RCExplorer BICOPTER BUILD/setup video
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ส.ค. 2018
- Update: Use this electronic schematic rather than the one shown in the video: rcexplorer.se/blog/2018/09/co...
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Say hello to the RCExplorer Bicopter. Yes, Bi as in 2! This copter only uses 2 motors and 2 propellers to generate lift.
Pretty cool eh? But you don’t get much control with just 2 motors, you need something more; Servos! Pitch and yaw are controlled by tilting the motors in either the same or opposite direction
This makes the RCExplorer Bicopter look freaking fantastic flying around. In full forward flight with the motors at full tilt, it’s reminiscent of the V22 Osprey.
The RCExplorer Bicopter is designed to look as badass as possible, and I think we succeeded. The frame is entirely made from high-quality 3k twill weave matte finish carbon fiber. This makes the RCExplorer Bicopter frame lightweight, durable and worth drooling over.
Just picture yourself rolling up your flying buddies and pulling this thing out. Guaranteed instant +10 to street cred and coolness (guarantee not guaranteed).
The sharp-looking backend not only looks like a formidable stabbing weapon, it also makes the copter fly better. The weight is distributed more evenly and the leverage arm is longer, which should make the pitch axis more stable.
This thing is not like a crazy locked in quadcopter that obeys your every command. No, you have to fly this the way it wants to be flown. It is not easy and it will take some getting used to. Tuning is tricky, fiddly and might vary greatly depending on the electronics used (Pre-tuned starting PID’s available for the recommended electronics kit.). You can get yourself into weird situations very quickly and it currently doesn’t like flying backwards.
What it does like is forward flight (both slow and flat out), lazy turns and hovering (as long as it’s not drifting backwards). You can do tricks as well, but be ready for some fun recovery manoeuvres. It is a very different flying experience compared to most other crafts.
Building the RCExplorer Bicopter is also a bit of a challenge. Designed to be as cool looking as possible lead to some awkward spaces. Cable management skills will for sure make things easier, but you will probably still want to curse us a couple of times during the build.
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I want to build this frame up just to look at it. Forget how it flies, it’s a work of art! 👊🏻
The mad sweed just doesnt stop making awesome grown up toys! Love this guy!
Smash
That frame is a work of art david! Like carbon fiber origami!
Another great product Dave came up with. Dude is smart. Thanks for the video!
A pioneer of rc models. Well done david! Keep up the awesome work!
Finally I've been waiting for a video for at least 3 years. 😂😂😂
He disappeared from the world grow a beard and back with a new drone.
David... as I went out to do a little flying today with my 5” quad, I was reminiscing on all your old videos, which are the ones that specifically sparked my dream of flying fpv. That Domain du Planet ( or whatever ), the funjet fpv flights out over the water looking sideways.
Good times...
Thank you David... and all the best to you. 🤓🤘🏼
This looks absolutely beautiful lad! Great job!
One of the Best drone building video I ever seen.
Thank you Brother.
That's a wild looking two prop craft I look forward to seeing what that mind will do next!
Very, very cool. Well done on the design. I'd love to see another video about flying technique with this thing.
One of the most entertaining voice overs for a building have ever listened to 👉🏽🤟🏼 and I freakin love the little pointer dudes. 🤪
Great build David, I enjoy your video style and your projects even though I have never progressed beyond toy quads.
I probably will never build that, but I really enjoyed watching this video !
Over all the little hands, really cool
Same
Glad to see your time with Flite Test has not been wasted!
Simply superb. Looking forward to your mono copter build someday mate. Cheers
-Aero
Best build videos ever. Even the voice of reason sitting next to me doesn't complain.
oh this is a must. just gotta wait for payday. Thanks david. i always love the odd ball multirotors
I love your mini hand 😂😂😂
I know right!
way better n a chopstick
Mate thats an amazing work, I hope this subject will evolve even deeper because thats new and fresh. You're a pioneer so keep it going :D GJ!
Love those little helping hands...
Absolutely Insane build!! Love this so much.
The thing with tilting a rotor as a control input is that gyroscopic precession will also cause a roll force 90 degrees ahead in the blade rotation. The anticlockwise rotor will impart left roll when pitched forward, the clockwise rotor will impart right roll.
In your current configuration, yaw left is accomplished by sending the right rotor forward and left rotor backward. The right rotor is the anticlockwise rotor, and the left the clockwise, so the craft will roll to the left while the rotors are being moved. This is cancelled by commanding a little roll right, but by slowing the right and speeding up the left, the dissymmetry of torque will yaw left - and this is continuous while the input is being held.
In the video, you did say you were thinking about reversing rotor directions. I think that's worth playing around with. After all, with ACW on the left, commanding left roll will also yaw left with the dissymmetry of torque, and that's already the direction you're yawing to coordinate the turn.
LOVE the little rubber hands,... helps make the point, and are quite amusing. : -)
Awesome David you did it again
This is big. Mark my words, David, you are going to changes things in a big way.
Great tutorial....good to see this out there so kids canplay with something other than video games, this teaches them. Excellent!
That looks so cool and it seems to fly not to bad. I remember seeing bicopter videos a few years ago and they flew terrible.
the mini hand is literally amazing, so is your advertisement style. "buy this thing"
tis is a working crazy art.. bro.. u kill it.. cool !! keep it up..
