Formula1 quadcopter
If someone has problems with the video (music copyright) please check this link: Video
Hi all,
some weeks ago while I was watching a Formula1 race I started to think in this idea, why not develop a Formula1 shape quadcopter? I was thinking about the best way to fit the shape of an F1 car with a quadcopter and then I started to work on this. With red coroplast plastic and a scissors I made the shape of the car (profile shape) and then I print some stickers from images of the car and this was the result:
The truth is that I have been playing with quadcopters and multicopters for some years and I always dislike the simetric shape of this machines (I tried to modify this a bit on old projects). In my opinion they are a bit ugly, so one thing that I really like about this project is that it don´t seem a quadcopter. People first see a race car and then when they see the props they ask me, but this really flight?
The setup of the quadcopter is the same of this project: Indoor fun with tiny ArduCopter but I have changed the electronics by an APM2.0 and I am using 5x3 props (normal and counter-rotating) from HobbyKing on a 2S800 battery. I have adjusted a bit the PIDs for the weight and the shape of this project and I have configured the yaw a bit more agressive in order to "drive" the quadcopter more like a car in the corners.
The result is a funny project and I think that Ferrari should look at this updates for their cars... ;-)
This post in Spanish: Formula1 Quadcopter
Jose Julio
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3D Robotics Comment by Chris Anderson on July 8, 2012 at 9:15am -
Amazing video! How did you do the chase cam?
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Developer Comment by R_Lefebvre on July 8, 2012 at 9:52am -
I can't watch the video because of copyright problems. :(
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3D Robotics Comment by Chris Anderson on July 8, 2012 at 9:53am -
Jose: you might want to switch out to different music; Simple Minds seems to be setting off YouTube's copyright detector.
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Distributor Comment by UnmannedTechShop.co.uk on July 8, 2012 at 1:37pm -
Brilliant, you should make a few more and have a propper race!
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Developer Comment by Jose Julio on July 8, 2012 at 2:26pm -
Opps, sorry for the copyright problems Robert, I will try to make a free version of the same video.
Chris, the chase cam is my friend running behind the copter (you could see his shadow in some parts) ;-)
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Developer Comment by Sandro Benigno on July 8, 2012 at 8:47pm -
Hi Jose! That's so cool... Fantastic takes. And your audio edition was perfect at the "take-off" part.
As always... I'm watching in loop N times.
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Comment by Juan Enrique Martin Boix on July 9, 2012 at 12:45am -
And the wheels??????
So cool Jose!! You can add a sound module with a throttleable V10 ......yes you can ,:))))
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Comment by Imko van Beckhoven on July 9, 2012 at 5:20am -
@Chris Anderson Chase cam watch the shade around 1:05 ;-)
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Developer Comment by Jose Julio on July 9, 2012 at 3:18pm -
Because some people are having problems to watch the video (music copyright) I have edited the post to add a new link under the video with a new version with free music.
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