Hardware · Programmable swarm

Drone light shows.

Indoors, from ten drones upward.

Students design a show on a timeline, watch it fly in a simulator, then launch the real swarm in the gym. The design, simulation and launch software comes with the kit at no additional cost.

Built for indoor spaces. These are low-altitude drones with propeller guards, made to fly in a gym or an auditorium rather than over a field.

Software included
At a glance
The four numbers that shape a show
10–100Swarm size, onlineLarger swarms are quoted; over 130 needs a second base station
8 mMaximum heightProgrammable ceiling
30×30Flight area, metresThe floor a show is choreographed onto
IndoorWhere it fliesGym, auditorium, no GPS needed
What students actually make

A show is a program.

Every drone in the air is running a sequence a student wrote: take off at this second, move to this coordinate, hold this colour, land. A light show is the most public thing a class can build with code, and the deadline is real because the audience is already sitting down.

Timing they can see

Keyframes sit on a timeline in seconds. A cue that lands late is visible from the back of the room, so debugging is immediate and public.

Coordinates, for real

Positions are set in centimetres on a 30 by 30 metre floor. Formations are geometry problems with an 8 metre ceiling as the constraint.

One swarm, many authors

Each drone is its own track, so a class can split the show between teams and merge the parts back into one launch.

Guarded and low

Propeller guards, an 8 metre ceiling and an indoor footprint. The kit ships with 10 sets of guards for a 10 drone swarm.

The workflow

Design it. Fly it on screen.
Then fly it for real.

All three steps run on software that ships with the kit.

The show design tool: ten drones listed down the left, a timeline of Calibration, TakeOff, Move3D, Around and Land keyframes for Drone 1, and a top-down grid with each drone's flight path drawn in orange and labelled in centimetres.
DesignEvery drone gets a track of keyframes, and every move is a coordinate on the floor grid.
A show called 10 Drone Demo Show playing in the simulator: nine glowing cyan drones held in formation above a gridded ground plane, with a playback bar reading 330 of 2060.
SimulatePlay the whole show back before anything leaves the ground, and fix the collisions on screen.

Launch control then runs the show from the base station, monitoring the swarm live so a drone that drifts can be caught during the performance rather than after it. The design and simulation tools shown above are the manufacturer’s, supplied with the kit.

What ships

A swarm and a base station.

Swarm size is chosen at order time, from 10 drones up to 100 online, and larger swarms are quoted. The 10 drone kit below is the unit everything scales from. A show larger than 130 drones needs a second base station.

In the box10‑drone kitBase station setup
Aircraft
Light show swarm drones10·
Propeller sets12·
Propeller guards10·
Power
Batteries305
4‑channel chargers3·
Ground station
Base stations·4
Relay station·1
Tripods·5
Handling
Transport case11
Screwdriver set1·
Software
Design, simulation and launch controlIncluded, no additional cost
Six light show drones climbing in a diagonal line against a black background, each lit a different colour: red, white, amber and cyan, with the propellers motion-blurred.
Where it fits

The performance end
of the curriculum.

A light show is not a curriculum tier. It is what a class can do once students can already sequence, loop and think in coordinates, which is exactly what Ground School teaches. Schools usually buy it for an event: a graduation, a STEM night, a season opener.

There is a matching classroom track at Drone Light Show in the program catalog, which is where the lesson sequence lives.

Get a show in the air

Tell us the room and the date.

Swarm size, base stations and delivery all follow from the space you are flying in and when you need it. We accept purchase orders.

Purchase orders: support@droneblocks.io