A Paint Sprayer on a Drone for a Laptop Company?

We can finally share this project with all of you!

You may have remembered me teasing a project I had been working on since the end of last year that involved me designing and building something unique. Well that unique project was a fully working, self contained paint sprayer that can be flown around on one of our drones. :D

Cultivator Labs reached out to us back in October of last year asking if I had a drone that could carry a paint sprayer. We started asking a bunch of questions about what it looked like, what it weighed, ect and long story short, they hadn't had it designed or built yet. So we offered to take a crack at it and they said yes!

It was such a fun challenge to be able to design and build this thing and actually make it work then to see the reactions of their client Lenovo when I brought it to set for the first time.

You can see their full campaign site here: Lenovo: Fresh Paint

The other cool part of this was they wanted air-to-air footage of this working so we were able to fly both our heavy-lift drones in downtown Phoenix where the mural was being "painted" on the wall of the building. Jeremiah Davis flew the paint sprayer drone and I flew the camera drone.

The sprayer is remotely controlled via a separate radio control system. I have it setup to turn the air to the sprayer on and off via an electronic solenoid valve. The air is being supplied via two 3000psi Carbon Fiber paintball tanks and the paint is being held in the siphon fed sprayer at the front. The whole system weighs about 19lbs when it's full of paint. In order for the paint to get sprayed far enough away from the drone we have to run a really high air pressure to the sprayer so the air only lasts about 2 minutes before needing to be refilled.

Let us know if you have any other questions!

If you have any unique payloads or projects please reach out to us and let us so we can see if we are a good fit!
Contact us here.