FPV Drone Project - 2018

This was a self guided project in middle school, so don't make fun of it too much!

I designed the frame in Onshape and 3D printed it using PLA on my dad's Prusa.

I had no money so I tried to do everything as cheap as possible... which came back to bite me later. You can find my parts list at the bottom of this page.

I completed every part of the build, but the drone never flew. I think I bricked my flight controller when trying to flash firmware and couldn't figure out how to fix it. I knew nothing about software or firmware at the time and had no friends that knew either. It also could have had issues because I was trying to convert the PWM signal from the receiver to PPM for the flight controller with a cheap converter... and I had no idea what I was doing. 

I couldn't afford to keep buying new parts until I figured it out, and I didn't want to ask my parents for money, so I got frustrated and traded all the drone and its parts for a compound bow and a crossbow.