Hello people, this is POLLUX my first BIG uav airframe, (it has a twin named CASTOR)...

Wingspan 4.2 meters.

Lengnt: 3 meters

TOW: 55 kg aprox

Engine 100cc twin cilinder.

what do you think??????

Going to be ready really soon (i hope)

These are pics of our team learning to fly FPV, playing with ardupilot....

ArduPilot autopilot.

ArduIMU

Ardushield.

HappyKillmore GCS.

Xbee Telemetry. 900 mHz

RangeVideo TX and RX 1,3 Ghz

Homemade Pan tilt camera.

0.40 glow O.S. fp engine

Big nitro tank to fly 50 minutes.....

2.4 Ghz 1 watt amplifier.

Futaba 9z radio TX

Assan 2.4 TX and RX modules.

RangeVideo V dipole antenna.

This is my Arducopter, now customized with a Hobby King´s frame that i have painted in Orange and black...

The HK´s frame parts fits nicely, and the arducopter parts got in to the frame really easy, plenty of room for the ESCs in the arms, the motors fit in their places and the power distro board gets in to its place in a cool way :-)

The APM is mounted in some plastic spacer that came with the frame, in the pic you can see also my receiver installed with double sided tape, i still have to decide the GPS location......

The only thing i want to do better is the landing gear, seems to be a little weak....

Hope you like it.....

After making my first UAV (few months ago)  LINK , i was recently having problems with space...............

Receiver, Ardupilot, Arduimu, Gps, Remzibis OSD, Motor Battery, Video Battery, Receiver Battery, E.S.C., B.E.C., Camera, Servos for Pan and Tilt,  video tx, telemetry,Etc.

So i decided to redesign the fuselage of my drone so it has a big and easy to remove compartment cover and lots of space to put everything and more...

In the first pic you can see the big white cover...... inside i will install everything....

Next Pisture, new fuselage Shown with cover removed and two 4000 mA, 3S Lipos inside.....testing the space

Hello people, this is my new arducopter, is my first time with quads and i wish you all like it...

I hope it flies tomorrow for the first time, then i will post a video!!!!

other pics....

yes...... my frame is all balsa wood.........  :-)

I made this video showing the Ardupilot dreaming, the HK´s GCS taking telemetry data, and sending Tracker commands to an arduino, wich is driving two servos on a Trackers base.

Thanks Happy!!!!!

Hello people, this is my new airframe to play with my ardupilot equipment!!!!!

It is a modified gentle lady from Carl Goldberg................

1.6 mts wingspan (shortened)

1.35 Kg.

3 channels.

Equipment:

• Ardupilot.
• Arduimu.
• Ublox Gps
• Board Camera, Sony capture chip, 3.6mm lens.
• 4.000 mA Lipo for the Motor (25 min autonomy)
• Tower pro Motor 8x6 prop
• 1800 mA Lipo for the ardupilot, receiver and servos....
• Hextronic UBEC. 1.5 Amp.
• 25 Amp Tower pro ESC.
• JR servos.
• Assan 6 channel 2.4 Ghz receiver.

Installation detailed in this picture:

This Airframe works awesome, it has lots of room for equipment and also flies really good.........

This weekend, on 2011 i will be testing the Ardupilot in the field....... will try to make a good video to show it here.....

Hope you like it....

Happy holidays!!!!!!

I am almost sure about it, first venezuelan to use ardupilot (i hope so).

Ran my first tests in my workshop, turned everything on, including the xbee telemetry, and it worked like a charm!!!!! it is awsome....

The arduIMU works perfect, i am impresed of the sensitivity!!!!!! GPS locked in 1 minute!!!

Now i have to permanently install the electronics in the UAV and run a few more tests, one of them is to figure out how to make it work with my "V" tail, i have been reading the codes and it mixes only the channels 1 and 2, and my tail meeds to mix the channels 2 and 4!!!!!!

Still have more things to do, but i think that this weekend i will start to configure the ardupilot on the field...

I allready have the video tx working, still waiting for my Remzibi´s OSD!!!

Diego Colonnello

""" very happy"""