If you would like to own a quad or tricopter but just can’t afford the $300 for a professionally build flying machine such as the Parrot AR.Drone 2.0. You might be interested in these that have been built using cardboard frames rather than the tradition aluminium ones. Details of building both the tricopter and quadcopter have been published over on the Mike Estee website, and can be viewed in flight after the jump.
The quadcopter you can see in action in the video below is even fitted with a rubber-band














