Still got my Teensy watiting to be put into some crazy craft ( Probably 2 axis thrust vectored X-31). Hopefully soon. Edit: I do have some 2205 Motors laying around, might have to build the f-35 as well :D
@@NicholasRehm Is there a chance you could make a dedicated PID Tuning video some time? I know theres thousands for betaflight etc. But I suppose the stuff you have built does behave a little differently. Would be really helpful to have a general guideline on what to look for plus perhaps a little summary of the tuning process from your previous projects.
This is bloody genius. who would ever of thought of attaching the motors to the moving ailerons in order to change the trust angle? genius. you have a new subscriber
@@NicholasRehm Just don't sell yourself to China! China will come using in the likes Of how Shell Companies are so as to make the most out of you without you even realising.
Just stumbled on your channel this am and now my productivity at work is absolute garbage. Amazing stuff man. Thank you for making all of this so accessible. One of the easiest subs I've come across on YT lately.
Really cool vtol f-35! Great job building it and making this video! Your F-35 flew in combat at Flite Fest really well and went under the limbo rope! I was at Flite Fest!
Dear Nicholas. My father in law who is a retired mechanical engineer built 4 of your F-35 jets and one of them was gifted to me for my 40th birthday. He actually cut the depron out on a 5 axis CNC and fiberglassed the main plate on both sides. He also built many pieces for it out of cnc'd wood, cnc'd fiberglass and many 3d printed parts he designed himself. I haven't been able to fly it much yet but thanks for your cool design!
Built two this weekend, the first one fell victim of reverse servos in forward mode, the second build went much faster! I tested hover and transition today in the yard. I hope to test forward mode next week at the flying field. Thanks for this cool design. I had most of what I needed in my "drone pile". Staples has some better quality foam than dollar store, my first one was dollar store and the paper coating would not stay in place, the staples stuff is way better, and laser cuts really well. Cheers! Oh, and I used a Teensy 4.1 instead of the Teensy 4.0, same pinout on the left hand side, and not a bunch more weight. I could not find the 4.0 anywhere. Edit: The second one flew great at the field this evening. Very happy. Thanks again Nick!!!
It'd be really cool to see the thrust system designed like the actually F-35: It has one engine but multiple nozzles, but only one of which is normally used. When in VTOL mode, the main nozzle is angled down and multiple other nozzles open up and have thrust vectored into them to actually allow for VTOL to work
This is awesome! This I want to patronize. Thank you so much I now see a path to get into this awesome hobby. I am moving cross country but hope to get started this fall. Thank you again!
for years ive been perfecting my foamies to high alpha and hover nose up without onboard stability control, if fact i made another today and havent tested it yet. here you come and make this thing and first go it performs like i wished mine would! im still using a single larger motor and im going for scale and cheap. so prop in slot, hollow body thrust vectoring, underside rudders and 3s. With 1000g max thrust and a 700g all up weight, nose up hovers are a feat i think. props to your build man its sweet. i found alot of your characteristics you describe of steering with rudder and correcting with aileron are relatable to my builds in low speed high alpha maneuvers.
@@HaznieModelAviator Not really--some have ported it to other boards, but it won't run as fast as it needs to because the teensy 4/4.1 has a super fast processor and that's what this code was written for. Teensy also has additional i/o capability for the receiver in / actuator outputs that something like an arduino nano is lacking
@@NicholasRehm thank you for the explanation.. Some parts are ready cut.. Wait for the teensy and the Esc.. Hope my budget next Month will enough to bough them 😅
@@NicholasRehm Great video. I can't find any teensy's around with chips shortage, but I've got some esp32's and pi pico's around, would those, roughly 130mHz processing be fast enough for stabilizing?
