HAWK'S WORK F450 Drone Kit to build, DIY Quadcopter Set, Frame + Pixhawk + GPS + Power Module + ESC + Brushless Motor + Prop + Battery + RC Transmitter & Receiver + Accessory + Guild Book & Video (A)

What a great project. If you are wanting a great introduction to drones, this should be your first stop. Plenty of videos online, works seamlessly with Ardupilot, Mission Planner, paired easily with my TX16s Mk2. I added a fatshark fpv system, a raspi 4b, servos, and a telemetry unit. For the money, you get a drone used by researchers on autonomous flight, drone swarm shows, ai, advanced robotics and so much more. If you're a researcher or tinkerer this is a great little unit.

Several components were dead on arrival and I was able to find far more cost effective options after actually reading about the hobby. I encourage all hobbyists to thoroughly research the DIY drone space before wasting money as I did.

Its actually a great drone kit, i can tell you that i had a lot of fun putting it together but it was missing some stuff, the instructional video is pretty good but it cuts out certain parts of the configuration on mission planner, also it doesn't give you troubleshooting if you can't get the drone to link to the controller which it took me 3 days to figure out. All in all i think it was a good purchase but it could've been amazing if the company would've put a bit more effort, i had to buy an fpv cam and monitor along with telemetry stuff to get a good experience too and 3d printed some mounting parts for the controller to attach the monitor, also this drone is pretty big and pretty heavy, i was told to register it with the FAA and to take a test which i did, i would give it a 4 star.

The documentation was excellent. We had the drone ready to fly in about 6 hours. Everything you needed was included in the kit, even the tools. We would buy this again!

I had one defective ESC and two faulty motors from the kit. To keep my build going, I ended up ordering four additional ESCs and four more motors from the same brand. Unfortunately, when I tested the motors, I noticed inconsistent RPMs even when running at the same power level. While you can buy the individual parts separately, having everything included in one kit does make the building process a bit more convenient.

Fun to put together. More than I expected once built.