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125mm, 125g mini brushless copter

- January 28, 2017

Currently, I love to fly with my latest design, called "RECOIL": It is a very small brushless copter (125mm MTM) with a total weight (including 3S 450 mAh lipo) of 125g. It however flies like a large copter and is a lot of fun! Emax F3 femto RCX H1105 5000 kV Racerstar 6A 3x2" props 3S 450 mAh FX806TC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctqIlr-9HOk

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This project was started in 2008. The goal was to learn something about programming, electronics and control loops. Because I always need a cool project to learn new things, it was clear that something that can fly had to be built.
The project started as a "tricopter-only" project, but as I wanted to build smaller vehicles with more payload capacity, I decided to make some quadrotor, hexacopter and Y6 hexacopter firmwares too. My main interest is to build very small MAVs that fly as good as larger ones (or even better) and that can be controlled by wireless video link. I also experimented with autonomous flight in GPS-denied areas (video), and with GPS assisted autonomous hover (video).
-- William