I am completely new to the multicopter-hobby. I flew RC Nitro planes in my 'young years', so I do have 'some' experience with RC.
I want to start big Building a medium/large size hexacopter.
For days I browsed numerous topics trying to find the projects to 'steal' some ideas from.
This is my initial shopping list. I know parts are missing, but I want to start building the frame, motors and ESC''s and then decide what else to buy.
Frame:
1x Turnigy Talon Hexcopter (V1.0) Carbon Fiber Frame - 625mm
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Motors:
6x Turnigy D2830-11 1000kv Brushless Motor
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Speed controllers:
6x F-30A/15205 Hobby King 30A ESC 3A UBEC (intend to flash SimonK firmware)
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Props:
3x 8x4.5 Carbon Fiber Propeller (set: 1pc Standard/1pc RH Rotation)
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and...
1x Hobbyking Multi-Rotor Power Distribution Board (DIY 8 x output PCB)
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1x USBasp AVR Programming Device for ATMEL proccessors
and some small parts like screws, bolts, spacers, clamps etc.
I am building this to lift a small/medium size HD video camera or compact system photo-camera.
I am now facing some difficult decisions:
1. What flightcontroller shoud I use? I'd like to be able to have autoflight, waypoints....
- Autoquad
- DJI Wookong-M
- ZeroUAV YS-X6
- ????
How do they compare. Is the autoquad v6.x actually just as good as the DJI or ZeroUAV?
2. What landing gear (maybe combined with gimble)?
3. What camera gimble for stable video and photo?
4. Which radio system? Futuba, or the little cheaper Spektrum. What do I need if I would later like to control led-lights, add FLV etc.
I'll add build photo's and documentation later as I receive the parts.
Hoping for your feedback
Kind regards,
Michel