A consumer flying camera based on a ducted fan UAV design

A consumer flying camera based on a ducted fan UAV design - DIY Drones







We are working on a flying camera that differs from the regular quadcopters, using a Ducted Fan UAV design. This allow us to have a much safer and robust device, that the user can easily hold, push, grab, etc.. Fleye is about the same size and weight than a soccer ball (22cm wide, 350g). It is powered by a single propeller, fully shielded. You can safely hold it in your hands, throw it, catch it and fly it nearby people.

We are starting to communicate and gather feedback now, with a tentative launch (crowdfunding) this fall. You can read more details on our blog.

 

 

 

I know some of your usual questions, so let me try to already answer them :-)

• This is not APM but our own autopilot, entirely developped with a Model Based Design approach for the core sensor fusion and control and running on a cortex M4.
• Smartphone controlled over wifi, no RC version planned at this stage
• We have a dual core ARM A9 on board for managing wifi, video streaming, and some computer vision tasks

The Dronee- Autonomus,Low Cost ,Programmable,Open-source, Open-Design UAV plane. - DIY Drones

The Dronee- Autonomus,Low Cost ,Programmable,Open-source, Open-Design UAV plane. - DIY Drones









1 month before, after my Shenzen,China trip, i found out that there is a way to make a drone plane for a very low cost to make it achievable by everyone. After a little bit search on internet, it is clear that people love Raspberry Pi. there are a lot of project on DIY Drone blog with a drone raspberry Pi attached.I decided to make a low cost autonomous airplane that everybody can write code and make applications without spending a lot of money on prototyping, etc.



And i would like to give a brief introduction about my project Dronee.



Low cost (200-300 $), open-source,open-design (3d printable as well), and Raspberry Pi2 inside for 3rd party applications. for image processing, etc

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Airframe has light weigh durable advanced structure that can be printable from SLS ,high precision printers, but it is not cost efficient because i checked the price from Shapeways &materialise  it is around 1000$ . I am ging to build from molded EPP or EPO, i will test both.

I havent finished working prototype yet, but i am working hard to show working prototype untill end of july.



Purpose of publishing here in DIY Drone, i want to share my project with the people who love drones , who work with drones,and how are interested in drones, And i want to get valuable feedback to improve the dronee to make it better

All your ideas (positive or negative) are valuable for me.



Thanks in advance.