Hello everyone,
I have long marvelled and wished for my very own mini-quad since I am normally into the much larger aerial photography platforms.
Since I am the only RC flyer I know here in Switzerland I sent an email to some of my friends with links to some of the best FPV videos (charpu, juz70) I could find and asked "does anyone want to race mini-quads".
Surprisingly I had 2 takers and since they both have 0 experience in RC I thought this was going to be tough.
For christmas I got each of the 2 a Hubsan x4 and said "practice every waking moment" and they both obliged.
Anyway, eventually the parts arrived from getFPV and we got to building.
Here is my build log, I'll add to it as we finish and eventually, hopefully, fly.
I like a neat build and certainly shared my opinion with my mates who also saw how pretty these machines could look so we took a lot of time doing things slowly and meticulously (wrapping all the cables took a LOT of time.)
PDB with covered wires. This is the first step.
This is for the LED's in the front and rear
The frame itself is beautiful, light and strong.
The first time this guy lifted a soldering iron.
The PDB on the frame (my lovely wires are waaaaay to long
)
LED's
ESC servo cables nicely wrapped up.
This is how it all fits together.
My friend chose purple a his wire covering. It's a popular colour.
Tonge out at an angle to get that screw.
Motors on, receiver in.
I was able to complete mine, my friends still have some time to go, they stopped at the motor part.
So my thoughts on the build.
1. This was the first miniquad I have seen and touched, I had NO idea they were that small.
2. The motors (2208 2300kv) are so tiny, I mean I can best describe them as "cute"
3. It's a slight challenge fitting everything, you have to cut all the cables to make things fit.
I have long marvelled and wished for my very own mini-quad since I am normally into the much larger aerial photography platforms.
Since I am the only RC flyer I know here in Switzerland I sent an email to some of my friends with links to some of the best FPV videos (charpu, juz70) I could find and asked "does anyone want to race mini-quads".
Surprisingly I had 2 takers and since they both have 0 experience in RC I thought this was going to be tough.
For christmas I got each of the 2 a Hubsan x4 and said "practice every waking moment" and they both obliged.
Anyway, eventually the parts arrived from getFPV and we got to building.
Here is my build log, I'll add to it as we finish and eventually, hopefully, fly.
I like a neat build and certainly shared my opinion with my mates who also saw how pretty these machines could look so we took a lot of time doing things slowly and meticulously (wrapping all the cables took a LOT of time.)
PDB with covered wires. This is the first step.

This is for the LED's in the front and rear

The frame itself is beautiful, light and strong.

The first time this guy lifted a soldering iron.

The PDB on the frame (my lovely wires are waaaaay to long

LED's

ESC servo cables nicely wrapped up.




This is how it all fits together.



My friend chose purple a his wire covering. It's a popular colour.

Tonge out at an angle to get that screw.

Motors on, receiver in.

I was able to complete mine, my friends still have some time to go, they stopped at the motor part.






So my thoughts on the build.
1. This was the first miniquad I have seen and touched, I had NO idea they were that small.
2. The motors (2208 2300kv) are so tiny, I mean I can best describe them as "cute"
3. It's a slight challenge fitting everything, you have to cut all the cables to make things fit.
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