Hey everyone,
I am fairly new to drones & quad copters.. I started flying Mini 3 and 4 channel RC Heli's around my office a couple years ago. The batteries all died and they stopped working. After about a year the itch came back when I saw one of Steel's FPV Acro videos.
My first venture into the hobby was to try and build a 450 Drone on the cheap and so I used an Arduino to build a 450 with cheap motors & a cheap knock-off flywheel frame. It actually flew quite well, but I wanted to ultimately do some arial video/photography with it and so I updated it.. This is where things went wrong.... I ended up using a 10DOF SP F3 Racing Flight Controller and a cheap M8N Ublox GPS to turn my DIY Quad into a functional drone.. Or so I thought. After about a year of breaking blades and crashing into my backyard fence its now shelved. I tried a ton of things to get it going, but it just would not fly right. I have been told by a number of people, I should have chosen a better FC and a better GPS with all the needed drone components in the FPS ( Compas, GPS, Baro ). Honestly I don't feel like spending any more money on this guy as I've spent way, way more than my wife has budgeted for me to do so
Since then though, I've been playing around with some Eachine E011's and have performed some firmware updates. I am now learning acro on this and I just built my first 3" Quadcopter ( Omnibus ) but due to weather I have not yet maidened it.
Thus - If anyone has a good working FC & GPS combo they could spare - I would love to have another go at getting this thing off the ground.
Oh, the motors are crap as well ( I've had a few props fly off ) .. If anyone has a set of 1000KV motors with proper self locking nuts on top, those would be helpful as well!!
I have started up a Youtube channel so I can share my adventure with others. I would love to get my drone working and share that as well.. So far its not been worth it. Also, my wife will be happy all my money was not wasted. lol
Happy Flying!
I am fairly new to drones & quad copters.. I started flying Mini 3 and 4 channel RC Heli's around my office a couple years ago. The batteries all died and they stopped working. After about a year the itch came back when I saw one of Steel's FPV Acro videos.
My first venture into the hobby was to try and build a 450 Drone on the cheap and so I used an Arduino to build a 450 with cheap motors & a cheap knock-off flywheel frame. It actually flew quite well, but I wanted to ultimately do some arial video/photography with it and so I updated it.. This is where things went wrong.... I ended up using a 10DOF SP F3 Racing Flight Controller and a cheap M8N Ublox GPS to turn my DIY Quad into a functional drone.. Or so I thought. After about a year of breaking blades and crashing into my backyard fence its now shelved. I tried a ton of things to get it going, but it just would not fly right. I have been told by a number of people, I should have chosen a better FC and a better GPS with all the needed drone components in the FPS ( Compas, GPS, Baro ). Honestly I don't feel like spending any more money on this guy as I've spent way, way more than my wife has budgeted for me to do so
Since then though, I've been playing around with some Eachine E011's and have performed some firmware updates. I am now learning acro on this and I just built my first 3" Quadcopter ( Omnibus ) but due to weather I have not yet maidened it.
Thus - If anyone has a good working FC & GPS combo they could spare - I would love to have another go at getting this thing off the ground.
Oh, the motors are crap as well ( I've had a few props fly off ) .. If anyone has a set of 1000KV motors with proper self locking nuts on top, those would be helpful as well!!
I have started up a Youtube channel so I can share my adventure with others. I would love to get my drone working and share that as well.. So far its not been worth it.
Also, my wife will be happy all my money was not wasted. lolHappy Flying!
