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My Quadrino board arrived today, swapped out the KK controller on the VC20 430mm frame and did a maiden flight in the backyard as the daylight was fading. Its got a severe case of the wobbles, if this were the KK controller I'd just tweak the gain pots a bit to settle it down and be flying. Not...

Interesting bit of news and creative use of an AR Drone by CNN though they need to learn a couple things about how to mount a GoPro to avoid the "jello effect"... "This is really at the low end of what's possible," he says. "There's much more sophisticated drone technology out there that is...

I had a few packs charged up and enough daylight left when we got back from Mothers day festivities at the inlaws to get about 6 flights in between my 350mm quad and the Gaui 330X, a solid 45 minutes of flight time. I've been spending a LOT of time working all orientations and doing (or trying...

This was the view from where I had dinner tonight, taken with my trusty Canon SX200 though not while attached to a multirotor. If wasn't on a business trip I might have been able to arrange to bring one with me but I think the pictures I got came out pretty good regardless... Ken

I know there are more single rotor pilots here than just me, I'd be interested to hear what others think of the difference between flying an RC heli and a multirotor. Yesterday I pulled my Trex 450 off the shelf and revived it after close to a year of hibernation in its case. The last heli I...

Did this little video yesterday with the modded GoPro strapped to my noggin, turns out getting decent video that way is harder than it seems, the Sunex lens doesn't have quite as much field of view as the stock fisheye lens and I seem to have lost view of the quad anywhere it went above 8 feet...

I see GoPro now has its 3D kit available and since I have a pair of HD Heros I'm thinking I may give it a go soon. Granted I'd have to swap the lens back to stock on the modded Hero, or would it make more sense to mod the stock one with another Sunex lens to get 3D without the fisheye effect...

My stock Hexa seems to have regained its composure now that I reverted back to .82 firmware and that's a good thing. During its little oops on the new firmware it crunched the Hisight mount when it fell out of the sky though the damage turned out to look worse than it actually was. A bit of CA...

For those of you that would rather be able to use standard ESC's with an MK flight controller there's a new I2C to PWM convertor available that is ridiculously cheap, I just bought a pair of them for less than $30 and it will handle up to 8 ESC's. You can find them here...

Is anyone interested in a Specktrum diversity board for their Mikrokopter? I'd like to get another one but refuse to pay 2X the builders price for one from the only commercial source I know of in the US, so if there's enough interest I'll inquire with the source on a price for however many there...

One of the things that I have a big problem with is nose-in hovering with unstabilized multirotor craft. I can fly nose in, meaning as long as the craft is moving I have no problem with it facing me, it's only when I stop moving and try to keep it hovering in the same spot it all falls apart...

Today Hoverfly announced a new flight control board they have developed, the HoverflySport. The Sport is a subset of the bigger Hoverfly Pro without all the bells and whistles like auto leveling, onboard OSD, and camera mount stabilization, obviously aimed more at the aerobatic and sport flying...

After buying the Avertical camera mount I came to the conclusion that a stock MK Hexa was just a bit too underpowered to carry the mount along with a camera, well that and the fact that it takes ridiculously long landing gear to fit the mount underneath which I was able to solve with a set of...

Now that I've got the majority of the fleet sorted and ready to fly once the weather improves I was sitting here last night looking at the bare Gaui 330X frame hanging on the tail boom of a heli on top of the workbench and thinking I really should do something with it. Prior to it becoming a...

Despite nearly chopping off the top left corner of a middle finger with wire strippers (very painfull and bloody!) I was able to finally button up the new/old MK Hexa last night. This morning I did a test fly in position hold using vario altitude hold while slowly climbing straight up to roughly...

Today MK released version .84 firmware for the flight controller, most notably it has the ability to do Points of Interest while flying GPS waypoints. Now you can set waypoints and have the yaw orientation and camera angle preset for each waypoint to keep the lens focused on whatever it is that...

Sorry, no video here. I found out quite by accident how to get stunning performance from a heavy lift hex, feed it 32 volts! I got the two 4S 5000 packs I've been waiting for on Thursday, Friday I put connectors on and did the first test flight, still had 40% battery capacity after 10 minutes...

Lots of people love Adobe Premier for video editing so I downloaded version 9 trial and loaded it up last night. I took a 5 minute clip I did with theCanon Vixia and applied some minor corrections to it similar to what I would use with the other software I have. Well, it's now been rendering...

The Droidworx AD-6 made its first flight in heavy lift configuration yesterday morning at the flying field. Kind of a weird day weather wise, it was partly sunny at the house with little wind and the closer I got to the field the darker the sky got. By the time I unlocked the gate drove in and...

Yesterday I did the first test flight of the Averticalview camera mount on the new Hexa, I'm impressed with the results so far. Here's the raw video from a short test flight in the backyard, mount and GoPro were all hard mounted so there's a fair amount of vibration which is to be expected at...