Recent content by Ir88ed

Thought about rivets after, but didn't leave myself much overlap. Out of rivets as well :) Very solid like it is, though. No vibrations. Probably rivets on Camera_mount 2.0, though... The aluminum I am using is pretty thin an light, and that cross bar makes that frame even tougher. When we...

Here is the new camera mount I built for our FatShark camera. Works very well and costs almost nothing. Camera is a bit beaten up from all of the FPV learning, but still works pretty well

Holtneil, In the video it is the feet wobbling. There is just a bolt with washers holding on each of the feet, so they do wobble. But we have had issues with the whole quad wobbling, so it is good to know about the gain. I flashed the bios to the v1.6++ AiO firmware by RC911, and the quad...

A couple of short videos showing the quad in action. Meet the quad: The "eye" on the front was repurposed from an old LED desk lamp. It is really bright, super light, and doesn't draw a bunch of juice. It is very visible even in bright light and makes orienting the quad very easy. Speed run:

I thought I would follow up a bit on this. We added a FatShark v3 teleporter FPV system to the quad. It has taken a few flights to start to get the hang of it, but it is really a lot of fun once you get the hang of it. It is also good for letting friends who don't fly "go for a ride". Below...

Probably should mention that while the big props did make more thrust, we had a hard time actually flying the quad with the bigger props (tried the 11" ones the other day). I am assuming that the bigger props make it harder for the quad to make adjustments in prop speed, leading to instability...

Well, here is the final quad. I can't say how great this project was for my 13 year old son and his friends. They did all of the work, once the parts were finalized (thanks holtneil for all the help!) . They learned to solder and shrink wrap, and spent a lot of time figuring out how to measure...

HA! My son and I were rolling! Fuego! He will take the video in to show the boys he is working with. It is good to see that there is possible danger, and to have a fire extinguisher on hand. Parts started arriving and everyone is pretty excited.

You can look forward to graphs (and a video if the 12 inch props cause it to catch fire).

The plan will be to see how many pennies the quadcopter can lift with the different blades on a fresh battery. Had to make a few changes to the original list due to availability. Here is the list that I ended up ordering. Charger ($70)...

Thank you for the advice! Tri-blade propellers are great idea. Fire would be OK, as long as it is the last data point and the QC didn't careen out of control. I would guess that using bigger motors and higher amperage ESCs would just force some other component to fail, right?

Ok, I found props that range in size from 8x4.5 to 12x3.8: 8x4.5: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00O8MJEIU/ref=gl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=1R6K5JQSM4UFG&coliid=IQVRMRAYR9BE8 9x4.7...

Thanks, holtneil! I like the idea of different props. I will do a little home work and put together a list of props to try. I will also add the flash lead to the list. Thanks!

Hello! This will be our first quad copter build, and my son and his team plan on using the finished copter as part of a science/engineering project. For the science project, the boys need to pick some variable to change, and then measure the effect. What we were thinking is the effect of...