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I agree. I will have to be extra careful when soldering to insure that I have good strong connections. I also have a parallel project going on - a Tarot 650 Sport quadcopter - it is built and has a Feiyu-Tech mini 3D axis with GoPro camera. But when I powered it up, I'm getting an indication...

A couple of months ago, I took out an Elev-8 quadcopter that I built and modified for a fun flight outside the front of my house. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the Elev-8, it was a kit that I bought from Parallax, a company in California that sells kits/parts for people who want to...

Since my initial post, I realized why my aircraft fell out of the sky when I powered off the transmitter. Somehow, the RTL failsafe when losing the signal was disabled. Had the loss of signal failsafe been turned on, it would have safely landed.

No, it is not. Yes, if you bought a monitor and tuned it to the aircraft's frequency and channel you would be able to view the video.

I haven't decided to completely get out of the hobby, but I wanted to downsize as I prepare for a move to Colorado. I did sell some stuff to a local R/C club - the video monitor, a large tripod stand and a few other odds and ends. The problem with my quads is that they are built using obsolete...

Will be moving soon and have to downsize, which means dismantling my development lab and getting rid of stuff. You can pick and choose what you want and make me an offer. First up: A Parallax Elev-8 (V2) quadcopter, modified with an APM flight controller and GPS. It does not have a telemetry...

Sorry for the late response - I was out of town. I can't help with a Hubsan as it uses a different flight controller. I don't kow of anyone who has tried to mount a gimbaled camera on a Hubsan - sorry.

S Sorry the late response - saw an email notification on my iPad and meant to go to my computer to respond but kept forgetting to do so! Anyway, to answer your question as to which pin on the Pi to use - I used GPIO 5: I did not fully understand the whole thing when I started - I thought...

It had been awhile since I posted a progress report, so here it is. I managed to solder the ESC power/ground leads to the solder points on the chassis as well as the leads on the voltage/current sense module. I also installed the 5V BEC that will be used to provide power to the F.C. receiver...

I finished transferring the motors over and mounted the flight controller. It was a fortunate thing that the holes on the APM anti-vibration mount lined up with the holes at the end of the booms. I used the same motor mounts that I used on the Elev-8, and didn't have to disconnect the motors...

I already like the fact that I can lose the power distribution harness that was used on the Elev-8 - the PCB on the upper chassis is great. Also, I was able to mount the APM base plate on the top chassis as the holes lined up with the four holes on the chassis plate used to secure the ends of...

Well, after spending a considerable amount of time modifying and tinkering with an Elev-8 quadcopter, I finally decided I have to switch to another airframe. If you followed some of my exploits then you know that I tried different motors, added a gimbal, etc. but was sorely disappointed in my...

I had a successful test flight yesterday, Yay!! I lowered the R/C Pitch/Roll PIDs a tad and that took care of the twitchy sensitivity that I previously experienced. The flight was short - mainly wanted to see if I solved the sensitivity problem and to verify that Loiter, RTL flight modes (which...

I was in a hurry when I snapped the photo - it looks unbalanced because I didn't hold the camera level. It could indeed be a tad unbalanced as I didn't check C/G when I attached it for the picture. AS for it being too heavy, well, I've read that a rule of thumb (or as our POTUS would say - rule...

Latest Update and bad news.... I just completed fabricating mounting plates for the landing skids and installed them. The aircraft is now completed: You can't see it very well from this angle, but the 6S lipo is installed and there is plenty of clearance. But there is bad news. The total...

It all ended well for me. I did get refunded and I ordered the camera from another seller, but I suspect that the scammer got away with the money... On another note, I was shopping for some stronger motors for my Elev-8 - decided on T-Motor MN3515's, and stumbled on a seller who had seven...

My inclination would be to go with the 4S lipo and 8"props. The larger props will make your motors work harder and I would avoid that.

I'm not sure about your expected endurance times. Looking at your image, I came up with a different all AUW than Ecalc. I summed up the following: aircraft weight - 1100 g, motors - 62 g (x4) = 248 g, FC - 25 g and battery - 119 g = 1492 g, which is more than the 1112 Ecalc computed. But going...

Latest update: 5/16/2017... The aircraft looks like some sort of pregnant spider with the huge 16000 mAh lipo hanging underneath. It basically rests on the battery pack! I've done a few short test flights - it is unstable and tricky. The first flight was under windy conditions - a gust came...