Delft Drone Initiative: Dronifying people and ideas.
DDI bridges drone education and frontier research with industry demands —
Under one roof, in Delft, contributing to European drone sovereignty.
01 People
A place for learning, sharing knowledge and having fun with drones. DDI organizes both educational and leisure drone events – come join the largest drone community in the Delft area!
Build it. Understand it. Fly it. An intro-level, two-day weekend course supervised by drone experts: no experience needed. You'll build your own drone, configure it, fly it, and leave understanding how every part works.
Follow-up course that builds on the Engineer Basics. Extends the skill portfolio: Log analysis, 3D printing, drone upgrading. Paired with an engineering exercise: computer vision, control optimization or sensor fusion.
Do you want to host a workshop/course for an event or your company where you decide the contents and we take care of the logistics and execution? Contact us.
Build and fly FPV
FPV Drone, RC and batteries always included in course price
Learn relevant skills
Soldering, safe battery handling, configuration and many more
Hands-on learning
Courses combine practical and theoretical content
Tailor-made workshops and courses
B2B: from employee training to company events and expos
02 Engineering
Delft Drone Initiative as your partner — testing, expertise and development to bring your drone project to the next level.
DDI's dedicated testing team runs end-to-end test campaigns using a structured methodology that combines scientific precision with practical, industry-driven goals. We focus on the metrics that matter and deliver reliable results to support both your drone and drone service development.
Platform
Select or build a prototype test drone
Test setup
Build the test rig and define procedures
Flight testing
Run indoor and outdoor test flights
Analysis
Analyse logs and flight data
Report
Deliver a test campaign report
Platform
Select or build a prototype test drone
Test setup
Build the test rig and define procedures
Flight testing
Run indoor and outdoor test flights
Analysis
Analyse logs and flight data
Report
Deliver a test campaign report
Custom drone design
Drones designed, built and tested for your specific application
Prototype production
Low-volume prototype production to take your design from concept to test fleet
Testing team in action
Conducting regular indoor and outdoor test campaigns
03 Base
Our base is the largest indoor drone testing facility in the area — yours to rent, or to have set up around your test.
About us
With a team of Delft engineers and researchers, we have developed and are constantly improving end-to-end (theory–building–flight) drone courses of varying technical depth. Additionally, we partner up with drone R&D companies to help with the transition of drone ideas to practice. We envision a future where, similar to computers, drone technology goes from a technology mainly used by geeks to a technology for everyone.
News
We are proud to welcome NLR - Netherlands Aerospace Centre as partner of Delft Drone Initiative. As the Netherlands’ national aerospace knowledge institute, NLR plays a leading role in the Dutch aerospace sector. Together, DDI and NLR aim to better connect academia and knowledge institutes with real-world industrial challenges in the field of drones and autonomous systems. Strengthening the Dutch drone ecosystem, together.
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The last day of hashtag#PurpleNECtar has come to an end and what an event it was! Together with visitors, we built 30 drones on-site. Normally produced in hashtag#Delft, but this time we moved our production to Nijkerk! The drones are 10-inch FPV systems, capable of carrying up to 4 kg payloads and flying distances up to 25 km. The next step is rigerious testing and adding the final upgrades before they’re ready for take-off. If your organisation needs custom drones for testing or R&D, consider having them built right here in Delft 🇳🇱!
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Whether it's a custom training program/course, a test campaign, product idea or an R&D project — reach out and we'll help you dronify.
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