off season project #2 hexacopter

Aeon

just a dude who duck hunts
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Anyone here fly quad, hexa or octocopters? I'm building a 900mm hex. 20140503_145535_zpswerowkaq.jpg
 
motorhead said:
I hunt and fish.....
Lol. My offseason project is to talk my wife into letting me get a compound bow, so basically I'll be able to spend twice as much time hunting.
8)


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Right now I'm trying to figure out how to mount a paint ball gun on it. Imagine strafing runs on squirrels with a full auto paint gun
 
Sdbirds said:
Well now I want to Cruz up and play with it.

i am still in therapy for the last time you played with it.....
 
it gets off the ground :) much more testing and setup to be done to get it dialed in but not bad for a first flight
now to mount the mini gun to it
http://youtu.be/HvMW1EAFlEo
 
Well after I did this
http://youtu.be/hMTy_xDyt5Q
No time to fix it till now. Changing a few things and setting up the remote fpv flight system 20150315_200017_zpsjd4pckuu.jpg
 

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this one is custom from top to bottom, hybrid 680pro frame stretched out so it can spin 15x5.5 props. It will be a triple deck vs the two deck that it is stock. 380kv motors. 30amp speed controllers. Pixhawk flight controller with GPS, barometer, Giro's and soon to have sonic ranger maybe. With gopro and gimbal it was getting 24min of flight time with moderate use. 5000 6s battery.

crash was the result of a brown out... software glitch in the pixhawk. if it had been up another 30 feet i think it would have corrected and not hit. you can hear it wake up just before impact.

here is a older video when i was flight testing the first time, no gimbal just a go pro clamped to the front
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrJWNPybFIQ
 
Aeon said:
Anyone here fly quad, hexa or octocopters? I'm building a 900mm hex.

i fy real copters if that counts? I am in the same boat as Bonejour trying to spent time with the wife to convince her to let me buy my first compound bow. yes im a little whipped. :(

but that thing is cool 8)

I remember by first 60size remote gas heli when i was 15 way scary.
 

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