FPV Drone with WOOD FRAME?... Kaveman Kwads!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- FPV drones have developed into some of the most technologically advanced machines! With lightning fast processing and powerful motors, small freestyle quads deliver incredible performance!
....But let's revisit how FPV drones used to be built. Big motors and props, Simon K ESCs, KK2 flight boards, and best of all WOOD FRAMES?!
Shout out to Shawn (Let's Fly RC) for building these vintage drones for us.... and letting us crash them!
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- FPV Freestyle Pilots / Hosts
Joshua Bardwell [Knowitall]
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Drew Camden [Le Drib]
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Alex Vanover [CaptainVanover]
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with Special Guest, Conrad a.k.a. Furadi
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-Production Team
Chad Kapper - Executive Producer
Drew Camden - Producer
Christian Kapper - Editor / Camera
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"My quad flew like crap and now it's broken" is a pretty relatable post sesh sentiment.
I want to see an average pilot with a modern kwad vs vanover with a kk2
Excellent idea!
Seconded.
But they need to be comparably powered. Same size motors, props and battery.
@@DocmurdocFPV No, they can't. That's not the point.
@@DocmurdocFPV frame would rip apart
I love the memories this video brings back. It was really experimentation back then. The only reason I didn't start with KK2 is they were never in friggin' stock, so I ended up starting out with a CC3D on OpenPilot, which was a whole different animal from what other folks had.
Drew and Shawn's comments about never flying with anyone back then is so true. You did all your learning in forums reading posts about other people's PIDs and experiences. And it sucked, because you'd fly 30 seconds, crash, go back online and start over. And all your real friends thought you were totally weird. OK, that part hasn't changed, haha.
Same here. Only the truly dedicated actually got to fly the beasts.
Such a cool history lesson. Flying 12 amp SimonK escs, KK2s, garbage props and wooden frames....we were just so amazed we could fly these things in any way. The ingenuity of this phase of FPV was so freakin exciting. I'm glad they mentioned David Windenstall, he was such a big factor with his tricopter and his FPV setups. My first board was the Naze32 on Clearflight, and it was such hot shit at the time. It's insane how far we've come!
I still fly my FT tricopter with kk2 board, LOS just like a helicopter...
Jeanbat TCG I still have my original Windestal tricopter frame in the closet - back when I cut if with a jigsaw from his free plans. :)
Me to
Lets Fly RC Yup same here. Mine was a c2.6HV (“with wooden booms!”). Also got a v3, v4, mini, baby, and LR haha.
I really like Furadi. Conrad just seems like a great guy.
Great episode!
I'm a year late to this vid but was excited to see Conrad also, seems like a decent man. Watch all of his content.
I really enjoyed this. I had no idea that the OG quads looked like this. Amazing how far the hobby has come. I’ve only been flying for 2 years and I’ve already seen a huge progression in the technology and quality in parts
I loved to watch this Video. I started with a CC3D Board with Open Pilot and a Lisam Frame a few Years ago. I was so excited to have this Setup up in the Air the First Time. And in my First Loop it went down. Lipo and a Motor were damaged. I didnt realized the damage Motor at first and it cost me 2 more ESC;) After this i Stress i went back to Planes for a long Time. But last Season i startet again with new Setups and 6s;) WOw 6s is a Beast in Freestyle. I have alot of fun flying FPV with Friends and I cant wait for better Weather here in Germany. Every Friday i go fly in the Sportshall with some 2" and 3" Kwads....but those cant beat the Feeling of a 6s 5"... I love this Hobby so much that i sell all my Planes now;)
i'm here from the time of the kk boards also. from the best times, i built many tricopters, even made 10" filming h quad with a gopro 3 and a self made brushless gimbal. also a similar 8" quad like Jos had with a 2200 3s 20c battery
Me too...360mm bumblebee! You can see it on my yt channel way back.
Wanna know more about self-made brushless gimbal
Its like a meet up of Model T’s, always fun to look back and see where this whole thing came from, not even just for FPV Freestyle, but for almost every avenue a flying craft with 4 motors is involved in.
just getting into this and there is SO MUCH TO LEARN! Not including the history/evolution of quads. Makes you wonder what it'll be like in 10 years from now... W O W ! ! !
