Handmade

Drone
Objectives
To demonstrate physics concept of electricity, air friction and free fall.
Demonstrated by the homemade drone.
Background Information
A drone is technological aircraft, known as a unmanned aerial vehicles or
unmanned aircraft systems. Drone is flying robot which can be control by a remote
or can also fly autonomously. Nowadays, drone was created for observing, spying
but mostly use for bird eyes view photography. In our project, drone was created
for demonstrate how the electricity and air friction work. So we wont make the
remote because we dont have to control it. We just show that the drone can fly.
Our group will place the stick to be base and put the drone in the middle of the
stick. Then we put a bottle cap on the top of the stick so the drone not fly away.
Materials
1) Styro foam
2) Electrical tape
3) Motors
4) Drone propellers
5) Electric wires
6) Hot glue
7) Battery
8) Wooden board
9) Wooden stick
Set-up
foam to make the body and all the legs,
because the weight is very light.
Also all the legs, we design it to be able to
stand steady by let it be a part of the wings.
We place the stick through the drone as an
support so it doesnt fly all around the room
The stick are in the middle of wooden
board as a support as well
At the top we place a foam ball as a
blocker so the drone doesnt fly out from
the stick
Discussion Of Designs
We draw all the wings on the styrofoam to make an outline of the wings, and then use
cutter to cut all the wings.
After that we separate into four position equally for the wings. And stick it with the
spherical foam using hot glue.
Attach all four motors to each wing with hot glue. Also attach the propeller on each
motor.
Make a hole at the center of the drone to put a wooden stick in it. And then stick the
wooden stick to middle of the base with hot glue.
At the top of the wooden stick we attach with a lid to stop the drone from flying out of
range.
We then connected all the red wires together and the black wires together.
After those were connected, we connect those wire to the battery. The red connected
the the black and black connected to red. Between the battery and drone there are a
switch which will make the drone fly after pressing the button.
Data and records
# of trails Heights Battery Time

1 0 cm 7V(1) 5 sec

2 0 cm 7V(1) 10 sec

3 - 7.4 V 3 sec

4 45.5 cm 7.4 V 2.5 sec

Analysis of data
For the first and second trials, the drone didnt fly.The reason is the way of wing
spinning were wrong. Four of the wings of the drone is spinning in the same way which
is clockwise. This make the drone spinning around and not fly. So, the solution is
changes the way of the wings spinning.

For the third trial, it flies but while it flow up one of the wing has broke due to the
stopper because it hit to hard. So, the solution is wrapping something around the foam
part of the drone to make it stronger.

For the last trial, after making the changes of the propellers. Found out that the one
spinning counter clockwise created the wind upward and not downward. The solution is
to change the propellers so that it could the wind in direction that we wanted.
Conclusion
the energy from the battery was sent to the drone giving powers to the motors. The
electron was stopped by the switch which act as a resistors in this case. After the motors
were powered, the propellers will spin.

The wind have to lift up the weight of the drone plus the gravitational force that is
pulling down. If the wind created were not enough the drone will not fly.

The energy that needed to transfer also needed to be enough as well to make the
motors spin fast enough.

The structure of the drone are also important due to that it should have light weight it
also have to be strong enough so that it doesnt break when it reach the stopper at the
top.
Recommendation
The wings of the drone need to spinning in the clockwise and
counterclockwise to push the wind down and fly up. Two of the wings that
opposite side each other. The wires were tied up together when it reached the
top, so our suggestions is to wrap the wire together so that it is neat and not
tied up together.