Want some buttery smooth aerial drone footage?

If you just want some smooth awesome drone footage, like I did, you're going to need a drone capable of lifting lots of weight. I wanted a "budget" filming multirotor so I went as "cheap" as possible (cheap being around $700). However I did get stuck between a budget frame, that was also somewhat high quality. After hours and hours of researching drone frames, I decided on building a Tarot 690s Pro. Why? Its the cheapest, most reliable and sturdy frame of its size, and it even folds to save space. Id like to one day build a multirotor larger than this, maybe even one that I can fly in, so this was great to build skills while making an awesome multirotor. So with that in mind I decided to jump straight into the build!

Heres a quick video on building the hexacopter, I highly recommend you watch it.

The first part was choosing which flight controller to use. Now Pixhawk is known for being easily customizable, but DJI is the big name in the game. Its sort of like the debate between and apple and android phone. In the begining I was going to use a Naza, however after watching a couple fly away videos on youtube, I nervously choose to use a pixhawk. Overall i'm glad with my choice, however I would like to build a multirotor with a DJI Naza maybe another time. Next up was to pick the motors I was going to use, and although tarot has motors for a 6s battery, I cheaped out looking at the price (remember you have to buy 6!). That choice left us with a 4s battery, which im using two 5500mah 4s lipo batteries in parallel for longer flight time, which gets me about 15-30 min depending on how aggressive I am with the controls. For propellors I just bought some generic prop designed for tarot motors, and the landing gear was also some off name brand. The landing gear however I regret buying. It was cheap and flimsy, if anything Id buy a better landing gear set or stick with the stock tarot legs.

Main Parts List: These are all the Must have parts of the Multirotor

Frame: Tarot 690s pro

Flight Controller Kit: Pixhawk Px4

Motors: Tarot 4006/620 kv



Receiver: Frsky L9r

ESC: DYS BL 40a

Props: Generic props

Battery: ZOP 5500mah 4s Battery

Landing Gear: HML650 Retractable





The rest of the parts are typical drone parts I had lying around such as nylon nuts and bolts, bullet connectors. heatshrink and wire.