Failure is a concern that is always present in the operation of a drone. Given the continued increase in acquisition and use of these device...

Ever since I've switched motors and ESC's on my "primary" quadcopter, I have been running on problems keeping it reliab...

After a long wait and a hassle with a chinese seller, finally I could but together the gimbal, flash the board with Brugi (Martinez) and do ...

BEC's, which is short for Battery Eliminator Circuit is a fancy RC hobby term for a DC-DC converter that steps down the voltage to a giv...

Other than having the recently ordered flight control board (Multiwii SE) mounted and configured, everything else was completed today with t...

With the arrival of the Mobius action camera, which is a Full HD (1920x1080 @ 30 Hz) little animal (very nice video quality for the pric...

In the several weeks that followed a crash caused by an ESC failure, plenty of work have taken place (some of which documented here ). Sever...

It's always a stressful moment when after many changes something is put to the test. This was the case, taking into account that since t...

With the arrival of some of the parts I have been waiting for, more work accumulated with the finishing of my 2nd quadcopter. The parts were...

Multicopters require a tight control loop for all the motors as part of their ability to perform stable flight. A basic requirement for an e...

A tray for the battery was added. Keeping simplicity and light weight in mind, I have built this tray based on an aluminium foil and four th...

One evening at a time and this new drone begins to get closer to completion. Motors installed and thread locked. Power distribution board an...

With all the changes and upgrades I performed on my current quadcopter, I realized  I had about enough spare parts to build another one. The...

With the model aircraft hobby scaling beyond line of sight, control equipment also grows more complex and sophisticated these days. To ...

Most of the time I have been a lone rider in this hobby, having started from scratch on my own, since the traditional helicopters back i...

After very conservative steps with this model aviation hobby, I decided to get closer to the trends, and do some updates/improvements on...

After assembling my quadcopter, one major issue I stumbled upon was the (lack of) quality of my radio system.

While the building phase can be an enjoyable experience, grabbing the sticks, putting the chopper on the ground, and gently increasing the ...

R/C airplane modelling exists for several decades, but with late improvements and reduced cost in microelectronics, energy storage, an...

In my adventurous quest at being able to fly with my feet on the ground, I begin to understand the true fun of this hobby and how it stimu...