SuperRoach hobby hacker Thread OP

Discussion A Set back. So, in the blog you probably have seen a lot of progress on two quad copters.



Here's why they likely are not going to go ahead.



LKTR120:

While testing with the multi meter, I touched the ground and power pins to the wrong place on a voltage regulator. This is used in multiple places including powering the receiver. I had just resoldered all of the pins to be on the S1-S4 pins of the Afromini board. To be able to do those, you need to enable "Servo Gimbal" in the Gui or type feature servo_tilt in the cli.



So yeah, It will power up, but not arm the escs (probably regulator). It will work when plugged into the PC via an FTDI cable, but I can't test the motors then anyway.



The current state is that I would have likely needed 2mm cable ties, as I couldn't source them locally.



Dreamcatcher:

Using a brushed board and motors, this looked like it was going to be great. I took a photo of it's current state - ready to fly.



When I plugged the battery in, the motors spin up a bit fast, which probably is to do with the minimum throttle setting in the CLI of baseflight. So I made a FTDI cable for something a bit more permanent.... and put in the Ground and Power wires wrong into the board.



It doesn't light up anymore.... and no signal goes to the computer. Yep. I shortcircuited it too.



Just tried drilling wider holes for propellers. It's been mentioned in the LKTR120 thread that a 1.45 Drillbit is needed... will thats not correct. Attaching a photo with that done, but it's clearly far too wide.



In short, It's fried.



So for the short term, I think it's time to pack up the work bench and take some time out, reassess if it's in an easy state to pick up. I don't feel the best about making some very basic mistakes this late into the process. Images View all Images in thread Views: 315





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