Bartman
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I've been kicking around ideas for a one-off custom copter and rather than put it together in my basement in secrecy I've decided to open it up for everyone's input.
In laying it out the way I have I'm trying to do a few things. First is build in lots of redundancy so that I can use it for my aerial photo business and not worry about canceling appointments and having it crash in front of customers because of minor malfunctions. Second, I'd like to reduce airframe vibration by optimizing the layout. The camera mount shouldn't be the last hope for vibration isolation but that's where things have gone. Have you seen the sky rover? They should call it the Sky Grommet for all the rubber they've got built into it. Lastly, I'd like to use fixed pitch helicopter rotor blades cut down to maybe a sixteen inch diameter with gear reduction to slow down rotation (maybe improve rotor efficiency while eliminating some high freq vibration).
I'm calling it a Dual-Pac Quad because each arm of the quad will have two motors driving one rotor through gear reduction.
As of now I've been considering using the MK flight control board but I'm open to suggestions. MK is what I know so that's what I planned. I also need suggestions for ESC's. I've been taught that MK boards need MK ESC's but I'm guessing we've moved beyond that. Any help would be appreciated.
Another thing I want to incorporate is a free hanging camera mount. In my mind I've got a picture of a camera mount hung from the quad with a CV joint or universal joint so the quad can tilt for control but the camera mount will still hang down. I think this will eliminate some of the jitters that show up in video and give the mount a ride more like a helicopter does. the joint would have to prevent rotation (it wouldn't be completely free hanging) and there would have to be three or four point shock absorbtion around the joint to keep it from swinging. Lastly the mount will have to have it's own gyro stabilization since it will have some degree of freedom from the copter.
sound easy enough? i'm ready to get to work.
Bart
In laying it out the way I have I'm trying to do a few things. First is build in lots of redundancy so that I can use it for my aerial photo business and not worry about canceling appointments and having it crash in front of customers because of minor malfunctions. Second, I'd like to reduce airframe vibration by optimizing the layout. The camera mount shouldn't be the last hope for vibration isolation but that's where things have gone. Have you seen the sky rover? They should call it the Sky Grommet for all the rubber they've got built into it. Lastly, I'd like to use fixed pitch helicopter rotor blades cut down to maybe a sixteen inch diameter with gear reduction to slow down rotation (maybe improve rotor efficiency while eliminating some high freq vibration).
I'm calling it a Dual-Pac Quad because each arm of the quad will have two motors driving one rotor through gear reduction.
As of now I've been considering using the MK flight control board but I'm open to suggestions. MK is what I know so that's what I planned. I also need suggestions for ESC's. I've been taught that MK boards need MK ESC's but I'm guessing we've moved beyond that. Any help would be appreciated.
Another thing I want to incorporate is a free hanging camera mount. In my mind I've got a picture of a camera mount hung from the quad with a CV joint or universal joint so the quad can tilt for control but the camera mount will still hang down. I think this will eliminate some of the jitters that show up in video and give the mount a ride more like a helicopter does. the joint would have to prevent rotation (it wouldn't be completely free hanging) and there would have to be three or four point shock absorbtion around the joint to keep it from swinging. Lastly the mount will have to have it's own gyro stabilization since it will have some degree of freedom from the copter.
sound easy enough? i'm ready to get to work.
Bart
