Given the current price for a decent sized consumer 3D printer and having the urge to build anything, stumbling across the RepRap.org project (albeit a bit too late) was bound to lead to a 3D Printer project.

Given the current price for a decent sized consumer 3D printer and having the urge to build anything, stumbling across the RepRap.org project (albeit a bit too late) was bound to lead to a 3D Printer project.
So having looked in awe at the latest consumer 3D printers and dreaming of that first extrusion, the time has finally come!
After researching the specification, saving for all the bits and waiting for the delivery of all the components the day finally comes. BUILD DAY!
One does not simply mash propellers, cardboard and Weetabix together to make a quad-copter! Here is a, more considered than not, plan for the required hardware.
Quad-copters are becoming quite popular from £30 mini quad-copters to £3000 drones.
How about building your own? Seems worth a try!
FreeNAS, like any other bit of software, needs a computer to run on! Here is the chosen hardware specification for SaltiNAS.