Multirotor, multicopter and quadcopter discussion - The Drone thread

The Craig said:
How much time and money does a small self build take?
Quite interested and hopefully will have a knack for it (Engineering student)
I'm assuming the programming is already there for the controller? (Don't think I could be bothered with that!)
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I reckon you could do a self build on a budget for around £150, priced up a quad around that budget for some mates to consider a while back. This would cover radio transmitter and a basic charger too.
As to time, hard to say. I probably spend 20+ hours building mine before I flew it. But if I was to do the same thing again I reckon I could easily do the whole lot in under 5 hours.

If you buy a controller like the KK2.1 it'll be configured to work and you'll just have to fine tune settings so it flies properly. Mine flew with default settings but it was really twitchy and unpredictable (it didn't hold it's angle well in acro mode so you had to constantly move the sticks)
 
englishpremier said:
That's cool.

I'm guessing that isn't available, requires some insane knowledge programming or engineering, and or is ridiculously expensive.

I'd like something to hover about at a given hight and record what I'm up to. Whether that playing a lacrosse match, or messing around on my bike off road.
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Someone commented on ukhotdeals that they were going to fit a camera to the x4 and someone else control it whilst he was doing tricks and stuff on his mountain bike. I think controlling it on a mountain bike would be pretty tough!
 
Managed to sell my old Tx and Blade mQX for a tidy sum of £100 so I can treat myself to an upgrade for christmas to my next quad of choice a Blade 350qx. :D

Don't fancy a self build but the 350qx looks interesting.
 
Regarding the Hubsan x4. If you bought two, how do you fly two at once? Are they [all] different frequencies or would I be powering 2 quads off one tx?

Can you even change the frequency on them?
 
Been rebuilding my Hquad today,cut a new set of plates out this time with the front arms
at an angle which will give me room enough for 10" props.

Looking to get around 20 mins fpv flight time on 2x 3s batteries

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Guest2 said:
Regarding the Hubsan x4. If you bought two, how do you fly two at once? Are they [all] different frequencies or would I be powering 2 quads off one tx?

Can you even change the frequency on them?
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I'm interested if anyone knows the answer to this, I purchased two of these recently (awaiting delivery) and did wonder if controllers would conflict?
 
Can any one recommend a decent relatively cheap 3S capable LiPo charger that runs from 240v?

Seems like the new Quad I am getting comes with a charger that only runs off of 12v ie a car battery and I can't think of a way of safely attaching it to my computers power supply :D
 
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