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I finished it in time for the indoor event, and here is a video from that event;

The Tricopter is a joy to fly. It’s stable and forgiving. I like it a lot!

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It’s finished! I think it turned out pretty nice.

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Now it’s time to go to the indoor event and fly for a couple of hours.

I’ve made a lot progress on the Tricopter yesterday. I even got it into the air! Unfortunately mother nature was in a bad mood and handed out some quite strong winds. So I need to wait for the wind to die down before I can dial it in.

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Next it’s time to make it pretty! Be sure to come back tomorrow.

I made some good progress yesterday. The motor mount, tilt mechanism and frame is now done. So far I’m pretty satisfied with the results.

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I will continue updating every morning until Saturday so stay tuned!

My fellow hobbyist, the Tricopter build has begun. The plan is to have it ready by this saturday, since I’m going to an indoor event and I would like to participate with the tricopter.

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Next update will be up tomorrow morning!

I just finished up a guide to exchanging the SAW filter in a 0.9/1.3GHz receiver. So far the results are quite staggering for such a cheap modification! Other people have reported a +3dBi sensitivity gain after the modification. That’s the same as doubling your transmitter power!

Read the guide!

A big thanks to Michael for sending me the SAW filters! He is a good friend and very skilled fellow hobbyist, check out his homepage; Mictronics.de

The build is now done! The project was on hold until the “FPV project for a friend” was finished. The build was pretty straight forward since I already had figured everything out.

I think it turned out pretty nice.
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After rearranging the furniture in my RC room to make better use of the space, I needed some new photo/build lights (or at least now I had an excuse to). I knew that I wanted to build my own lights to get it just the way I like it. I also knew that I wanted to use SMD LED’s with wide beam-width. But rather than buying a bunch of LED’s and making my own PCB I found a perfect alternative on HobbyKing.

Click here to read the guide

I just received 3 AXN 800kV motors, 3 SuperSimple 18-20A ESC’s, 3 Turnigy 302 gyros and 1 HK 401B gyro. All these items will be used in a project I hope to start on soon. Anyone care to take a guess on what it might be?

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It’s currently -15°C, windy and 50 cm of snow here in Sweden. I was searching around on the computer when I found some video footage that I had forgotten I had recorded. The footage were from the summer of 2009 and watching it made me long for summertime again. (more…)