Archive for 'Tricopter' Category
Tricopter troubleshooting
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How to connect 4 ESCs to one LiPo battery (Make a power distribution board)
The first time I built a power distribution / wiring harness for a tri / quadcopter was back in December 2010 (http://fangin.com/blog/2010/12/07/tricopter-build-wiring-harness/) and I chose the most direct solution which was to solder all the cables together. I say "most direct solution" because in hindsight, it's not the simplest solution. The drawbacks of this solution [...]
How To Add Bluetooth to your MultiWiiCopter
For not much more than $10, a Bluetooth adaptor is a cheap and easy way to get in-flight real time feedback from the onboard sensors and allows quick and easy modification to PID values via the MultiWiiConf software. Here's how to do it. Buy a serial to bluetooth adaptor – "Serial Bluetooth RF Transceiver [...]
Tricopter vibration mount testing
This clip shows sample footage from four different camera mounts on my tricopter. The aim was to counter the effect of vibration on the quality of the video and remove the "jello" effect as much as possible. The best result achieved so far was probably the simplest and cheapest: a HD keychain (#11) velcroed [...]
Tricopter Simple Yaw Mount
A hard landing recently put the yaw servo out of action on the tricopter. The yaw mount was a block of solid pine with two pieces of piano wire connected directly to the servo arm. It was overly complicated and had a bit too much slack in it for my liking. The yaw servo needed [...]
Tricopter: Anti Vibration mount
Mounting the cameras directly to the ply base didn't yield great results in image quality due to all the vibration. To try and reduce it, I did a rough balance of the props using music wire as a 'balance beam'. I think this improved it a bit until a proper balance can be done. The [...]
TriCopter LED Strip Lights
These photos show the strip LEDs controlled via the HK Turnigy Receiver Controlled Switch. The Blue LEDs only face forward where the white LEDs is on both sides of the rear boom. The idea is to help with orientation such that if I can't directly see the blue, it's facing away from me. Ideally I [...]
TriWiiCopter: Connecting the brain
Today I disconnected the 4 HK401B Gyros from the three ESCs and 1 yaw control servo for the purpose of hooking up the new Arduino control board. Tips: 1) Create a new model on my transmitter. I made the mistake of trying to re-use the existing model memory setup to fly my Tricopter where the [...]
Triwiicopter: Building the Brains
The next step to the tricopter project is to swap out the 4 HK401B gyros for an Arduino micro-controller hooked up to a Wii Motion Plus 3 axis gyro all mounted on a custom made PCB. The theory is a much more stable platform for getting some decent aerial video and photos. The directions I'll be following can be found here; [...]
Tricopter 3 camera view
Just a quick link to the latest video with 3 camera angles. 1 from the tripod, 2 from my hat and 3 from onboard the tricopter.