hey it's norm from tested I'm here with Carlos also known as sharp ooh yep you
guys might know him from his amazing quadcopter videos on YouTube first
person video fpv quadcopter flies it that's it so a couple weeks ago I joined
you guys for morning excursion you guys were flying clots racing quad copters
and so many people wanted to know how they could build one and thankfully
we're very fortunate your sponsor illuminator was able to provide us with
a kit basically to assemble a quadcopter and I want to run through all these
components and basically teach you guys and learn myself how to build a
quadcopter yeah so what's the very first component we want to talk about well I
guess we kind of started I like to divide the bill with like two sides of
things one of them being the actual quadcopter which you can fly without any
of the fpv gear so this is the area where we have like the radio and the
rest of the stuff and then in here we have the fpv side if we have to start
somewhere I'll say for example the frame before the frame this is the QV 250 and
basically that's what you're gonna put everything on you know is your airframe
it's made out of carbon fiber is pretty light and strong and you know there's a
lot of a lot of different sizes a lot of different like waist sizes and arranged
with yeah configurations and this one happened to be a 250 size that's not a
fifty millimeter yeah diagonal and but there's a lot of other other ones like
also if you have a 3d printer already you can you can actually get files from
online for example a guy locally here called hover sitcom you can find it they
put the files online and you can actually download the file and print
your own your own starting version for popular downloader thing yeah yeah print
their own quadcopter yes so that's also great this is more of a more of
professional hardware stronger kind of frame for racing and to be able to you
know push the limits with this kind of a frame so what's important about a frame
if you're looking at if you whether you buy one or download
the print one quad copper obviously there are four struts here the distance
between the main body and the struts is that important yeah because depending of
the distance that you have here it's gonna allow you to feed different types
of propellers for example on this case we want to keep it as small and this is
this is what actually started this whole racing new thing is the size and it's so
portable and these ones use five inch propellers so if it's five inch
propellers the whole entire like that yeah there's the satellites of it so you
know if that's a good starting point and it's really agile because the propeller
size smaller it let it spin really fast but then there's upgrade that you can
add to the frame in order for example to feed bigger propellers or more thrust
which I have over them and we can show it after yeah yeah do you want to see
you know so in terms of materials - this one's carbon fibers really strong you
want the frame to be incredibly strong yeah yeah the cool thing about this
frame is this is really simple design you know it's like just a flat surface
with what you put all your components and then another layer right well you
well you just cover the top section of it and then and there is in a clever way
of things around here we have a power Power Distribution board
where is where you will solder the rest of the components and this all of that
goes under here hidden so you don't have to pull it inside and it should take
space and it keeps the the electronics called
we there so that being said this is this is the frame one of the important part
of the of the build I think the next thing we can probably talk about is the
motors right so we have four motors here yeah this is some lumineer motors this
is I think 20 2,300 yeah 2,300 kV that's how fast they spin and this is a small
size so you see good size for for a quad like this one what you arrange when
people look for motors on these kind of frame size we go from we go from two
thousand to twenty three you know that's the range like generally people go two
thousand or twenty three most of the time you always have to keep in mind
that you know depending of how fast like a 2300 kV that they spin really fast so
you have to make sure that the rest of your setup can work ya can
that did that configuration in this case that kind of send us to the ACC
controller that's it so they control the speed of the motors
and you gotta make sure that all your components kind of work together for
example in this build we're gonna we're gonna use 3s battery right so we that's
so much power we're going to send to the motors and we need to figure out how
much power the motors draw and depending on how much for the how much power the
motors draw you have to choose the right ESC because if they don't have enough
they don't support a no vamper it's then it's gonna they're gonna no work this
one is 12 12 amps and they work completely fine with something like this
also depending of the size of the propeller is gonna draw more or less
this is like a conservative car propeller is five inch by the pitch is
three so that's not a lot of pitch so they don't draw that match they'd all
the propellers that have like a four even 4.5 that means more thirst but
they're gonna they're gonna be taking a lot of so you probably you know you have
to start reevaluating what you want to sear it's you look at it from a whole
system standpoint yeah start when you're buying a quad you know what's the frame
size right again 250 right now meters then you talk about okay knowing this
