Hey everyone, so I spent a year building this transforming drone project, we called it Mercury, is essentially a drone that can fly, drive crawl. We included features like an internal cargo bay, camera, depth and thermal sensors, as well as developed a whole software UI to control it. And what's relevant for this community is that is fully 3D printable.

After posting about our prototype we thought it was really cool, saw interest from first responders that claimed an all-in-one robot/drone would be incredibly valuable to them, so we tried to build a startup around it (maybe some of you have seem our posts a few months back).

Unfortunately for the past several months we were unable to get grants or raise any funding from angels to continue the R&D and create a more polished product, so we have decided to just open source the project. We think this was an awesome piece of technology, and we saw some of you mention that you would like to try your hand at building one, so might as well let the world be able to build their own.

The lessons and skills we learned for building drones, robots and running a startup are something we'll be using in our next project, so feel free to follow our socials and be attentive for that.

The repo includes:

STL files

Software Files

PCB Gerber files

Bill Of Materials

Basic printing instructions

I'll be in the comments answering questions about the build or the startup journey if anyone is curious.

REPO LINK: https://github.com/L42ARO/Mercury-Transforming-Drone

Spent a year building this transforming drone, now I'm open sourcing it for anyone to build