Raven Quadracopter

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So I have always wanted to build a Quadracopter and I finaly did it. A special thanks to hardmouse who donated the an old GAUI frame that I was able to hack up to add my own landing gear, build custom motor mounts out of aluminum and threw in my own electronics! The brains of the operation is a hobbyking Quadracopter control board that uses 3 gyros to stabilize the quad and send control signals to ESCs to control the Quad.

Power Distriution Board

 

Power distribution Board Sealed. 

Electronic Thinking Stuff
 

335×500

FPV Camera System (yet to be fully implimented) 

Flies around

  • Actuators / output devices: 4 brush less motors
  • Control method: radio
  • CPU: atmega168
  • Sensors / input devices: 2.4GHz Radio
  • Target environment: Outdoors
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://community.robotshop.com/robots/show/raven-quadracopter
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Nice, that’s a mean looking

Nice, that’s a mean looking quad copter you’ve built.

What batteries have you got on there?

Can’t wait to see the FPV working!

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Thanks for the kind words.

Thanks for the kind words. In theory this thing packs a lot more punch than kit Quads but I haven’t been able to push it anywhere close to it’s limits. The video you see is at about 30% throttle. 

The battereis are 3 cell 11.1V Lipos with 2200maH and a max discharge rate of about 70C. 

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Great job Gonzik! I am glad

Great job Gonzik! I am glad to see it fly again. That extended cross bar seems pretty nice to give it more stabilized flight.