size and the size of strut I can use 5 inch props yeah and then with you know
this type of pitch then I can use this speed motor this type of electronic
speed controller don't leave this amount of power okay okay that's exactly what
it is and you know it it generally when you look at the motor it's gonna tell
you all of those things so you don't even need to test it yourself you read
it and go like okay how much how much this motor will draw with these
propellers this match okay I'm gonna get DC SC soar
so we're chart that you so you don't need to do all of that stuff apart okay
so that's the kind of like the power configuration there and then I guess so
this is a thirteen hundred million fifty hundred milliamps here and you know the
more capacity users the denser it is heavier it is yeah it's at least a good
capacity yeah I mean it really depends for these kind of models and these kind
of probes 5 v 3 this is a good battery and you can probably fly you know over
five minutes where they're more than five minutes which in these things does
the average five eight minutes something like that
enough on a build ladies that is probably gonna be pretty light I'd say
more than five minutes with something that small and but again you can scale
this up and go to like you know pick your models then bigger bigger bigger
battery you know everything kind of skills up I guess I know that the next
thing will be now that we know all of that we can talk about the radio the
radio we're going to be using is a free sky Taranis it's a pretty like
affordable radio and it's programmable so it's like a nice nice starting point
there you can use all kind of radio there's a lot of different but we're
just using this one because this is the one that I use so a good starter radio
yeah and this one for for flying fpv has some the features like the audio
feedback yeah you can take it talks and you can program a lot of stuff I mean
you know you can do this kinda leave me basically you can program if you are
good at it you can do scales up like this is a radio can yeah and then keep
with you for a while yeah yeah if you want to use this transmitter for
multiple quadric if you have different quads and you just buy different
receivers yeah you have a you can actually open this this little port here
and you can put different modules okay my set up that maybe we can show later I
can show you that I have another module on it because I use in a longer range
kind of transmitter and receiver for got to be able to go a little further let's
see what what the main thing yeah we're forgetting the main thing is the brain
the brain is the flight controller the one we're going to use today is in 932
it's pretty popular component and it's really affordable
you know I think it's probably around $25 and Gratz it's really affordable
flight controller for what it can do it's a really simple one because we want
it for racing so it doesn't have a lot maybe as many features as oh they're
like more expensive and so this one you wouldn't get necessarily for autonomous
flying for programming actually I'm nervous I as it is like this no I don't
think this one half because this is the acro mode the occupation of it and I
actually don't know because I'm only been using this for am for ready for
racing so and this one but it gives you some options I mean it definitely gives
you gives you a level mode that will level it for you so you see sure to fly
it and then it gives you like a red mode which is just like completely
my new various like you know like full control and a couple of other things I
mean I think you can do more than that I'm using it for but you know for racing
this is more than enough yes sir compensates automates some of
the fly makes it easier to cut your just and balanced all for the motor yeah each
other but when you're shopping for a flight control you can spend lots of
money yeah yes something that will you know that will automate that well you
could program with your phone and do flight paths yeah you can do craziest
and this one is more orientated for you know the racing at least is the one that
I really like to use these days so and what we've talked about so far that's
almost it yeah terms of components if you want to build a quadcopter to fly
yourself yeah oh maybe we forget these this is just the the receiver we see for
the radio yeah it's a really small version and I really like it cuz for a
small frame like this you can feel it right in there and this ministers also
have telemetry telemetry means that you can connect your your battery power and
it will actually read it send it send it to the radio and read it for you if you
have a no battery left or not and yeah most transmitters come with a receiver
but you can also buy a module stuff yeah yeah I will send your information back
yeah you can have again a lot of options but okay then I'll see you the FPV
components mm-hmm because that's that's what you were really excited about
flying by sight yeah how many what you need to get for that
well obviously we mentioned these in the other video but basically you need a set
of goggles video transmitter which is the guy here this will send this image
to the to the goggles and then a camera on this case we're using a set that
comes all together and it's really easy to setup so it's a good for a starting
point generally people upgrade to two different to something different maybe a
little more advanced but this is a good starting point and since we're gonna be
a little all today if feels like this would be like an easy way of like put
