AnusCopter

From Technologia Incognita
Revision as of 02:42, 29 December 2013 by The JinX (talk | contribs) (Damn wasn't even active ;))
Jump to: navigation, search
Projects
AnusCopter.jpg
Participants Ranzbak, The JinX
Skills Soldering, Electronics, Coding, UI design
Status Active
Niche Electronics
Purpose Fun

Specs

Weight: 1111g

Power: 2200mAh 11.1V

Max power: 410W

Components

Rear end

HJ 450 "classic" frame mixd with Firefly

Extended legs http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:135063

4x Turnigy D2822/17 1100KV Brushless

4x 8045 CW CCW Propellers

4x Turnigy Multistar 30 Amp Multi-rotor Brushless ESC (2 with BEC)

AeroQuad 32 Flight Control board v2 (baloo)

Turnigy 9X 2.4GHz 8Ch Receiver (V2)

Turnigy 2200mAh 3S (30C+35C) LIPO

XRF wireless RF radio UART RS232

LS20031 GPS + micro JST 6 (4 wires used)

10 strand Dupont cable female-female

6 female jumper leads

4x 470 Ohm resistor and 2 white 5mm LED 2 red LED 5mm

1x XT60 and 8x 3.5mm gold bullet connectors

Heat shrink tubes

Velcro tape <3

Accessoires

Slightly modded Turnigy 9XR Transmitter Mode 2 + 11.1v (3s) 2200mAh 1.5C LIPO + FS-TH9X-B-Module

XBee Explorer Dongle + XRF wireless RF radio UART RS232 + SMA connector + Quad-band Cellular Antenna SMA

Turnigy Accucel-6 50W 6A Balancer/Charger

LIPO charge bag

Spare parts

3x Turnigy D2822/17 1100KV Brushless

10x XT60 gold male and female connectors

1 black HJ 450 frame arm

Firefly fibreglass body parts

Some 8045 propellers

Odds, ends and broken motors

In transit

Sony 600TVL CCD Camera

5.8Ghz 200mW Wireless AV Tx/Rx Video Transmitter/Receiver

10x Micro JST 1.25 7-Pin Connector with Wire

MAX7456 OSD Breakout http://www.hobbytronics.co.uk/max7456-osd-breakout

25x M3 7mm Philips head screw

2 black 2 white HJ frame arms

Dupont wire female female

Velcro straps

Some 8045 and 9050 propellors

Build log

First crash
  • 2013-11-20 put AeroQuad in case and played around with it a bit Mac and Linux version of AeroQuad Configurator lack a bit
  • 2013-11-23 assembled body, screwed motors on with 16x M3 (~6mm) will need some more of those
  • 2013-11-26 charged batteries, added battery strap and receiver and wired it up with 10 wire Dupont cable
  • 2013-11-27 battery monitor leads (and header for LEDs) added drilled/routed a hole in top of case for jumper leads
  • 2013-12-04 XT60 wired and soldered to power distribution board
  • 2013-12-07 soldered and wired 8x 3.5mm gold bullet connectors, installed ESCs, soldered 6 pin micro JST to GPS
  • 2013-12-11 added 4 pin micro JST to XRF module and added 2 front and 2 rear LEDs
  • 2013-12-15 inserted TX installed props for first time, created case for XRF
  • 2013-12-21 new rear end frame upgraded fixation of LEDs
  • 2013-12-22 more zip-ties and some housing tests
  • 2013-12-26 replaced some motors, started 3D printing first leg
  • 2013-12-27 printing 2 more legs, bought 20mm M4s RVS nuts and bolts have to saw/dremel a bit off added battery wire containment strap
  • 2013-12-28 switched blue LED with a green one + 22K Ohm resistor in RX. finished quad legs, changed two arms and printed a non-fitting FPV thing

Flight log

  • 2013-12-15 maiden flight .. second flight went too high, crashed from 6m and broke frame
  • 2013-12-22 small flight test in the dark, too windy to check at altitude but all controls seem to work fine :)
  • 2013-12-26 major imbalance on first two test flights, second and third night flight went mostly great though . .
  • 2013-12-27 indoor flight tests worked like a charm very stable .. battery empty indication problematic
  • 2013-12-28 crash on first attempt, stable flight indoor still .. might have to reconfig on ground instead of in space

T B A

FPV cam mount http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:77814 based or just something simple?

Outer shell to make it more crashworthy

Ultrasonic Range Finder (LV EZ-0)

Bigger, better and at-least less fragile in the arms department

Brushless Gimbal thing and Camera

GSM/4G stuff for long range?

Links

Some more useful reading

Other local flying projects

Justa copter 1

Phicoh Copter 1

NarCopter

Yiodah copter

DiscoDrone

QuadcopterAmraam

Social

Quadcopter workshop

Useful

STM32 flightcontroll

Aero Quad

Lessons learned

Check all your screws between all flights

  • lost 4 on maiden flight and 2 later on
  • possibly lost a prop that way (first crash)

Flame Wheel clones have pretty fragile arms

Overcompensation is a bitch

Being in a zen state helps

I can do this

Flying is fun