Yep. I’m already soldering on Crash again. I fixed it up this morning and everything went pretty smoothly, but it’s a little tricky to get into the top side of the board because of the LED wires. No issues at all and seems ready to go. I’m going to take it out this weekend somewhere nice… Continue reading X4 power cable repair
Category: Drones
Flite Test | Super Circle Plane
Pretty dang cool concept. I love everything about this video. The swarms of various drones rock.
X4 motor repair
Epic battery explosions
I’ve been doing some reading up on Lipo (Lithium Polymer) batteries to learn how to properly charge, discharge, balance, and store them and saw this epic video: Needless to say, I immediately bought a couple good (I hope) battery safe-guard bags.
Colorful props!
I think I’m in love
I am now quite completely obsessed with drones. 18 days ago, I ordered a little X4 drone after some encouragement from a friend. Five days later I received the tough little beast of a drone. I’ve become quite adept at it and have picked up a few things over the two weeks I’ve had it. But it… Continue reading I think I’m in love
Lessons learned from my quadcopter
I’ve always kinda wanted a drone, but assumed they were all big and crazy expensive. I didn’t want to fork over that kind of cash on something I know I’d crash immediately. A little over a week ago I purchased my first drone, the Hubsan X4, for $36 thanks to some encouragement from a friend… Continue reading Lessons learned from my quadcopter