Heres a summary of info that wasn't included in the video: - No you didn't read the name of this channel wrong, this is my second channel. - The flight controller runs iNav firmware for the GPS capabilities. - FDM 'carbon fibre' 3D printing is still far weaker than actual carbon fibre, but good luck. - The drone cost approximately £270 (approx $350), not including the carbon fibre sheet, multiple broken cnc bits, radio receiver and 3D printer filament and one set of batteries. - I won't sell kits as it takes a lot of time to manfacture, and there are many cheap kits available. - I don't sell racing drone kits anymore due to a lack of interest and lack of income. - Yes I will probably collaborate with Tom Stanton at somepoint if he wants to.

You really look like Tom Stanton. You even have a similar name!

Tom said that Tim makes "lOw QuAlItY cOnTeNt". wtf, this is great...

Please Collab with Tom Stanton, he's really cool and does similar stuff to you.

Haha I will probably like this channel more than your primary channel if it continues with such videos.

Such a clean design. Good job. Looks great.

Tim station LMAO

I didn't expect to be Sketchup shamed when I got here... :P Looking forward to more build-centric videos.

Well done. Your design is so simple and clean but yet it's beautiful to look at. No wires all clean. That's the frame I want.

What a fantastic project! Would love to see a more detailed tutorial video on the electronic and programming side of this build up. 5/5 will try this one day!

This is amazing of all the types of new built you made it look easy

You love to see it A channel using the metric system so that you have a clue of what he is talking about

Tom, you’re a bloody legend

oh my gosh!! i used sketchup when i was like 12-14 to just have fun making stuff! really helped me get down the basics and the learning curve for fusion 360 was easy after that.

For the propeller mounts, you should probably use locking nuts to prevent them from ever coming off

I really love your channel, you're like a Mk 2 Tom Stanton

Impressive build

Love your work. Inspiring.

Hi, Tom. Thanks for the parts on thingiverse! It is exactly what I needed to replace my current frame that has plastic arms and have too much flex for the flight controller to handle for quality flight.

Dude I’m not much into big x class style drones but I do like this heavy lift idea. Very cool. Can’t wait to see the first lift or launch from it. Sub’d!

dude this is amazing

Love the frame. Trying to finish my tarot 650, but loving your frame much more.

I have designed drones from aluminum, cutting them out by hand like you. I really like your design of your heavy lift drone! It seems nice and simple.

Hi Tom. Helluva CNC you got there. I recently got up and running with my own CNC router mill. Learning how to cut CF and jot break bits has been an experience. I also cut under water, I actually cycle my water through a fultraion setup so my CF waste os captured and easily disposed of. The secret to my CNC bathtub is the toilet bowl overflow system(also similar to aquariums that use sump type filters). My method requires me to fixture the panels and machine with tabs. Seems most of the folks out there use a tape/crazyglue and spoil board method but then they are generating dust. I have already built several micros of my own design on up to very large tube frame 10-12inch builds. Currently in the design process for a possible 22inch monstrosity that will be running on 12s4p 18650 packs and 5215 300kv motors. Already having a ton of success using 18650 on everthing from 3in micros on up to Xclass with 6s2p packs running together for 6s4p. 18min flying time on 400kv 13in with 12000mah cruising 40mph the entire time is my best so far. Soon will have my Xclass running 8s4p. I learned with one of my builds that tube clamps and tube arms can suck for aligning all the screws/clamps if you use a bottom and top plate to sandwhich all the clamps.

Great video. Love to see a 'how-to' guide on building this.

seems like modern art to me!

Working on putting together a Lowrider 3 CNC right now, will have to put this on the list of things to try with it. 👍

I don’t know why but I was really happy to be the 50th subscriber.

Didn't we learn from the last decade that letting people chose names and things doesn't go well. You end up with things like Boaty McBoatface and that other thing that begins with B that I shan't mention. And now Tom Stanton is Timothy Stopping Place.

Great build, awesome! If you want to boost up the flight time (efficiency) oy your quad, use slower turning motors with bigger props. I had great success with Tarot 5008 Motors and 18 Inch props. They are a bit more expensiv but not much! This configuration will give you over 3Kg of thrust per motor and much higher efficiency. The bigger the prop, the better the efficiency at given thrust. Also, the Tarot motors have the t-mount hole pattern and are even 25g lighter than your turnigy ones.

good job tim

Awesome!! Added to my list of projects! Now to send the wife off somewhere so I can get building! Thanks

Nice job ! Thanks for sharing :)

When i first read the channel name i thought i had gotten his name wrong the whole time

Haha looks so similar to the heavy-lift one I built on my channel! Great work!

Looks awesome! Also, thank you for taking your health into account and milling your carbon fiber in water.

I love your Helicopter in the background just like mine

Hey "Tim Station"! Thank you yet another great video. Your work is truly inspiring! By the way, there is a guy called Tom ...something or other ... who looks a little bit like you! ha ha

I know very little about FPV flying. You would be the perfect person to learn about that from, if you were so inclined. Thanks for the video and your second channel.

Brilliantly inspirational😉👍

Looks amazing! Could you post links to the electronics in the description for those of us who want to build their own?

Very useful and informative

I was literally typing a comment on the other video asking about this drone when you mentioned your second channel lol

Gods you're good!

for such a big drone KV is quite high, I would recommend change motors to something like tarot 4108/380KV or 4114/320KV. It will definitely increase flight time and improve overall efficiency. In my setup, I was using 6A/4S with an 800mm frame. With all the equipment the weight was about 3kg. It allows about 30 mins of narrow flight time. FC was a custom one but based on Linux+Ardupilot...

