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I like your approach of building fast and cheap. A fun way to learn about the technology. I've built a few VTOL planes with Ardupilot also. I saw you used my plane as an example in the video. Keep up the good work!
Really elegant solutions! One tip from the full size world, though: The pitot tube (airspeed sensor) will give you more precise readings if you orient it a few degrees down to match your angle of attack during transition. Yours seems to be at zero degrees incidence, which will always be slightly askew to the slipstream, more so at lower airspeeds. You could google 'calibrated airspeed' to dig deeper into this. Thanks for an inspiring video!
FROHES NEUES JAHR 2025! Es ist wirklich ein Super Video geworden. Selten, dass ich mir so etwas mit Begeisterung ansehen kann. Deine Technik, die Umsetzung und Ausführung ist sensationell! Ein riesen Kompliment an dich. Liebe Grüße aus D-59073
Nice video, and cool build! One thing to note about the Walksnail Goggles L: the built-in directional antennas point straight out the front of the goggles, and are completely useless when your head is pointing them at the ground 😂
Cool video! Thanks for sharing! About 40 years ago I had such a thing, but with a propeller and a rubberband which was used to turn the propeller for a while. Flew pretty well. But it had wings made of plastic foliage over a wire frame which could be inserted into the main part made of this stuff.
Looks like you had a tip stall on your second crash. Wing dipped and AP tried to counter but only deepend the stall. Flaps are generally on the root, wing tips are also twisted to have lower angle of attack to delay tip stalls If you had full length flaperons or just normal root flaps it might've been better but pushing it that close to stall without enough altitude to recover did it for you. Usually in manned aviation you neutralise ailerons, push the nose down and throttle up.
Ardupilot is so freaking powerful, as someone who thought he knew a thing or two having “mastered” betaflight, my first ardupilot project was a real eye opener. I didn’t realize that ardupilot OSD works with walksnail, nor did I realize the screen on that radio shows a live map. One thing I thing I find really interesting is that the speedsensor mount saved the plane, I wonder if anyone has developed a “sacrificial nose cone” if nobody has, that would be cool.
Hi, happy new year to you and your family. _"I don't know why it grassed"_ - Simple, you were visibly at the extreme low limit before stalling, turning involving banking, the lower wing stalled because air trickles detached from with the fast momentum, which in turn triggered a nose first tailspin. The solution is to level wings (ailerons to neutral), counter the tailspin with the rudder (only), rudder to neutral as soon as the rotation is over, push the yoke to gain speed adding more power and make a resource as soon as a good speed has been acquired while pushing power to climb. Note that tailspin start happens sooner and is amplified when the rudder isn't mixed with the ailerons to keep altitude even when turning (the marble indicator, if you happen to fly real traps). This needs a bit of practice, but fortunately the electrical power being almost instantaneous helps a lot. Nice realization and flights.
3 motor quad :D would fit here better - 2 on the wings and one on the tail. You could even make the ones on the wings tiltable to point up or forward. Maybe the tail one could be tilted also ?. This way you would have only 3 motors instead of 8.
excellent video. I was able to put the audio in Portuguese and I was able to understand much more. Do you have any videos that use Ardupilot with a boat? I want to build a boat that does missions automatically.
@@BasementCreationsChannel I don't understand much about this technology. In research on the Ardupilot website I could see that there are open hardware and closed hardware boards, what are the differences, do they have limitations? I'm looking for a lowest value card possible with support for autonomous missions. I want to make a boat to check the depth of rivers at the surface.
Subscribed and liked!!! I didn’t see your link for the parameter settings in the description. Do you have them somewhere it can be downloaded or can you send via emai? Do you know what was the water temperature was when you were molding the frame using the rag? Awesome tip! I am very interested in learning how you programmed your Radiomaster TX16S radio with the map, Mission Planner and Telemetry data. That would make a great video to consider making for us.
Hi, the Parameters are in the files section on my Thingiverse and Printables. The water was boiling hot, the foam can easily withstand that. And on the TX16S I just downloaded the Yaapu script together with prefetched Google Maps. It's all nicely documented on Yaapu Github and Ardupilot Wiki
Ardupilot stall prevention just reduces throws near the defined stall speed (which you were still discovering, and the entered value may have been too conservative?). Minimum airspeed also needs to be defined appropriately (~20% above stall speed). The part of the wing that stalls first is the part with highest angle of attack. The flaperons aren't helping here if they are deployed as the flow would detach and you'd loose control. Better to not use flaperons at low speeds without the vertical motors going. Ideally the wing near the fuselage has higher AOA, that stalls first, and ailerons still give control due to washout. Something like 3-4 degrees washout is a great number for models like this in my experience. Makes a very big difference and from "tip-stally" to predictable and just increases sink rate when you go too slow.
