The Sites History
Whether or not you remember my old site, there is a lot of history with this webpage which has been severely reduced. A brief timeline:
- In 2016, I started the site as a way to document my pursuit of efficient quadcopter frame design
- I started with pages for each project – I estimate a total of about 20 projects
- Since my projects were very quickly put together (in order to quickly prove out and idea), the original site name was Down and Dirty Drones. I figured once I was ready to refine the design(s), I would choose a better name.
- I also did a few product review articles, all outdated now
- In 2017, I started a Drone Physics Series which I hope to revamp and post again
- In 2018, I broke the world record for fastest battery operated quadcopter with the XLR-1 project
- Although I corresponded with Guinness for almost 2 years, there was a slight technicality that could not easily be resolved
- While waiting for Guinness to approve my speed record, I decided to design some quadcopter race frames
- The site was changed to Quad Star Drones – It just worked really well with the way the frames were designed
- I sold my first frame at the end of 2018
- After a disappointing end to the frame kits and speed record application, the web store was closed and my domain name was not renewed (was quadsardrones.com)
- I continued research and figured it was time to give the record attempt another try. On the bright side, this attempt will be 20-30mph faster than my last attempt
The Vision
To gain a better understanding of the relationship between frame design and flight characteristics of quadcopters; to help initiate the next generation of frame designs.
The Person
I became enthralled with the Hubsan X4’s I bought my kids for Christmas of 2014. I then built my first drone in February of 2015 and I played around with different configurations but was never satisfied with the design of the frame (example: flat arms). After that, I never assembled a frame the way it was intended. In October of 2015, I began to put more thought into the frames and I built the Mark V which was a precursor to the F1 frame (project page down at this time). Being a mechanical engineer, machine vision programmer, robot programmer, and even having completed pre-med, I think I have found a hobby to satisfy my brain activity. However, most of my time is devoted to my children.
Keep the thought process and experiments going buddy, and thank you for sharing the information and data.
Regards,
Vas
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Thanks Vas, much appreciated! Being more intuitive and an independent thinker, I found it EXTREMELY surprising how well these frame designs have done. I only hope these ideas are applied elsewhere to help the hobby improve.
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awesome
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