Indiegogo: Nano Tornado

The Nano Tornado team has been working on ducted fan flyers for several years, and the four rotor Nano-T concept since August 2014. We build end-to-end drone vehicles, from control computers and software to the fuselage and whole-package concept. The core development team has extensive experience from spacecraft and NASA-related projects over the last couple of decades, including working on missions to Mars and Venus.

We know from prior projects that slips can be significant, especially in manufacturing. We try very hard to mitigate these problems by doing this a little different from some crowd funded projects. First, we intentionally worked much deeper through the development cycle for Nano Tornado before releasing it on Indiegogo. Second, we have established a deeper and large team of engineers across the range of required disciplines required for Nano Tornado a year ago. Third, we have spread development risk over several different projects. Finally, we have developed deep relationships with our plastics, PCB, and motor vendors.

We have also tried to set realistic delivery deadlines. Getting very deep into the development cycle before launching this campaign is a big part of that, but there always remains the desire to set “success oriented schedules”: If everything works great, we could ship sooner! While we want you to get your Nano Tornados as soon as possible, we know from our prior fabrication experiences that things will go wrong along the way. Quality is always the first thing to suffer in these cases. And while we are very confident we can deliver Nano Tornado by October, there are always unforeseen challenges or small changes that could cause delays. But be assured: we will keep you up to date on what’s happening all along the way!

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/nano-tornado-camera-drone-own-the-sky#/story