Airframe & CAD
Composite frames, rapid prototyping, and aerodynamic tuning tailored for long-range and race builds.
Lift HVL | Student Drone Team
We are LIFT - lifting innovation, creativity and real-word experience through hands-on drone engineering.
Building drones that fly smarter and go further.
Lift HVL is the student team crafting high-performance UAVs - designing airframes, writing flight software, and pushing new pilots into the sky. Join the crew and start lifting your skills to the sky.
21
Active members
What we build
Hardware and firmware in the lab
Small teams own end-to-end missions: CAD to carbon, avionics calibration to ground control UX.
Electronics & Avionics
Flight controllers, radio links, and telemetry stacks with live dashboards and black-box logging.
Autonomy & AI
Path-planning, computer vision, and on-board models that help our drones see, map, and react.
Departments
Pick a department and start building
Each department has its own focus, mentors, and weekly sessions.
Mechanical
Designing the flying skeleton and muscles of our drones.
Build, test, and iterate airframes that balance speed, endurance, and payload needs. From CAD to carbon fiber layups, you will own the physical design and fabrication of our drones. Get hands-on experience with composite materials, structural analysis, and flight testing to bring our designs to life.
Focus areas
- CAD + structural design
- 3D printing
- Assembly + flight testing
- Protection against water, dust and crashes
- Maintenance and repairs
- Mechanical integration of sensors
Students who like design, materials, and hands-on fabrication.
Contact: mechanical@lifthvl.noHardware
Creating the brain in the drone and the nervous system to connect it all.
Design and build the electronic systems that power our drones. From flight controllers to custom sensor boards, you will develop the hardware that enables our drones to fly smarter. Get experience with circuit design, soldering, and avionics integration as you build and test the brains of our UAVs.
Focus areas
- Power systems
- Sensor integration
- RF + telemetry
- Custom PCB design
- Hardware testing and debugging
- Battery Management Systems
- Waterproofing and durability
- Sensor calibration and integration
Students who enjoy electronics, soldering, and troubleshooting.
Contact: hardware@lifthvl.noSoftware
Telling the brain in the drone what to do.
Write the flight software that controls our drones in the air. From low-level control loops to high-level autonomy, you will develop the code that makes our drones fly smarter. Gain experience with embedded programming, computer vision, and simulation as you build the software that powers our UAVs. Work on real-time control systems, sensor fusion algorithms, and mission planning software to enable our drones to navigate complex environments.
Focus areas
- Computer vision
- Simulation
- Firmware configuration
- Ground control software
- Data analysis and visualization
- Autonomous navigation algorithms
- AI models for perception and decision-making
- Sensor data processing
- Communication protocols and telemetry
- Flight software architecture and optimization
Students who like programming and robotics.
Contact: software@lifthvl.noSponsors
Backed by partners who build with us
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Projects
See all builds and missions
Browse the full archive of airframes, firmware, and field tests we have shipped together.