If you can access an 3D printer, a PhD candidate from Columbia University will guide you step by step to build your own Drone. Ang Cui, 31, managed to print a drone using the MakerBot Replicator 2X 3D printer.
Specific printer it is not considered by the very expensive either. Its price can even classify it as a "cheap" family 3D printers. But let's see what it takes to build a private drone.
The spare parts that were needed are all commercially available. Battery, motor, wireless transmitter, propellers, and the controller flights (the drone's computer) were all purchased online. According to the manufacturer, it took 22 hours to complete the print.
Ang gives a full list of the parts he used. All the materials come with indicative prices: about $20 for the battery, $30 for buying two-and-a-half pounds of plastic, $100 for the transmitter, $30 for the camera, $230 for the system autopilot and for the most expensive part: $2.500 for the 3D printer, which as we mentioned above can be considered “cheap.”
Maybe a 3D printer in Greece is still a midsummer night's dream, but you never know. Besides, as we have seen, all the news Gadgets they cost quite a bit at first, but after 6 months, the prices plummet.
If you still have access to an 3D printer, creating this unmanned aircraft will cost you around 500 dollars.
