Diy Solar Powered Drone

Put solar panels on a drone so it doesn t need a battery.

Diy solar powered drone. It seems that other people have achieved at least long not perpetual flight times by using this model of recharging batteries with solar during the day. This one is intended to operate as a drone. I hacked my old cheerson cs 10 quadc. The solar powered drone will be used for surveillance and to provide communications in remote areas much like facebook s aquila drone project.

Gathering tools and materials here i am going to give you links to each part and component used in this project. The aircraft can potentially be used as a flying solar panel to provide emergency solar power to disaster areas as well as for photography small package delivery surveillance and. Solar powered r c drone. Although a drone that combined solar and battery power was flown in the past this is nus first one to rely solely on direct solar power.

I m starting now a big drone project with two intelligent drones programmed by me and for this i need a much longer flight time than the casual dr. I made this drone as a research and as i simple weekend project so you can also try if you ll like it. The purpose of doing it is to enable the aircraft to stay in the air for months or years at a time providing services such as communications and remote sensing said prismatic managing director. It s awesome assuming your motives are.

What i have built for 100kg cargo drone challenge by airbus was powered paraglider and it makes sense to turn powered paraglider into autonomous or rc solar paraglider qrun said. Without a battery you could fly a drone as long as the sun keeps shining. The solar powered quadcopter drone can be controlled by remote control or programmed to fly autonomously using a gps system incorporated into the aircraft. The culmination of years of work here is a first peak at my solar powered airship design.