Building the plastic frame

After a couple of tests, we found that the plastic had a nice rigidity when bent in a proper form. So we did a couple of additional tests.

And then, started to build the new frame.

Drawing and cutting took more than 2 hours...

Finished version 2.0

Everything looked promising, except for the legs. It would take just one flight for the legs to break.

First aerial video shoot

After allot of work, tests and a few crashes, finally our first aerial shoot in the open field.

Enjoy :-)

The video was shot on this location:

First test flight

This was it... We took the quad to an open space and finally did a real flight test. No strings, no holding it down, nothing... And it worked!!!!

Here's the complete configuration of this working version (v1.0):

Arduino MEGA board

Y83 IMU 9-DOF (or similar)

4x Turnigy 2830-800Kv  motors

4x ESC Hobbyking SS series HK-40A

4x Props 10x4.5

Turnigy 3600 mAh LiPO battery

Futaba T14SG 2.4GHz radio

Firmware: MultiWii v2.0

The idea: Quadcopter from scratch

The original idea was to create a home-made quad copter from scratch using ordinary materials, instead of just buying a frame and assembly it. YES, even write our own software.

We would use an Arduino board as the flight control unit and a couple of other components.
The quad would have to be big enough to carry a GoPro camera + other equipment such as a camera stabilization gimbal, FPV transmitter, a GPS, etc.