Jee
janpeter.net
Hi everybody,
I have watched mates of mine fly quadcopters for quite some time.
There are:
- the expensive ones.. (a controlboard can cost around 600$)
- the extreme selfmade ones (take apart a wii-controller and you can build a copter...)
- the comes-as-a-kit ones (gaui 330 and so on)
Well, after watching the flitetest about the self build avatar gunship - which mentions there is a hobbyking quadcopter controlboard - I wanted to give it a try.
So for christmas (it's a gift - form me, to me) I ordered the board and everything else (including everything, lipo, receiver, motors, escs and props) we come in at around 100$.
Here is what it looks like:
And here is how it flew like (maiden flight):
Here is a great tip for everyone wants to try this at home:
Read the instructions. No really. Read them. If you think you know where to plug in the stuff, that's fine... after two broken props and no clue how in the world the gyro-directions can be this crazy wrong and hard to setup.. you will then read the instructions more carefully and notice: the motors are not plugged in clockwise, but 1 4 2 3. (Learn from my fail.)
Hope you got cool gifts too!
Happy new year!
I have watched mates of mine fly quadcopters for quite some time.
There are:
- the expensive ones.. (a controlboard can cost around 600$)
- the extreme selfmade ones (take apart a wii-controller and you can build a copter...)
- the comes-as-a-kit ones (gaui 330 and so on)
Well, after watching the flitetest about the self build avatar gunship - which mentions there is a hobbyking quadcopter controlboard - I wanted to give it a try.
So for christmas (it's a gift - form me, to me) I ordered the board and everything else (including everything, lipo, receiver, motors, escs and props) we come in at around 100$.
Here is what it looks like:

And here is how it flew like (maiden flight):
Here is a great tip for everyone wants to try this at home:
Read the instructions. No really. Read them. If you think you know where to plug in the stuff, that's fine... after two broken props and no clue how in the world the gyro-directions can be this crazy wrong and hard to setup.. you will then read the instructions more carefully and notice: the motors are not plugged in clockwise, but 1 4 2 3. (Learn from my fail.)
Hope you got cool gifts too!
Happy new year!