Recycled Motherboard Quadcopter Frame

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I attend a large university, where hundreds of old computers are thrown out every year across campus. With all these composite multirotor frames on the market, I thought 'why not use the FR4 in circuit boards?'. I salvaged an old server from the IT department, and headed to my local TechShop

 First I needed to remove all the components from the motherboard. A heatgun and some patience did the trick.

Then I used the ShopBot CNC router to mill out the frame pieces, designed in Solidworks.

I assembled some arms from parts I had laying around. Here I'm using 1/2" square basswood. Zip ties are my friends.

I quickly harnessed the ESC's together.

I used the multiwii flip flight controller for the first time on this project. It took a while to figure out, but it flies awesome!