Started even before the KK2, back then I dont even think there were any flight controllers or they were not easy to find. My first quad was actually with a costum made FC, a microcontroller, some gyros, and a lot of trial and error to code it. I never even thought of any tricks just hovering was a success hahaha. Seeing all this quad history is amazing, brings back a lot of great memories of the last 10 years or so
Shoutout to those who remember flashing those bb2 chipsets on the old simonK escs...
Nice video, I started flying with the first KK Board before the screen. Made my own FT tricopter, also a quad and started designing my own frames, maybe 5 or 6 years ago? Haven’t stop making new frames today. Love IT !!!.
JB you cracked me up! 🤣😆 Guys! That felt good.. 👍 so funny 🤭😆👌
Its amazing how far stuff has come along! I remember the KK2 boards, always fine turning the gyros on field! I used to take my iPhone, put it on facetime, and call from another phone on the ground to have an "FPV" setup! Its crazy how the latency now days is almost nothing and we are at the point we are at.
Naze32 rev5 running cleanflight. I'm so glad I got into the hobby after KK boards were on the way out!
I run cleanflight Naze32 REV4 on my freestyle quads & KISS v2 kc on my race quads
I still have a KK2 sitting in a draw. I bought it from Hobbyking, I think they may have still been Hobbycity back then. I put it on one of their 250 frames thinking I was going to learn to fly in my tiny backyard. It was heavy as hell and had two blade props that made sooo much noise the whole neighborhood knew when I was flying/crashing. Things have come a long way since then, loving the toothpick class these days.
Thanks for the continued support
You guys should do a video on 3d printed drones and use a bunch of different filament types to see how design and materials work together to make a good flying drone.
I still fly my wooden quads with kk2 board... I have a 10 inch, 5 inch and 3 inch quad. Love them... Knuckle H frames... lol... love them!
Similar to what Bardwell is flying in the video
rebuild my old tricopter 2.5 with KK2 mini last week. it flies sooo smooth, love it.
My first scratch build was the FT Electrohub kit purchased from ReadytoFlyQuads (remember them?) complete with a a Flip1.5 FC, SimonK esc's, and a LemonRX receiver. IT WAS AWESOME. Later I ditched the Flip for a EagleTree Vector, an EZUHF, a 2.4Ghz IRC fpv system and turned it into a hexacopter. IT WAS AWESOME. I still have that setup. I still get a solid 30min of flight time on a pair of 3s 5200mah ran in parallel and have flown as far as 5 miles out with it so suck it DJI
Alex I started on a DIY’ed all wooden BatBone V tail. Still have it too. Loved how it flew.
Thanks for bringing these out! Might have broke all of them, but it was worth it just to show them off.
Bardwell's explanation is so accurate and funny.
You guys, I had such a great time watching this episode. In my opinion I love watching you guys going out as a family of friends having a good time. Poor Bardwell got the shitty end of the stick this time, poor Bardwell.
My first anything that went in the air via remote control was the F550 Hexacopter. Every now and then I still like to plug it in and take it up in the air. I don’t go out to parks or fly anywhere in town, my neighbor has a dirtbike track and they don’t mind me flying there. I love their reaction when they hear Those 610 inch propellers ramping up on a power loop.
Keep more videos like this coming!
Explore Northwestern Michigan the sound of these quads is really amazing. Lol. Poor Bardwell.
Hmmm, I’m thinking a 250 size hexacopter 🤔
The old flite test music was a nice touch too :)
Loved this
I'm flying a Naze 32 rev 5 on a qav210 as my daily flyer
It's all I own and love flying it
Nice! I started 2010 with quadrocopters... I absolutely know what they are talking about :)
I still got my old wooden tricopter with a Multiwii board
OMG I'M so happy I startd end of 2017!
Loved it. best part was Joshua's inverted yaw spin!!! hahaha
been in the rc car thing for years - even have a x-maxx 8s. i just 3d printed my 1st quad. using a fs-i6x tx/rx using ppm to an arduino nano running multiwii w/combo 6050 gyro/acc. maiden flight to happen in a few days after the TX arrives. awesome vid.
I had a frame made out of plywood and aluminium tubes, megapirate 16 bit FC, camera with 90 degree FOV, giant ass motors and 8+" props. After every crash i had to spend 15 minutes reattaching everything with zipties. I had to program escs with FTDI adapter, balance props that would explode on contact with grass, and use loud beeper to control voltage.
