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Testing and redesign done... With 7 inch tubes they're about an inch longer than stock DJI arms, I can make them any length within reason by just cutting longer or shorter tubes. For larger motors I have a scaled up motor mount that can take 36mm already done and can make virtually any...

Would these work for ya... With 7 inch tubes they're about an inch longer than stock DJI arms, I can make them any length within reason by just cutting longer or shorter tubes. For larger motors I have a scaled up motor mount that can take 36mm already done and can make virtually any size...

Looks promising, I assume you used an Alexmos board for control? I spent many hours trying to get that kind of result with servos and an RSGS and never really succeeded... Ken

The answer to that is, the shorter the input wire the better it is. Within the reality of how a multirotor is constructed you may need to have a few inches of wire leading up to the ESC, the best approach is to keep the wires as short as you can and try to route them away from other electronics...

It comes down to this, usually there is what is known as a mixer table in the firmware that defines motor layout, some have very comprehensive tables covering a multitude of possible configurations, others very basic that only cover the common +, X, Y, etc. The mixer tells the flight controller...

A simplified very high level explanation, in a symmetrical frame the motors are all equidistant from the center point, when the flight controller needs to make a correction (assuming it is placed at the frame CoG) it knows exactly how much to spin opposite motors up or down to accomplish the...

That was my original intention for the X, I have a new Droidworx VM4 frame in a box waiting for assembly and a flight controller. Problem is I won't have time to do a full build for another week or two yet so I went for the quickest route to getting the X in the air, swap it onto a frame that...

This is one of the last flights I did yesterday, I pruned some of the dead air off the beginning and end but otherwise is as-recorded. In the rebuild process I swapped out the DJI motors for a set of iPower 2217 and the generic ESCs for a set of all nFET HK Blue series 30 amp with SimonK...

I see no way to make changes that small with the sliders in the GUI, it just goes from one number to the next. No matter where I have put the GUI gains the adjustment knob either makes it too soft to be stable in FF or there is constant visible oscillation there really isn't any in between where...

Do I detect a note of discontent in Hoverfly land? BTDT, still have the green Pro board... ;)

Gave the Super X/Discovery combo another go at the field today, I'm not liking this combination much. Seems impossible to find gain settings that work well on the Discovery frame, I think the big problem is the lack of fine tuning ability the gains can only be changed in increments of 1 rather...

I didn't even try the GoPro to see if it still worked until today, turns out it works fine. I finished the rebuild about 11:15 PM last night, went to the field this AM and got 5 flights in on the rebuilt Discovery mainly doing PID tuning. Quite windy from the time I got there to the time I left...

Ok, update time. I finally got the opportunity to field test the Disco with the new arms. BIG difference, as expected much more nimble and very smooth, it flew completely different than it did with the DJI girder arms, even had the opportunity for a bit of durability testing when it apparently...

The Super X is sort of half way between a DJI Naza and Wookong-M in terms of size and components, functionally it's very much at the Naza end of the DJI scale at least for now. One thing I like is the ability to just plug the IO block into battery power and it does the voltage regulation for...

I make them, this by far the biggest GPS puck I've done one for Ken

Last night I replaced the Naza V1 on my favorite Discovery FPV quad with a Super X basic. My original intent was to fly the X on a Droidworx VM4 frame I have but with the way things are going at work right now I have no time to do a complete build until early to mid November at the soonest...

My completely homebrew 3D printed frame FPV quad... The original testbed... Both are being flown on a regular basis, the orange and black has a Naza lite, the other is a Multiwii Pro. The Multiwii version is the performance machine, the Naza flys just as well but is more stable at...

Ummm, so they can sell you more parts to fix things after they crash... ? ;) The more I read about stuff like this, the more I like my MK and Multiwii controllers, the remaining DJI I own are frozen at a known good firmware version and will likely stay that way. Ken

Correct, not just the balcony but the roof as well does a couple jumps. It's either post stabilization or the AV jumps and twitches when trying to hold a position which doesn't surprise me if there's an RSGS involved. Ken

Yeah, so it appears! So here's what I'm going to do. I only have enough materials on hand for another 2, maybe three sets at the moment, one of those is going on my other Discovery with Naza controller, another will find its way onto a set of F450 frame plates. Keep in mind other than some...