I’d like to report here some details of my last personal drone build, a mini quadcopter for First Person View (FPV) flight.
Weight: 360 gr w/o battery. With 2200 mA 2S battery: 487 gr.
Size: The 4 motor centers form a square with a side of 17,5 cm and a diagonal distance from front motor to back motor of 25 cm. So the quad is in the 250 class.
Build components
- Frame: Super Simple mini h quad (SSHQuad) by Polakium Engineering
- Flight Controller: Hobbyking KK2.1 board – flashed with firmware 1.12S1
- Motors: Tiger motors T-Motor MT1306-10 if you want more power and payload, consider those instead, that will allow you to run on 3S batteries
- ESC: HobbyKing Blue Series 12A (to be flashed with SimonK firmware). Or get them already flashed
- Propellers: Gemfan 5030 Orange and – Green
- Video Transmitter: FatShark 250 mW, 5.8 GHz
- Antenna: 5.8 GHz Bluebeam Omni Antenna Set (RHCP) (IBCrazy)
- Video Camera: Mobius HD camera, wide angle edition. JooVuu or Eletoponline365
- Bolts: M2, 12mm Allen Bolt Cap screws to fix the motors to the frame, + M2 washers. The frame is exactly 1cm thick, so you need these long screws here
- Power distribution: XAircraft X650 Pro JST 1 To 5 Power Cable E7008
- Landing gear: BLH1645 Blade 450 Landing Gear Set this is very lightweight and possibly not strong enough for this build. Size and shape fit perfectly though, and this is what I had “in the bag”, so we shall see, might need an upgrade later on
- Model recovery device: Hobbyking Discovery Buzzer
- FC mount: M3 Nylon threaded spacers + M3 nylon screws and nuts
Build steps
Hope that these photos and details will inspire you to build your own personal drone so as to join the fun. Feel free to post below if you have any question of comment!
Related Posts
- Blackout Mini H Quad, our latest FPV quadcopter build details
- Blackout mini H quad for FPV: a small but powerful personal drone
- Advances in setting up Hobbyking’s Integrated PCB Micro Quad PNP with kk2.0 flight controller
Stay tuned on the Personal Drones blog for the latest multirotor and quadcopter news!
Looks like a great build. Would love to see a video of the Quadcopter in action. Wonder what the cost of building this model is?
Hello Droneguy!
The costs, let’s make a rough estimation:
– 1x frame 25$
– 1x KK2 board 30$
– 4x T-motors 160$
– 4x flashed ESC 60$
– mobius camera 80$
– Video TX 250mW 50$
– Bluebeam antenna 25$ (set of 2: 50$ at RMRC)
– Landing gear: 10$
– Discovery buzzer: 2,5$
– Bolts, nuts, wiring cable: 15$
Total excluding receiver, battery and components shipping: 457,5$.
Will do my best for a video, weather not helping lately, rain and cold. It will come! Thanks for your comment.
So I some how wound up creating a build close to yours. I wasn’t really planning on it but your site was one of the firsts I found a few months ago when I started with quads.
I have two questions, one about antennas if you would recommend the SpiroNET antenna set in addition to the bluebeam’s you used. I was hoping to get something with more protection and a bit cheaper.
Also what sort of flight times are you getting? I know my setup is a bit under powered it seems, I used the parts from my two crashed turnigy micro quads, with the JST battery connection. Even with my 2S 1300 mah batteries I can barley break 4.5 mins. without all of the fpv gear. With it I’m sure it is less even though I haven’t flow fpv yet with it.
Thanks
Hi G2B, thanks for posting !
I do recommend spironet indeed. The only reason I used the bluebeam is size, however I would guess that as far as performance is concerned, the spironet are top class. Cannot really tell about flight times as I still have to properly fly the quad. At 360 gr without battery, I found it can fly very well with a 3300 mA 2S, so I really hope to get around 8 minutes at least, but I really cannot tell right now. 1300 is really lower limit for this weight I think. How much does yours weight? Which frame did you use?
I’m not really sure the weight of it I don’t have or scale or anything to weight on of it’s size. I’ll have to look everything up and get back to you with an estimated weight.
As for the frame, I have the same as yours, the SSHquad frame but I used the the landing gear from polakium. The only other main difference I have from your setup is Turnigy 2900kv motors, and 6 amp esc’s. My fpv setup it the fat shark teleporter v3 camera and receiver.
Thanks for responding.
very and very nice because I wanted to make this kind of copter since 2011 and I thank you for your help but I’m not ready to start making it now but I hope you’ll be by my side
Hello Pacifique if you have any question feel free to post!