These Quadcopter Basketball Shoes Have Mad Ups

The guys from the FliteTest channel on YouTube live in the great state of Ohio, and so, naturally, they’re big fans of the Cleveland…

Cameron Coward
6 years agoDrones / Sports / Wearables

The guys from the FliteTest channel on YouTube live in the great state of Ohio, and so, naturally, they’re big fans of the Cleveland Cavaliers — and especially LeBron James. If you’re somehow unfamiliar with LeBron James, you should know that he’s considered by many to be the best basketball player currently playing, and maybe even the best of all time. At FliteTest they specialize in making just about everything fly, so as a homage to LeBron they turned a pair of his signature Nike LeBron 15 basketball shoes into quadcopters.

FliteTest is known for creating all manner of flying contraptions, and you may remember them from the IKEA chairplane that we covered last month. For this project they started with a pair of fashionable multicolor basketball shoes from LeBron’s Nike line. The first step was to add the arms that hold the drone’s motors and props, which were pushed through slits cut into the soles of the shoes. The motors were then attached to those arms, and the flight controllers were embedded into the bottom sides of the soles.

The finished quadcopter basketball shoes are still wearable, which is a nice touch. But, the real magic happens when they take to the sky and fly in a way that you wouldn’t think a pair of shoes should be able to. Once the FliteTest crew was done with the build, they even boxed the shoes up and shipped them to LeBron himself. Who knows, maybe they’ll help him to win his fourth NBA championship; is there anything in the rule book that says you can’t wear quadcopters on your feet for some extra lift?

Cameron Coward
Writer for Hackster News. Proud husband and dog dad. Maker and serial hobbyist.
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