Major upgrades to the Quad, basically a new build with much more stability and payload capacity.
A lot has happened over the last few months with my quadcopter building project, couldn’t update the blog as I was very busy with coursework.
First up, I switched to APM 2.6 as I had mentioned earlier. I did a new build with a bigger frame of 400 mm diameter with aluminium square pipes frame, but as I did not have new motors, I used the same 1900kv motors and used a bigger 7×3.5 inch propeller.
The build worked out fine in spite of the overloaded motors which were having a really tough time providing enough thrust.
I had also interfaced a Ublox Neo 6M GPS module with my APM. This enabled new modes like loiter, auto etc.
I tested the loiter mode with very accurate position hold, sadly I don’t have a video of this build. But here’s a picture to give you the idea how it looked.
Next, I managed to get some funding from college to buy some better motors and props. So my new rig has;
•MT2213 936kV motors
•10×3.5 props
•3700mAh 3S Li-Po battery
•SJ4000 action camera.
Here is the very first flight video, the aerial shots are not very stable yet, I am working on it.