BRILLANT!!!!!!!!!!! This video was just what I was looking for and I'm extremely interested in your engineering and design process. KEEP GOING!!!!!! What are you studying in College? Aero, Mechanical, Metatronics?
Thanks! Studying is a big word, in my case it's more like trying to not get thrown out😅 But I am on Robotics and Automatics at Lodz University of Technology
Hi, could you increase the yaw authority using the horizontal motors in order to apply differential trust in hover mode? that will fix the quadcopter yaw problem.
Some advice : for control surfaces you should never use the linkage to push, only to pull (avoid bend and flex, reduce flutter occurence). For horizontal stabiliser, effort are to move it up, so linkage should be on top of it. Additional benefit : servo arm would be upright, so not exposed to landing hasards. For ailerons and other wnd surfaces, effort are to move down, except for only upper surfaces like airbrakes. So for ailerons and flaps, servos and linkages under the wing.
They are more complicated and can be less reliable, so for this build I wanted to avoid them. However they can reduce the total weight and increase maneuverability so I will definitely build a Tiltrotor in the future. Maybe even something similar to V-22😁
Yeah when you're flying in the wind, against the wind, and you turn away you basically have 0 airspeed so you stall, I've had this happen to me several times before, you have to really add power if you want to turn in windy conditions.
Dude, use 2 mitors for the plane function and mount them on the front or back of the carbon fiber rods. Also would add one rod so you get an H shape with the rod with one being in the middle connecting them for more stability. Trust me dude
2400 this looked like a servo glitch crash. servos may glitch when there is more vibration (from prop/motor) than the servos will 'tolerate'. servos are sold with vibration damping components, for use in high-vibration applications. rotors make more vibration than correctly spec'd 'stiff' E Props do.
really fascinating. I'm about 80% done building a tailsitter using betaflight 4.6.0. Really concerned on how to do the pids on it. I wonder if you can use the pitot tube to change the pids automatically with ardupilot.
The crash was likely from turning into the same direction as the wind was going and not having high enough airspeed to maintain lift. That's my guess at least
"Friend, I arm the plane in ArduPilot and use auto takeoff mode, shaking it in my hand to start the motor and then throwing it. While shaking it in my hand, I get the warning 'landing completed.' Why does it give this warning? Can someone who knows help?"
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I like your approach of building fast and cheap. A fun way to learn about the technology. I've built a few VTOL planes with Ardupilot also. I saw you used my plane as an example in the video. Keep up the good work!
This could be a whole series where you 'pimp out' cheap toys and make them into advanced aircraft. Great video. Very inspirational!
Yeah, that would be fun! If this video does well I will definitely "pimp out" more toys with Ardupilot😁
I wish you and your family a happy new year. Nice to see a new video from your channel.
Wow - really like the project and looking forward to seeing your future builds - keep the great work up!
Brilliant!! You're a very talented young man.
Earned my subscription with this one lol. Entertaining and educational channel, keep up the great work
beautifully, it's really cool.
Really elegant solutions! One tip from the full size world, though: The pitot tube (airspeed sensor) will give you more precise readings if you orient it a few degrees down to match your angle of attack during transition. Yours seems to be at zero degrees incidence, which will always be slightly askew to the slipstream, more so at lower airspeeds. You could google 'calibrated airspeed' to dig deeper into this. Thanks for an inspiring video!
Thanks for the tip!
That's really cool. And happy new year!
FROHES NEUES JAHR 2025!
Es ist wirklich ein Super Video geworden. Selten, dass ich mir so etwas mit Begeisterung ansehen kann. Deine Technik, die Umsetzung und Ausführung ist sensationell! Ein riesen Kompliment an dich.
Liebe Grüße aus D-59073
Nice video, and cool build! One thing to note about the Walksnail Goggles L: the built-in directional antennas point straight out the front of the goggles, and are completely useless when your head is pointing them at the ground 😂
Yeah I know, but I get too immersed and I just point my head down when the plane dives😅. Gotta work on that
Wow! That’s a great achievement
Cool video! Thanks for sharing!
About 40 years ago I had such a thing, but with a propeller and a rubberband which was used to turn the propeller for a while. Flew pretty well. But it had wings made of plastic foliage over a wire frame which could be inserted into the main part made of this stuff.
