cost of that radio. For long range, I can install a UHF 433mhz module which will give you much longer range (15-30km). Keep in mind achieving this range in a video link would be difficult, impossible in this 3' drone. I'd recommend a bigger drone if anyone wants to go with some type of long range system like that.
This is very interesting.
However, I have a few questions regarding the components used:
- Are the components cheap to replace?
- Do you offer any guarantee on the shelf life of the drone?
- Would you offer a repair service with all costs included if anything goes wrong?
This would be pretty fun to show off to some friends. Although, I'm assuming if you do crash. Then there isn't going to be much of it left.
Most of the components are inexpensive, no component is more than $150. Unless you crash it into water or it gets run over by a truck, the electronics are extremely durable as I've done my share of crashing and never broken the autopilot etc. But, if you did manage to break something, I can provide replacement instructions or do it for you for the cost of the part plus say 15%. If the airframe is destroyed, I can put all your electronics in a new airframe for $150.
I will flight test each drone before shipment to make sure everything is working correctly, if it arrived DOA, I'll take care of it. However, I cannot offer any long term warranty.
Yes, lets say I'll fix the drone for cost of parts + 15% for everything except a total replacement of the airframe.
This is very interesting.
However, I have a few questions regarding the components used:
- Are the components cheap to replace?
- Do you offer any guarantee on the shelf life of the drone?
- Would you offer a repair service with all costs included if anything goes wrong?
This would be pretty fun to show off to some friends. Although, I'm assuming if you do crash. Then there isn't going to be much of it left.
Depends on how bad the crash is, really... a few years ago I built a rocket with an HD camera in it... one launch I forgot to put the ejection charge in it, so it crashed spectacularly. Even the SD card didn't survive, which I thought would survive just about anything, being so small and light. I suspect a plane would be more apt to survive a fall, since it isn't built to reach a very high terminal velocity and that wing design would really cut down even an uncontrolled fall's impact/decent rate.
Correct - it's unlikely you could crash this in such a manner than damaged the electronics.
Im not the author of this post, but when I build someone a plane or multicopter once they take delivery the only thing I warranty is that the components work if you crash it, it's simply not covered.. They are too easy to crash.
Yep.
Could also it via hexcopter. But that is highly inefficient. I suggest FedEx. 
