Maker Hangar 2: 03 - Tricopter Build Part 2 

Thank you making this video. It's giving me the info to get me started

Locking Wingnuts, better than plain locknuts.

God I wish that I had the money to build one of these, they are so cool.

Tip: Some ESCs come with male bullet connectors on the input side. Don't cut those off and solder the wires, rather, crimp or solder a female connector on the wire and connect that way. It'll cost you a few cents more, but it'll be a nicer connection and you can more easily replace a broken ESC (or transfer it to another project) if needed. Don't forget to apply heat shrink to cover over the entire female body connector or you may have a short circuit. Tip: If your ESC comes with bare wire on the input side, it's still a good idea to solder a bullet connector on both sides rather than hard soldering the wires. Tip: Soldering stranded wires together is a cheap solution, but it's not ideal. The soldering makes the wire hard and it can break, Using a wire crimper is better. In this case a butt connector would be the thing to pick. A crimping tool and a set of various connectors is going to set you back a bit, but it's a worthwhile investment if you do a lot of electricity work. Some crimp connectors have a a built in heat shrink sleave to tighten off the end and make it waterproof. This is true tor all sizes stranded wires, if you can, avoid soldering and use fixed crimped connections or use removable connectors (with the wire crimped in, not soldered).

I would recommand larger booms most of the watchers are biginners and larger booms makes it more stable

Note that from 7:10 all through to 12:05 the video shows the bottom plate with the brackets and nuts on the outside and the bolts on the inside. At 12:05 This is specifically corrected (although not mentioned it was the other way around in the video before).

already been a week .. when r u going to upload the next episode ??

Hey I ordered the tricopter frame kit and I'm in Hong Kong til the end of July And I was just wandering if the kit would be delivered in time Thanks

hi, which one of this flight controllers are you going to use for this project? (I'm buying the parts and I would like to have the same one to avoid confusion since is my first project, I'm only listing the ones you recommend on the "maker hangar tricopter kit" site) Flip 1.5 Ardupilot (Tutorial) OpenPilot (Tutorial) KK2 (Tutorial)

I got a black board kk multicopter board and I was wonder how do you program it to work with a tricopter

Hummmm, somewhere I missed the soldering of the connectors on the ESCs.....

Still waiting for the laser files. :D buying the kit is costly for someone from Scotland!

does anyone know what is a twocopter? (its the thing with two big propellers on the side)

Solo want to get a kit.

how long are the arms?

Where do u buy it

I can't find my wire strippters. J/K. Fun stuff.

Nice watch pebble lol

Doesn't locking the front arms totally defeat the entire point? I thought they we're supposed to be able to move back if the copter hits something so that the arm doesn't take any of the force from crashing.

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