Category: Featured
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Ov3rquad – Top of the Mountain
High in the mountains of the San Fernando Valley in Southern California, I present my lastest FPV adventure. Filmed on a GoPro Hero 2 at 720p 120 fps on the always amazing Ov3rquad open-source quadrotor frame. I found a heliport at the top of the mountain with 3 helipads and I thought it would be […]
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Ov3rquad at the Park
Check out my latest video from my latest multi-rotor platform, the Ov3rquad. The Ov3rquad is an open source spiderquad frame design, which I got custom cnc-cut out of lexan. It uses standard DJI 450/550 arms, 1000 kv motors, SimonK flashed 30-amp ESC and it is all controlled with an APM 2.5, which gives me gps […]
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WEC Mark 2 – Test Flight
This is the second version of the WEC (Wooden Ecilop Clone). I improved the landing gear and streamlined the wiring by using a Quattro 20AMP ESC. The flight controller is an APM 2.5. I am using a 4-channel Frsky receiver in PPM mode soldered directly onto the APM to eliminate a lot of wiring. I […]
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Tricopter Practice Flights
I’ll be the first one to admit that I’m not the greatest heli/multi pilot: I’ve hovered a lot and my skill where limited to just that, hovering and tail in-flights. I decided to improve my skills over the weekend and these are the results. I flew my tricopter at the local park for 12 batteries […]
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SR-71 Blackbird – Scratch-built Maiden Flight
This is my latest scratch-built project, an all-foamboard SR-71 Blackbird, in its NASA livery. The plans were downloaded from RCGroups [click here for the link to build your own]. Construction was straight-foward and took about 3 hours. I used 2 sheets of black foamboard bought from Office Depot. Here are some additional specs: – 2 […]
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Gyro Stabilized Camera Gimbal – Ecilop Wooden Clone
This is my attempt at a building an Ecilop, a gyro stabilized camera gimbal quadcopter. Construction is all poplar, CA and epoxy. This is the frame without any a flight controller, motors or ESC. I’ll be using the trusted ArduCopter 2.5. The original inspiration came from Aleksey Zaitsevsky’s design, the Ecilop Easy, pictured below. Also, […]
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Durafly D.H. 110 Sea Vixen – Maiden Flight
Introducing the Durafly (from Hobbyking) D.H. 110 Sea Vixen. I built it an about an hour, glueing the wings, the booms and the horizontal stabilizer. Setup was easy and balancing it was a cinch! I’m powering it with a 4-cell 2650 maH Turnigy Nana-tech 35-70 C lipo battery. In the air As you can see […]
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Durafly Sea Vixen – Unboxing video and first impressions
Check out the newest addition to my fleet! The Durafly D.H. 100 Sea Vixen. Comes with all the hardware needed, just build it, add your 4 cell Lipo and receiver and you’re ready to fly. The plane comes double-boxed for protection and very well packaged. The details on this plane are amazing. Stay tuned for […]
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Build Challenge: $7 toy glider to RC plane
I was browsing my local hobby store when I encountered a $7 EPO toy glider that was begging me to turn it into a full-featured RC plane. So, a challenge began. I started by reinforcing the horizontal stabilizer with a carbon fiber rod, then the wings and fuselage with a wooden dowel. I mounted a Turnigy 2826 2200 kv […]
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On-board video – Kondor FPV
Check out the on-board video I took on the Kondor FPV. It is really stable, but I have to adjust the thrust angle of the engine to avoid down-pitching when throttling.