all right this is a fat shark one of those basic starter kits in like you
said it comes with a camera yeah comes with a transmitter the goggles but each
of these components are things you can buy separately yeah so yeah by you know
HD goggles if you want to have unity transmitter yeah they you need different
type of camera you can everything is upgradeable you know but this is perfect
to start because it will take very little time to put it together the
cool thing about this setup actually I never tried it before but the camera
that comes with it actually records as well oh so it's not only it's not only
the flying camera but it actually you can have a little memory card there and
record the footage oh that's very nice so you don't have to add direction you
don't have to put a GoPro on there which is something you can do yeah yeah yeah
so let's see what wait then how do you know at which point that you know your
weight limit of your your motor is there well flying it I feel my personal
opinion is just just fly it and you will feel it you feel like okay this I'm
punching and it's not going not going up high fast enough then you probably are
put in a little too many things in there I mean it's not either necessary to get
obsess over it but it definitely something that you have to consider the
weight you don't wanna just throw away too much yeah for example something that
is you can you can you can run it without a problem and this will have
plenty of power right but if you think you know I mean actually these can
actually carry a GoPro as well but if you start putting more things like maybe
big a battery a GoPro and stuff like that you just have to maybe start
reconsidering I'm thinking maybe I need a bigger mod maybe I need a little bit
of motors or big a battery or and you just have to balance it basically it's
like a balancing game or awesome well we have all the components we're using here
listed in the description in a link below and let's get sorted some building
this hmm let's build this and then we'll come
back and talk about what we've done yep
yeah that was fast fast for you guys yeah not so much for here but it looks
so very fast built yeah yeah yeah us so let's talk about every part of the build
here here it is mmm yeah it's really really nice-looking kid yeah Wow
let's talk to step by step and recap everything you did to assemble this it
looks like the first thing it was solder on to this this control board in the
back the bomb yeah right this is a Power Distribution bar here right and we
pretty started to put all this hair on it and then place the EEOC's and solder
them in right and therefore ESC is each connected to a motor mm-hmm and then the
way you know you we did some cooking with the wires get it slightly fitting
here use some double-sided tape yeah that's a good trick because if you leave
them if you leave them by like just hanging in there any crashes might make
them vibrate and might become loose so the connections might be became loose so
what we did is put a little bit of double side tape tape it in there and I
will keep it nice and steady also we added a little bit of hot glue in each
connection to make sure that you know I mean the more you crack the more you
learn you want to put little thing the little extra things that will guarantee
that things won't go wrong so they glue just in case some water gets in there
and it connects the two the two wrong poles or anything like that then you
want to put some hot glue to protect it now on this power distribution board
that's where the battery also connects yeah so you check the battery then this
yep connection your guy there into the back mm-hmm all right and that was
basically it for the part yeah that was that's pretty easy for these set up and
and then we added that extra one right here just so we wanna if she's we're
starting with a fpv kid that is sold together then we didn't need to use this
but I left this on just in case you want to upgrade to a different camera or a
different setup you can have that power and right there plug it in and you're
set there are a couple different contact points we didn't use yeah there's
another one two three four they're not Chris detection yeah yeah now when
you're looking at a battery to connect you want to make sure the batteries that
I have in a full charge capacity to power them all this stuff yeah yeah do
some math yeah you got to figure out the voltages and figured out on every part
of the quad every of your electronics you have to make
sure that are compatible with the voltage that you're sending to them
otherwise you're gonna need to add regulators in this case everything was
really easy because the FPV here is already set up and easy to to connect
okay so after the Power Distribution board we can't get that with some
spacers like add that to the main body of the frame and then the control board
yeah the frame is super easy to build is
almost like builds itself like you said and then the next thing with it that's
it we didn't ace the NACE comes without the pins started to it so we started
them in there's a little mistake in there but it works fine so we solder
them in and also since we are using this there's different ways of connecting the
neighs - mm to your radio sorry to your receiver in this case we were using a
ppm ppm what it does is sends all the channels through through a simple like
three cables power and will signal cable so that simplifies the rig a lot because
you don't need to connect all the pins you know I need your motor pins which
are the ones back here the ones that we solder and the rest with the shatter the
