Latest On The Quadcopter Front

Well, I had a disappointing evening with respect to my Micro MWC flight control board.  I was moving it to a new frame from Picnic Quads and apparently I managed to kill one of the MOSFETs to one of the motors.  :-(

I guess I am disappointed because it did not last that long.  I only had about 2 hours of flight time with it.  I don't think I will replace it immediately.  It's rather expensive at $35 from Hobby King and that is about as cheap as they get.

In the meantime, I will just use Hubsan control boards on all my home built quads.  At $12 each, I can afford to play with those.

Anyway, I have been re-tooling my FPV Racer quad with the carbon fiber frame.  In preparation for the top plate that I should receive in a few days, I have pulled all of the FPV components off of the polycarbonate top plate and cleaned them of extraneous silicone.

Here is the base so far...

At this stage, the quad is a crazy flier... weighing in at just under 30g.  This is good because I will need as much power as I can get when I add the FPV stuff back.

I have also begun work on the polycarbonate version... which I think I will use as a practice quad.  It will be tougher that the carbon fiber quad, but should have all of the same flight characteristics.