At that price I think he'd barely scrape by with the BOM cost. R&D costs serious money to be very honest and (in my present experience) you burn through electronics and mechanical parts very quickly thanks to mistakes even after you've modeled it all up on the computer. Oh, and for an individual who cannot afford instant shipping it costs plenty of time too. I'm honestly surprised with his claim of putting it all together in 6 months actually if I assume he has a full-time job apart from this.
The price is actually decently competitive for a quadcopter with the bells and whistles he's including.
Battery life is about what I'd expect from a quad. I have a sailplane that I'm building into an FPV platform; using a 2200mAH battery like this thing is specced for, I generally get around half an hour of flight time out of a battery charge, but that's with a single motor and having the option to cut the engine and glide intermittently.
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It looks awesome ! It's an impressive piece of engineering.
The price tag is a still a bit high for what I would use as a toy, but if you consider the potential "drone" spinoff that's a steal.
The battery life is a bit limited "At the moment flying 11 min / driving up to 18 min, combined performance 15 min. "
At that price I think he'd barely scrape by with the BOM cost. R&D costs serious money to be very honest and (in my present experience) you burn through electronics and mechanical parts very quickly thanks to mistakes even after you've modeled it all up on the computer. Oh, and for an individual who cannot afford instant shipping it costs plenty of time too. I'm honestly surprised with his claim of putting it all together in 6 months actually if I assume he has a full-time job apart from this.
The price is actually decently competitive for a quadcopter with the bells and whistles he's including.
Battery life is about what I'd expect from a quad. I have a sailplane that I'm building into an FPV platform; using a 2200mAH battery like this thing is specced for, I generally get around half an hour of flight time out of a battery charge, but that's with a single motor and having the option to cut the engine and glide intermittently.
For reference, the Parrot.AR drone is about $350, and gets 15 minutes of flight time. As far as I know that's among the more popular low-end UAVs.