Final prototype assembled
We are really proud of having assembled our final prototype by now. The rotor guards look really nice in combination with the complete system.
First stable flight with Vicon
Yesterday we managed to hover stable in different configurations for the first time in real life with external position estimation from the vicon cameras. It took us a long time but now we finally proved that hovering in different orientations…
First time – our own controller tilts the rotors to control the drone
We are getting there – our own code is now running on the flight controller Pixhawk. We are moving the drone in space to see if the rotors are tilted the right way for hovering. For the beginning we…
Tilting test with the new Motors from Faulhaber
First tilting test with our new Motors we got sponsored from Faulhaber. It works really well, they are strong and fast and very small so we can fit them inside the ‹arms›. Furthermore it looks really good with die hexagonal…
First testflight
Yeeay – it’s working. Today we flew for the first time. What a great feeling. We used the controller which comes together with the pixhawk, but it won’t take long till we can try out some of our own controllers…
First flying Prototype
At the beginning of this week all the ordered parts from China arrived. We had been busy the whole week to complete all soldering, screwing together all the different parts and setting up the pixhawk. Today we finally made it…
CAD drawings for the final prototype
Till mid of December we want to finished with all the CAD drawings so we can give them to our manufacturers. Keep up Kamil, we are almost there.
First rendering of VOLIRO at wall
A short insight into what the final prototype will really look like.
Tiltable Hexacopter hovering over the ground
Curious how it will look like? This is one of our first design scatches for the tiltable Hexacopter hovering over the ground.