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FPV Racing Drone — Virtual Prototype Ever since I made my 2-inch drone, I wanted more. Talking about an upgraded version and showing you the virtual prototype of the drone! `2020-06-22` Preface During the last year of high school in the IB program (aka PEI), students need to do a very complex project called the Personnal Project. It is divided into 4 main sections: `Research`, `Planification`, `Action` and `Reflexion`. For my personnal project, which I started a few months ago, I decided to build a very fast quadcopter, often called a Racing Drone. I had already built a drone before starting this project, which you can check out by clicking here. However, it was `2.5` times smaller and about `5` times less powerful than the one I will build for my personnal project, which will spin `5"` propellers. This will be an awesome opportunity to learn a bunch about how drones work, but most importantly to work on my problem-solving skills. The Prototype May 26th, I had the idea to try to make a virtual prototype of the drone in an image editing software. Since I had already found all the necessary sources, I had a good idea of the pieces I would use for the drone. And so I started editing using Paint 3D, but I quickly gave up because of the lack of functionnality of the software like the incapacity of working with images that have a trasparent backgorund. I ended up starting from scratch on an online editor called Pixlr, and it was way easier from then on. After 3 hours, I was done! Here's the prototype: The Parts Used Here's a list of all the parts I will use to make this drone (keep in mind that I will not be using a camera nor a VTX, to keep the build as simple as possible): (4x) Emax Eco Series 2207 1700KV 3-6S (2x 2 Pairs) Emax Avan Flow 5" 3-blade Transtec Frog Lite 218mm Carbon Fiber Mamba F4 (F405 MK2 + F40 40A) Fli14+14CH Mini Receiver GNB 1350mAh 100C 6S Lipo Battery And here's a list of the potential parts I would use if I were to upgrade this drone one day: Foxeer Razer Mini 1/3 CMOS Camera Eachine TX805 5.8GHz RP-SMA Female Realacc RHCP mini Stubby RP-SMA Male
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FPV Racing Drone — Virtual Prototype

Ever since I made my 2-inch drone, I wanted more. Talking about an upgraded version and showing you the virtual prototype of the drone! 2020-06-22

Preface

During the last year of high school in the IB program (aka PEI), students need to do a very complex project called the Personnal Project. It is divided into 4 main sections: Research, Planification, Action and Reflexion. For my personnal project, which I started a few months ago, I decided to build a very fast quadcopter, often called a Racing Drone. I had already built a drone before starting this project, which you can check out by clicking here. However, it was 2.5 times smaller and about 5 times less powerful than the one I will build for my personnal project, which will spin 5" propellers. This will be an awesome opportunity to learn a bunch about how drones work, but most importantly to work on my problem-solving skills.

The Prototype

May 26th, I had the idea to try to make a virtual prototype of the drone in an image editing software. Since I had already found all the necessary sources, I had a good idea of the pieces I would use for the drone. And so I started editing using Paint 3D, but I quickly gave up because of the lack of functionnality of the software like the incapacity of working with images that have a trasparent backgorund. I ended up starting from scratch on an online editor called Pixlr, and it was way easier from then on. After 3 hours, I was done! Here's the prototype:

drone virtual prototype

The Parts Used

Here's a list of all the parts I will use to make this drone (keep in mind that I will not be using a camera nor a VTX, to keep the build as simple as possible):

And here's a list of the potential parts I would use if I were to upgrade this drone one day: