quadrocopter – who's got one ?

All this talk of flying FPV – bear in mind that it’s actually illegal to fly FPV in this country (without a primary pilot who has visual contact with the aircraft and ready to take control if your camera link fails).

This amazed me:

Been toying with building one…

this is the parts used in mine

http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/uh_viewItem.asp?idProduct=24723
http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/uh_viewItem.asp?idProduct=29353
http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/uh_viewItem.asp?idProduct=29050
http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/uh_viewItem.asp?idProduct=25890
http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/uh_viewItem.asp?idProduct=29048
http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/uh_viewItem.asp?idProduct=25457
http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/uh_viewItem.asp?idProduct=25458

@Mikkel Did you use an online guide to build up? I’m kinda tempted.

My Hubsan X4 arrived today. 🙂 Dinky little thing but seems pretty well made for £35.

Only had a little play with it so far, got it into a steady(ish) hover but it needs some more work on the trim functions to get it to a truly stable hover. Good fun though, dead easy to fly right from the box – 20 minute charge on the LiPo battery and away you go!

My Hubsan X4 arrived today. Dinky little thing but seems pretty well made for £35.

It is pretty solid except: There is a design flaw with the motors. I’ve broken 5, yes 5, in two days! If the quadcopter crashes heavily upside down it’ll most probably break the motors. The central rod in the motor gets pushed though the feeble plastic base and then it’s useless. I’ve even had this happen with crashes a few inches of the ground.

I’ve just ordered a full set of replacement motors to get mine back up and running. I do love it. Just wished it was more crash proof. Especially as a novice.

With the Hubsan, make sure you turn the transmitter on first, and connect the battery on the quadrocoper with it level.

look here.

i read various blogs about the controler boards. then settled for one due to its cheap price and lcd screen.
then picked a esc and motor combo which are cheap, it fly on 3cell lipos.

Just realised that you probably ment guides to how to assemble the whole thing. There is some but its very specific to the frames, it is dead simple though. and if wanting to go for the cheap frame i have used, i can easily make a simple guide with some pictures if needed.

This thread is dangerous.. And who ever posted the hobbyking link has a lot to answer for (My other half is going to go mental when my 4 packages from HongKong eventually turn up) 😆

Looks like I’m building a F450 framed FPV explorer! I even bought a Hubsan X4 to train on while all the parts turn up.

Good luck with the build 🙂

OMFG a £100!!

I am so going to build one in the summer for some GoPro action!! Already have a transmitter, receiver and Lipo’s!

As above, this thread is dangerous and amazing!

quick update on mine – its ready to fly, just needs the battery and transmitter/reciver, oh and the camera mount.
However i’m skint this month so its on hold – i’m hoping to have it flying for Bikefest in June.

JC, you’d better make sure you get the parts list for yours up, that looks very tidy!

here you go:

x525 frame (£13 Ebay)
4x Emax MT2213 motors / 9.5″ props, which should give a max thrust of 3.4KG (about £10.50 each Ebay)
4x hobby king 30a ESC’s (£6 each ish – Hobbyking)
1x hobby king power octocopter distribution board (£4 – Hobbyking)
1x Hobbyking KK2.0 flight control board (£20 – Hobbyking)

oh and a small Wico sandwich tub covered in carbon fiber vinyl wrap to protect the fight board.

i also have a 200mm landing gear set on order so the SLR can go under it.

The original idea was to route the wiring through the tubing of the frame and mount the esc’s on the under side, but there wasnt enough space with the mounting blots. So i’ve mounted the esc’s inside the frame where there is just enough room.

eventualy i’ll buy 4 more motor / esc sets and convert it into a octocopter (hense the power board).

Got myself one of these at the weekend
Hard hat needed
Mad as **** in stunt mode esp indoors
Hell 3 times the size of the hubsan
quadcopter linky
The light and silly cowling realy help working which way is the front

anyone want to buy the Motors, ESC, Flight controller and power distribution board listed in one of my previous posts?
going to upgrade so its going spare soon.

These look great. Can you get a decent one that would carry a gopro for under £100? Do they come as kits or do you have to buy all the parts separately?

