Test flights commenced.
First flight was a disaster as the battery I was using was inadequate, one of the motors switched off and the quad just flipped right after take-off and landed on its head. Thankfully only broke two of the propellers and the rest of the body was almost intact. Took the weekend to fix some safety props and installing the new battery and did a controlled indoor test flight. Nothing impressive but take my word for it, this is not simple. Its very twitchy and just wants to take off. I still have to learn how to control this hence this video can hardly be called a test flight. I am just happy that the quad is putting enough thrust to lift itself very easily indeed. (GF vimeo ID
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[video=vimeo;39610128]http://vimeo.com/39610128[/video]
The current usage is so high that it literally melted the wiring, so I have to buy higher rated wires and redo this part but thats just a small part.
The tough part about controlling a quad is that is has all three degrees of freedom hence I can move it up down, left or right, forward or backward and finally spin about its own axis. The reason for the current instability is that the gyros now need to be fine tuned so that it can first hover about a fixed point without any movement along its three axis. Right now the gyro gain settings are not fine tuned so the quad is very unstable and hence my hand comes into the picture to hold it from coming to get me.
So far this has been a tremendous learning experience. Next steps would be to stabilize the controls, learn to fly the damn thing and drive out to an open place where I can test it. I also need to build a landing gear for it which I have been putting off.
. Later I got to mount a camera and then try to fly it in first person view. Loong Loong way to go. Thanks for following.
