Designing a New Drone — Part 1

Code Name: Magpie DS2 — The Objective

The Reefwing team have decided to design their own drone! The idea is that it will eventually utilise open source hardware and software can be used for STEM training in schools.

Figure 1. The Drone Prototype — partially assembled.

With this in mind, we have come up with the following criteria for our drone:

• The drone should be able to be constructed…