JUSS10
I like Biplanes
Hello everyone, I'm new here and this is my first post.
Guess a little introduction first. My name is Justin and I have been in the RC hobby for as long as I can remember. I had lots of cars and trucks back in middle/high school then they kind of sat for a few years while in college. I had a nitro trainer that I got off a friend after they crashed it. Fixed it and got it running but never dared take it out. It wasn't until recently that I got back in to it just to find out how much has changed. all the lipo batteries and brushless was all knew to me. I picked up a new radio for a boat project I was working on (25CC weed eater airboat, thats another story, but its pretty awesome) Somewhere along the way I found the flite test videos on youtube and I was hooked.
This lead to that and after a bunch of research and recommendations from the flite test team, I got my first quad, a nano qx. Its a blast and I'm having a tone of fun with it. I started to think about whats next and thought it would be fun to build one.
This may be a slow build as the money for parts becomes available (my wife thinks they are toys and that I have too many hobbies, shes right about the hobby thing) Most of all, just looking for some help and insight.
I was going to build a tricopter but say the episode on the V Tail and I was hooked. It just looked cool and still had more fluid movements than a standard quad. I looked at lots of pictures and came up with my own design (based off from the bat bone) and started to draw it up in cad.
I then collected the materials and cut it out on a laser. the main frame is 1/8" birch plywood and the booms are the 1/2" square dowels from the hardware store. I used 6-32 hardware through out to hold it together. I also drew up some landing gear and laser cut those out of some thin ABS (however, I think these will be replaced with delrin at some point) here are some photos I just took of it after I finished the frame
I'm looking for some help from here as to what motor/esc/control board to use. I was thinking of using the KK2 board as that is what David used in the build video.
I would like to carry my gopro 3 on it at some point, that said, what motors and props should I be looking at? ESC? also, I don't want to drop a ton of money on a radio, will the cheaper 4 channel hobbyking radios work fine or do I need something more?
Looking forward to some input and the help that I hear there forum brings.
Thanks,
Justin
Guess a little introduction first. My name is Justin and I have been in the RC hobby for as long as I can remember. I had lots of cars and trucks back in middle/high school then they kind of sat for a few years while in college. I had a nitro trainer that I got off a friend after they crashed it. Fixed it and got it running but never dared take it out. It wasn't until recently that I got back in to it just to find out how much has changed. all the lipo batteries and brushless was all knew to me. I picked up a new radio for a boat project I was working on (25CC weed eater airboat, thats another story, but its pretty awesome) Somewhere along the way I found the flite test videos on youtube and I was hooked.
This lead to that and after a bunch of research and recommendations from the flite test team, I got my first quad, a nano qx. Its a blast and I'm having a tone of fun with it. I started to think about whats next and thought it would be fun to build one.
This may be a slow build as the money for parts becomes available (my wife thinks they are toys and that I have too many hobbies, shes right about the hobby thing) Most of all, just looking for some help and insight.
I was going to build a tricopter but say the episode on the V Tail and I was hooked. It just looked cool and still had more fluid movements than a standard quad. I looked at lots of pictures and came up with my own design (based off from the bat bone) and started to draw it up in cad.
I then collected the materials and cut it out on a laser. the main frame is 1/8" birch plywood and the booms are the 1/2" square dowels from the hardware store. I used 6-32 hardware through out to hold it together. I also drew up some landing gear and laser cut those out of some thin ABS (however, I think these will be replaced with delrin at some point) here are some photos I just took of it after I finished the frame
I'm looking for some help from here as to what motor/esc/control board to use. I was thinking of using the KK2 board as that is what David used in the build video.
I would like to carry my gopro 3 on it at some point, that said, what motors and props should I be looking at? ESC? also, I don't want to drop a ton of money on a radio, will the cheaper 4 channel hobbyking radios work fine or do I need something more?
Looking forward to some input and the help that I hear there forum brings.
Thanks,
Justin
