Student and competition builds: priced parts lists

What each build costs

Which drone build fits my project?

The 7-inch quadcopter suits a small autonomous aircraft that must fly 15 to 20 minutes with a camera and a Raspberry Pi. The final-year project drone suits a project whose real subject is a payload or software. The payload-drop drone suits NIDAR and AeroTHON-style missions that search, detect and deliver.

• 7-inch autonomous quadcopter on ArduPilot: parts list and flight-time sumsParts list for a 7-inch ArduPilot quadcopter with GPS waypoints, telemetry and a companion computer, and the sums behind a 15–20 minute flight.
• Drone for a final-year project: parts list and design calculationsA Pixhawk quadcopter for an engineering project: what to buy, and the thrust, flight-time, current and battery sums the project report needs.
• Autonomous payload-drop drone for NIDAR, AeroTHON and similar contestsAn ArduPilot drone that searches for a target with a camera, drops or lowers a payload on it and flies home: parts list, mission set-up and the accuracy sums.

Which underwater or surface build fits my project?

The student ROV suits a tethered pool or lake vehicle and a first step towards MATE. The competition AUV suits SAUVC and RoboSub teams that need an untethered vehicle with a kill switch. The survey boat suits depth mapping and water-quality projects on a lake or pond.

• Building an underwater ROV for a student project: parts listA tethered six-thruster ROV for a college project or pool and lake work: thrusters, pressure housing, penetrators, controller, tether, camera, lights and sensors, priced.
• Building a competition AUV for SAUVC or RoboSub: parts listAn eight-thruster autonomous underwater vehicle for SAUVC, RoboSub or a university AUV team: hull, kill switch, mission switches, cameras, computers and a priced parts list.
• Autonomous survey boat for depth and water-quality mapping: student parts listA small ArduPilot boat that runs survey lines on its own, logging depth and water temperature against position: hull, thrusters, autopilot, echo sounder and a priced parts list.

How does a department order a whole build?

Add the parts list to the cart, send it as a quotation request, and we reply within one business day with a formal quotation, part numbers and HSN codes that your department can raise a purchase order against. Parts shipped together in one consignment earn a bulk discount, which the cart works out as you build the list.