WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT DO YOU WANT?!?

Greetings, my name is Spencer and I am one of the fools trying to build a quadcopter. Richard, the other fool, has a blog that’s linked in the side bar, or by clicking here, and he’ll probably have a lot of other information in the building process. We’re doing this for a 20 Time project, which is where we get one day out of the week to work on a project of our choice. We chose this because it would be a challenge but also ridiculously cool. By the end of this project we would, ideally, have a fully functional quadcopter.

Now neither of us have any prior experience with quadcopters. Neither him nor I have built or piloted a quadcopter and obviously we know very little about the function, mechanics, or programming besides the very basics.

We’ve broken the process into several different steps:

>Research: Learn more about the quadcopters than that they have 4 motors and propellers. Find the parts that we want to use

>Design: Create a frame design that works with all of the parts. Ideally efficient, compact, and aesthetically pleasing.

>Build: Order and buy the parts and assemble them. This would include any custom work that needs to be done.

>Test/Program: Work out bugs and get it flying. Any programming that needs to be done will be done here.

>Extras/Add-ons/Learn how to fly: Learn how to not hit things. If we decide to add things like a camera or GPS we’d be doing that after the fact.

Everything that I’ve seen so far says explicitly “DO NOT TRY TO BUILD YOUR OWN” when first getting into the hobby and to start off small and cheap. So naturally we’re going to build our own... and it's going to be big. Check back in weekly or more for updates as to the possible successes and probably failures of our venture. Wish us luck!