Here’s a dose of ”Rebel” goodness to tide you over while you wait for the next Star Wars trailer. A drone enthusiast in France recently graced YouTube with a few videos of a self-built quadcopter with a shell designed to look like the Millennium Falcon. It’s enough to make a Star Wars fan tear up.
The drone features a blue thruster light, just like the “real” Millennium Falcon, and has bright front lights as well. Its creator, who goes by “Oliver C” on YouTube, has some serious modding skills. He details his builds at RCGroups.com, taking fellow
enthusiasts step by step through the process of turning an ordinary drone into one of the baddest vessels in the galaxy.
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The shape of the Millennium Falcon presents Oliver C with some challenges, but he has the balance more or less handled by the time the spaceship – er, quadcopter takes its first flight outside. Oliver C says the batteries last about five minutes in the Millennium Falcon, as opposed to the usual eight minutes for the quadcopter without the Falcon shell attached.
The Millennium Falcon's first flight is a night flight, which shows off the drone’s lights. Check ‘em out.
Joshua Gulick
Josh cut his teeth (and hands) on his first PC upgrade in 2000 and was instantly hooked on all things tech. He took a degree in English and tech writing with him to
Computer Power User Magazine and spent years reviewing high-end workstations and gaming systems, processors, motherboards, memory and video cards. His enthusiasm for PC hardware also made him a natural fit for covering the burgeoning modding community, and he wrote
CPU’s “Mad Reader Mod” cover stories from the series’ inception until becoming the publication editor for
Smart Computing Magazine. A few years ago, he returned to his first love, reviewing smoking-hot PCs and components, for
HotHardware. When he’s not agonizing over benchmark scores, Josh is either running (very slowly) or spending time with family.
