Drones

Building and flying drones is great fun. You get to bring hardware and software components together with the result of something that can fly! Here are my drones, in reverse chronological order.

Active

Deadcat

Status: Active
Operational: January 2024 –

7″ folding drone for longer flight times & cine freestyle flying

Baboon

Status: Active
Operational: January 2024 –

5″ drone for smooth cine-flying

Inactive

Old drones, no longer operational.

Megabat

Status: Retired (lost, found, rusted-up)
Operational: June 2022 – April 2023

5″ drone for cine freestyle flying

Gold Paw

Status: Retired
Operational: 2019 – 2023

Named for the gold bling motors.

Shadowfax

Status: MIA (Lost in mountains)
Operational: 2020 – 2022

The smooth-flying 5″ Shadowfax drone.

Hornet

Status: Retired
Operational: 2020 – 2023

The tiny red 3″ hornet.

Cragon v2

Status: MIA (Lost in mountains)
Operational: 2018 – 2020

Cragon v2

Cragon v1

Status: MIA (Lost in a river)
Operational: 2018 – 2018

Cragon v1

TBS Vendetta

Status: Retired
Operational: 2018 – 2019

Stock TBS Vendetta

TBS X-Racer

Status: Dead – electronics fire
Operational: 2017 – 2017

Stock X-Racer