Welcome to the ‘How to Make a Drone’ course, where we will be covering the gauntlet of drone related subjects. Most drone build courses will only show you how to put together pre-selected parts, without providing the potent ‘why’ behind the choices. And they certainly don’t show you how to code your own automatic missions with python.
This course will cover it all. Whether you want to simply build a flyable drone from scratch, or to learn how to select parts to design your own drone, or even to learn about software that would allow you to script automatic drone missions (for that new ‘taco delivery’ company idea?), we’ll go over it in this course with a unique Linux based Raspberry Pi drone!
Ever wanted to get into drones, but have no idea where to start? Or maybe you’re looking for a good drone to prototype new ideas with.
The content covered here will be valuable for both the experienced and inexperienced, and the drone that we build is both beginner friendly and the ideal drone for more complex subjects (like computer vision based flying!)
While this course was designed for you to follow along with the drone build prescribed, 80% of the videos are not specific to a specific drone build. This means you can still extract extremely valuable knowledge from this course without needing to spend the money to buy the drone parts. Even without building a drone, you’ll still learn about the hardware, design and build processes, and some best practices and maintenance for drone pilots.
This would work just fine, because there is even a section dedicated to illuminating the design process, which would allow you to design and find the parts for your own drone build. Most of the videos would still directly apply to your drone.
If you already have the necessary tools (soldering iron, drill, screwdrivers etc): ~$500-600
You can source your own parts or purchase one of our pre-configured raspberry pi + pixhawk drone kits.
Caleb Bergquist feels very uncomfortable with writing about himself, but he hopes you will pretend to read the rest of this while thinking he did not write this himself, and not judge him for his self-bloviating autobiography camouflaged as a biography. He digresses.
Caleb Bergquist has a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Tulsa, and currently works as a DevOps engineer at a software company by day. By night, he is a hobbyist/tinkerer in many areas, but has been magnetized towards all things drones, from hardware to software. The trend here is that there is no trend. I’ve.. I mean, he has spent much time binge-learning of the myriad of open source projects that are fueling the development of the drone space, and wishes to lower the barrier of entry to these subjects for those coming behind him.
He wishes to do this by combining his experience as an instructor, with the democratization of the knowledge he’s accumulated on the fringes of new technologies.
The course starts now and never ends! It is a completely self-paced online course – you decide when you start and when you finish.
How does lifetime access sound? After enrolling, you have unlimited access to this course for as long as you like – across any and all devices you own.
We would never want you to be unhappy! If you are unsatisfied with your purchase, contact us in the first 30 days and we will give you a full refund.
NO! We will be using a simulated drone on the computer to test our code. No drone is needed.