Amazon's New Delivery 'Drone' Design (Prime Air)

[Mike]

http://www.amazon.com/b?node=8037720011

Looks pretty cool.

 

[Mike]

As much as I like multirotors, I actually think this is a better idea.

http://www.techinsider.io/delivery-...rs-2015-11?utm_source=msn&utm_medium=referral

 

[ringolong]

As much as I like multirotors, I actually think this is a better idea.

http://www.techinsider.io/delivery-...rs-2015-11?utm_source=msn&utm_medium=referral

Thieves and kids would love these lol.

 

[Mike]

Thieves and kids would love these lol.

They'll like knocking those Amazon delivery drones out of the air even more =)

 

[GJH105775]

I always figured they'd have to do something like this, because there is no way a traditional quad is going to get a package from very far away to you from the air.


https://latitudeengineering.com/products/hq/

 

[Mike]

I would love to see boards & frames for this style of quad in the hobby market! Would be super interesting to build.

 

[GJH105775]

I would love to see boards & frames for this style of quad in the hobby market! Would be super interesting to build.

Hahaha, yes I have been wanting to build one for a while now, but have not had the time to fly let alone build hahaha.

 

[Mike]

Are there any boards on the hobby market that support that configuration?

 

[GJH105775]

Are there any boards on the hobby market that support that configuration?

I could think of a way to get an Arduino switch between quad and airplane (the airplane would pass through, and the quad mode would use FC for stabilization), but as far as I know you'd have to the custom motor layout yourself.

 

[GJH105775]

 

[holtneil]

Hi guys your find a lot of the top transmitters have the settings already for a tilt rotor

 

[Mike]

This looks nice:

http://www.birdseyeview.aero/

This other guy did a whole college robotics project on VTOL's back in 2005. Interesting:

http://data.mecheng.adelaide.edu.au/robotics/projects/2005/VTOL/VTOL05_Final_Report.pdf

I should stick with quads though. I only have so much time =)

 

[ringolong]

This looks nice:

http://www.birdseyeview.aero/

This other guy did a whole college robotics project on VTOL's back in 2005. Interesting:

http://data.mecheng.adelaide.edu.au/robotics/projects/2005/VTOL/VTOL05_Final_Report.pdf

I should stick with quads though. I only have so much time =)

That does look pretty cool!