Nowadays everything in FPV just works out of the box, it's so much better, yet people still complain about having to solder 20 wires per quad :D
I sound like an old fart from 50 years ago, but all that happened only 5 years ago.
Back in the day people weren’t really that interested in doing tricks. When I built my first quad in 2012 everyone mostly wanted to just have a stable, well flying platform for fpv or filming. And about the same time I believe gps support was added to multiiwii. So everyone’s goal then was to build a giant octocopter that would hover by itself and could do thing like return to home etc. And there was a ton of 10 minute long videos on the forums of people just taking off and putting the transmitter on the ground to show off how well their quad hovers. And generally back then your status on the forums was dictated by the size of your multicopter and the number of motors it had :P.
My first board was a naze 32 Afro lol, then I went to KISS and never looked back. I think the modern form of durable quad started with the X hover MXP 230. When I saw that thing thrown across a park, and it was totally fine, I had to get one.
Turnigy plush were such a huge thing back then, freeflight was great with programming.
My very first brushless quadcopter was a Whitespy Flip 32 it used a 3s to 4s lipo it had a multiwi flightcontroller 20 amp esc(non simon K) with 8 inch props it was a mutiwi gui frameware in order to adjust your rates and switches I also placed a a FPV camera on it one time to try out for the first time I was hooked.
Another great episode. I love the big bro/little bro relationship that Drew and Alex have. I still have a couple naze 32 boards. I still have all the components from the og wizard lol, minus 1 esc🤣
Hey, I still fly the og Wizard with F3 board as my primary quad. Im super happy with its performance and dont think its a bottleneck at all. Im very pleased with the videos Im doing with it.
My first multirotor was wood tricopter with kk2 board
Hi Guys Great video and a lot of fun watching it. OK my first radio was a 4ch Tower Hobby and it was made by Fataba in 1971
Glad to see Farudi on another episode
I was so close to a flame wheel style and a kk board but I waited too long and came in on a carbon fiber tube racer Ares Cross Fire with a f3 cleanflight FC. Man it seems like forever ago. Everything has changed so much.
Tricopter! Tricopter! Tricopter! When????
Great video guys
first drone was a parrot ar2.0, put me off for several years until i accidentally discovered fpv when i bought an ideafly grasshopper, had no idea what i was buying, its still out the back of my farm somewhere. ive since built a few and currently fly an f4 board
This was a very cool episode.
My first FC was a NAZE32 but it caught fire during my second flight and I went to Kiss after that.
I started before flitetest, built a giant thing with the original KK2. It was terrifying with 14" props and all the jello. There was no FPV and SimonK hadn't yet come out. I destroyed it every time I flew with an average survival time of about 20 mins.
First build was a KK v5.5 tri-copter wood frame, plastic core was cut out of refrigerator drawers strapped on a 2.2 3S it was about 600mm scale 900kv 9 inch props.
Watching Bardwell try to fly that thing was hilarious.
I started 9 years ago with a f450 and never got it to fly and gave up till 2019.
Great episode and I agree we limit ourselves. Even now with the new tech and drones we have, we could still be pushing more.
Been flying rc for 40 years so this stuff still seems like yesterday lol, my first quad was made from hacking toy rc fc with silverware and brushless esc etc,
Love your videos
I started with a 3d printed crossfire II and ardupilot. I must have printed a hundred arms for that thing while I was learning. Exclusively LOS. First FPV was on more modern CF frame with CC3D.
RR should make a video Flying In Formation, well your best attempt anyway, would be a cool vid seeing how close a heap of quads can get, make for some great ground footage too. You could have follow the leader with a dozen quads through the trees all pulling tricks, one quad behind filmng the mayhem, lol. JB out front with his X Class. ✌️✌️
Great video thank u guys.
My first flight controller was an f7 lmfao im an old young guy 😆 or young old guy?...whatever you get it ... Maybe 😆.... Yall crack me up. This was dope AF
My first fc was 4 discrete gyros, and mixing in my radio for a 120 degree helicopter mix.
This was a fun video to watch keep It up 👍💪👍
We are in the golden age of FPV right now....before the FAA and Amazon puts an end to the fun.
i knew vanny would boss it :) great episode guys
Great episod ! - greetings from Poland ! - and stay safe !
