A DIY Drone Flies with Just One Propeller on a Finned Body
This homebuilt drone flies using a single propeller mounted above a finned body, rather than the multiple rotors commonly seen on small drones.
Its maker, jyjblrd, has published modified flight-controller and motor-controller firmware, along with 3D design files for the body and propeller parts, on GitHub.
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Most small drones spread the work across several rotors. This design gives the job to just one—and moves the engineering challenge somewhere else.