I’ll maybe add aluminium tape so it reflects more, will see.”Īdding some more parts, applying paint, some test flights in the garage and the Millennium Falcon drone was ready for its maiden flight. Blue is on top because I expect this one to be dimmer than the white. Here is what Olivier said about the planning of the thruster: “Plan is to have the LEDs reflect against the top and bottom curves. The top LED strip is blue, bottom is white. The 2 lights at the front were connected serial so each gets only 6V instead of 12V as it was really bright, Olivier had no plan to fly the Falcon in pitch dark. Next steps including but not limited to: assembly, testing paint colors and of course adding the epic front lights and back LED strips to imitate the thruster: The hull locks into the frame of the quad at the front. It’s normally flying FPV and carries a GoPro, but for this project he had to remove the camera, the video transmitter and the GPS antenna to offset some of the extra weight resulting in 800 grams for the quad, and between 300 and 350 grams for the Falcon hull. On the left side, you see the “host” on the left, that’s Olivier’s 335mm quad which is a custom build also. The main parts are cut out from the foam based on printed pattern sheets assembled and attached from A4 size parts.Īfter cutting the main parts, Olivier placed the quad under the hull. This how he planned out and managed to balance the Millennium Falcon drone in “theory”, before building. Also, it’s almost the proper color of the spaceship, says Olivier in this Imgur post where you can see the entire process. It’s heavier than classic EPP, but also much stronger, and easy to cut clean. The material he used to build the hull is and Ursa XPS insulant made of expanded polystyrene of 20 and 30mm thickness. The hull itself makes the aircraft a bit clumsy and I would probably not dare to fly it on a windy day, but boy is it totally epic or not? So if you are like me, having dreamt of flying the Millennium Falcon across galaxies, you need to watch this video and check further down if you want to build one yourself too. Olivier from Grenoble recreated the iconic Millennium Falcon by building a foam hull for his DIY quad he calls the “Prophecy 335”. This time a Youtube user by the name Olivier C posted yet another great piece of #droneporn (as in cloudporn or foodporn) Yesterday. That video is now close to 1.4 Million views. Remember the Star Wars Inspired Drone Race? It was one of the most popular topics of last year (along with FPV racing in general) created by the amazing Airgonay team in France. Being huge Star Wars fans probably also helps. Ok, there must be something going on in France that we can’t quite comprehend, but it makes the members of the local drone scene really innovative and plain awesome. This Star Wars Inspired Millennium Falcon Drone is Awesome
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