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Merry Christmas Everybody! Check out my Quad and a Christmas Tree Flyby Video

Posted by RoboCopter on December 25, 2012 at 10:30pm

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The Setup

Ardupilot Mega 2.5

DJI 450 flame wheel frame

FPV pilot Trex600 landing Gear

Turnigy 3cell 5000mAh batt

quadframe gimbal

Ipower 880Kv motors

Go Pro Hero 2

1.5W 900 MHz video transmitter

550TVL fpv cam

waterproof LED strips from RCdude.com

plus a few custom parts I made

The wires are a little messy but this guy is still in the prototype phase...

Tags: drone, copter, fpv, quad
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  • Boston UAV December 26, 2012 at 1:24pm

    Cute.

    "The wires are a little messy but this guy is still in the prototype phase..." - haha, once it works you'll never change it :)

  • Developer
    RoboCopter December 26, 2012 at 1:01am

    Here is a longer flight video

  • Developer
    RoboCopter December 26, 2012 at 12:59am

    Thank you! Yeah my back yard is a golf course, i'm pretty damn lucky especially considering my main hobby is RC drone stuff :-)  I just have to watch out for the golfers... 

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