Dracos-Carazza
Junior Member
Hi everyone,
I am Matthias from Braunschweig Germany. I just finished my first FliteTest based plane and it is a FT Mini Arrow. Round about 17 years ago, when I was 14 I tried to get into the RC hobby with a Protech Alpha 180 and it flew very well. the problem was, that I had spend all my money to get one and after the first crashes, I went out of money. After repairing it (which took several months), I was too afraid of crashing again, so it stayed under my working desk.
In 2007 I saw a quadrocopter for the first time and since than I wanted to build one by my self. As I was a student (electric engineering), again there was no money in my pockets. So it took over a year to save ~700€ for my first flying quadrocopter. I did all the SMD soldering by my self (flight control and ESCs), as I couldn't afford a pre-soldered PCBs. Again this took a long time. On the other hand I learned a lot about the internals. So that I'm now a contributor of an open source UAV project, where I mostly work on low level driver stuff and the underlying operating system architecture of the flight controller.
Debugging and programming a freshly soldered prototype PCB
My 6" Copter (used for FPV stuff and prototyping)
My 10" Fun Copter (used for casual flying)
Especially the 10" copter was modified several times over the years, but it basic frame was always a piece of carbon-fiber and some aluminium square tubes. One big advantage of the frame was always, that only the aluminium square tubes broke of on a crash. So crashing hard, cost me only a few € for a new square tube and a few minutes to install them
Now after several years of flying multirotors, I will try to give the "classical" RC hobby a second chance
... and perhaps I will also bring my old Alpha 180 back to live
Best regards
Dracos-Carazza
I am Matthias from Braunschweig Germany. I just finished my first FliteTest based plane and it is a FT Mini Arrow. Round about 17 years ago, when I was 14 I tried to get into the RC hobby with a Protech Alpha 180 and it flew very well. the problem was, that I had spend all my money to get one and after the first crashes, I went out of money. After repairing it (which took several months), I was too afraid of crashing again, so it stayed under my working desk.
In 2007 I saw a quadrocopter for the first time and since than I wanted to build one by my self. As I was a student (electric engineering), again there was no money in my pockets. So it took over a year to save ~700€ for my first flying quadrocopter. I did all the SMD soldering by my self (flight control and ESCs), as I couldn't afford a pre-soldered PCBs. Again this took a long time. On the other hand I learned a lot about the internals. So that I'm now a contributor of an open source UAV project, where I mostly work on low level driver stuff and the underlying operating system architecture of the flight controller.
Debugging and programming a freshly soldered prototype PCB
My 6" Copter (used for FPV stuff and prototyping)
My 10" Fun Copter (used for casual flying)
Especially the 10" copter was modified several times over the years, but it basic frame was always a piece of carbon-fiber and some aluminium square tubes. One big advantage of the frame was always, that only the aluminium square tubes broke of on a crash. So crashing hard, cost me only a few € for a new square tube and a few minutes to install them
Now after several years of flying multirotors, I will try to give the "classical" RC hobby a second chance
... and perhaps I will also bring my old Alpha 180 back to live
Best regards
Dracos-Carazza
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