cables straight into the nay's and so it's a different type of receiver
you might have to thought of all the all the channels so then you will have a
bunch of themes here coming out that will have to Center in this case it
keeps acting yeah I kept it simple now the motor connecting pin that's where we
had maybe a little bit of a flood but still connects yeah that's fine exports
are there oh yes we just have to make sure that you plug them in the right
right right right side because two sides but this works fine it's just a Lea sort
of connection but it'll be fine and then double-sided tape again yeah and it
double side tape is is your friend of these kind of things because it's so
easy to change and so easy to to place the way we did it in this case we didn't
have standoffs but we'd use double side tape I
personally always use double side tape because again the more classes you have
the more you learn the stand of sometimes are really hard crackers they
might give up and just break and you have to change the stand ups so it's a
little bit of gear a little bit suspension you have a little bit of
suspension and also I actually think it helps eliminating some high frequency
vibration so I do like two layers you can see it on the thing
that we saw but two two layers so have a big you know absorbing section or even
three layers if you prefer and then we wrapped the connections to the motors
and we actually you marked the oh yeah controller so we started them in yep
because you have a specific order yeah like yeah this is supposed to be
connected to a specific point yeah my controller Tenet's the nays controller
the way it works is I see if we see it from here well easier for here the motor
the model configuration will be one two three four so we want to make sure when
we're placing them here we want to remember because the cables are going to
come up up in the frame and if you didn't mark them with the numbers you
might get confused on how to plug them to a flight controller so we just mark
them with some sarpy yeah and or you can use you know anything tape whatever
whatever whatever works and then we didn't actually zip tie the motors on to
the ESC yeah yeah yeah yeah because that was actually really simple connection -
yeah again yeah on this case is the kit it
comes with a priest priests adder 2 millimeter bullet connectors which is
really easy to say that you just plug them in but like you say we didn't put
the zip ties because we have to first make sure that the models are spinning
the right way the right direction got it and when we check that on the computer
then we can just put the zip ties and clean it up knowing that they spinning
the right correct the right direction so flight controller
installed yeah we think it works next is the receiver the receiver
yeah the receiver like we said we started on the board when we were
preparing the flight controller and then they I don't know if we can see it
correctly but right there is our or receiver right there the antennas are
coming out of here okay this still needs some cleaning to do right but the
antennas should be it will help if they are far from from other electrons for
example the antenna from the from the fpv that the video transmitter right if
they're far is better it doesn't necessarily matter as much because
they're pretty far away frequency wise so but you know the separation is always
good to have so here what I probably do that we didn't have but probably put
some like like we were saying some straws or some her last
yes Stefan my and to keep it to keep it a up rocks model in an angle like this
to get the best the best range out of it so many years yeah yeah many years yeah
so do that and then in front of the receiver there the camera yeah and this
case is a little different because I never set up a camera like this before
but this one records as well like we said earlier so it's a little bigger but
I feel completely fine yeah we put it right there double side
tape down here and then a depth I help you helpful sip tile that works so well
just holiday together and it's pretty steady and I mean and this frame
actually came with a nice guard yeah in the front there initially we try putting
the fpv camera in front of the frame but you don't want that yeah faster than
something that's you can break the camera off so we put it back and it
stays in there nicely so if you hit anything for example the ground you know
a one in the camera now say we've talked about the receiver here that the fpv
camera and of course the fpv camera has its own transmitter yep up on top here
we didn't talk about earlier with frequencies yeah what do you control
this on so this one is a really simple setup that it works really nicely and
this use the the frequency we're using here is 5.8 okay and is the most the
most use I think in minis because it's really simple and it doesn't have
problems with the radio frequency because you always have to make sure
that everything is compatible in this case we're using
2.4 for control for the radio so we want to be far away from that so this is 5.8
it's far away and it will it won't create any issues and then the way we
set up the way we set up the transmitter is on the frame we just again double
side tape some zip ties in here and the way I like to do it is not ideal because
antenna gets you lose a little bit of singer but when the battery being right
on there but this way from all the testing that I've done is the way that
keeps it together when crassus so if it bends and that's what happen is you're
