Recent content by Winny the pooh

I'm modifying some LED strip lights that were hanging in my room to fit onto my quadcopter. They have an IR receiver so I can change them in the air which should be cool. Anyways, when I ripped the power port off the circuit board I couldn't tell which side was positive and negative and haven't...

Nope, been very impressed with the site so far! :friendly_wink:

Wow thanks for all the good info everyone! As a junior year mechanical engineer, the technical stuff like this is what I really love to sink my teeth into. My 10" props were just cheap one from Hobby King. Slow Fly I believe..

My old props were getting a bit beat up and I wanted to increase the flight time. I guess I didn't appreciate the complexity and interconnectedness of thrust and stability.. I want to get a bit more flight time out of the my MR, and also start figuring really how different voltages, prop size...

I'm using 1000 KV motors with a 3S battery. That seems like a high KV no? I didn't feel my motors after my flight this morning unfortunately. My ESCs did feel kinda hot though...

Hey all- I recently upgraded my 10x4.5 props to 11x4.7 props and my quadcopter has become a lot more unstable because of it. With the 10" (my first ever props) I barely had to do any tuning to keep the copter stable, but with the 11" APC Slow Flyers for 3DR I had to reduce the PID sensitivity...

Santa Clara University. Cool- joined. Any other resources or advice you have for someone just hopping in like me?

Hey everyone- I'm a mechanical engineering college student and over the past three months I've managed to teach myself enough to get a custom-built quadcopter based on the F450 into the air and flying. I'm sticking with a lot of 3DR stuff, as I'm pretty interested in the autonomous capabilities...