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HeX : Modular Xcopter


We adopted the way of Desktop Fabrication to build HeX. Here is an example what that way does to it and how it effects on other hobbyists who also want to build a similar one.

the files of the designs of HeX will be uploaded onto the internet and freely accessible to anyone who is enthusiastic about it. With these files, if you also happen to get some CNC routers and laser cutters at home, you can…
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Added by Hex Air Robot on March 1, 2013 at 2:09am — 6 Comments

What does a modular design do?

a modular design makes HeX adaptable from a quadcopter to a hexacopter even to a triple-rotor copter as the following picture shows
And also, we hope the modular design makes it friendlier to users because the complexity of putting a drone together is being brought down…
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Added by Hex Air Robot on February 28, 2013 at 2:24am — 5 Comments

HeX, get me my coffee

just enjoy it!
Added by Hex Air Robot on February 23, 2013 at 12:48am — 27 Comments

The Story about HeX and people behind it

The whole idea of building a drone started on August 2012. Our original thought was to make a cool, pluggable and hackable hexagonal drone targeting customers including both ordinary people as X-sports fans and  pros as DIYers. And in order to demonstrate people how the technology of Computer Vision (short as…
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Added by Hex Air Robot on February 19, 2013 at 5:00am — 7 Comments

HeX mini

After over one month, I work out the second generation prototype of HeX. 
1. trimmed down the size:
the diameter of the first generation is 100 centimeters. this one's is 70 centimeters
2. the modular design goes like this:…
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Added by Hex Air Robot on January 15, 2013 at 3:22am — 8 Comments

RC Touch - turning iPhone or iPad into a RC controller for drones

We ever posted a article in DIYdrones' forum to see the feasibility of turning iphone into a RC controller. It seems that people are not very keen on it, partly due to the lack of precise control through tilt action and partly due to the reluctance of giving up an actual control stick. So we disabled the tilt action and modified the interface into a RC simulation…
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Added by Hex Air Robot on January 14, 2013 at 11:00pm — 3 Comments

Introduction to Project HeX

What is HeX? Why do we want to do it?
HeX which is a portable robotic multi-rotors copter with a modular design and the abilities of auto tracking and filming
There are several reasons we wanted to do this at the first place:

First, We found robotic multiple-rotor copters are quit mature with a sophisticated ROS.

Second, with proper airborne peripherals and software, an air robot can accomplish various… LINK