Gallery — Aerionix

Gallery

From bench to flight.

The work as it happens: the lab in Manipal, the design cycle, and the hardware that comes out the other side.

In the lab

Interns and founders winding, soldering and testing through the first builds.

Interns at a design briefing in the Manipal workshop

Composite layup work with gloves and caps

Probing an ESC prototype with an external LDO

Assembling a prototype on the bench

The team with an assembled test drone

Gate driver output of the ESC on an oscilloscope

Unboxing components in the lab

Wiring the second drone build

Design and test

CAD to firmware bring-up: every part is modelled, built and verified in house.

ESC connected to the flight controller, first flash

Flight controller calibrated on INAV

CAD model of the 8014 motor

Motor, CAD model

3D layout render of the ESC board

ESC, layout render

First batch of anodised rotors

First rotor batch, anodised

Final assembly

Production 8014 motors, wound and assembled in Manipal.

Wound stator of the 8014 motor, copper detail

Top view of the assembled 8014 motor

8014 motor rotor and windings close up

Assembled 8014 motor on the bench

Upcoming

Renders from the current design cycle. Timelines move, so nothing here is a shipped spec.

Render of the next ESC revision, top side

ESC, next revision · top

Render of the next ESC revision, bottom side

ESC, next revision · bottom

Render of the next flight controller revision

Flight controller, next revision