Tricopter group build???

[kevinjulieevan]

Night flying with video goggles. Ended up backing into one of my trees!

fpvtriwiinightgoggles

[Kerbob]

I'm jealous. I got a new 600mw 5.8Ghz TX today.   Now, if I only had a stable flight controller for my quad.  I see you're posting in the same OpenPilot thread.. they're trying to help me, but I haven't had time to try all the things they are asking since last weekend.

[kevinjulieevan]

I'm jealous. I got a new 600mw 5.8Ghz TX today.   Now, if I only had a stable flight controller for my quad.  I see you're posting in the same OpenPilot thread.. they're trying to help me, but I haven't had time to try all the things they are asking since last weekend.

yep the open pilot thread on rcgroups and the openpilot forum have helped me a bunch, i haven't tried fpv with my quad yet. i've got the most visual flying time on my tricopter with the wiiboard so that's what i'm using for now. i think my open pilot quad is flying good enough to try it but i want to log some more visual flying time first.
  let me know if you want to know what my flight settings are in the open pilot software and i'll send them to you.

[Kerbob]

Which wii board did you get or did you build it from scratch?

[kevinjulieevan]

It's a. Scratch build a friend made for me. Wish I was good enough to build my own!

[Kerbob]

Well, the top folks at Open Pilot agreed to send me a known working Open Pilot CC.  It is known because its right out of one of the top guy's quads.  So, hopefully, I'll get to do some multi-copter flying very soon.

Here's the video that convinced them.  The CC was detecting all kinds of movement when there was none.

OpenPilot CC Funkiness

[kevinjulieevan]

that is so weird. like it has a gremlin in there somewhere.  at first i had a theory that maybe you just had some sort of rf issue that was messing with the sensors but your quad isn't even powered up!  let me know if you have to mail the defective one back.  if you don't my buddy that build's wii/arduino boards for me would love to play with it. who knows he might even be able to fix it by replacing an accelerometer or something.  he's been wanting an openpilot board and i'm going to try and order him one when they are back in stock but so far no luck!
k.t.

Well, the top folks at Open Pilot agreed to send me a known working Open Pilot CC.  It is known because its right out of one of the top guy's quads.  So, hopefully, I'll get to do some multi-copter flying very soon.

Here's the video that convinced them.  The CC was detecting all kinds of movement when there was none.
OpenPilot CC Funkiness

[Kerbob]

Yes, I have to ship the defective one back.  Open Pilot recently had an issue where they shipped out a replacement CC board and didn't require the defective one to be sent back.  The owner of the defective board sold the bad board for full price but did disclose that it wasn't working.

That led to a long ugly thread about ethics.  The owner of the bad board said he did nothing wrong.. he owned both boards and properly disclosed that the defective board was defective in the sale.  Open Pilot said it was completely against what the group stands for.  At most, in their opinion, the board should have been offered for free to someone who could help further the cause of the group.  The person was ex-communicated from the open pilot community.

So much demand and so little supply is making emotions very volatile.

[kevinjulieevan]

flyingsnowman

[romeodz]

I was wondering what some of you that are currently flying a Tricopter or Quadcopter think of this to start out with? Cheap but maybe too cheap?

http://www.goodluckbuy.com/x525-v3-quadcoptor-friber-glass-folding-arf-set-kkmulticopter.html

Thanks

[kevinjulieevan]

yep that is cheap. i would worry most about the frame as some of those cheap frame kits can come missing parts or not fitting well together. 
i think a kk board alone would cost around 50-75 dollars and if you just buy one of those then i would make sure it comes preloaded with the software for quad or tri depending on what you want.  remember a kk board alone will not be autoleveling so it can make it harder to learn to fly .  an autoleveling board helps a bunch but costs more dollars. the cheapest autoleveling board i've found is the openpilot board but they are very very hard to get as they are made in very small batches and sell out quickly.  another good choice would be a quadrino board.
http://www.hoverthings.com/flightcontrollers/quadrino-flight-controller-basic-version.html
but again they can be hard to find by u.s. vendors and the configuring software may be a little difficult to manage.
k.t.

I was wondering what some of you that are currently flying a Tricopter or Quadcopter think of this to start out with? Cheap but maybe too cheap?

http://www.goodluckbuy.com/x525-v3-quadcoptor-friber-glass-folding-arf-set-kkmulticopter.html

Thanks

[shagrug]

      I saw this one mentioned today over at RCG:

http://www.horizonhobby.com/products/blade-mqx-bnf-BLH7580

      I might try one of them myself when they get in stock. I picked up one of the new msr x's a couple of days ago to try the new AS3X stablization and like it.

Blade mQX RTF & BNF by BLADE