[AwesomeAwesomeness] wanted a low cost quadcopter, so he built one from scratch. Okay, not quite from scratch. [AA’s] cookie mix came in the form of an Arduino Uno and some motors. He started with ...

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Aerospace engineers Ron Barrett and Richard Bramlette set out to build a quadcopter unlike any other—one that can fly at high speeds like a rocket, up to 133 mph on one test flight. The idea behind ...