Great build!!! This will allow me to try some of my own designs. COOL. Please note though, Elevons are only attached to a wing. the common term for those surfaces is Taileron or Dfferential Stabs. Radio manufacturers created the inaccurate designations because of their limited coding abilities.
very interesting, surely I will make one too, I hope to be able to program it with the source code because every time I find myself programming there is always something wrong, congratulations and thank you very much for sharing
Loved the video, flight, take off and landing. I also like your design on the vertical stab. Looks like my next build will be my first VTOL! Thanks Nicholas for posting. Will keep you updated when the project starts.
you r a brilliant good fella. I know nothing about all of these but I like watching drones or rc planes. A hobby that I can never afford in my life. I would like to see a super fine tuned, nicely painted version of this vtol just for youtube content
Nice! I have been thinking about playing around with some foam board builds. I've slowly been converting my 30+ year old balsa kit builds from nitro to electric on top of building FPV rigs using BF and INAV and just got my first ArduPilot VTOL but even all that going on I kinda want to start building one of these. I doubt I'm alone with piling up projects lol
Great video and design. It does seem like you could eliminate the front servo and tilt mechanism by programming differential rear motor tilt to control yaw during hover.
Absolutely, and I have flown with that config just fine before. The tricky bit is getting enough throw on the ailerons with conventional control linkages. I wanted to avoid any weird designs that were hard to manufacture for the average hobbyist
Nicholas, great job! I am currently working on it and everything is functioning well. The wiring is good, the gyro is working correctly, the RX/TX connection and servo are functioning well. The hover/transition and fly modes are working well, but for some reason, sometimes my servos go crazy and then stabilize. When I checked the graph for the RawPitchYaw function, it starts with a high value, then goes down, then goes up again, and so on. However, after an average of one or two minutes, it calms down.
@@NicholasRehm To calibrate the IMU, you need to place it flat and run the calibration code. I followed your tutorial carefully, but it doesn't seem like the problem is with the IMU.
This is the most fun I've had since I got into FPV almost 2 years ago. I haven't even flown the thing yet but I just finished up the final parts and checked to make sure everything is working properly and tomorrow I'll finally get to maiden mine! It's taken me a couple weeks to build as I've never flown a plane or wing before so it was a little bit of a hurdle setting up everything in opentx/edgetx. Ran into a couple issues with my tx, a couple more issue with a 4in1 esc and a couple issues figuring out what the hell I was even looking at in the code (I have absolutely 0 coding experience) but all in all I'm really digging the capabilities of the teensy. Planning to add a vista and DJI camera on mine if everything goes well tomorrow. How hard do you think implementing something like dshot would be? Thanks for the killer project that kept me busy for a bit. Looking forward to creating a scratch build with the teensy and drehmflight next 🙂
Special thanks to my buddy Peter for helping to film at the field: th-cam.com/users/peterryseck
If you build one of these, I'd love to hear about it!!
Still got my Teensy watiting to be put into some crazy craft ( Probably 2 axis thrust vectored X-31). Hopefully soon.
Edit: I do have some 2205 Motors laying around, might have to build the f-35 as well :D
@@dodo3441 Do Do Do it
Thanks for putting up the code. I will be doing this project over winter here (in Oz)... awesome project, much appreciated.
@@NicholasRehm Is there a chance you could make a dedicated PID Tuning video some time? I know theres thousands for betaflight etc. But I suppose the stuff you have built does behave a little differently. Would be really helpful to have a general guideline on what to look for plus perhaps a little summary of the tuning process from your previous projects.
@@dodo3441 that sounds like a great idea. Will put that on my to-do list
This is bloody genius. who would ever of thought of attaching the motors to the moving ailerons in order to change the trust angle? genius. you have a new subscriber
Cheers!
Really an admirable project
@@NicholasRehm Just don't sell yourself to China! China will come using in the likes Of how Shell Companies are so as to make the most out of you without you even realising.
I love theese kind of planes called VTOL planes it is fantastic that theese kind of planes can angle their engines like the harrier jet
@@oskarnilsson0712 think Harrier angles an exhaust vent, while engine stays fixed.
making all of the resources free and open?
this guy deserves more from youtube
keep it up!
@18:16 it sounds like, "Happy Birthday to Youuu"
Incredible work.
