STORM Racing Drone – thoughts?

[Terje]

I’ve been looking at the Storm Racing Drone. I like the innovation of putting an injection molded canopy-like thing on it to make it look streamlined.

What I don’t get i why the CC3D Evo is placed (or even chosen for this platform?) so far from the center of the motors. At the same time, there is a huge gab between the two main plates, I assume to make room for the ESCs? Also there is a huge buzzer mounted on top of the frame together with the Rx and CC3D – probably because the CC3D does not feature a buzzer output.

It seems that the design would benefit from an integrated Naze32 in the frame, the ESCs on the arms where they would get more cooling thus enabling a reduction in height of the overall frame?

[Chadwick]

Definitely an interesting design. You are right it is on the tall side for sure. I think the escs being protected could be because it is marketed for any skill level, and it will give them more protection. Plus I bet the box section there gives it a huge amount of strength. It does seem that they could have better used space to make it a little more compact. I’m sure an integrated name would really help that.

[donnyb]

I think it is neat. But being tall could raise the center of gravity. Make the controller work a lot. I think if you could flip it over, mount the motors on the other side might be better off. You know low hung. But it is definitely cool looking.

[Terje]

In the search for black G10 glass fiber I just stumbled upon the frame on eBay 🙂

[Chadwick]

Looks suspiciously like the storm.

[Jesper]

I think it look like a million pieces once i have rammed it into a tree.

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