The one i have, and am trying to sell parts for, was used with my gopro.
You can buy kits but they are more expensive than building one from scratch.

stuarty, that looks like a good next step from my Hubsan X4. 🙂

I never even knew these existed until 2mins ago.

Obviously being a child, I now want one. How powerful would it need to be to lift a cat?

Anyone got/used one of these Quadshot copters that’s both a quadcopter and flying wing?

Fully computer controlled, and can transition between copter and plane mode. Thought it was quite clever having nifty features like altitude detection so it can adjust the rotor control loops for different air densities etc.

Just ordered one of those Twister Quadcopters that stuarty linked to ^^

Got reasonably proficient with the Hubsan X4 so something a bit bigger would be a good next step. Also, I’m off work injured so the internet shopping has started…

Dibs on the hubsan 🙂

almost finished – just batteries to go. It’s been a bit of a slow ‘in the back ground’ project, but its getting there…..

what country are you invading ?

My Team Black Sheep discovery is almost finished. A rather long term build project but its getting there. Have all the parts but no time to get it finished.

So I’ve been flying that Twister thingy around the place a bit. Can get it round the house and I flew it at the indoor BMX track at Manchester the other day (where it was properly ace) and I tried flying it outside this morning but even the gentle breeze cause a few problems and it crashed a couple of times.

And now I accidently appear to have stumbled across some more quadcopter websites. I haven’t quite got to the point where I’ve accidently input my card details but I can see this one getting expensive…

Great fun though – that Twister indoors in a big space with no wind is brilliant. There were a few people stuck their heads round the doors, probably hoping to see some BMXers in action and instead there’s some idiot playing with his chopper which must have surprised them a bit.

Got my RTF Phantom a couple of weeks ago- really easy to fly.

Here is a little film;

http://youtu.be/z2a_ZaWiXAw

With the RTF Phantom, can you just program in a GPS route and it’ll track that, and follow pre-set height settings too?

Topper, you bought a TBS Discovery? Good (albeit expensive) choice!

I love it. Although I decked it from altitude a few weeks ago and (only) broke an arm. Have the replacement but no time to repair it at the moment. Go pro mounted on the front I do some filming with it. It gets good footage of the steam trains that run next door to my shop.

http://microdrone.co.uk/index.html

i got one of these for my birthday this year. (its more expensive than i expected actually)

Its TINY!

also, this particular one i found very good!

its hard to fly, but its solid! ive crashed it into concrete in every direction, every way up, poked it out of trees with a long stick (and it hit every branch on the way down) and its still fine. very cool!

not as impressive as some of those other badboys though!

And now this must be done again

Orvillecopter

Mangatank- I don’t think so . The GPS is just to keep it stopped in one place when you are not actively controlling it . I think there may be an advanced option to allow you to do this, but I think you have to pay for it (haven’t read all the bumf yet) . Also, I think you are supposed to keep it line of site, technically…

With the RTF Phantom, can you just program in a GPS route and it’ll track that, and follow pre-set height settings too?

Mangatank: no.
For things like that you need this:
http://code.google.com/p/arducopter/

Open source coding for radio controlled craft – they do stuff for single and multi-rotor aircraft. Basically means building your own which is a shame cos the Phantom looks ideal in every other respect – I was looking at getting one for ages having already got a Hubsan, a Twister and a Parrot AR Drone[/url]

Initially bought the Hubsan and the Twister as a cheap way of learning to fly quads (the idea being to move on to a Phantom) but I’ve kind of put off buying it cos of the limitations on route planning – it needs direct input, the GPS is simply there to allow it to hover in one spot and to Return-To-Base (if it goes out of range or the controller dies it climbs to 60ft, returns to the spot it took off from and auto-lands).

I quite fancy getting one but a bit of a slippery slope to start on…
Already spent enough on my wheeled rc’s

And I read about someones phantom flying off in the distance never to be seen again 😮

might as well just attach your wallet to a weather balloon if that’s going to happen

I think this might be the bottom of the slippery slope.

My brother’s work one.

No idea whether this has been posted or not, but worth a look.

Slightly cheaper alternative to the phantom. Supposed to be pretty good.

350qx

Just found the little husban now comes with fpv