The world is your drone when you have a "Drone it Yourself" kit that clamps onto any airworthy object and makes it an unmanned aerial vehicle. July 8, 2013 11:07 AM PDT Suddenly, everything can be a drone. (Credit: Video screenshot by Amanda Kooser/CNET.) If you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. If you have a , everything looks like a drone. Jasper van Loenen created the "Drone it Yourself" kit as a portable way to turn regular items into flying machines. The kit components fit snugly into a large silver briefcase, the kind you would expect a secret agent to have handcuffed to his wrist. It contains everything you need to get an object to fly, so long as that object is light enough to get up in the air and has enough attachment points for all the gear. Inside the case are clamps, motors, propeller kits, a battery pack, a transmitter, a receiver, and all the miscellaneous little bits you need to make it work. Many of the plastic parts were produced on a 3D printer. A bill of materials lets you put together a kit of your own, if you're so inclined. Van Loenen has tested the kit on a bicycle wheel. The result was a flying quadcopter wheel. Conceivably, the kit could be expanded to include surveillance equipment, giving it a distinctly "Mission: Impossible" sort of vibe. The most entertaining part of all this is thinking about what could be made to fly. Instead of a flying box of pizza, how about just a flying pizza?
The world is your drone when you have a "Drone it Yourself" kit that clamps onto any airworthy object and makes it an unmanned aerial vehicle.
Suddenly, everything can be a drone.
(Credit: Video screenshot by Amanda Kooser/CNET.)
If you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. If you have a , everything looks like a drone. Jasper van Loenen created the "Drone it Yourself" kit as a portable way to turn regular items into flying machines.
The kit components fit snugly into a large silver briefcase, the kind you would expect a secret agent to have handcuffed to his wrist. It contains everything you need to get an object to fly, so long as that object is light enough to get up in the air and has enough attachment points for all the gear.
Inside the case are clamps, motors, propeller kits, a battery pack, a transmitter, a receiver, and all the miscellaneous little bits you need to make it work. Many of the plastic parts were produced on a 3D printer. A bill of materials lets you put together a kit of your own, if you're so inclined.
Van Loenen has tested the kit on a bicycle wheel. The result was a flying quadcopter wheel. Conceivably, the kit could be expanded to include surveillance equipment, giving it a distinctly "Mission: Impossible" sort of vibe. The most entertaining part of all this is thinking about what could be made to fly. Instead of a flying box of pizza, how about just a flying pizza?