That is the frakkin' coolest drone ever 😍
I remember my 1st tricopter I saw your 1st tri copter build and later updated mine. Sucks no one really talks about them anymore. planning on making my own v3 here in a bit .. 9 years later
Great stuff Dave!!
I am still waiting for the DW no prop levicopter, using 'clean outa this world flight' zeroth motor theory.
Hey Genius! Maybe you could invent some props that will quiet this beast down? Love your stuff Dave!
Wow, that was the fastest small rc copter flight I've seen
I love your channel and crafts.
yay a video, I missed ya! More rocket videos are needed :D
Been waiting for this one
Well you did a goo job making it look as cool as possible!
Most detailed vids. Thank you for that bro...
Thanks for sharing David!
I seen you on RotoRiot ×with la drib and this is Great bicopter, Thanks for being nutty-enough to come up with this. JohnnyDRC
the little hands tho!!!!! love it!!!
I love this idea. Wish I had one to test out. Lol thanks buddy for the vids
i love this so much. i want to take this and make a tinywhoop sized version!
this little copter is RAD!
Great looking Qua... Tr... Bicopter!
I've finally decided to *GO CRAZY* after being told so many times not to by David.
Bla waka waka bingo do finkle zedro beda day!
Great tutorial, David!
Love those little hands!!!
Quick tip for everyone not knowing this: use nailclippers to trim zip-ties. They cut flush so you don't have that nasty piece of plastic with the razor sharp corners sticking out. Especially with the slightly bigger zip-ties. Keeps you from wondering where the bloody smudge on your model/workbench/tools comes from. Oh, and BTW: this is how ALL instruction videos should be! Nice!
I like the "hands". Nice idea.
Awesomeness mate great build!!!!
Which flightcontroller are you using?
A Terminator Hunter-Killer !!!!
Love it.
Dude it looks sooooooo cool! Do you plan to make it fpv?
still the best outro animation on youtube
I've been telling myself and the wife I wont buy anymore quads and helis ... but no one said anything about a bi copter... man that thing is awesome ! I gotta have one
absolutely amazing!!! great job 👍
Looks awesome!
I wish I was half as smart as you are. How the hell you figure all this stuff out is beyond me
HarlowsKorner 101 i figured out most of this stuff making my own fpv quad from scratch
that mini hand is awesome :)
Dude, sick video ! Those little hands just kill me. lmao !!
Very cool bi-copter. I just subbed. ❤😊
Wow great video! And I learned something new today, carbon fiber is conductive? Holy crap!
This video is pretty damn well done. 👍
fantastic.... tip.. dont use the iron nuts include with this motors. use aluminum nuts.. they vibrate at certain speed.. i made a video about it.
I love it. Great job.
You deserve a biggg like dude
Have you tried the Oblique Active Tilting method, where the arms angle in ~30deg or so? If i understand correctly this will give you more torque / moment to correct the pitch, and not just move the center of thrust
+ side protection = 2 × efficiency
I wish you success!
you should think about doing something with the guys of flite test dude. you have some talent!
Do I need a separate receiver? (I bought the Kakute F4 v2)
Would a Chinook design be an option as well? Because it has less weight on the sides, as such the servos don't have to compensate as hard? I mean I've seen those lumbering beasts in action and they are quite nimble for their huge size.
Yes. Bicopters are the future,as it becomes easier to make tilting parts.
Osprey is unstable, because a lot of weight is outside the center of gravity. But something like a Chinook with wings and tilting propellers will be very stable
wow that's so cool :O
i was never interested in a Bi-copter
but now i am ! :D
i need a micro though
Awesome biycopter 👌👍
This is a fun build...cheers
so this Bi-copter will
have more flight time
compare to a Quad-copter
using the same battery?
Great video. Where can I buy something like that? Is it expensive?
Awesome work
The frame design really is great. Not sure how the video has any dislikes.
This is amazing!
That looks awesome, need to get that in the future. Only needs FPV and gopro mount. And some LED lights :D
BEAUTIFUL!
Wow! That's awesome! Gimme this!😊
What wire stripper are you using?. Btw i appreciate the soldering tips.
martinwazhere it's this old broken one found the the dump behind an old electronics store that he used to work at. Any stripers will work. Just go get a decent quality one and treat it well.
When you solder, don't tin wires directly over a circuit board like he does. Get yourself a helping hand device, and presolder all the pads you're going to use before you install the board into the craft.
This is a nice kit , but.... When is the rocket sled knife kit going to be available? ;)
Why don't you build custom body like the avatar helicopter
If cool is what you are looking for... perhaps you need to try and make a mock of the Terminator aircraft!! I mean in this moment you have the front head of it the rear end shouldn't be a challenge at all, and it will be something that most people recognize and remember about the movie!!
Your a Legend Mate
How well does this work as a FPV rig?
you know what... you explaint it very clear.. thanks.. you good.. 👍👍👍
any possibility of a 2.5 inch version?
Hi Dave, have you tried running the two propeller assemblies in line longitudinally so that forward movement is throttle based without needing to rotate the servos against the counterweight? Stability and rotation would still be reliant on the servos.
That's really cool! Does it have enough payload for an FPV system with a small gimbal?
You are awesome.
What about a new revision of the tricopter? Tricopters are not out yet! (And V5 sounds cool ;)
Yep this is my next project!,!☝️👉🤙
This absolutely needs FPV! :)
Reminds me of the Ravager ships in guardians of the galaxy!