Looks like you had a tip stall on your second crash.
Wing dipped and AP tried to counter but only deepend the stall.
Flaps are generally on the root, wing tips are also twisted to have lower angle of attack to delay tip stalls
If you had full length flaperons or just normal root flaps it might've been better but pushing it that close to stall without enough altitude to recover did it for you.
Usually in manned aviation you neutralise ailerons, push the nose down and throttle up.
Great project and amazing results ! Thanks for sharing !! +1 subscriber
that is soooo awesome! I really need to get into Ardupilot!
Ardupilot is so freaking powerful, as someone who thought he knew a thing or two having “mastered” betaflight, my first ardupilot project was a real eye opener. I didn’t realize that ardupilot OSD works with walksnail, nor did I realize the screen on that radio shows a live map. One thing I thing I find really interesting is that the speedsensor mount saved the plane, I wonder if anyone has developed a “sacrificial nose cone” if nobody has, that would be cool.
Hi, happy new year to you and your family.
_"I don't know why it grassed"_ - Simple, you were visibly at the extreme low limit before stalling, turning involving banking, the lower wing stalled because air trickles detached from with the fast momentum, which in turn triggered a nose first tailspin. The solution is to level wings (ailerons to neutral), counter the tailspin with the rudder (only), rudder to neutral as soon as the rotation is over, push the yoke to gain speed adding more power and make a resource as soon as a good speed has been acquired while pushing power to climb. Note that tailspin start happens sooner and is amplified when the rudder isn't mixed with the ailerons to keep altitude even when turning (the marble indicator, if you happen to fly real traps). This needs a bit of practice, but fortunately the electrical power being almost instantaneous helps a lot.
Nice realization and flights.
Never been interested in V-tols wasted energy but this is an amazing video so I have to watch 😂it
Świetny projekt! Dzięki za filmik
❤ great functionality 😊
3 motor quad :D would fit here better - 2 on the wings and one on the tail. You could even make the ones on the wings tiltable to point up or forward. Maybe the tail one could be tilted also ?. This way you would have only 3 motors instead of 8.
Yeah Tilt Rotors are definitely next on my list. I would like to try making a bicopter VTOL, something just like V-22
VTOLs are the future of private flights
I love that Dracula speech pattern
excellent video. I was able to put the audio in Portuguese and I was able to understand much more.
Do you have any videos that use Ardupilot with a boat? I want to build a boat that does missions automatically.
I am working on an Ardurover Boat right now, I will probably make a video about it this spring
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@@BasementCreationsChannel I don't understand much about this technology. In research on the Ardupilot website I could see that there are open hardware and closed hardware boards, what are the differences, do they have limitations?
I'm looking for a lowest value card possible with support for autonomous missions. I want to make a boat to check the depth of rivers at the surface.
Subscribed and liked!!! I didn’t see your link for the parameter settings in the description. Do you have them somewhere it can be downloaded or can you send via emai?
Do you know what was the water temperature was when you were molding the frame using the rag? Awesome tip!
I am very interested in learning how you programmed your Radiomaster TX16S radio with the map, Mission Planner and Telemetry data. That would make a great video to consider making for us.
Hi, the Parameters are in the files section on my Thingiverse and Printables.
The water was boiling hot, the foam can easily withstand that.
And on the TX16S I just downloaded the Yaapu script together with prefetched Google Maps. It's all nicely documented on Yaapu Github and Ardupilot Wiki
Ardupilot stall prevention just reduces throws near the defined stall speed (which you were still discovering, and the entered value may have been too conservative?). Minimum airspeed also needs to be defined appropriately (~20% above stall speed). The part of the wing that stalls first is the part with highest angle of attack. The flaperons aren't helping here if they are deployed as the flow would detach and you'd loose control. Better to not use flaperons at low speeds without the vertical motors going. Ideally the wing near the fuselage has higher AOA, that stalls first, and ailerons still give control due to washout. Something like 3-4 degrees washout is a great number for models like this in my experience. Makes a very big difference and from "tip-stally" to predictable and just increases sink rate when you go too slow.
Thanks for some knowledge, I didn't really know stall prevention works like that
Nice work Jacob!
BRILLANT!!!!!!!!!!! This video was just what I was looking for and I'm extremely interested in your engineering and design process.
KEEP GOING!!!!!! What are you studying in College? Aero, Mechanical, Metatronics?
