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    Soldering onto a circuit board for the first time?

    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...
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    Bigger props resulting in a lot more instability?

    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...
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    Hey all newbie here from California

    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...
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