Hover-Craft

Description

A hover craft that uses the drone sensors to stabilise and maintain ground autonomy. Its smooth and extremely agile on all terrains .
The hover cradt uses two motors for thrust on the X and Y axis while four motors use thrust on the Z axis to maintain a smooth and table
hover.

Details

A basic 3D printed hovercraft frame that I designed on a 3d modelling software . 

I put 7 mm DC brushed motors as the actuators with 55 mm bi-blade props.

The setup is a 1s 3.7v setup that used a 600 Mah battery with a disharge rating of 45C. Its an agile setup thats extremely fun to handle . 

I used the Primus X flight controller to mimic the drone stabilising features to easily control the craft. 

I added two extra motors that I used on the ports supporting H bridge to get the reverse function by reversing the prop spin . 

I used the simple API based SDK that was offered with Primus X called Cygnus IDE .

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Build instructions

Step 1

Ideate and draw out design. 3D model the design to perfect scale.

Step 2

Print out the design and mount the flight controller , motors , propellers and battery.

Step 3

Use Cygnus IDE to code in the simple changes in the firmware and flash the new firmware.

Step 4

Connect in your phone application through wi-fi and watch your creations come to life.