Very impressive design and what looks like top-quality components. [UPDATE: It appears to be a stock Xaircraft frame that costs $160. Thanks to the commenters for catching this]. You can back the project here ($999 for the copter, $1,499 for the full deal with APM 2)
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@Ellison, do you really know how much current your setup usually drains from each motor?
IMO you're misunderstanding how this stuff works. OK... 12A sounds really tight, but not that much, even because is an hexacopter. An hexa will distribute your 350w to the six nodes. So, in a plain hovering situation it would be less than 60w on each motor.
BTW.: those motors seems to be nice finished ones. I love the propeller adapter due it's like DJI's ones i.e. the propeller cannot drift because the neck has a non-circular shape and the spiner just keeps the prop seated on place.
t's quite obvious that they are trying to pull one over on Kickstarter. It's clearly not the kind of project that should have been allowed. It's just a repackaging effort, with no innovation whatsoever. And their claims are unsupportable, and I think it might project a bad image of DiYDrones. For instance they claim that the Hexacopter will have 6 motors for redundancy, and the APM is fully automated. People who buy into that project expect those claims to be true, and we clearly know that the APM does not provide motor redundancy nor is it fully automated.
I would urge Chris to pop them an e-mail to ensure that they take down any unsupported claims that's related to DiYDrones.
Well, those 12A ESCs, coming with the X-Aircraft frame will not be able to handle the 350 watt motors, that they claim the "eye3" will come with. They claim, " 350w - providing 4lbs of thrust EACH".
Robert that frame has 12A escs, so they're probably lower power cheapo motors, 12 buck each max. (like what I use on my quad)
Well, I'm giving them a benefit of the doubt, since they appear to be choosing good parts. I couldn't find those motors she mentioned either. She did say 350 watt motors and 50a escs.
The motor cost could be cut in half, which could net them an extra $100, but the ESCs would probably not be any cheaper.
She could be just using this kit, frame, motors, escs.
http://www.goodluckbuy.com/xaircraft-diy-hexa-gf-glass-fiber-frame-...
http://www.goodluckbuy.com/xaircraft-diy-hexa-gf-glass-fiber-frame-...
Revised Table for Hexa:
<</body>Oops, I've got Octo on my brain. Guess what I'm planning to build soon.
I saw the video , looks like rehashed video's we have all seen before, just thrown together .any of us on diy drones can offer a "off the shelf multicopter" and make a profit..I think it is wrong that someone can just post a frame and electronics that someone else spent time and money designing and get money , basically no effort on her part on the designing and tooling
Good analysis Ellison. But why are you assuming $52 motors? That's nuts. I searched for the quoted HQ35W motors and found nothing. Could be anything.
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