falstaff's blog about building and developing multicopters
Some time went by since my last post! In between I fixed the problems with my new quadrocopter, in the end I had problems with my altered brushless controllers. I had to resolder some soldering joints. But now it is flying quite nice, but see yourself:
Sunny Fall from Stefan Agner on Vimeo.
Flight at a sunny fall evening Continue reading “Flight at a sunny fall evening”
The last days I worked a lot on my second NG UAVP quadrocopter. I had many of the parts ready since weeks. But I decided to do some things different than planned. But in between, all things were done and it was time to get my new aircraft airborne. And it flew! Unfortunately I had some interferences, but look yourself!
Maiden flight of my second NG UAVP from Stefan Agner on Vimeo.
Maiden flight of my second NG UAVP quadrocopterThe second quadrocopter is a lot easier to build. The whole world of quadrocopter and radio controlled model making in general was very new to me. I made wrong decisions or just didn’t know how I want to have it in the end… Here is a small lists of improvements I made on my second quadrocopter. It might help other beginners to do it better in first place 🙂 Continue reading “My second NG is airborne”
Recently I bought the nice GoPro HD digital camera. This week I mounted it the first time on my quadrocopter and flew around with it. But with the last battery the motor dissolved itself from its basement. Luckily my quadrocopter and the camera survived the crash without serious damage.
Sunsetflight… until crash! from Stefan Agner on Vimeo.
By the way, I made this video using PiTiVi, which seems to evolve to a very easy to use video editor. The features are a bit limited at the moment, but there is much effort in the community improve this drawback. Continue reading “My first onboard Video”