Beautiful...this is the only thing i can afford and fly with and really have great time with 😊
I startet flying with a cc3d and Simonk 12A Esc and used only 2-3s on 6.5" drone Made from 2 sheeds of wooden board( like drawer backwalls) whithout fpv.
i was flying with kk2 and vtail simple copter.. amazing memories..
My first flight controller was an F3 from SPCMaker which I bought in 2017. It flies perfectly to this day, also thanks to Marc Spatz' Betaflight F3 Performance Edition. I am so thankful to have started after all that CC3D and SimonK %$&! were superseded, and even worse stuff that came before. Today, I can slap a quad together in an hour and get something that basically flies like a simulator.
vanover is better on a vintage kwad than most of us on a normal 5 inch 🤣!!!
My first FC was CC3D... i tried to use it again in the old quadcopter, and just emit light haha
CL Racing F4 on an FT270 frame. I still fly it regularly as a long range kwad.
I started like David, a tricopter with 402 gyros then kk1, then kk2 and only then a naze 32. Still has a pair of kk2 tricopters ;)and I'm still flying .
I came in late, KISS V1 was my first FC!
Started FPV on a QAV outlaw 270 cc3d on libre pilot
My 1st was an RCExplorer Tricopter !
clean fun/ thumbs up
My First FPV experience was a multiwii FC :-)
I started out with a giant immersion 1.2ghx vtx, an ft210 frame, and a naze32. The motors were 2204 2300kv emax motors, extremely underpowered
i love how when you push on the arms of the big wooden quad the whole thing shakes.
Evidence of how far FPV has come: Until now. I thought I was the only one who started on an electro hub and naze32.... literally until 5 minutes ago.
f4 gyros i've been a pilot since 2018 lol and I suck at it, but hey still crashing. Lots of wings, foam and glue...i love to build them even if they fall out of the sky. LOL
Naze32 build. Then jump into f4. Nice video. Thanks. Cheers!
where can i buy the cable that vanover uses for his fpv goggles ?
My first was a FT Electrohub with a 8bit multiwii board.
I guess not much people can setup a KK2 board anymore, huh? old tech but still works.
I still use my KK2 & NAZE 32 boards
i begine with a APM and it was an different world than now
I used all my old escs and motors and receivers for building airplanes
This episode was so cool.XD
I started with a Naze32 but it was already old and I didn't know it until Blue Falcon told me to stop buying the Naze32 lol.
i am still flying my flip32 (naze clone) running baseflight, waddup m8 :D
KK was my way :)
That was so much fun for us too even we are not there, btw how was the big body feels like when flying I mean is it dumb heavy in the sky?
i guess it's not that bad...i've made it and it flies brilliantly...can freestyle and fly long distances
I've built and flew my first quad on a DIY MultiWii board with Arduino and MPU
Thumbs up Naze32 BaseFlight OGs 👍
Love when the add catpain vanovercharge to the elder pilots.
Started on a CleanFlight FC in horizon mode (afraid to flip the switch to acro) 👀
Ideafly... Then kaptain krunch.
Now cc3d and nase32.
God I remember the shaky and fuzzy vtx...😎🚬 5 years ago
Haha I remember that first ft episode! And staring at the kk2 on hobby king trying to figure out how my young self was gonna afford that 😂 I can’t believe I’ve been in it longer than jb. Good times back then
Also back in that day nobody ever thought of the concept of a power loop or anything like it. Steele did a roll and everyone bowed down, although that was a bit later in the game
I remember my kk2 anycopter and how quickly I jumped on the Naze train. When I went to Naze on baseflight and got my PIDs dialed in, I thought I owned the best flying machine on the planet. I also remember it only seemed like I had the anycopter for a couple of months and soon I was torn between the QAV 250 and the FT versacopter for my next quad.
I ended up with a QAV 250 on a F3 and ran that quad until the F4's came out with the OSD built in. (I mean no mention of minim OSD here at all?)
I have been out of the game for a while I just renewed my interest and it seems like everything has changed completely already. (I mean production quads on 6S? and DJI HD FPV!!!!)
If anyone has an old pair of fat sharks they don't use anymore hit me up! LOL!
This is even better than the NES controller
I started with a kk2 and cc3d and artopilot. Would love to fly with the rotor riot team lol