[curiousgeorgio]

Is this just someone reposting espressif's esp-drone (https://github.com/espressif/esp-drone) and passing it off as their own (and DigiKey posting it on their site)? They talk about making a custom PCB, but it looks pretty much the same.

The repository linked from the article (https://github.com/Circuit-Digest/ESP-Drone) has some issues claiming there's malware in it, and the commit history looks a little suspicious, but I could be wrong.

[nick__m]

Since those who filed the issue did not even stated which file is affected this is pure speculation but the virus issue really look like a false positive. The pre-built firmware checked into a repo could easily trigger an anti-virus.

The repo is mostly made of plain text files, the zip and the bin don't look required for anything so if your feeling paranoid delete them before building!

[TrapLord_Rhodo]

both project source crazy flie as their inspiration and may be the cause of the similarities.

https://www.bitcraze.io/products/old-products/crazyflie-2-0/

[m00x]

Yeah, he took the code straight from esp-drone which is copyrighted.

https://github.com/Circuit-Digest/ESP-Drone/blob/main/Firmwa...

I believe this is a violation of the license. Very poor form of Digikey to hire these people.

[stavros]

Wow, yeah, I thought Espressif just wrote the firmware, but this drone is really really similar to the one posted, PCB struts and all.

[asadalt]

damn you are right!