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  • Rob_Lefebvre April 24, 2015 at 12:16pm

    Please don't presume to put words in my mouth. No one owes me anything. That said, if you want to understand why people by $20-100 boards from China instead of $250 made in the USA, there is a reason. You can choose to acknowledge it or not.

    Yeah, that reason, is that people do not value all the effort that has gone into designing the hardware, or writing the software that runs on it.  They just want hardware for little more than the cost of BOM.  Yes, I completely acknowledge that some people do decided to get the milk for free instead of buying the cow.  I just don't agree with that.  I generally just let them do what they want with nary a thought.  But when I see comments about how prices from a company which has been a supporter of this project for years are a "rip off", or who make statements about what things "should" cost, I speak up.

  • JoeBob April 24, 2015 at 10:06am

    Did anyone notice in the JIYI Video that they built a Quad, and then showed demo footage of a hex?

    My conclusion is that either that FC can grow arms, or the JIYI Quad can't fly...

  • DG April 23, 2015 at 3:49pm

    I've been flying a newly built quad using the AUAV-X2 FC. I think it is an excellent design in a small package, and isn't made in China.

    http://arsovtech.com/?page_id=1502

  • Marc Dornan April 23, 2015 at 1:06pm

    I scanned the threads on RC groups and it is totally unclear that this is anything to do with APM or that it is a clone of anything except that it has some vague similarity with PX4. It seems to come from a company that has made Flight Controllers (they say). All a bit hazy but there seem to be people buying it and flying it and those that manage to fly it have reported it flies well. Maybe it is original firmware or maybe it not. Alas, I think it will not be possible to run 32 Bit Arducopter on on this $100 system. I am with a previous poster in valuing my free time to much to even try it. But if someone figures out how to run 32 Bit Arducopter on it I suspect they may sell a few of them...

  • MR60
    Hugues April 23, 2015 at 12:03pm

    Seriously, who cares about this fc. Everybody is waiting for more info about PixhawkV2 !

  • Bill Isenberger April 23, 2015 at 11:51am

    more detailed info here:

    http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2298602

  • Bill Isenberger April 23, 2015 at 11:14am

    There's a thread about it on RC Groups:

    http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2295208

  • Al Billings April 23, 2015 at 11:10am

    Last I checked, 3DRobotics had facilities in San Diego, as well, and its main office is in Berkeley.

    As to cost of airframes. Well, my drones aren't $3000 precious babies. They're 3D printed or made out of carbon tubes and wood, as often as not. I have a few $89 or $100 airframes as well.

    My point is that the reason people buy the Chinese stuff is because it costs roughly 1/3 of buying American. I know this isn't necessarily popular to point out and doesn't help 3DR's business but, again, I'm not flying $3000 hexes with cameras to film a professional movie.

    I *may* be buying a solo but I'm more likely to buy the pixhawk2 hardware when it comes out and put it on my own frame. I do have at least one quad with high end electronics but, most of the time, I'm not flying way points, etc. I'm just flying LOS and fooling around.

  • Crashpilot1000 April 23, 2015 at 11:05am

    Yeah, right if Mexico = USA.

  • Paul Meier April 23, 2015 at 11:04am

    @ Rob

    A Pixhawk is 200 $ so if 200 is 80 % it means that the whole airframe is 50 bucks.

    I would not put 200 $ of flight controller in a 50 buck airframe, on the other hand if my airframe is worth a couple of thousands I would definitively NOT use a 100 $ knockoff    ;)

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