Recent content by brunoau

I certainly do not wish to put water on your fire, but before starting: do you have a pilot licence and a drone endorsement? If not, your maximum legally allowed MTOW (AUW) is 2000 grams. You better think about it.

I designed it and just finished building it. It took a while and the result is nice: I have made the vibration dampers (two) to support the whole platform, so that the KK2 and the camera and gimbal are happy (lol). I also made from scratch the propeller's adapters, eliminating the need for the...

It seems to me that the choice of configurations is very limited: how about of all the V quadcopter, V hexacopter, the V octocopter and the equivalents in H configuration? They are the ones that really work for video and photography.

Unless you have a full pilot license and a full endorsement for drones, YOUR DRONE'S LEGAL MTOW (maximum take off weight) WILL HAVE TO BE LESS THAN TWO KG (2.2 lb). That is including battery, camera, gimbal etc. THE FINES FOR TRANSGRESSORS ARE VERY HEAVY. So START THINKING ABOUT EFFICIENCY, NOT...

Headless will not help. You should have lights and /or different colour props that tell you which is front. What I did, when I was learning on little off-the-shelf quadcopters, was to glue a thin strip of aluminium to the top of the frame, protruding forwad a few inches, so that I could always...

I agree! I have also decided to make my own dampeners, to be used to connect the whole platform of my octocopter (in the building process) to the struts holding the motors. I am adding the photo of my latest developement in anti-vibration mounts. Now the octocopter looks like this (see photo). I...

I have finally found anti-vibration mounts which work: they are the Secraft ones. Have a look at the result: I shot this video in the sea breeze which, above 50 metres, disturbed enough my hexacopter to compel me to correct quite often.

Thank you indeed. I have had a look at the FixHawk and it looks like it is well manufactured. I am going to ask RCtimer about its compatibility with the V8 octocopter which I have designed and I am building. I have experimented with several types of anti-vibration mounts for my camera and I...

Hello all! I am wondering if I could use a CC3D Revo to control a H8 octocopter for aerial video. Does anyone know about it and if not, which FC do you recommend? Any comment will be highly appreciated. Cheers from Bruno

I am thinking of upgrading my hexacopter because I have a laptop and I could use it as a ground base. That would involve the addition of GPS, barometer etc. If any member could advise me I would be grateful. I have just found the items below on Ebay...

I have now found that I should not alter the Tx settings but use instead Open Pilot to modify the behaviour of the craft. I did and the craft is now so easy to fly, even indoor, because is gently but accurately responding to control. I followed your suggestion and I created 3 different settings...

Thank you, John. I will follow your suggestion and look for this subject. I have a MZ-12 Graupner and I am not very dimesticated with it. I will try and find how to adiust the expo.

Thank you, John. The craft behaves quite well, as you saw in the video and it does not oscillate at all. I would just like to make the reaction to control not so sudden, but more mild. Any suggestions?

Hello, everyone. I have just signed up and I would like to ask what are the best settings for CC3D, which I am using on my latest hexacopter. I have designed it and built it with what I had available. Here is a Youtube video of the second test I did. My hexa is manually piloted, does not have...