Today I went out and did some tuning on my heavy lift quad powered by the OpenPilot CopterControl flight board. I was using a bluetooth module to tune the settings from a netbook computer. Much better than constantly plugging in USB to tweak settings! I got it...

Until now, I have been flying Spektre with low-cost motors and a 3-cell lipo. Now I am ready for some serious camera lifting and FPV flying. Spektre has been rebuilt with Cobra 2814/20 850kV motors, Proton 30A ESCs, 11×5 Graupner props and 4S batteries. The...

I have been collaborating with a soon to launch company, Daedalus Multicopter. You have seen the carbon frame from Daedalus that I use on Spektre; soon there will be many more exciting things coming from Daedalus. More details to come in the next week.

Finished rebuilding Spektre on the Daedalus carbon fiber frame. It is really stable and still very responsive to aerobatic flying. I am thinking I will try out some larger props for more lift and longer flight times.

I have been busy rebuilding Spektre with a frame that is made from mostly carbon fiber. The frame is a prototype that will soon be mass produced and made commercially available by Daedalus Multicopters. I plan to fly with 10″ props initially and will try...

Came upon a thread on RC Groups for a flight controller called “Kapteinkuk”. It is a very low cost board that uses just 3 gyros for flight stabilization. I ordered a board and frame from Jakub J at www.quadframe.com