Upgrades!

Added some nice LEDs and a camera to the large hexcopoter.  Made a screen holder for the transmitter tray from platicard and ply.

First test flight with camera went well this morning.

XJ 470 Update

The good news is that it works!  After finding the ESC issue and fixing it, I was hopeful it would fly.  It didn't, throttle response was rubbish and no matter how much I adjusted the PID settings I couldn't keep the quad in the air.  The solution was to change the size of the props from 10 inch to 8 inch, this has made the quad a pleasure to fly.  I'm now waiting for the time and weather conditions to test the Altitude hold mode, and GPS hold.  

Summer build

Holiday project just arrived. Looking at building by first tricopter, I have a spare CC3D flight controller left over from the test on my last quad. The quad that just wouldn't fly!  See my next post for an update. You wil find a build video of this tricopter on Painless 360's Youtube channel

New Project

Needed a larger case for one of my raspberry pi, so here is my take on Orac from the 1980s Blakes 7

First flight for the new quad

It took a while to sort this one out. It was quite stable on the cc3d flight controller, but when using the flip32 it would not fly! After some work I found that one of the four QBrain speed controllers had been set to Ni- battery type and not Lipo.

Needed to repair the landing skids after the first bad flight on the flip32!

Drones Assemble

Flip32

Flip32 with GPS and Bluetooth module

Just waiting for PPM receiver