Who, Where and What?.....a bit about yourself.

figgoat

figgoat

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Hi Guys, Thanks for having me.
I am a 45yr old Quad flyer from Australia. I live on the Gold Coast, in sunny Queensland, the home of MWC. I am flying a home-made kk powered battle quad and a Scarab Stealth Reconn FPV QUAD by Multiwiicopter. I came from heli's originally and i just love the simplicity of these machines. Any locals want to join in the fun, drop me a PM.
Cheers Glenn.
Here's my home field...watch in HD and sub me if you can/want...Cheers
 
Mike

Mike

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Welcome!

I'm 29, from Northern California, USA. I got started with quadcopters after getting a cheap RC helicopter for Christmas and getting addicted. I first looked at getting an AR drone, but quickly discovered the flexibility of the DIY type of quads and haven't looked back. I got a couple of friends together and we all chipped in and built our first quad together and crashed it a bunch (good idea to split the cost because it was an expensive learning process). It was a kk board with various frames (Hoverthings, generic, homemade, etc.). Once we got comfortable, we split that group up and now it's just me and another guy (fatjack on this forum). We've been successfully flying a cc3d board on a QAV500 frame for a bit now, but we've got parts on order to build our own copters since we've become pretty decent pilots and aren't too worried about crashing every time we fly.
 
Mike

Mike

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By the way, I watched your videos. Some nice flying! And some nice crash videos too! Do you have any issues with the kk board, or is it pretty stable? All of our crashes came with the kk. I'm not sure if it's was just us (programming errors or balancing issues with the copter), or what, but when we threw the cc3d board onto our copter, the stability went through the roof. I'm not sure if we got better, or just our board did?
 
FATJACK

FATJACK

Member
Hey Glenn! Nice video! Looks beautiful there. Your copter with the KK board is much better than what mine was. Once I switched over to the OpenPilot CC3d board, it was like night and day.
I am 30, from Sacramento, CA, USA. I am flying the QAV500 with the OpenPilot CC3D board, with 8 inch props on a 3s system. Eventually, mm and I are going to upgrade to a 4s setup with 10 inch props. 1.3 ghz fpv, 2.4 ghz for the controls. GoPro should arrive any day now.

Here is a video of one of my flights:

 
figgoat

figgoat

Member
Hi MM and Fatjack! Great to be here. Nice quad guys....very smooth and quiet!
I too started with a Parrot...forgot all about that! It was the catalyst for the move to the dark side......waiting for bits for one of my heli's and the sales assistant goes, "Hey, you seen one of these..................". Lol.
I started with the KK board for my first build and happily flew and crashed numerous variations on that first frame, from ridiculously big 780mm mtm down to the 400 size i am flying now. The KK board was truly tremendous...tough as. As you can see from some of my early vids, i liked to argue with gravity. The frame was often out of square and never pretty, attributes which encouraged a have a go mentality with my flying. That board died shooting the Truggy video (see youtube...Figgoat), but had been bent, in mud, under water and crashed full throttle into the local swamp doing flips. I would strongly recommend this board for any noob...lots of forums for info, cheap to replace and the latest board has auto level and an LCD display for setup and tuning.....cheap for under $30... Check on HK.
The OP cc3D FC is very good, in a different league to most, and favoured by some very well known pilots, like Juz, from down-under. The OP website is an excellent source of information for that platform (QAV) and board combo, a few people flying that exact set-up.
On this note, maybe you guys should share the build in a blog or thread here on the site....I am keen to hear about your experience with the cc3d OP fc?
Wait till you go to 4s,,,holy smokes. The performance difference is huge. I am using 1800 mah 4s high discharge.. 8-9 mins flight time with AUW (all up weight) around the 1300 grams. I am waiting for some 2200 mah versions which should see 12 mins....a long time in the goggles for sure.
Have been rained out today, so busy building a QAV/Disco inspired quad for racing...small and fast. I will post pics and start a thread over the weekend.
Hope to see more in here, so if you're reading this, take the time to join up and join in.
Cheers Glenn.
 
Mike

Mike

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Thanks! We'll post some flight videos from the GoPro after we fly this weekend.

The KK board is a very dependable board and an amazing value. We flew with an older version and it took a lot of practice to get smooth, but once we got the hang of it, it was nice. With the auto-level, it's likely much better. We're thinking of building a couple of cheap tricopters with kk boards and spare parts just to mess around. This should be fun.

I saw the Truggy video after you first posted. What went wrong there? Everything seemed smooth and then you went to turn and it just fell out of the sky. I had a similar issue when I was flying a couple of weeks ago, but luckily I was about 4 feet off the ground when it happened. It bent a prop out of shape, but everything else was fine. When the low voltage meter beeped, the motors shut off and the copter fell straight to the ground. We think it might be an ESC programming issue, but our programmer is broken, so we're waiting on a new one.

When we finally got our hands on a CC3D board and realized how much more stable it was, we decided to follow spring for the QAV frame based on all the people using it on the OP forum. We'll definitely document the build and post some better pictures. For now, we took a couple just to get up here (posted below). This weekend, we'll get some good ones in sunlight.

Are you building the frame custom for the QAV/Disco, just a smaller version?


Mike

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figgoat

figgoat

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Hi Guys, The disco inspired quad has been canned....am going the v tail route....one of the new crew is experimenting and it looks awesome! Here's a vid i shot in the goggles last Sunday flying the MWC Scarab Reconn; Crew has grown to six! In a week! Post a vid response. Cheers Glenn.
 
ActionDrone

ActionDrone

Active Member
Hi Everyone just joined this forum and I actually enjoy the people in here. Same as MM I started out 3 years ago when someone bought me a toy from target! I still hate and love that guy because now I've spent too much money. I'm at the point where I'm working with aerospace students for designs on quads and tricopters. Right now we are working on another project that is very unique to the multirotor world. As of today I have been using the APM 2.5 for about a year now and the KK2 for only 6 months. Currently I fly with Naza FC's and the APM.

Also I'm from San Diego, CA. If anyone lives around here let me know. I would love to fly with you and get some good videos out. Currently I'm constantly flying my AD1 to get some video footage to promote this product when we can start mass producing it. We just had our maiden flight two days ago.

Nice meeting you all.

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Mike

Mike

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Wow, the footage from your Action Drone frame looks great. Are you doing anything to dampen the vibration from the motors? Are those rubber pieces in your motor mount assembly and between your frame plates? Or just plastic spacers?
 
John Doecliff

John Doecliff

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Hi. Somewhat new to quadcopters. I live in Californias Central Valley. I have a phantom and just built a DJI 450. Had some early success with the 450 and then a spectacular crash. My goal is to keep learning and eventually graduate into FPV. Looking forward to learning more and getting better at flying.
 
Mike

Mike

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Welcome to the forum! I'm in Northen California. Maybe once we get more members here, we can get a meet up going or something where everyone can go fly somewhere cool and then go out for beers after or something.
 
Mike

Mike

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Nice. Work must be boring right now!

We've been starting to grow a little faster here, so hopefully we start getting enough members to get some good meetups going.
 
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