Thanks! Studying is a big word, in my case it's more like trying to not get thrown out😅 But I am on Robotics and Automatics at Lodz University of Technology
@@BasementCreationsChannel I'm a Mechanical Engineer. Keep up the good work and study hard!!!
Hi, could you increase the yaw authority using the horizontal motors in order to apply differential trust in hover mode? that will fix the quadcopter yaw problem.
I was thinking about the same thing, in theory it can be achieved by setting Q_FWD_THR_USE but I haven't tried it yet
nice one im also gonna make smth lik this soon for myself
This is like those car videos which pimp an old mini car by swapping out everything except the chassis 😂
Some advice : for control surfaces you should never use the linkage to push, only to pull (avoid bend and flex, reduce flutter occurence). For horizontal stabiliser, effort are to move it up, so linkage should be on top of it. Additional benefit : servo arm would be upright, so not exposed to landing hasards. For ailerons and other wnd surfaces, effort are to move down, except for only upper surfaces like airbrakes. So for ailerons and flaps, servos and linkages under the wing.
Excellent work!!!
23:55 yeah it sure can "stay in the air for a really long time" :)
just a hint, when you wnat to take of and more importantly land always face the wind even in VTOL mode.
Interesting.
However the weather doesnt suck. It is winter time. It is almost normal. A little too warm.
Will we see you do a video on the ardupilot cansat quadcopter
Yeah, I would like to get back to that project somewhere in the future. It would be great for rapid launch platform
Great video! I wanted to see more transitions though… maybe later? 🙂
Congratulations for your work. I just subscribed to your channel.
Why don't you use, tilt. Motors?
They are more complicated and can be less reliable, so for this build I wanted to avoid them. However they can reduce the total weight and increase maneuverability so I will definitely build a Tiltrotor in the future. Maybe even something similar to V-22😁
nice plane.
Awesome bird!
Wow, i really want this.
Yeah when you're flying in the wind, against the wind, and you turn away you basically have 0 airspeed so you stall, I've had this happen to me several times before, you have to really add power if you want to turn in windy conditions.
Good video, easy to follow for a newbie. The build is straight forward, but how are you recording the fob video ?
Nie wiem czy nad tym pracowałeś czy tak wyszło ale poprawił Ci sie Angielski i przyjemnie się słucha, pozdro.
Lovely job!
Dude, use 2 mitors for the plane function and mount them on the front or back of the carbon fiber rods. Also would add one rod so you get an H shape with the rod with one being in the middle connecting them for more stability. Trust me dude
Where I'm watching this it released on new years. Good luck in 2025
Im watching from the past cheers
2400 this looked like a servo glitch crash. servos may glitch when there is more vibration (from prop/motor) than the servos will 'tolerate'. servos are sold with vibration damping components, for use in high-vibration applications. rotors make more vibration than correctly spec'd 'stiff' E Props do.
Looks like you stalled it 24:10
in the next video he turns a kid's toy into a stealth fighter
really fascinating. I'm about 80% done building a tailsitter using betaflight 4.6.0. Really concerned on how to do the pids on it. I wonder if you can use the pitot tube to change the pids automatically with ardupilot.
Ardupilot has an Autotune feature, but I am not sure if pitot tube has anything to do with it
Can you please share the telemetry script that u installed on ur tx16s ?
needs more motors!
great Instruktion!!
Please work on a tail sitter next with a full tutorial including programming Please 💯💯❤️❤️
Tailsitters are also on my To Do list
Can you please share how u installed the telemetry script on ur tx16s i tried inav telemetry lua script and its not working on my tx16s
The crash was likely from turning into the same direction as the wind was going and not having high enough airspeed to maintain lift. That's my guess at least
Can this lift weight?
It's already quite heavy, but it probably could lift extra 100-200g
Deserves a sub 👌🏻
Waiting for this ..........
Superb !!!
Super robota
bravo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
peetoh He was a french dude, Henri Pitot.
dangerous the way uou hold it at 27:40, better hold it on the top of the wing
hi mate wr are u from originally😁
The more weight, the higher the stall speed. Probably need to stay above 30 km/h to be safe
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Make it smaller
awesome))
Want some scholarship?
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"Friend, I arm the plane in ArduPilot and use auto takeoff mode, shaking it in my hand to start the motor and then throwing it. While shaking it in my hand, I get the warning 'landing completed.' Why does it give this warning? Can someone who knows help?"
Next: let's build flying bmbs for Ukraine out of 5$ lidl planes 😂
hear me out. Lidl glider with jet turbine.