Its a solo... wait.. its a DIY X8 wait ... its a Open SoloX8

pyrate · Mar 10, 2018

Still making progress, gimbal is next Storm32 NT
Thanks to the pioneers who went ahead and showed the rest of us the way

User Name · Mar 10, 2018

Dang!! That thing looks huge! What will it be carrying?

Man, I've been itching to build something from one of my spare Solos but just have too many things already on my plate. But I love seeing what other people are doing!

CAMXPOSURE · Mar 10, 2018

Pizza Delivery???

pyrate · Mar 10, 2018

the current planned payload is a ZCam E1 14mm lens and a gimbal of course.
If it flies tomorrow then I am onto the gimbal.
I have a walkera gimbal now, and a new Storm32 NT board. I am having doubts about the gimbal we will see

pyrate · Mar 17, 2018

Successful maiden with the IMX6. It is a very odd sensation flying this thing with a solo controller and watching it do cable cams and other smart shots
will take some getting used to after flying it with a taranis these many months

erikgraham · Mar 17, 2018

pyrate said:
Successful maiden with the IMX6. It is a very odd sensation flying this thing with a solo controller and watching it do cable cams and other smart shots
will take some getting used to after flying it with a taranis these many months

Nice!

How does it feel in the air vs the Solo? You know, in terms of agileness, responsiveness, that sort of thing...

I imagine you need to dial back on the speed in smart shots with hard, quick direction changes.

pyrate · Mar 17, 2018

the cable cam and orbit were quite smooth with the speed sliders on medium in solex.
It felt amazingly like a solo on the sticks but in the air it is just bigger. So if solo was as big I think it would feel the same.
Right now the only thing I am looking at is a strange osolation sometimes in hover, small but there. I did auto tune on it with RC and without the IMX6 and it was nice. But I know one guy that did auto tune after the IMX6 and it worked fine. So I am going to try auto tune on it that way.

Big challenge now is the gimbal, I have a cable coming so I can test the video feed from the Zcamera e1

XevetS · Mar 17, 2018

pyrate said:
Successful maiden with the IMX6. It is a very odd sensation flying this thing with a solo controller and watching it do cable cams and other smart shots
will take some getting used to after flying it with a taranis these many months

Great Job @pyrate (Patiently waiting for footage).

XevetS · Mar 17, 2018

pyrate said:
I am looking at is a strange osolation sometimes in hover

Perhaps try a CompassMot, for vibrations, I had a vibration problem on a DIY causing an oscillation and it helped a lot..Also raising the HERE as far from the motors as possible helped me..
From Randy MacKay

pyrate · Mar 17, 2018

that is pretty cool, but not what I am experiencing. I have seen my stock solos do this sometimes, it is very small wobbling when in loiter forward and back. On solo when it happens landing and taking off make it go away
It is like some resonance vibration is getting to the IMUs
I have this one hard mounted and my vibes chart is not bad, I think I am going to try some sorbotane on the plate. if not I will isolate the Pixhawk, or look for the vibrations which I suspect is coming from my retracts

pyrate · Mar 17, 2018

XevetS · Mar 17, 2018

Ah ok yeah the CompassMot compensates for vibrations that effect the compass itself causing it to misalign itself to the true compass heading making it seem like the Quad is drunk, I have a video of my DIY doing this, it eventually caused it to crash. At 4 minutes into the video is the moment it oscillates in loiter (fly) mode, you can see me shake my head thinking wtf?

pyrate · Mar 18, 2018

Onward to the gimbal phase

XevetS · Mar 18, 2018

SWEEEEEEET! Yes I yelled that......

pyrate · Mar 18, 2018

for those who might use this for a reference picture note the Here is intentionally mounted backwards, I offset the orientation in MP by 180 degrees

XevetS · Mar 18, 2018

Wait What? Sorry I had to, It just reminded me of the infamous flying chainsaw Also I was cutting tree branches this weekend so yeah, I'm going through a lumberjack phase right now...

pyrate · Mar 18, 2018

well that would really screw up COG

XevetS · Mar 18, 2018

It looks so cool though....without the chainsaw that is, great job @pyrate

pyrate · Mar 22, 2018

and then there was a gimbal. just mounted and balanced right now. I am going to hit the rum tonight and then load software on it in the morning

XevetS · Mar 22, 2018

Shiver me timbers, that is Nice have you named it yet? I would name it the huuummmm lets see the "Jolly Roger" yeah mannnn...Yeah I've been hittin the Rum Already hic...