Hi, community!
This is my first post so forgive me if I do something wrong, I'm a computer/physics geek who has been obsessing about multicopters for all of 48 hours. I'm no newbie to electronic design or asics, but I certainly am no expert in either. All introductions aside my main question is that I'm mostly hoping someone could point me in direction of a frame for heavy lifting that fits the project requirement below.
I've been putting together my first build in theory, I know that I want range of a couple miles (really a little over a mile is minimum). My application is primarily for automated flight, but I'm also trying to cross with cinematography. and yes my automated flight will be staying 99% within range of sight, but I have been assuming that dropping out of line of sight for an automated landing in my friends backyard will be just fine. The most expensive goal I have is to the want to carry a kg or two payload...for well whatever. I thought it would be cool to have a payload I can carry back and forth to my friends house.
So all that said I've been wishing that there were more centralized websites for buying the materials I need. A sort of newegg, but for R/C or multicopters. Any website recommendations would be awesome. The first "in theory" build I came up with was a hexacopter and included these parts: Turnigy2836 brushless Outrunner 1200kv, which I'm now thinking is way underpowered, a pixhawk based electonics (just because its easy to setup, opensource, and room for improved features in the future). I've been looking at this frame Turnigy H.A.L. (Heavy Aerial Lift) Hexcopter Frame 775mm, although I'm really not sure as build quality could be low, not much room, and I'm not sure if it will take more powerful motors than the ones above.
My second question regards that I'm 95% sure all PDB still require ESCs and that the only point of the PDB is so that I don't need to create a wiring harness. That said, any ideas on how many amps this, https://store.3drobotics.com/products/hexacopter-power-distribution-board-1 can take. I figure if I'm going to increase the size of my motors I'm going to need maybe even 60 amp ESCs. I haven't done the math yet, but a lot of the info/products out there is geared toward smaller drones, which mine most definitely will not be, and it seems possible that that PDB would short.
So if someone can point me in the direction of a good frame and answer the PCB question, they will be much thanked and can certainly go about their day without reading the craziness below
Another most likely insane question is whether its possible to have an external raspberry pi/higher end arduino microcontroller relaying inputs to the pixhawk. Now I know people are gonna ask why I don't just run whatever input into the pixhawk directly, but if I were to use a large open-source program to receive the input, it might very well not run on the low specs of the pixhawk microcontroller. Now if I were to do this it wouldn't be until probably years from now soo thats just a shout out to anybody who might have done it or know if its possible. I'm also into computer security so in the meantime, if I could run a penetration testing OS on the pi that would be badass. All this would obviously require lots of power in order to get decent flight time so if anybody could post a link to a build someone did that had an absurd amount of battery power that would be awesome.
This is my first post so forgive me if I do something wrong, I'm a computer/physics geek who has been obsessing about multicopters for all of 48 hours. I'm no newbie to electronic design or asics, but I certainly am no expert in either. All introductions aside my main question is that I'm mostly hoping someone could point me in direction of a frame for heavy lifting that fits the project requirement below.
I've been putting together my first build in theory, I know that I want range of a couple miles (really a little over a mile is minimum). My application is primarily for automated flight, but I'm also trying to cross with cinematography. and yes my automated flight will be staying 99% within range of sight, but I have been assuming that dropping out of line of sight for an automated landing in my friends backyard will be just fine. The most expensive goal I have is to the want to carry a kg or two payload...for well whatever. I thought it would be cool to have a payload I can carry back and forth to my friends house.
So all that said I've been wishing that there were more centralized websites for buying the materials I need. A sort of newegg, but for R/C or multicopters. Any website recommendations would be awesome. The first "in theory" build I came up with was a hexacopter and included these parts: Turnigy2836 brushless Outrunner 1200kv, which I'm now thinking is way underpowered, a pixhawk based electonics (just because its easy to setup, opensource, and room for improved features in the future). I've been looking at this frame Turnigy H.A.L. (Heavy Aerial Lift) Hexcopter Frame 775mm, although I'm really not sure as build quality could be low, not much room, and I'm not sure if it will take more powerful motors than the ones above.
My second question regards that I'm 95% sure all PDB still require ESCs and that the only point of the PDB is so that I don't need to create a wiring harness. That said, any ideas on how many amps this, https://store.3drobotics.com/products/hexacopter-power-distribution-board-1 can take. I figure if I'm going to increase the size of my motors I'm going to need maybe even 60 amp ESCs. I haven't done the math yet, but a lot of the info/products out there is geared toward smaller drones, which mine most definitely will not be, and it seems possible that that PDB would short.
So if someone can point me in the direction of a good frame and answer the PCB question, they will be much thanked and can certainly go about their day without reading the craziness below
Another most likely insane question is whether its possible to have an external raspberry pi/higher end arduino microcontroller relaying inputs to the pixhawk. Now I know people are gonna ask why I don't just run whatever input into the pixhawk directly, but if I were to use a large open-source program to receive the input, it might very well not run on the low specs of the pixhawk microcontroller. Now if I were to do this it wouldn't be until probably years from now soo thats just a shout out to anybody who might have done it or know if its possible. I'm also into computer security so in the meantime, if I could run a penetration testing OS on the pi that would be badass. All this would obviously require lots of power in order to get decent flight time so if anybody could post a link to a build someone did that had an absurd amount of battery power that would be awesome.