Triggering Lightning and Safely Guiding It Using a Drone - Every year lightning strikes cause a lot of damage — with the high-voltage dischar... - https://hackaday.com/2025/05/09/triggering-lightning-and-safely-guiding-it-using-a-drone/ #dronehacks #lightning #science #drone

Improving Flying Drones By Mimicking Flying Squirrels - With the ability to independently adjust the thrust of each of their four motors, ... - https://hackaday.com/2025/05/06/improving-flying-drones-by-mimicking-flying-squirrels/ #dronehacks #quadcopter #squirrel

2024 Hackaday Supercon Talk: Killing Mosquitoes with Freaking Drones, and Sonar - Suppose that you want to get rid of a whole lot of mosquitoes with a quadcopter dr... - https://hackaday.com/2025/03/25/2024-hackaday-supercon-talk-killing-mosquitoes-with-freaking-drones-and-sonar/ #dronehacks #featured #interest #cons

Budget-Minded Synthetic Aperture Radar Takes to the Skies - Unless you work for the government or a large corporation, constrained designs are... - https://hackaday.com/2025/02/13/budget-minded-synthetic-aperture-radar-takes-to-the-skies/ #syntheticapertureradar #patchantenna #polarization #dronehacks #radiohacks #drone #fpgs #dsa #sar #uav

DIY Drones Deliver the Goods with Printed Release - It seems like the widespread use of delivery drones by companies like Amazon and W... - https://hackaday.com/2025/01/22/diy-drones-deliver-the-goods-with-printed-release/ #communications #dronehacks #controller #delivery #protocol #package #drone #esp32

Avian-Inspired Drones: How Studying Birds of Prey Brings More Efficient Drones Closer - The EPFL LisRaptor with adjustable wings and tail.
Throughout evolution, the conce... - https://hackaday.com/2025/01/15/avian-inspired-drones-how-studying-birds-of-prey-brings-more-efficient-drones-closer/ #dronehacks #science #avian #drone

FPV Flying in Mixed Reality is Easier than You’d Think - Flying a first-person view (FPV) remote controlled aircraft with goggles is an imm... - https://hackaday.com/2025/01/03/fpv-flying-in-mixed-reality-is-easier-than-youd-think/ #augmentedreality #virtualreality #dronehacks #fpvgoggles #fpvflight #metaquest #fpv

Flying Drones That Can Walk and Jump into the Air: An Idea With Legs? - When we look at how everyone’s favorite flying dinosaurs get around, we can see th... - https://hackaday.com/2024/12/10/flying-drones-that-can-walk-and-jump-into-the-air-an-idea-with-legs/ #bio-inspiredmechanics #bio-inspired #dronehacks #drone

Trying to Shatter the World’s Fastest RC Car Record - The RC car is controlled via an FPV setup. (Credit: Luke Bell, YouTube)
Fresh off ... - https://hackaday.com/2024/12/10/trying-to-shatter-the-worlds-fastest-rc-car-record/ #worldrecord #dronehacks #dronefpv #r/ccar #fpv

Small Feathers, Big Effects: Reducing Stall Speeds With Strips Of Plastic - Birds have long been our inspiration for flight, and researchers at Princeton Univ... - https://hackaday.com/2024/12/02/small-feathers-big-effects-reducing-stall-speeds-with-strips-of-plastic/ #aerodynamics #dronehacks #aircraft #birds #stall

Experimental Drone Flies Like A Bird https://hackaday.com/2024/11/25/experimental-drone-flies-like-a-bird/ #flightcontroller #nature-inspired #dronehacks #bird

Experimental Drone Flies Like A Bird - Most RC planes follow a simple control scheme: elevators for pitch, rudder for yaw... - https://hackaday.com/2024/11/25/experimental-drone-flies-like-a-bird/ #flightcontroller #nature-inspired #dronehacks #bird

Modular Multi-Rotor Flies Up To Two Hours - Flight time remains the Achilles’ heel of electric multi-rotor drones, with even h... - https://hackaday.com/2024/11/24/modular-multi-rotor-flies-up-to-two-hours/ #dronehacks #quadcopter #3dprinted #ardupilot #pid

Transforming Drone Drives and Flies - Vehicles that change their shape and form to adapt to their operating environment ... - https://hackaday.com/2024/11/22/transforming-drone-drives-and-flies/ #transportationhacks #transformerrobot #drehmflight #dronehacks #quadcopter #3dprinted

Automated Weed Spraying Drone Needs No Human Intervention - Battling weeds can be expensive, labor intensive and use large amounts of chemical... - https://hackaday.com/2024/11/11/automated-weed-spraying-drone-needs-no-human-intervention/ #agriculturalrobot #dronehacks #ardupilot #weeding

Amazon Receives FAA Approval for MK30 Delivery Drone - It’s been about a decade since Amazon began to fly its delivery drones, aiming to ... - https://hackaday.com/2024/11/06/amazon-receives-faa-approval-for-mk30-delivery-drone/ #amazonprimeair #robotdelivery #dronehacks #amazon #news

Solar Planes Are Hard - A regular comment we see on electric aircraft is to “just add solar panels to the ... - https://hackaday.com/2024/10/12/solar-planes-are-hard/ #foamairplane #dronehacks #solarhacks #solarplane #mppt

Tiny Drones Do Distributed Mapping - Sending teams of tiny drones to explore areas and structures is a staple in sci-fi... - https://hackaday.com/2024/10/11/tiny-drones-do-distributed-mapping/ #ultrawideband #dronehacks #crazyflie #slam #tof

Single Rotor Drone Spins For 360 Lidar Scanning - Multiple motors or servos are the norm for drones to achieve controllable flight, ... - https://hackaday.com/2024/10/04/single-rotor-drone-spins-for-360-lidar-scanning/ #dronehacks #swashplate #drone #lidar

The Challenges Of Charging Drones From Power Lines - Drones that charge right on the power lines they inspect is a promising concept, b... - https://hackaday.com/2024/10/01/the-challenges-of-charging-drones-from-power-lines/ #autonomousdrone #dronehacks #inspection #powerlines