HOW TO MAKE MINI DRONE

by kehaldoshi

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Intro: HOW TO MAKE MINI DRONE

This instructable show you how to make very low cost ,simple mini drone under 25$. I used h8 mini receiver board and transmitter to make this drone. The total weight of this drone 33.50g with 260mAh battery and flight time approx 4 min. Further i plan to upgrade it with more mAh battery.

STEP 1: MATERIALS

We can buy all materials from Aliexpress, Gearbest or Ebay. I bought from Aliexpress.

1. H8 mini receiver board (6$)

2. H8 mini Transmitter (6$)

3. 4 x Moters 7x20mm (2x cw,2x ccw) (4$)

4. 4 x 55 mm propellers ( i used 75mm but should use 55mm) (1$)

5. 1x 260 mAh Li-po Battery (3$)

6. Battery Charging Cable

7. Plastic Sheet for drone frame

STEP 2: MAKE FRAME

For frame i used 15cm. x15cm. plastic sheet. You can find frame diagram here . Download and print it on papper. Then cut it and stick it on the plastic sheet.

Cut the plastic sheet and make hole for mount moters. Cut 1cm. long 4 pieces of pen for landing gears and stick it to the frame.

STEP 3: Cunstruction and Soldering

Mount moters to the frame as shown in the image. Make sure cw moters and ccw moters mounted in correct directions.

Place receiver board on the frame using double sided tape and solder all motors to the receiver board in correct polarity. Fix propellers to the moters as shown in the image. Place the battery under the frame using double sided tape.

. Propeller A = CW = Red wire + And Blue wire -

. propeller B = ccw = white wire + and Black Wire -

STEP 4: Flying Test

Will upload Soon !

7 Comments

mbham013 3 years ago

please post the testing video

JamesL203 7 years ago

Hi, cool project! what voltage battery are you using?

kehaldoshi 7 years ago

Thank you. I used 3.7v 400mah lipo battery.

JamesL203 7 years ago

Thanks for the quick reply. I'm going to be adding and Pi0 w to this to stream video and am most likely going to need to increase battery capacity. How far weight wise do you think I can go before I'd need better moters?

kehaldoshi 7 years ago

You can increase weight upto 40 grams but flight time will be deincresed. If you will use more mAh battery then more weight will increase due to bigger battery. I recommend you to make bigger drone using JJRC H31 transmitter and receiver board and motor gear.

4DIYers 7 years ago

Excellent work, definitely looking forward to the test flight :)