A scientist is sharing his knowledge with others. The best manoeuvre I have seen. Genius!
easily the coolest DIY RC aircraft I have ever seen
Thank you for generously giving back to the RC community, and asking nothing in return. Super impressed with all this, esp the coding. Wow. Great job.
Now get building!! Thanks a ton
Just stumbled on your channel this am and now my productivity at work is absolute garbage. Amazing stuff man. Thank you for making all of this so accessible. One of the easiest subs I've come across on YT lately.
Really appreciate it! Sorry about the productivity lol
The build is great, and the instructional is superb.
Thank you!
Really cool vtol f-35!
Great job building it and making this video!
Your F-35 flew in combat at Flite Fest really well and went under the limbo rope!
I was at Flite Fest!
Dear Nicholas. My father in law who is a retired mechanical engineer built 4 of your F-35 jets and one of them was gifted to me for my 40th birthday. He actually cut the depron out on a 5 axis CNC and fiberglassed the main plate on both sides. He also built many pieces for it out of cnc'd wood, cnc'd fiberglass and many 3d printed parts he designed himself. I haven't been able to fly it much yet but thanks for your cool design!
That is so dang cool, let me know if y’all have any videos of them! Feel free to link them here or shoot me an email
NicholasRehmYT@gmail.com
@@NicholasRehm Finally managed to do more than hovering. th-cam.com/video/djwd3H6iif4/w-d-xo.html
Built two this weekend, the first one fell victim of reverse servos in forward mode, the second build went much faster! I tested hover and transition today in the yard. I hope to test forward mode next week at the flying field. Thanks for this cool design. I had most of what I needed in my "drone pile". Staples has some better quality foam than dollar store, my first one was dollar store and the paper coating would not stay in place, the staples stuff is way better, and laser cuts really well. Cheers! Oh, and I used a Teensy 4.1 instead of the Teensy 4.0, same pinout on the left hand side, and not a bunch more weight. I could not find the 4.0 anywhere. Edit: The second one flew great at the field this evening. Very happy. Thanks again Nick!!!
Great job, and Thank you! After watching your clear and easy to understand videos, I am feeling motivated to try building this.
Thanks for your kindness and share. I really appreciate.
This is what I have been looking for...many thanks for your kindness..I really appreciate..Bravo Nicholas
i hope i can give 1 for my son. hes the first 1 pop in my mind when i see this plane.
thank you so much for keeping this open source.
The build guide too was soo perfect. I just don't understand why you don't have millions of subs
Hey, thanks! Appreciate that a lot
I've been following your development for some timd and I'm going to build this. Thank you
You are Genius man...i never imagined anything could happen...fixing motor 😋
Awesome video!
It is so cool you share everything, not gonna do VTOL but the rest is so helpfull for my project. THANKS!!
So totally cool words can not do it justice. "To day the RC world, tomorrow we're making um so we can ride um."
One of the coolest things I've ever seen! Genius!
Every time I watch one of these I think how does he not have more subscribers. Freaking awesome
Thank you for a awsome plane!!!! I'm going to buy the parts I need tomorrow!!!
Good luck with the build and don't hesitate to reach out with any questions
It'd be really cool to see the thrust system designed like the actually F-35: It has one engine but multiple nozzles, but only one of which is normally used. When in VTOL mode, the main nozzle is angled down and multiple other nozzles open up and have thrust vectored into them to actually allow for VTOL to work
Really cool, its look so simple but stable and perfect to fly. Love it 👌
This is awesome! This I want to patronize. Thank you so much I now see a path to get into this awesome hobby. I am moving cross country but hope to get started this fall. Thank you again!
for years ive been perfecting my foamies to high alpha and hover nose up without onboard stability control, if fact i made another today and havent tested it yet. here you come and make this thing and first go it performs like i wished mine would! im still using a single larger motor and im going for scale and cheap. so prop in slot, hollow body thrust vectoring, underside rudders and 3s. With 1000g max thrust and a 700g all up weight, nose up hovers are a feat i think. props to your build man its sweet. i found alot of your characteristics you describe of steering with rudder and correcting with aileron are relatable to my builds in low speed high alpha maneuvers.
