Drone
|
Mechanical Engineer Develops Remarkable Quadcopter Using 3D Printing, Including Motors! A 3D Printer can do wonders in the hands of the right person. The 3D-printed quadcopter is one such thing that is completely made using this technology. The central part and the hands are custom designed on CAD software and are then sent to the 3d printer. The main magic of this quadcopter is actually not… |
|
New Half-Bridge Coil Driver offers Power Dense Solution for Wireless Charging Applications Alpha and Omega Semiconductor Limited has announced the release of a new product AOZ32034AQV in the family of coil drivers that offers a higher power rating of up to 50W and is designed for wireless charging applications in charging stations, cordless power tools, vacuum cleaners, drones, and other consumer electronic equipment. The new… |
|
Open Source, Battery Operated Long-Range LoRa GPS Tracker with Ultra Low Power Consumption Dronee has introduced a new open-source, battery-operated GPS tracker “Loko” that sends navigation data to its receiver via peer-to-peer LoRa radio and also works anywhere, even if there is no 2G/3G/LTE coverage. Loko is a radio communication-based device that doesn’t require a sim-card/ monthly fee and can work 30+ days on a single charge with the tiny, built-in… |
|
Simple Package Delivery Drone using KK2.1 Flight Controller and Servo Motors As far as we know, Drones are unmanned aerial or flying robots that can be controlled from a base station or autonomously navigated by a software-controlled flight plan that is in its embedded systems. It can have onboard sensors and GPS. Nowadays drones are being used in many applications like photography, surveillance, search and rescue, fire fighting, traffic monitoring,… |
|
How to Build a Quadcopter Drone Using CC3D Flight Controller? The flight controller is the brain of a drone as it monitors and controls everything the drone does. KK2.1.5 and CC3D are widely used flight controllers in drones. In our previous tutorial, we have used KK2.1.5 Flight Controller to fly a drone. You don’t require any PC to set up the KK2.1.5 flight controller as it comes with an inbuilt screen and we can set up this… |
|
Calculating the Energy, Run Time and Charge of a Drone Li-Po Battery The Lipo batteries are commonly used in drones and to power portable DIY projects that need to work for longer periods of time. These Lipo batteries are now utilized in drones due to their lightweight and high-power delivery capacity in a small package. In this article, we are going to calculate energy, run time, and charge calculations for the Lipo battery. But… |
|
2 Blade vs 3 Blade Propeller: Which is Better for your Drone? A common debate in the drone world is whether a two-bladed propeller is better than a three-bladed propeller, and vice versa. 2 blade props make more sense when speed and efficiency are priorities, and they are commonly employed in lightweight drones with less powerful motors. If you want additional force and flight stability, like with bigger drones, 3 blade propellers are… |
|
Build your own Drone using KK2.1.5 Flight Controller – From Selecting Right Components to First Flight (Part-2) In Part-1 of this tutorial, we have seen how to assemble and set up the quadcopter. In this tutorial, we are going to fly our quadcopter and we will discuss the challenges we have faced during fly. Before flying a quadcopter, you have to check UAV guidelines issued by the local authorities in your area. We are going to use the KK2.1.5 flight controller for our… |
|
Qualcomm’s new drone platform offers both AI and 5G capabilities Powered by the Qualcomm QRB5165 processor, builds upon Qualcomm Technologies’ latest IoT offerings, delivering a solution which will drive the next generation of high-performance, low-power, 5G drones The US based global wireless and semiconductor firm Qualcomm unleashed the world’s first drone platform and reference design to offer both 5G and AI-… |
|
How to Select your Drone Flight Controller – A Comparative Selection Guide Whenever we design a drone, the most important part of it is the flight controller. The stability and function of the drone depends only on the flight controller. Nowadays, there are many flight controllers in the market, so it becomes very difficult to select a flight controller. We select drone flight controllers on the basis of what we want to do with the drone. For… |
|
Technical Challenges in building Solar-Powered Drones and How Companies are tackling them using the Recent Advancements As predicted by the FAA a few years back, the drone sales for commercial purposes have increased dramatically, so has the global solar energy capacity. These two technologies together have raised the hopes of seeing solar-powered drones flying high up in the sky. Many small private companies, large tech and aviation giants like Airbus, Boeing, Google, AeroVironment,… |
|
How Drones can Minimize Cost and Improve Efficiency in Solar Power Plant Installation and Maintenance Today with the advancements in technology we have many different types of drones being used for different applications, we have talked in lengths about these drones in our previous article. There have been groundbreaking advancements that have taken place in recent years and we have witnessed subsequent mass adoption of drone technology in different sectors and the… |
