My team and I have always joked about building a flying robot, but I want to know if you guys think it’s actually possible. First, here are the rules: 100% VEX V5 approved competition parts. It flies with the entire brain, battery, and radio system on it (no super long cords that allow the batter…

[image] seenSeal: we have been here and done this before. And it is time for us to do it again it seems. I don’t believe that it is possible to create a drone with solely vex hardware. You would need nice drone blades, not vex part of VRC legal hardware. Yep this shows up once per season, so…

It’s definitely possible if you scale back your expectations, think fixed wing with only thrust control. Assuming we’re limited to VRC legal parts, an unlimited supply of legal sized polycarbonate could be exploited. You could form the wings by using polycarbonate to form the ribs of the wings, st…

It might be possible but nobody ever builds one after these posts so why bother.

Large blades made of Lexan. 7:1 gear ratio, with a speed motor. made of thin aluminum plates, not c-channels.

coming back to mention this gem of a thread: [image] V5 drone Technical Discussion Hi all I was wondering, with the new V5 system can you make drones now? I made one with the cortex a few years ago in middle school and it flew about 30 seconds. I was wondering if anyon…

[image] TimmyOsborne: if gravity completely ceased to exist. Like this??? [Screenshot_20220125-104053]

Peter Sripol, isn’t it? Fixed wing is a good idea I hadn’t thought about. I’m pretty confident it’s impossible to make a “drone” because the power to weight ratio of the vex electronics is just awful, but a fixed wing without any control surfaces could be plausible. Unfortunately it would have to b…

[image] 7996D_CarsonW: but I want to know if you guys think it’s actually possible. no

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coming back to mention this gem of a thread: