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Probably the smallest arducopter frame?

Posted by jlcortex on November 4, 2013 at 2:12pm

A long long time since I published last time, I'm drawing something fun and I thought you would like to see it!

It is a small frame all cnc machined from delrin sheet for 5" propellers. It seems a crazy project but i have a friend flying this kind of multicopters and it is really fun!

It is not originally thought for Arducopter but I recently purchased some Ardupilot 2.6 and i am seriously thinking to install one of them here.

Dimensions (center to center)

right to left = 165mm

front to back = 145mm

HD camera: Mobius

Ipad size comparison:

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jlcortex May 9, 2014 at 1:15pm

We just upload the Spidex Micro to Thingiverse for 3d printers, the original!!!

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:326062

Thank to Abomor for upload it.
Diego Fdez. February 20, 2014 at 4:17am

Hello!

I have this quad, and I burned my naze by a esc failure. I want to try the APM on this quad while I do not arrive the new naze.

I have already installed the APM and now I want to find the correct PID values for that micro.

Anyone know which are the correct PID values for a micro?

Regards!
jlcortex November 16, 2013 at 10:12am

Microquad Fever FPV from alfonso borja on Vimeo.
jlcortex November 16, 2013 at 10:12am

It is the video from Abomor, it is made with my Spidex Micro and another wood micro quad

http://vimeo.com/78942620
Alex November 12, 2013 at 1:33am

looking good! what motors are they?
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Ruwan November 11, 2013 at 3:15pm

@Jose, If I'm not mistaken your friend had mounted the bottom plate upside down? I compared the drawing with photos.. Is there a reason behind that?
Shyam Balasubramanian November 11, 2013 at 11:28am

Hi Jose,

Looks Spectacular! Good job.

If I were in charge, I would immediately put it up on the arducopter´s WIKI ;)

Regards,

Shyam
jlcortex November 11, 2013 at 10:48am

Hi Alex, You are faster than me!!!,

I have pictures of the fisrt unit, It has been assembled by a friend abomor and he has made a free interpretation of my idea.

When part arrive to me i will assembly more faithful to my drawings
Alex November 9, 2013 at 10:05pm

No, the flight controller (OpenPilot Revolution) is hard mounted on the bottom plate with the motors. The Revo doesn't get effected by vibration the same way the new firmware of the APM does, so no need to isolate it. I was planning on building a APM variant for the body, but not sure what to do with vibration isolation as yet. Possibly hang it under the top shelf..
Gary McCray November 9, 2013 at 4:57pm

Hi Alex, really nice copter.

Do you have your flight controller mounted on your isolated platform and what is flight controller?