Arducopter arrived at home

Just wanted to share my excitement about the arrival of my Arducopter.

Want to thank and congratulate with Jani for the super fast shipping (despite one month of wait in the pre-order list): the box left the office last Friday and this morning, Monday, 3 days later with a weekend in between, it arrived at my place, in Bruxelles (Belgium)

Here is the content of the box:

In main box the full arducopter kit, then 2 sets of spare propellers (you never know what you can hit, and propellers are the first thing to break), the magnetometer and a crash kit (one complete arm).

As a side note, I was not able to close the box after I took the additional items out: the guys that packed it must have insane packaging skills for having assembled this 3D puzzle :)

Here some additional pictures:

Impressed by the size of the box: I expected it to be bigger, while it is pretty small. Look at the iPhone cover I used as reference. Positively impressed: less problems for storing it away :)

I don't think people will be interested in me posting my building log here in the main page of DIYDrones, so I think I will do it on Flickr: Arducopter Building Log.

If you are interested you can also subscribe to the RSS feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/ArducopterBuildingLog

Let me know your thought on this.

Hope to be able to start working on it soon :)

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Comments

DODY December 11, 2010 at 6:46am

Hello, here the n°115, it arrived this morning in middle of FRANCE..

thank you with all the Arducopter team .....

DODY
Hyon Lim December 1, 2010 at 4:34pm

Did you order only electronics?
Ground Loop November 29, 2010 at 12:27pm

Amen to that. I spent an evening trying to figure out what motors to get, where to get them, etc.. so when the all-up "matched" kit was announced, I just saved a whole bunch of time, trial, and error.
Simone Chiaretta November 29, 2010 at 11:48am

They are good for the general part but for the frame you received in the box the best ones are : http://code.google.com/p/ardupilot-mega/wiki/home?tm=6

Looks like they are progressing much faster than Arducopter: there is nothing bad in going commercial, I don't think Jani and Chris will become rich because of that. And if they help building frames more easily, that does good to the community: I'd rather spend maybe 40-50€ more for a ready to assemble kit, that to spend countless hours shopping around the city to find brico stores where to buy something that can be transformed into a frame.
Ground Loop November 29, 2010 at 9:35am

Mine is out for delivery today as well (FahPah, shipped out 11/25)

What site is the best for "Here, start with this" foolproof build instructions? I'd like to get it all working with a known-good generic setup before experimenting. Are these instructions still current?
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1286011

Cheers!
Magellan November 29, 2010 at 9:10am

Did you order from FahPah or DIY Drones? I ordered from DIY Drones and haven't heard if they are shipping yet.

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