This is sick !!! Crazy game changer brought to us by the man himself !!!! Hype
Awesome project! My students at the community college will love this project.
What do you teach?
@@NicholasRehm I'm a STEM Advisor for college students.
I’d be happy just showing up, and watching you perform that demo! Nice work!
This is awesome. Thank you for making this public!
Thanks especially for sharing your plans. Like others, this is pretty motiving to try this myself.
Thanks, I'm Gustavo from Colombia, great job
Thank you very much Rehmç especially for showing the design!
This is so cool.. Thanks for build this one and make this available free to download 😍👌👍🎉
Now get to building :)
@@NicholasRehm can the code I use at the others arduino device then teensy?
@@HaznieModelAviator Not really--some have ported it to other boards, but it won't run as fast as it needs to because the teensy 4/4.1 has a super fast processor and that's what this code was written for. Teensy also has additional i/o capability for the receiver in / actuator outputs that something like an arduino nano is lacking
@@NicholasRehm thank you for the explanation.. Some parts are ready cut.. Wait for the teensy and the Esc.. Hope my budget next Month will enough to bough them 😅
@@NicholasRehm Great video. I can't find any teensy's around with chips shortage, but I've got some esp32's and pi pico's around, would those, roughly 130mHz processing be fast enough for stabilizing?
Gosh, how I love the f-35
This is best video i ever seen. Thank you very much for your detailed sharing
That's the most comprehensive rc plane build video. Great job 🔥, That's an instant subscription.
That’s insane man. Awesome video. Hopefully I can get myself to try it sometime.
Incredible work💞
A little complicated for beginner w.r.t programming.
Over all mind blowing Project.....💓
Nick, thanks a lot for your video. This is an interesting project that can bring a lot of fun in the field. You did a great job!!
Damn! it looked good on the thumbnail
This reminds me of watching RCSuperpowers trying to do exactly the same thing 15 years ago. You are much more successful
Dave was ahead of his time with the technology available way back then! It's almost too easy now
Thiss is Gold .. iron man feels
Great build!!! This will allow me to try some of my own designs. COOL. Please note though, Elevons are only attached to a wing. the common term for those surfaces is Taileron or Dfferential Stabs. Radio manufacturers created the inaccurate designations because of their limited coding abilities.
I can't believe I only just saw this! Fantastic work, I am looking forward to this.
Very impressive project, I like the design, great work
Вы молодец! Такая модель достойна уважения. You are well done! Such a model deserves respect.
Very excellent and instructional video. Thank you for making this available. Definitely going to make one!
Let me know how it goes!
this is awesome hope you make it big one day
very interesting, surely I will make one too, I hope to be able to program it with the source code because every time I find myself programming there is always something wrong, congratulations and thank you very much for sharing
You shouldn’t need to do much coding with the modified code I provided, best of luck
you have to admit that you have some flying skills, its not just the flight controller... SUBSCRIBED!
Thanks for the build, great video.
Thanks Nicholas, very special, free download, thanks, crear explanation, I'm Gustavo from Medellín Colombia
Great video and build, thumb up!
WOW THE ARMY MIGHT WANT TO BUY THIS IDEA FROM YOU😮
Jesus! imagine this is the last sound you hear right before Skynet takes you out
Nicholas! You are just too cool! Thank you!
Thanks sir for all your work!! Excellent tutorial.. Cheers
Loved the video, flight, take off and landing. I also like your design on the vertical stab. Looks like my next build will be my first VTOL! Thanks Nicholas for posting. Will keep you updated when the project starts.
Send pics/video!
@@NicholasRehm Will do!!!
@@wwjoesr How did it turn out?
@@tijnmestrom2153 I didn’t build it yet, been building some nice 3d printed planes!
Now one can fly fast and high, or low and slow. Nice!
I havent flown an RC plane for a while this one seem easy to build nice one! thank for sharing
This Thing is amazing!!!! Well done!!!!!!!
