Build logElectrical31 Jul 2026
Electrical Update: Wiring Incident and Process Changes
During reintegration of the new power module, a positive and negative terminal made contact and caused a short.
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ICMTC 2026 · 3rd place
Storm
Autonomous heavy-lift quadcopter. Built in-house, subsystem by subsystem.
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The Airframe
Built for the mission, not the spec sheet
Storm is a carbon-fiber quadcopter engineered for stability and endurance under real-world flight conditions, built in-house from the ground up, tested and validated at every stage.
- Dimensions (L x W x H)
- 85×85×35 cm
- All-up weight
- 6.75 kg
- Max T/W ratio
- 4.09:1
- Flight endurance
- ~30 min
- Configuration
- Quadcopter, X-config
- Frame material
- Carbon fiber / fiberglass sandwich composite
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3rd place overall, ICMTC 2026
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Best Mission Performance Award, ICMTC 2026
Build
Storm, fully assembled
Avionics, power, vision and propulsion, integrated into one airframe. Explore every subsystem ↑
Footage
Storm in the air
Gallery
Photos
Side project
ICMTC 2026 UGV
A small ground vehicle that Storm carries and deploys during the mission, then drives on its own after release. Built alongside Storm as a side project.
Journal
How Storm was built
Build logComputer Vision24 Jul 2026
Teaching the confirmation stage to handle occlusion
We’re retraining the confirmation stage on realistic, partially covered target crops so it can handle the difficult cases the detector sees at flight altitude.
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Build logControl21 Jul 2026
Control update: ICMTC 2026, 3rd place and best mission performance
3rd overall and best mission performance at ICMTC 2026. Mission 1 flew 1.72 km across 9 waypoints with a mid-mission payload drop at 0.12 m altitude RMSE.
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