Flying Box Fan Drone!

These blades don't do much for thrust we're gonna throw these away. These motors don't work for us we're gonna throw these away The grate is affecting our thrust we're gonna throw these away. You basically went to Walmart and bought 4 prop guards.

Is it really still a box fan drone if you remove the blades and motor? Edit: I'm not trying to suggest that what they did wasn't hecking awesome, and I'm sorry if that's the impression my comment gave off. This cool as heck and I love the aesthetic of the fan cages, I just wish that in the title they would specify that they don't actually use the fan part of the box fan bc you know some kid saw the title & thumbnail and was really disappointed that they didn't actually make the orignal fans fly. Or maybe say that they made it from fan parts or something

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Isn't this just like a regular drone with a weird case?

so...you basically didn't used the fans at all

The ultimate trolling drone! Love it!

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No wood. Could have just put them together and ran tension tape around the outside of them all. Probably stiff enough and way lighter.

Wood was 100% not needed for this project IMO

A flying box fan. I’ve always wanted to make one fly!

You could also try cutting every other bar out of the top grate for better intake and perhaps every 2, 3 or 4 for the bottom to help with the appearance and rigidity without compromising the thrust. We had to cut every other bar out of our bug zappers when we were in Ecuador because the bugs couldn't get in. This is what thought came to mind watching this video.

PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DO A FLYING DELOREAN!!! Ben G and I agree

Yall should do a flying delorean, like back to the future, a flying buzz lightyear. Also, tall should try a glider tow with an rc car....

I guess watching this is the equivalent to when Howard Hughes flew the Spruce Goose. It was said to never be able to fly but it did. Not far and long but it did. Evolution of aviation right there.

Fun hack. The roll probably was probably spoiled by the heavy boxes and wooden spars having so much inertia compared with what a controller expects of a normal quad. Perhaps a box fan manufacturer would sponsor the development of a fully aerobatic quad. In the short term maybe the wood spars could be about half the width they are which would shave many grams, and trimming at least some of the folded-over box edges or ducting the fans might improve airflow. On the other hand it's understandable if you don't want to devote that much effort until there's a box fan drone race category.

take one box fan and put 2 counterrotating blades on it. and for an experiment use a 2 blade prop, a 3 blade, and a 4 blade to see if one out does the others. put louvers on the bottom, that can be directed (left, right, straight down, and closed) ((think GEV)) use different numbers of louvers, in different orientations. like in a box setup, or the left and right set are run for and aft, (for lift and drift correction) and the center section (broken up into two sets) run side to side, (the front half of the center section rotates 120 degrees and the back rotates 90 degrees) (( the front directs the airflow from almost straight front to almost straight back; the back directs airflow from straight down to straight back)) these are just a few ideas to see if it works

if you are switching fan blades and motors then it isn't quite the same thing just ab actually quadcopter just much larger with box fan casing

got a idea for a project: take about 4 drones who communicate with each other to amplify the signal for a long range flight with a rc plane. I mean that the 4 drones catch the signal of the plane and transmit it from drone to drone and atleast it get's to the remote controller of the plane and the opposite to get a signal to the plane. sorry for my english i'm actually german, but whatever that would be a awesome project but it's difficult.

Woow, dude... You built a qaud, of a stash of quad parts... Amazing!!!