elevating that high you won't fly underneath something
it hits you want it to be kind of like flexible a little bit and I like this
way just with zip ties here and here and if it hits anything it will just bend
anyone damage the connection to the transmitter and that's why you have the
transmitter right there yeah and she also told me that you don't want the
transmitter you want to power it on out in tenants oh yeah that's that's a big
no um because as a powerful transmitters if you have know if the antenna snow
connected the power won't go nowhere so we'll go back in and just an out per the
board Esther up yeah oh man okay so where does the power from the fpv camera
come from well all the power here is coming from the same battery and I set
up like this and bigger rigs people divide it and have another battery
specifically for the fpb here the thing is you want to keep the the power clean
so when you are when you are the best way to have two batteries because one
body will feed the fpv so that'll be completely clean on a setup like this so
small we're sharing the power with one one only one battery the cool thing
about this little set setup that we use the kit the fpv kit is that it also
comes with a connector to power and filters the power and regulates the
power so you don't have to do a lot you just basically would use power to the
quad there and then you use the balance plug onto these really add up the small
adapter here that will be clean power to the video and it'll be clean image okay
and so this relay adapter here it goes free from the battery and you know it
regulates that it cleans it up but it prevents us from using a different
accessory yeah you know that's when things you know you gotta choose and
choose a peak while you prefer on this case we don't have anything to tell us
they how much battery life you have on these lipo batteries it's always really
important to keep control on the on the on the lower side of things like so when
you're when you're emptying them you don't want to go and over these to
charge them because you will damage them and they will don't know perform as well
you one kind of want to monitor it as you're flying
ya know you've about five to eight minutes you want to check it every
couple of minutes yeah you want to take that you go on you don't go on during a
specific voltage per cell this is three cell generally I stay of I don't want to
go lower than 3 point 5 volts per cell so a little tool like this that
generally this is the easiest thing you can put it anywhere and you will connect
your balance product and this is gonna be a little loud but
maybe trying yeah and would plug it in and it's gonna beep and it will tell you
it will go through cell all it tells you the voltage that's pretty low but it's
good 3.8 first number to 3.5 so it tells you
it's what's what what's the reading and you can set with these little click here
said your put your your alarm sorry in here I have it at let's say three point
seven if that drops any of the cells drop lower than three point seven is
going to start beeping like crazy right that's one way of monitoring the battery
another way which I think for this setup will work better is having some kind of
telemetry right and that's information directly from the flight controller yeah
right there and that we didn't actually start with those we didn't Center this
in but if you if you go and research a little bit more about the board it's
really easy to have a couple of pins that will will send the information to
the to the receiver here and you'll get it on your radio right and that can be
broadcast also on your radio yeah so will tell you you know your voltage is
low or whatever whatever you want it to tell you also let me try to remember
what what are the things we needed Sattar here oh yeah one thing maybe to
mention that is helpful that we didn't stutter this time because it was kind of
fast build is there the beeper hmm there is another two pins right next to the
telemetry ones that allows you to connect a little beeper and then from
your radio you can click a thing and it will start beeping so that is okay
yeah if you crash somewhere dark inside a building or something you can actually
then use that as a we're just going and see c25 yeah okay that's really useful
yeah there's an add-on that will take you like five minutes to do it
so that was basically it I think so yeah muna master I mean we haven't flown this
yet because after you installed all the hardware we have to plug it into a
computer there's software there's a USB plug yeah I'm a flight controller yep
and then you have to monitor make sure we first of all you test it yeah if the
motors are spinning in the right direction
calibrate everything yeah and you can find presets on mine they're actually
really good tutorials will relate them in the yeah description on how to set up
the software yes they do your first calibration yeah because that's that's
something that it doesn't take that long but you know is something that it'll be
nice to what videos there or some links that you like
you're saying that we'll splain it more in detail because it's nice to learn all
of that stuff it doesn't take long though the moon you connect it to a
computer doing a couple of things and then the
thing like right now is probably ready to fly you know as it is that's exciting
so that is a very beginner quadcopter fpv quadcopter and you've been building
this for a while now so you actually brought one of your own yeah that's a
more advanced version yeah well yeah this is just a lot a lot bigger like one
