PsyBorg
Wake up! Time to fly!
Ok to start I will say I am sorry for not documenting this from the start. I was all excited to be able to rearrange some grocery money last month and this month to scavenge up enough to snag a kit while they were in stock. No Psyborg is not starving (yet) as try to keep a decent stock of food so no worries.
So as you know from other threads that I and many others went thru a nightmare with getting drivers straightened out to be able to even start a build. In fact some are still fighting that monster. To them I will say Walk away. grab something to snack on, take a deep breath and start over.
I know all the documentation tells you what drivers to load and several people have even posted other options with 3rd party driver management. What worked for me was this... I uninstalled all the normal drivers associated with multi rotors and flashing them. I did a cold boot as a normal restart with windows will only make windows think it needs to reload the drivers that still remain on the start up list. SHUT OFF YOUR MACHINE.
Once that is done I restarted and ran a reg cleaner to make sure there were no orphaned entries or strings. I then started Zadig. Now..All the docs say that win drivers are the ones. For my case They never worked. I selected each one after the previous process until I found the libusb one actually let me access DFU mode in zadig. It was at that point I could follow the normal flash procedure and move forward.
Over the three or four days it took to sort that mess out I had already completed the build as I needed something to distract me from the driver issues. This is what mine looks like now on the Josh B Delrin frame. Notice I did an over and under motor configuration using longer stand offs. I had planned this to get the props in a straighter line but also was hoping to put the battery in the center to keep the weight on that same axis since these are so tiny. Sadly the batteries I have on hand from myy old 200 size heli that never flew are just a touch to big to fit in there. I will leave this set up for now as in the future I hope to have batteries more suited for this quad size. I know these pics are also in another thread but this will consoldate everything JUST for the Gremlin build.
Here is a video of the final build after all the changes and adaptations I have done to make it fly and function so far. More to come in the next entries.
So as you know from other threads that I and many others went thru a nightmare with getting drivers straightened out to be able to even start a build. In fact some are still fighting that monster. To them I will say Walk away. grab something to snack on, take a deep breath and start over.
I know all the documentation tells you what drivers to load and several people have even posted other options with 3rd party driver management. What worked for me was this... I uninstalled all the normal drivers associated with multi rotors and flashing them. I did a cold boot as a normal restart with windows will only make windows think it needs to reload the drivers that still remain on the start up list. SHUT OFF YOUR MACHINE.
Once that is done I restarted and ran a reg cleaner to make sure there were no orphaned entries or strings. I then started Zadig. Now..All the docs say that win drivers are the ones. For my case They never worked. I selected each one after the previous process until I found the libusb one actually let me access DFU mode in zadig. It was at that point I could follow the normal flash procedure and move forward.
Over the three or four days it took to sort that mess out I had already completed the build as I needed something to distract me from the driver issues. This is what mine looks like now on the Josh B Delrin frame. Notice I did an over and under motor configuration using longer stand offs. I had planned this to get the props in a straighter line but also was hoping to put the battery in the center to keep the weight on that same axis since these are so tiny. Sadly the batteries I have on hand from myy old 200 size heli that never flew are just a touch to big to fit in there. I will leave this set up for now as in the future I hope to have batteries more suited for this quad size. I know these pics are also in another thread but this will consoldate everything JUST for the Gremlin build.
Here is a video of the final build after all the changes and adaptations I have done to make it fly and function so far. More to come in the next entries.