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custom octo frame

what should I do first? any tips? I really don't want to go into this blindly    

Started by j.baum53

1 Mar 25
Reply by Forrest Frantz

Octo-X, bicycle wheel design #2.

Q: will it fly?  fly well? I'm prototyping my latest design - got my motor mounts put together.  Other than the plate in the middle, this i…

Started by Jake Bayless

7 Nov 27, 2012
Reply by Rick

Motors, ESC's and propeller to carry 7kg

We are currently in the process of making a UAV carrying a DSLR camera. After alot of research we have some concerns regarding a couple of…

Started by apeak

0 Sep 14, 2012

What could go wrong?

A farmer, 8 combustion motors and 8 big propellers, a bunch of metal tubes... but protected by a red cloth of the same fabric as the superm…

Started by Juan Carlos Hdez

0 Sep 10, 2012

Main Power Switch for Heavy Octo

Hi, Well, I'm just at the end of my APM 2.0 based Octo build (this has taken ages, and is based on a unique aluminum # frame variant - pics…

Started by Gil Rosenthal

9 Aug 30, 2012
Reply by Gil Rosenthal

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Large Heavy Octo PID Tuning

I just flew my maiden flight with my new, totally custom octocopter. Everything worked really well except that I entered into a heavy oscil…

Started by Adam Rivera

13 Jul 7, 2012
Reply by Adam Rivera

Scratch-build

where do I start? what should I do? I have no idea, because I'm scratch-building my own quad as soon as I figure out how.   any tips/ideas…

Started by j.baum53

8 May 25, 2012
Reply by j.baum53

Building copter frame

where do I start? what should I do? I have no idea, because I'm scratch-building my own quad as soon as I figure out how.   any tips/ideas…

Started by j.baum53

2 May 24, 2012
Reply by j.baum53

New heavy octo - trouble with alt_hold

Hello. First of all, I want to thank you for your time in reading this. I'm a relative newbie to APM, but I do follow directions pretty we…

Started by John Lever

1 Apr 11, 2012
Reply by John Lever

Motor redundancy..... Y6? X8? Hexa? Octa? something new?

So..... I guess you could consider me a bit of a nerd gone corporate sell out. I'm all for open source, home grown, new idea, etc..... but…

Started by Steve Castano

14 Feb 26, 2012
Reply by chris g

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