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On Saturday I got to spend some time at the flying field with the Droidworx MK AD-6. There wasn't much of a breeze at the house but by the time I got to the field a fairly strong wind had come up making for poor stabilty on the camera platform so I only did one flight with the GoPro onboard, the...

Today was Christmas in March when the postman arrived... Originally I was going to build an MK quad for FPV but then I fell into a deal for the Pulso 2814-22 motors, those will wind up on the Droidworx frame turning that MK into a heavy lifter, That leaves me with the current Robbe Roxxy...

First trip back to the flying field since the first of the year due to it being snowed in and overrun by snowmobiles, felt good to be out and flying again. The weather was a bit iffy when I was packing up the truck so I only took the Hexa and Silver bullet and grabbed the toolbox with all the...

My next build is a dedicated FPV quad and after having a taste of OSD with the Hoverfly I want to have a true full featured OSD on the new quad. The base of the build will be MK electronics so I'm looking for recommendations for the best system to use, preferably one that doesn't take up too...

OK, I have to admit, I'm an addict and I need help ;) I just sold one of my big gasser heli's and turned around and did an alacarte order of enough Mikrokopter bits to assemble my idea of the ultimate FPV quad. Of course it has to have full GPS navigation capability so I can sit back and let...

Well not quite yet, it's dark out at the moment, but I'm getting ready to go...;) For the first time this year the road into the flying field is plowed and it looks like the weather will cooperate for at least part of the day tomorrow so I'm taking the Droidworx Hexa, Hoverfly quad, the...

Now that the USPS has officially lost my Pulso motors and speed controllers I decided to take a slightly different track for a bit. The intent was to put the Pulsos on the Hoverfly quad because in the current motors there's a rumbly bearing in one and a slightly tweaked shaft in another courtesy...

http://www.procerusuav.com/Downloads/DataSheets/Kestrel_Flight_Systems_2010.pdf I haven't heard of this one before but it appears to have everything you could want in a board at a very small size factor. Then again it should have every capability under the sun for $5k per...!!!! :eek: If you...

This morning I did some real world testing with the MyVu googles and the Hoverfly quad and it appers that this combo is going to work quite well for framing shots for both stills and video. When conditions are right they can be used for FPV flying though I would rather use full immersion goggles...

Since I got the Hexa and installed the LED's under the arms I discoverd how much easier it is to fly at night with a multi than it is with an RC Heli. When I swapped frames on the Hoverfly Quad I made sure to put LED strips under the front arms and some flourescent spiral wrap on the front ends...

Weather has warmed up here quite a bit almost to the point of it beginning to feel a little spring like :D Time to take a break from getting the camera ships dialed in and have a bit of fun, so that means time for the little Silver Bullet! So what is this Silver Bullet you ask? It's a 350mm...

Almost two weeks ago now I ordered a new set of motors and speed controllers for the Hoverfly quad, according to the tracking info the USPS sent them out of a facility in Ohio on Feb 1, it's now Feb 11 and the tracking hasn't updated since I and I don't have my motors. I've been in contact with...

Anyone using a DX8 and the built in telemetry data on a multicopter? Seems like that kind of feature in a radio would be useful for anyone that isn't going to have a downlink TX with an OSD module. Ken

The lastest accessory in the GoPro line, just received mine and tried it out on my spare HD Hero... Ken

Late today I soldered up the spare flight controller and installed it in the Droidworx Hexa in place of the F/C that went up in smoke the other day, did a test flight under the street lights in front of the house a little while ago and all is well again :D While I was at it I swapped the 10 x 5...

This afternoon I got a chance to try out the Hoverfly quad with the 11 x 4.7 APC props on it and as expected they do generate a lot more lift, I was hovering a little below 1/2 throttle instead of the just slightly above when fully loaded on the 10 x 5 Graupners. It flew fine, the extra inch of...

Here's the most recent test flight of the Hovefly quad, I'm starting to get results close to what I can get from the Droidworx Hexa which is somewhat surprising considering the part that went into building the Hoverfly. This is the current setup, a MK Hexa frame reconfigured to be a quad, 4...

It was bound to happen sooner or later and I'm glad it happened where and when it did. I was going to do a test flight over the house to check out the most recent changes to the camera mount settings on the Hexa and when I plugged the battery in I saw a little puff of magic smoke inside the...

Now that I've rebuilt the Hoverfly into a frame capable of carrying camera gear and the firmware is allegedly stable enough to keep it from flipping in flight, I decided that it needs better motors. Part of that decision came about while watching the props spinning at low rpm and finding that...

The new lens arrived yesterday afternoon so last night I disassembled the GoPro and did the swap. It's a pretty easy job, the toughest part is doing the focus afterward, I hooked the GoPro directly into my Fatshark FPV goggles with live feed on and did the adjustment that way. You could also...