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08-24-2016, 03:53 PM
How to build your own screaming fast quadcopter drone
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The sport of drone quad racing is quickly growing from DIY hobby to full-fledged competitive sport. Unlike off-the-shelf drones like DJI's Phantom ****** (http://mashable.com/2016/03/28/dji-phantom-4-drone-review/), the racing drones are quadcopters (hence, "quad" racing), generally hand-built and fully customizable. In a multi-part video ******, Mashable Creative Producer Sam Sheffer explores what it takes to build, race and compete in this new sport.
SEE ALSO: New startup Flock seeks to make drone flights safer (http://mashable.com/2016/08/08/flock-drone-startup/)
After a few phone calls, drone pilot and Liberty Cup Race organizer Randy Slavin (http://www.yeahdrones.com/) put us in touch with some great folks to help out, including New York City electronics megastore B&H who sent over all of the necessary parts for us to build our own screaming fast quad racer. They provided us with a full Team Black Sheep (http://www.team-blacksheep.com/) (TBS) quad kit minus the frame. Fortunately for us, the kit required ** soldering and saved us a ton of time. We've been told that a more traditional build can easily take up to 6 hours; ours took about 2 hours. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/24/how-to-build-quad-drone/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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The sport of drone quad racing is quickly growing from DIY hobby to full-fledged competitive sport. Unlike off-the-shelf drones like DJI's Phantom ****** (http://mashable.com/2016/03/28/dji-phantom-4-drone-review/), the racing drones are quadcopters (hence, "quad" racing), generally hand-built and fully customizable. In a multi-part video ******, Mashable Creative Producer Sam Sheffer explores what it takes to build, race and compete in this new sport.
SEE ALSO: New startup Flock seeks to make drone flights safer (http://mashable.com/2016/08/08/flock-drone-startup/)
After a few phone calls, drone pilot and Liberty Cup Race organizer Randy Slavin (http://www.yeahdrones.com/) put us in touch with some great folks to help out, including New York City electronics megastore B&H who sent over all of the necessary parts for us to build our own screaming fast quad racer. They provided us with a full Team Black Sheep (http://www.team-blacksheep.com/) (TBS) quad kit minus the frame. Fortunately for us, the kit required ** soldering and saved us a ton of time. We've been told that a more traditional build can easily take up to 6 hours; ours took about 2 hours. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/24/how-to-build-quad-drone/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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