First Test Flights
The main electronic components are connected and I re-configured the flight controller for some initial test flights. The flights were all in our ...
Posted in quadx450 on 06 September, 2016

Centre Assembly
The component mounts are now designed and printed so the quadcopter should now be ready for assembly and testing. The mounts are designed to attac...
Posted in quadx450 on 02 September, 2016

Bottom Plates Complete
The rest of the fibreglass bottom plates are now finished. Here they are, fresh from the CNC router:
Posted in quadx450 on 28 August, 2016

Flight Controller Support
Here’s the first of the finished bottom plates:
Posted in quadx450 on 26 August, 2016

Battery Support
Following a couple of tweaks to my original design, I’ve now finished the battery support on the top plate. This consists of 2 printed end pieces ...
Posted in quadx450 on 25 August, 2016

Improvement Notes
Following up from my first post on this project, I stumbled across my notes from last October outlining the various issues we’d experienced during ...
Posted in quadx450 on 24 August, 2016

Top Plate
The first plate is cut. It was a bit more of a pain than I expected as the milling bit, while effective at cutting through the glassfibre sheet, w...
Posted in quadx450 on 16 August, 2016

X450 Quadcopter Status
This project has been quietly ticking along in the background for a couple of years but has so far avoided being written-up here as it just involve...
Posted in quadx450 on 14 August, 2016

POWER!
The replacement power supply arrived this morning so I fitted it and set about running some tests. Sure enough, lack of power was certainly a prob...
Posted in mpcnc on 09 August, 2016

Waste Board and Actual Cutting ...
The first set of carbide milling bits arrived so, as I’m on holiday and the weather’s too wet to do the planned gardening, I decided to have a go a...
Posted in mpcnc on 02 August, 2016