RC Planes/Helicopters/Cars/Multicopters anyone? (Page 2 of 2)

Very Nice!!! What flight controller are you using for the Dodekakopter?

I just bought a hubsan micro and i'm trying not to get pulled in! So much fun

@Staffordknot:
As ronsii said ,be carefull with multicopters when you got one , you want another one it's terrible

@ronsii:
if you want to build a dodecacopter you better choose to build it this way :

instead of what I made, mine scale  is 1,07 meters , it's really hard to put it in the car when i want to go flying somewhere !

LOL
Hummmm ... good idea !  but... well I don't know how is it in USA but in France it would be difficult to do this on the road without having problems with the police !
The law about drones became more strict during the year 2012.
We have a lot of restrictions for ours multicopters...

Great photos !!! what did you used to make those pics ?

Thats with our prototype pre-release Phantom 2 Vision from DJI.

Ian,

I'm fairly new to quadcopters, but I have a Syma X1 and it is a pretty good beginners quad.  The price hovers around $30-35 on amazon, but I've seen it go as low as $26.  It's still in the "toy" range of quadcopters and not nearly near the hobby grade, but it is a good way to get acclimated to flying one and it is nearly indestructible in my experience.

http://www.amazon.com/Syma-Channel-2-4G … gy_t_img_z

My brother bought a MQX quad before I got mine, and it retails for around $150.  It flies a little different, but it's almost exactly the same size as the Syma.  I honestly prefer my Syma, but it is another option.

http://www.amazon.com/Blade-BLH7500-mQX … ywords=mqx

Brad,

In your original post, your second picture, i can see the rotors, but there are two additional arms sticking out to the side with bits on the ends.... What are these?

Oh wow... I see it now! If i wasn't so pre occupied with building something at the moment i would be very tempted! I'm waiting for man sized ones!

One of the reasons I initially bought my SD3 was to make parts for my other obsession which is multirotors. I have somewhere around 18 of them now ranging in size from it fits in the palm of my hand to a Cinestar 6 carrying a Sony Nex 5n on a brushless gimbal, the palm sized Proto is barely larger than the motor mount pad on the Cinestar!

It wasn't until earlier this year that I realized the goal of designing, building, and flying a multi made entirely from 3D printed parts made on the SD3, this is what version 1 looked like...

Since then the alloy tube arms have been replaced with carbon fiber and many of the pieces have been refined so it now looks more like a commercially available frame than the prototype did.

Prior to that my first complete 3D frame was a copy of one I had bought, done mainly to see if it was practical to make and if it could hold up as well as a frame made from other materials...

Both of these are setup primarily for FPV and I use them regularly. I fly mainly at an AMA club field that is RC Heli only and multirotor friendly, it helps that the club VP is the owner of the LHS and also into multis as well as I'm on the club steering committee.

Lately I've been getting a lot of side work from a couple companies doing multirotor design and build for commercial applications, they like the fact that I know the multirotor side of things along with having the 3D design and print capability. It has actually now gotten close to being a second full time job and I've made enough $ to finance buying 2 new printers to keep up with the demand!

Won't be quitting my day job anytime soon but it's nice to have some extra $ coming in to finance my addictions

The setup in the picture has a separate camera operator.
If you want to do anything seriously you will need a separate camera operator,
its just too difficult to get the right shot trying to control everything yourself.