CupOfTea

I didn't think I was going to have time for this, but I crashed myself yesterday and now have a suspected ACL injury. I am (maybe was) a ski instructor. Because I'm full of painkillers I'll limit myself to just posting some photo's I took while making my quad.

The shoebox

Glad I bought 5 motors.... 1 was not well made


I didn't want to drill the aluminium so I removed the motor shafts with the dremal


Shrinkwrap shrunk... I was hoping to copletely hide the connectors


Plywood frame was light and stiff but is now unusable after 3-4 hard crashes


The homemade shiled... 6dof and xbee fit beside each other perfectly
was going to use a pro mini but because of problem modifying aref used a 2009
maybe the mini will be a daughter bourd for other sensors
nylon bolts (with a layer of servo grommet) secure arduino with silcon (leftover from stripping wire) jammed under the unsecured corners


setting up the motors with tape instead of props


The accel and gyros (red 6dof board) pretty close to center but higher than I'd like


the cardboard rolls absorbed the soft crashes (landings?) well but useless in big crashes
I mounted the motors so they could be moved and not drill the aluminium
they are 56cm apart because 56 trombones lead the big parade
I use a lot of cable ties


ready for first flight (er flip) extending the frame beyond the motors has saved lots of props
make good handles when tuning - incredable how solid it feels when set up right
and it feels slightly less scarey when it's close and the motors are going


I'm calling this a successful landing the ground was so soft the aluminium went in 3-4cm


There's just me so I don't have any pictures in the air and there have been no dead calm days
I definatley need more time on the simulator and a better way of marking front from back
have managed a 3-4 minute flight hovering and out and back 20 meters
Tried uping the pid but got oscilationn at 7 was coming back down when I had fatal frame crash at 6.5
RAZOR 6DOF on 4x still has caps on 6dof and shield

increadably satisfing project can't wait to get a new frame organised

ciao