We love seeing this level of detail when discussing a build process, and as you can see by the video embedded below, his quadcopter looks great!

A&S: When did you decide to build your own helicopter? Robinson ... machine tools and riveting equipment and set up workshops in my basement or garage, where I did a lot of experimenting.

I chose a multi-rotor aircraft over a fixed-wing or helicopter because ... turned-engineer who has his own firm, Hardware Collaborative. He was intrigued by my project (he often donates his ...