Now this is Kool!

Posted by mark on December 2, 2013 at 4:59pm

It's a bird! It's a Plane..... It's....Stingray???????

Somebody tell the heli  guys they can take the shape of a quadcopter!!!

freggin' genius!!

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  • John McGrath December 3, 2013 at 6:16pm

    I am surprised you guy have not heard of this its been around for awhile Curtis Youngblood is the guy on this and its a fantastic 3D quad.  No other quad can match its 3D ability.  And the price is right. I am ordering one to show off to these 3D foam guys with there planes at the park :-)

  • Rob Bartlett December 3, 2013 at 6:48am

    Awesome.  Now put a gas engine on that puppy and fly FPV all day...

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    Randy December 2, 2013 at 6:46pm

    It would be nice to add support for it in ArduCopter.  It would involve writing a new AP_Motors library to support it.  If someone actually owns one of these and would like some advice on how to implement it either Rob Lefebvre or I could help you out.

    Alternatively if the producers of the frame wanted to sponsor the development in arducopter they could send a couple of frames to a developer or we could have a little raffle where the producers give away the frames to 2 or 3 people who want to take on the challenge of doing the development.  I say 2 or 3 people just to increase the odds that at least one person will be successful.

  • Gary McCray December 2, 2013 at 6:39pm

    Curtis Youngblood's collective pitch quad is really cool but it has been available since July and we have had it featured here before too.

  • mark December 2, 2013 at 6:09pm

    This experimental concept is also cool. We are moving into a new realm... get ready ArduCopter! More accuracy, more cpu, more memory, new power systems/ longer battery life and heavier lift capabilties. Who knows what is possible. I believe 2014 will be the year of the ~multi~copter~  [drone or whatever it will be called] and in the next few years what we are using now will look like the Model-T Ford!  New Innovation! This is exciting stuff for sure and it is just getting started.

     

  • Phil Gordon December 2, 2013 at 5:36pm

    I like it,pity mine would be smashed to bits if I tried some of those manoeuvre`s :)

  • Randy Ram December 2, 2013 at 5:29pm
    It's variable pitch quad. So, pretty much inverted flight like a regular heli.
  • Shyam Balasubramanian December 2, 2013 at 5:05pm

    Inefficient though..

    says 3.5 minutes to max 7-8 minutes with FPV.. with 3200mAH, 3S

  • Shyam Balasubramanian December 2, 2013 at 5:02pm

    Wait, hold!

    How does it (the quad) go upside down? I saw it, but don't get the physics behind it ;)

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