Skydio Drone Community

Hi folks,Many of you struggle with shaky footage and jello distortion on aerial shots. Here are the main reasons coming from gimbal brushless motors:

Not enough torqueWeak torque can’t counteract drone vibration, airflow turbulence. Adding lenses or thermal cameras makes the load heavier, the motor cannot stabilize smoothly. Low-quality magnets & loos...

I’ve been looking into field‑return drone power systems recently.
Visually the propellers only show minor scratches, no obvious cracks. But long‑term flight with slight prop imbalance creates continuous cyclic vibration.
Over many flight hours, this gradually wears motor bearings and disturbs air‑gap alignment, even without any hard crash.
Static prop balance c...

Hello from a new member. While using the Skydio X2D recently, I noticed that unless I'm in the shade, the screen glare is pretty severe. I couldn’t find any sun hood options on the Skydio site. Could anyone recommend a compatible sun hood? Thank you for your time.

Hi all,
I work on brushless motor mechanical design for industrial survey drones. I’ve seen many Skydio operators hit bent or snapped motor shafts after repeated field missions, even without heavy crashes.
We ran bench tests comparing different shaft heat treatments. Thin stock shafts deform easily under sustained high payload and long flight heat, while over-hardene...

Hi all,
I chatted about drone power system issues here yesterday, wanted to bring up another hardware pain point I’ve been noticing on my work fleet.
For missions with extra thermal camera payloads, the motors take constant extra side load. Even with stock sealed bearings, I start to hear grinding vibration after 120-150 flight hours, way faster than standard light p...