No Way I'm at UH second year Aerospace, just built my own racing drone over christmas! Nice vid keep up the innovation.

Did you used betaflight to programing the flight controller..?

Cant wait to make my own

For a moment, I thought KZfaq unsubscribed me from my most favorite channels, again... lol

Have you considered high-strength Aluminum or Titanium fasteners? I worked aircraft structures for 24 years. Lots of options out there.

Okay I’ve got to find someone with a CNC machine. This is pretty much exactly the project that I’ve been wanting to do only with FPV and a drop mechanism added.

Something I was wondering, motor arms are pretty much tuning forks, is there a clever way to attach wire and/or a thin rod between motor arms such that the vibration coupling damped the harmonics of the individual arms. Simplest, I thought, would be to connect the end of each motor arm to the adjacent motor arms with a tight wire.

Can it support a FPV gimbal and camera?

Very interesting! Thanks for this video! Would be curious to see a more in depth "how to cnc cut carbon fiber frame" and "how to design a quadcopter frame". Are you running arducopter or iNav on the flight controller? What is the weight of the frame itself (with and without the legs)?

I see it has Inav on the flight controller. Writing this question before finish watching the video, do you mind posting your configuration, flight modes and some particular advice on such a big quad? Specially on the PID tuning methodology. Is it too much to ask about telemetry related Opentx Lua scripts? Thanks again, love the channel.

curious if you could print those prop adapters out of TPU if they would add any dampening?

holy shit.... are we just gonna not talk about the absolutely massive cnc mill behind you?? look at the size of that z stepper!! and the size of the main motor.. holy shit.. how have i never seen that before??

It's so stable

Great work! How do you align the motors on round arms though, so they are pointed the right way?

This actually looks awesome. What is roughly the total cost for all the materials used?

What is the longer arm length? Looks like about 400mm? I had the flat carbon cut by CNCMadness and I'm shopping for arms!

Huh you have your own race drone. Neat!

Really nice and clean design. Would be interesting to compare flight times with longer propellers and perhaps lower kv motors.

I think tom is missing the point of having a second cha- *cough cough* I mean tim station has such a wonderful and in-depth channel!

Designing your own drone for flights with GPS functionalities is relatively simple. It becomes significantly harder when you want to incorporate onboard and real-time footage, or some more advanced automatic functions such as collision avoidance or active track. That's why people with money to waste resort to DJI for their entertainment

I was wondering, helicopter blades are long and straight so have more lift at the end Would it not be better to have them wing or propeller shape ? I might be wrong

Nice TSX900

Omg, i want to have you on my team in an future apocalypse

I think the tiny ones are more fun, but they are both good.

This is a really nice quadcopter! Is it running INAV firmware or something else to get the GPS return to home function? Also, have you considered using Li-ion batteries (18650 cells) instead? I know you made a video about it some time ago, this kind of drone is the perfect application for that. Would give even longer flight time.

What is the cost per drone if you were to mass produce them? I have a cool idea..

Cool Tom!

Your skill is really cool! Hello from Russia!

Great👍👍👍

Hey Tom! Thank you so much for doing this video! I am in the process of building a Tarot 600mm drone. I am happy you went into detail with this video! I have also subed to this channel. Can you link your iNav settings for this FC?? Dump then copy and paste them here or something? I think the other trouble I'm having is the throttle on my QX7. I guess ill have to tighten up the screw to make the gimbal rest at 1500 instead of leaving is loose like when you fly rc planes.

Hi Tim! Does this have collision detections yet? It looks amazing!!!

That's a cracking shed, thought it was the tardis until I realised ehat the set up might be. Tiled flor no less. Good for you, veryimpressed with your set up, what CNC machine is that please?

I love the name

I ❤ old SketchUp!

Hey, I'm building this setup at the moment and I'm having some issues with the motor acceleration on throttle blips. Did you change Motor timing/Rampup power in the ESC settings?

hey tom/tim, could please upload an image of the wiring. Thanks

What battery level/voltage indicator did you use? Thanks!

How much thrust would a 1000kv motor with 1045 prop will provide on 2.2AH 3s 30c?

Can you make a video about your journey going to university, projects you've done, and what you are doing now?

hello tim, I would really like to buy a drone but I have no experience with making / flying a drone. Is this the right way to start? What would you recommend ?

Did you drill through the Propeller? I don't quite get how the shaft doesn't fit at first, but then the hole seems to have widened.

"-google sketchup-" *OH GO OH NO*

What firmware are you using on the FC?

Are you going to post anything about your trip to the US?

I recommend You protect the ceramic gps antenna. It scratches very easily and becomes less sensitive.

Hey, how did you configure the gps module to return to home?

i like the second channel! how are regulations for drones in the uk (afaik in austria everything heavier than 250g needs some special license)?

I would love to get into custom drone building, but is there any way I/we can just purchase parts from you?

I actually did it too for my PAP project at school.

Can you make a video on how you made the parts with carbon fiber sheets

This drone sounds pretty quiet, and has a fairly pleasant (low-pitched) sound character. Do you have any more information on the sound level, motor RPM when idling, etc? Or is the quiet-seeming drone just microphone post-processing magic?

Tom please help, i would like to know how you have configured betaflight to land so precisely, as Joshua B explained it mostly crashes as it cant remember or detect where ground is?

What are the dimensions of the carbon fibre tube you used after cut.

ahaha, best channel name ever, I'm in at about sub 1000. xD

As I see you used only 2 screws for motor mounting. Are 2 screws enaugh for mounting motor or better use all 4?