Greeting from Indonesia.. What an Awesome projects you did there.. 👍🏻
Cheers!
You concepts are very interesting so I subscribed to learn more
DIY at it's best. And affordable 👍
Cool project, nice footage and editing. Fun channel...
Awesome work dude! Congs 👍🏻
Great job sir gonna make this soon hope you will help me to overcome the problem
Loved the little dunk on the FPV crowd there
;)
you r a brilliant good fella. I know nothing about all of these but I like watching drones or rc planes. A hobby that I can never afford in my life. I would like to see a super fine tuned, nicely painted version of this vtol just for youtube content
Thanks for the kind words, I’d love to do a scale-looking EDF F-35 at some point
Great work, my guy!
Thanks for sharing this amazing knowledge and plan👍👍
This is good design, fun fly.
Nice! I have been thinking about playing around with some foam board builds. I've slowly been converting my 30+ year old balsa kit builds from nitro to electric on top of building FPV rigs using BF and INAV and just got my first ArduPilot VTOL but even all that going on I kinda want to start building one of these. I doubt I'm alone with piling up projects lol
I feel inspired to make a plane, and to make a video, great job!
Nice project, and performs really well
Lots of love from India
very good
BRILLIANT!!
Cockpit-less F-35 was looking like a headless zombie hornet!
Very cool Nick!
Great video and design. It does seem like you could eliminate the front servo and tilt mechanism by programming differential rear motor tilt to control yaw during hover.
Absolutely, and I have flown with that config just fine before. The tricky bit is getting enough throw on the ailerons with conventional control linkages. I wanted to avoid any weird designs that were hard to manufacture for the average hobbyist
Outstanding work!
Thanks!
Very complex! Nice job man.
Thanks a ton
Hey Mr. Rehm thanks 4 this useful and amazing video🙏
Fabulous work! Thanks for giving us this.
This is so fricken cool
Nicholas, great job!
I am currently working on it and everything is functioning well. The wiring is good, the gyro is working correctly, the RX/TX connection and servo are functioning well. The hover/transition and fly modes are working well, but for some reason, sometimes my servos go crazy and then stabilize.
When I checked the graph for the RawPitchYaw function, it starts with a high value, then goes down, then goes up again, and so on. However, after an average of one or two minutes, it calms down.
Did you calibrate the IMU? Still, this aircraft does not use the computed roll pitch yaw angles, just the measured rates from the gyro
@@NicholasRehm To calibrate the IMU, you need to place it flat and run the calibration code. I followed your tutorial carefully, but it doesn't seem like the problem is with the IMU.
Very clever - also thanks for sharing all your info - especially the coding.
Thanks John, hope you learned something
It sounds like a million angry mosquitos are flying it. He captured and enslaved them using brain implants. That's how he's controlling them. Genius!
Good on you man good job impressive to say the least
Thank You!
This is the most fun I've had since I got into FPV almost 2 years ago. I haven't even flown the thing yet but I just finished up the final parts and checked to make sure everything is working properly and tomorrow I'll finally get to maiden mine! It's taken me a couple weeks to build as I've never flown a plane or wing before so it was a little bit of a hurdle setting up everything in opentx/edgetx. Ran into a couple issues with my tx, a couple more issue with a 4in1 esc and a couple issues figuring out what the hell I was even looking at in the code (I have absolutely 0 coding experience) but all in all I'm really digging the capabilities of the teensy. Planning to add a vista and DJI camera on mine if everything goes well tomorrow.
How hard do you think implementing something like dshot would be?
Thanks for the killer project that kept me busy for a bit. Looking forward to creating a scratch build with the teensy and drehmflight next 🙂
DUDE THATS AMAZING!!!!! I wanna build one so bad now!
Well, what are you waiting for? Summer is around the corner :)
@@NicholasRehm I will build one for sure comming month!!!
Thanks you are Marvelous! You inspire me a lot.
Very cool, thank you !!! It helps for my project