of the things that we're using on this frame is the lumineer extension arms
this allows you to put bigger propellers okay I mean more thrust right right
because they're some of the struts you're further away yeah I will show
that no not only that but it also they're tilted forward okay so meaning
that you will get more momentum forward without having to angle your camera
because the way that works obviously is like when you're going forward you're
tilting it more and more near to the forward yeah the problem is you have to
balance that by tilting your cameras considered you will be shooting the
grounds that way so these these adapters make the frame longer bigger propellers
and also tilt the motors to help you with speed you have a GoPro attached on
yours yeah in addition to your camera and you've also cleaned up that's nicely
wrapped here yeah we have it for your frame as well but we haven't installed
it but this is this is basically a nice little thing that protects your protect
your frame from like air coming in and also what I really like is like for the
grass this morning we were racing and a lot of crashes on the grass and there
was a little little wet because it was raining before so generally I finish a
finish after one of these races and I will look inside and you're like full of
like wet grass and things that you don't want there so this thing actually did a
really good job of protecting it which was an extra thing that I thought well
that's kind of a cool addition so I think you should definitely put that on
yours when you're when we're finished setting it up you know and then that's a
crazy yeah antenna there this right now what we're using here is a different
different kind of a setup we'll use a long range video just so
people know that there's a lot of different ways of doing this I'm using
long long range video which means well let's play it this way the video and
here is 2.4 ok but if you remember for trans
we were just admitted so then that eliminates us using the same signal for
transmitting so I'm using two point two point four video but in this case I'm
using long range long range control which is a lower frequency that won't
one create any problems with a daughter the cool thing about these this right
now is that you get more range else a and more penetration the the downside of
it is the antenna size it's a little bigger
it's still doable you know as you can see this is still completely fine the
other one is a little better protected and smaller but this is still like a
good frequency and then you have one more alright good yeah which this one is
we go to 1.3 and this is pretty big antenna so it's a little a little harder
to put in there and on this one you get even a little more range a little bit
less definition actually it's kind of funny how it works then the lower the
lower the video signal the frequency you have a little less resolution but you
have more penetration you can go further away so this to me like 2.4 is a nice
in-between yeah I mean I don't think there's anything else out here that was
different well the fpv that maybe might be worth
mentioning on yours would do like like an EC all together boom connected and
it's working on this one is more advanced I have an OSD installed it is a
display that you can see your battery reading and/or your voltage okay so
that's a little more advanced I'm using a camera that is that we like we said on
the on the other video it's a security camera that might be a little better
than these times in time of refreshing and how fast you get the video feedback
normally it's a low latency so that's a little better
and other than that you know 4 components it's the same principle yeah
it's just different components and maybe a little more advanced on this and this
build you know and a little add-on here on your case that we say we record with
f2b camera because I have a little SD which is nice on this one if you want
better resolution you can put a GoPro or any other small camera and this one for
example I have with this little anti-vibration
mount it eliminates any extra vibration there the quad might generate and then
we just put their GoPro in there the GoPro for that as you can see is you've
already had some damage but it's pretty amazing that for for for the crisis that
has been having the GoPro is like keeps going yeah um so there's a lot of
resources online we'll share some links below but this is something you wanted
to get across that anyone can really do yeah you don't have to be an engineer
just be enthusiastic about it yeah I mean that's really important I mean
that's one of the things that kind of like made me start wanna do this and
again all these buildable these this stuff that we've been talking about from
me is coming from a perspective that I'm not I'm not an expert on this I just
know enough and with enough research you can do it yourself you know which is
kind of like cool it's so excited to dive in thank you so much Carla human
for coming in helping us build this and thank you
luminaire for providing the components get fpv I believe it yeah well that's a
store where you can find all of this stuff like all this stuff that would
bill here is get fpv you can find it I can't wait to take this out with you
guys yeah yeah baby that race but just fly around and maybe observe your race I
think you'll start racing soon enough I mean you see as you'll be like I want to
go in yeah thank you so thank you man let's try taking this up yeah this air
yep and we'll see you guys in the skies bye
my god
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