The yellow mellow

cadcygnus

cadcygnus

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I just recently got into Quads. I am still learning how to fly on the Hubsan. We live in a very windy and gusty area. So flying days outside are occasional at best. With that being said I wanted to make a quad out of available materials I could use on wood working tools. The material I used was acrylic sheets 1/8" thick from Amazon. The parts that are not homemade or cut from a band saw are from Amazon and Hobby King.
I started off in my favorite and familiar program Inventor. What you see now is that last rendition to this model. I have added lights, new landing, and fpv to this quad and have room to spare on the thrust to grams scale. The size is hard to classify.
I am just calling the Yellow Mellow, because it is made out yellow acrylic. Here are the 3d shots of it.
I will add replies to the thread so it won't all be in one spot.
This is my first post on here.
 

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Now to tell you what equipment I used and the final weight. The motors are Kv 935, Esc are 20 amp skinny, KK2.1 board flashed with stevis firmware upgrade, FPV camera case is my own idea. Mobius camera, 1000 lipo battery in the back, 3000 lipo under the belly, DIY landing gear from HK, motor mounts from HK, and wood and acrylic with alot of 4/40 screws with nylon nuts.
The first prototype look like this. As you can see quite a few changes were made to the tested, flying version. I put on the prototype some 2210 kv and it just sat there at full throttle. It was a real learning experience for me. After some research on you tube I learned about thrust to grams.
 

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Here is the last pictures of it flying, I added some leds and FPV gear since these pictures. There is a you tube video showing it fly as well but I am too embarrassed to show it. It really shows my "newbie" flying skills. The total flying weight is now 1100 grams. If it all works right I think I have room to add more junk to it. The landing gear had to changed due to weakness of the plastic. The new gear is more forgiving.
 

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Came out real nice. A little stain on the booms would make it look more finished. Booms look naked now. :)

I wanna see the video.
 
Cool! Ya did good.

Luv the blue head headlights.

As far as lights maybe you'll find this interesting. Just 3 led strips on top of the booms under each prop.


Cool effect.
 
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