Hi,
I'm Showflyer, part of a small crash-affine research team working with multicopters. Our goal is to make our hobby/profession safer, using all the fancy stuff that engineering offers these days. We are using two custom builds (hexacopter and quadcopter), both around 3kg and running with a customized APM:Copter firmware.
However, as all of us, we are far too familiar with crashes of all sorts. So far we've had:
I'm looking forward to lively discussions in this forum!
I'm Showflyer, part of a small crash-affine research team working with multicopters. Our goal is to make our hobby/profession safer, using all the fancy stuff that engineering offers these days. We are using two custom builds (hexacopter and quadcopter), both around 3kg and running with a customized APM:Copter firmware.
However, as all of us, we are far too familiar with crashes of all sorts. So far we've had:
- a badly tuned controller + wind gust, which turned our quad into a throwing star banging into the ground at destruction-optimal 45 degrees. Luckily this resulted only in bent (3mm thick!) motor mounts
- a self-unplugging motor cable, which let us witness an epic 50m skydive with subsequent break of airframe and was followed by a stream of snide remarks on "how to use plugs"
- an burnt-out ESC, which made us look like trying aerobatics with smoke bombs, although it looked far less elegant when it simply "flipped over" and sat down in the grass upside down
- insufficient propulsion, which -- in retrospecitve -- wasn't nearly as funny as the other crashes. It just went into a hard descent which could not be stopped, followed by a hard impact and bent arms.
I'm looking forward to lively discussions in this forum!
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