Drone It Yourself turns random objects into RC quadrotors

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The clamps used may not work with more unusually shaped objects, but there's nothing stopping anyone from designing their own custom variants.</p> <div style="width: 530px; height: 297px; " class="article_img"><a href="/web/20131031230659/http://www.gizmag.com/drone-it-yourself/28209/pictures#3" target="_blank"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20131031230659im_/http://images.gizmag.com/inline/drone-it-yourself-2.png" width="530" alt="Bicycle wheel as quadrotor (Video still: Jasper van Loenen/Mathijs van Oosterhoudt)"/></a></div> <p>In addition to some nuts and bolts, would-be drone masters will need to track down four motors and propellers (two left- and two right-rotating) as well as all the necessary batteries and electronics. Van Loenen has listed the complete set of a requirements in a handy <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20131031230659/http://jaspervanloenen.com/BOM.txt" target="_blank">text file</a>. He suggests that there's no particular reason why you shouldn't deviate from the specific parts mentioned, though clearly the final spec will affect performance including, most crucially, its carrying capacity. A video of the DIY shows a bicycle wheel as a UAV, so van Loenen's prototype isn't without muscle.</p> <p>Being remote controlled, van Loenen notes that strictly speaking this is a UAV rather than a drone, though we agree you shouldn't let that get in the way of a clever name.</p> <p>You can see the part 3D-printed DIY in action in the video below. 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Unlocking Every Extend Extra Extreme’s “Master of Extreme” achievement was the fourth proudest moment of his life.   <a href="/web/20131031230659/http://www.gizmag.com/author/james-holloway/">All articles by James Holloway</a> <span id="author_byline_links">    <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20131031230659/http://twitter.com/jamesholloway" class="twitter-follow-button" data-show-count="false" data-size="large">Follow @jamesholloway</a> </span> <br class="clear_both"> </div>  <div id="tags"> <span class="title">Tags</span> <div class="dotsontop"> <ul> <li>» <a href="/web/20131031230659/http://www.gizmag.com/tag/3d-printing/" rel="tag">3D Printing</a></li> <li>» <a href="/web/20131031230659/http://www.gizmag.com/tag/drone/" rel="tag">Drone</a></li> <li>» <a href="/web/20131031230659/http://www.gizmag.com/tag/remote+control/" rel="tag">Remote Control</a></li> <li>» <a href="/web/20131031230659/http://www.gizmag.com/tag/uav/" rel="tag">UAV</a></li> </ul> <div class="clear_both"></div> </div> </div> <div id="bing_unit"></div>  <span class="title" id="comments">9 Comments</span> <div class="dotsontop"> <div id="comment-239056" class="a_comment"> <p>The craft gets way too heavy with all that weight overhead. </p> <span class="name">Paul van Dinther</span><br> <span class="date"> 9th July, 2013 @ 06:20 pm PDT</span> </div> <div id="comment-239074" class="a_comment"> <p>Ace! I want to be the 2nd to 'drone' a dead cat! (the 1st has been done for a little while) - Or perhaps a road-kill possum! OR, with soft tape and Velcro 'clamps' how about droning a live cat! Would annoy hell out of the pesky birds or squirrels in my neighbourhood. </p> <span class="name">The Skud</span><br> <span class="date"> 9th July, 2013 @ 06:58 pm PDT</span> </div> <div id="comment-239077" class="a_comment"> <p>bring back the cat ! :) </p> <p></p> <p>www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePNdcdNm9fY </p> <span class="name">ash</span><br> <span class="date"> 9th July, 2013 @ 07:09 pm PDT</span> </div> <div id="comment-239083" class="a_comment"> <p>Attach your quadcopter to anything. Imagine this scaled up! </p> <span class="name">Ricky Hall</span><br> <span class="date"> 9th July, 2013 @ 07:14 pm PDT</span> </div> <div id="comment-239095" class="a_comment"> <p>Anyone for a bank heist </p> <span class="name">Ulrich Duenzl</span><br> <span class="date"> 9th July, 2013 @ 08:42 pm PDT</span> </div> <div id="comment-239143" class="a_comment"> <p>this is great for agriculture. The big deal in agriculture, the sustainable kind, is to not compact the soil with heavy implements or turn the soil toxic with synthetic products. A hovering RC weeding device would get rid of weeds without doing either. This also applies to watering house plants, a hovering watering can! The point of view of an agricultural engineer! </p> <span class="name">Hala Chaoui</span><br> <span class="date"> 10th July, 2013 @ 05:06 am PDT</span> </div> <div id="comment-239149" class="a_comment"> <p>@Ricky: This: <br/><iframe class="youtube-player" type="text/html" width="500" height="300" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20131031230659if_/http://www.youtube.com/embed/L75ESD9PBOw" frameborder="0"> </iframe><br/></p> <p></p> <p>... is "this scaled up!" (Meet your next flying car! :-) ) </p> <p></p> <span class="name">MzunguMkubwa</span><br> <span class="date"> 10th July, 2013 @ 05:29 am PDT</span> </div> <div id="comment-239323" class="a_comment"> <p>@MzunguMkubwa That experiment offers some perspective on just how impossible it would be to add 2 battery powered fans on a skateboard deck and have it work as a hoverboard. </p> <p></p> <p>One thing this technology will have a big impact on is amateur photography. There is this intersection of light weight cameras, inexpensive stabilization, and quadcopters that we are starting to run into that is responsible for some breakthroughs in amateur footage like this: <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20131031230659/http://gizmodo.com/watch-police-shoot-down-a-drone-flying-over-istanbul-513228306">http://gizmodo.com/watch-police-shoot-down-a-drone-flying-over-istanbul-513228306</a> </p> <span class="name">Diachi</span><br> <span class="date"> 11th July, 2013 @ 12:26 am PDT</span> </div> <div id="comment-239986" class="a_comment"> <p>May be used as a Pizza Delivery! 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