Mega-CNC Router Carves Styrofoam Into a Full-Size Flying Delorean
When you own an enormous CNC router, you’ve got to find projects that justify it. So why not shoot for the sky — literally — and build the 1980s-est possible thing: a full-scale flying Delorean....
View ArticleA Deep Dive into Quadcopter Controls
In the old days, building a quadcopter or drone required a lot of hacking together of various components from the motors to the batteries and even the control software. Not so much anymore, with...
View ArticleExtreme Waterproof 3D Prints
Since the crew at [CPSdrone] likes to build underwater drones — submarines, in other words — they need to 3D print waterproof hulls. At first, they thought there were several reasons for water entering...
View ArticleCan’t Disable DJI Drone ID? Spoof It With An ESP!
We have been alerted to a fun tool, a DJI DroneID spoofer software for ESP8266/ESP32 and some other popular MCUs. Last year, we’ve told you about DJI DroneID — a technology DJI added to their drones,...
View ArticleGot to Go Fast: The Rise of Super-Fast FPV Drones
Generally when one considers quadcopter drones, the term ‘fast’ doesn’t come to mind, but with the rise of FPV (First Person View) drones, they have increasingly been designed to go as fast as...
View ArticleESP-Drone: Building an ESP32-Based Quadcopter For Not Much Cash
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 inertial...
View ArticleAmazon Ends California Drone Deliveries While Expanding to Arizona
The outgoing MK27 drone used by Amazon today for deliveries. (Credit: Amazon) When Amazon started its Prime Air drone delivery service in 2022, it had picked College Station (Texas) and Lockeford...
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