Home Brew QuadCopter

[Candu]

In another thread, I posted a video clip taken on board of my home brew quadcopter. Here's a series of photos showing how I built it. 

It's basically a wood construct. Main platform made of two piece of plywood:


Sandwich the four arms together:






Spray paint the whole thing, and putting in wiring for the ESCs and brushless motors:


A plastic butter dish from Dollar Store was used to protect the electronics. This picture shows the top cover of the butter dish being used as the mounting platform for the electronics:


Flight control board and receiver mounted:


Butter dish (may be a sandwich container?) in place:


Completed and ready to fly:


Fine tuning flight controller gain parameters in my "private field" aka backyard:


This is my contribution to support the forum and I hope it's not off topic.

[battlestu]

not at all .. looks great!

[sihinch]

Wow, that's awesome!

[Gregor77]

How, you did that!  No way! 

[bfeist]

Looks fantastic! It would be great to make the arms collapsable as well.

[Candu]

How, you did that!  No way!

Yea, it's actually from Ikea - all you need is an Hex key to put it all together in less than an hour! 

[Candu]

Looks fantastic! It would be great to make the arms collapsable as well.

Not on my quad but that's available on my T-copter, but I found I always extend the arms and make it ready to fly before I leave the house.  But it's good for backpacking to take photos...

Here's a couple photos of my T-Copter:

Folded


Extended half way:


Ready to fly configuration: