This prototype system is a bit of a work in progress. To show that the Hydra system isn't just made for rovers, we wanted to also put it on some drones. We are working on a bolt-on kit for getting it integrated into the typical commercial drones such as 3DR and DJI, but in the meantime, we're also building one ourselves.

Here's a few of the original renders of it:

And here's what we have so far. We made a laser cut frame to put everything on (everyone keeps telling us it looks to heavy to fly, but we'll see - it feels pretty light, and according to Tom's calculations is something like 800grams, and each motor provides 1000grams of thrust, so should be okay (Our computer is pretty light as well).

And a foam "body" to go over top of it:

And here's a quick video of the Hydra spinning up the props:

We just need to find some time to try to fly it and work on the stabilization now. More to come...