First time Quadcopter, limited resources!

K

kamhagh

Member
GJH105775 said:
Have you looked into buying everything from Hobbyking.com ?
Click to expand...
I can't buy anything from outside of my country! no websites like amazon or ebay or etc ship here! and there are only flySkies availalbe on that website :| i first confused it with frysky!

I'll also ask someone to see if he knows any other shops!

and i can't ask till Thursday about the proper! till than i will decide on the other stuff! and I'm kinda worried about the power sockets! i guess they are different on different parts and I'm not sure if i can find adapters or anything!

i found a website shipping from hobbyking which i can't trust and ships everything for almost 2x price! and it will take more than a month to ship 0_0 i will get an heart attack from being exited by than :D
 
GJH105775

GJH105775

Off and on
Moderator
Haha, I had to wait for a month on every shipment, I ordered my main shipment in January, and am still not done 100%. What country do you live in?
 
GJH105775

GJH105775

Off and on
Moderator
Hmmm, the US uses 120v 60 HZ and most of Europe they use 220v 50 HZ. If you get a battery charger with a EU plug, you should be able to use a plug from something you have, just cut a cord off from something you are throwing away and put it on the charger.




The charger converts the voltage to 0 HZ (DC) so you probably need not wory about that
 
K

kamhagh

Member
GJH105775 said:
Hmmm, the US uses 120v 60 HZ and most of Europe they use 220v 50 HZ. If you get a battery charger with a EU plug, you should be able to use a plug from something you have, just cut a cord off from something you are throwing away and put it on the charger.
Click to expand...

I already have an Imax B6AC charger which i got for my lipo and small arduino robot, after thinking about hot dangerous they are i just puted the battery and the charger in the closet! (i was mainly scrabed becasue that its too easy too short circuit on a breadboard and when i don't have the same connecter! specially that i had to charge it using alligator clips (inserted it into the battery socket ) i also have an 2200mah battery but i don't think its suitable for flying stuff, its So heavy! i mean incredibly huge and heavy!
 
Last edited:
GJH105775

GJH105775

Off and on
Moderator
Should not be anything you have to plug in then. I suggest you solder and heatshrink stuff instead of alligator clips though.
 
K

kamhagh

Member
kamhagh said:
I already have an Imax B6AC charger which i got for my lipo and small arduino robot, after thinking about hot dangerous they are i just puted the battery and the charger in the closet! (i was mainly scrabed becasue that its too easy too short circuit on a breadboard and when i don't have the same connecter! specially that i had to charge it using alligator clips (inserted it into the battery socket ) i also have an 2200mah battery but i don't think its suitable for flying stuff, its So heavy! i mean incredibly huge and heavy!
Click to expand...
Ok! i will buy some connectors! still i have no lipo safe bags :O :|

anyway,
i see that there are 2 APMs on the website! one is APM 3.1 mini and the other one is APM 2.6!
and what about the transmitter? should i buy the FlySky transmitters?(not FrySky!)
but anyway till now i can afford it! (If i buy FlySky!)
 
GJH105775

GJH105775

Off and on
Moderator
I'd try to stay away from anything without a fail safe, as it becomes a matter of when you loose your quad and not if.
 
K

kamhagh

Member
GJH105775 said:
I'd try to stay away from anything without a fail safe, as it becomes a matter of when you loose your quad and not if.
Click to expand...
:O well losing an ~400$ quad is no good :D
let me see if i can find another shop!

thanks for help :) will tell you if i found anything! and till than i will google about programming the APM!
 
GJH105775

GJH105775

Off and on
Moderator
Haha, ok. To get a stabilized flight is actually REALLY hard, there are a lot of adjustments to do, this is another reason having a ArduPilot is good, as you can run the stock firmware to test your hardware so that you are not compensating for hardware problems.
 
K

kamhagh

Member
GJH105775 said:
Haha, ok. To get a stabilized flight is actually REALLY hard, there are a lot of adjustments to do, this is another reason having a ArduPilot is good, as you can run the stock firmware to test your hardware so that you are not compensating for hardware problems.
Click to expand...

yeah that'll be really useful!
 
K

kamhagh

Member
GJH105775 said:
Haha, ok. To get a stabilized flight is actually REALLY hard, there are a lot of adjustments to do, this is another reason having a ArduPilot is good, as you can run the stock firmware to test your hardware so that you are not compensating for hardware problems.
Click to expand...
while i wait till i can go out, can you recommend me anywhere to start?(the software part ! i'll buy apm 2.6) i googled and not found much
 
Nick

Nick

About to throw an arduino..*cough*F450 Master Race
The software side will be mainly taking the output you get from the on-board gyro/acc and converting it through PID controllers (for Pitch Roll and maybe Yaw) into throttle adjustments for the motors to keep it stable. The Arduino has a library for PID controllers and you may have already used them before in the Arduino robot you said you had made in the above post.

The motors are controlled through the Servo library and need to be calibrated before use (Plenty of YouTube videos on calibrating motors) so they all start with the same throttle.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top