The wait begins…

Buoyed up by the success of my fpv headset prototype I have been doing lots of research on the interwebs and have ordered the parts to build a new, better quadcopter 🙂

This one will have much more powerful motors and props, a carbon-fiber frame and a much better flight controller (the brain that makes it fly) and radio transmitter and receiver. It will be bigger and will have it’s own fpv camera and transmitter and will be able to carry a better recording camera too. It’s based on a 250mm racing quad design which is powerful, compact and maneuverable, but I’ve changed it here and there (partly for budget reasons and partly to make it more stable and easier to fly), however it should be a really solid little quad that can be upgraded and modified as my skills and interests allow 🙂

So, now the wait begins…

I’ve made some space on one of the workbenches in my workshop and have run an ethernet cable (the wifi sucks down in the bowels of the building where my workshop is) so I can have an old laptop in there so I can watch some of the super instructional videos I’ve found as I’m building it (and look up specs and manuals), but I’ve had to order parts from multiple different places to get what I wanted and for the budget I can afford- some parts are coming from NJ, some from CA, some from OR, GA and IN, and some from China, so it may be a while before I have everything!

More as the parts start to come in…