X100 true-X frame kit (designed to fit Inductrix/E010 style canopies)
8520 brushed motors
F3 EVO Brushed flight controler
FrSky XM+ reciever
Eachine TX03 AIO and 3D printed mount



The necessities arrived yesterday! The rest I had laying around

Edit: Added some pics of frame weights for everyone. (Frame is fairly new from BG so there isn't much info about it yet) 






Frame prepared. Parts organized.... bench is not




More to come throughout the build.

Didn't get much time at the bench this morning. Everything is ready to find its place. (I'll update this with more detailed peparations this evening) but here is where she's at for now.

What's the heat shrink for on the arms?

Every gramme counts on these. If something isn't 100% necessary, don't fit it. If a wire is 10mm longer than it needs to be, cut it back. While twisted wires look nice, the actual wires have to be longer. An XM+ on a micro brushed build is overkill. The lighter you make it, the better it will fly and the longer the motors will last.

I'm not trying to be picky here. When your target weight for a build is in the 35g range, even 0.5g counts!

I would say rawr here... but on a micro... it's kinda... more like a "mreow!"

looks like fun!

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(05-May-2017, 09:00 PM)unseen Wrote: What's the heat shrink for on the arms?

Every gramme counts on these. If something isn't 100% necessary, don't fit it. If a wire is 10mm longer than it needs to be, cut it back. While twisted wires look nice, the actual wires have to be longer. An XM+ on a micro brushed build is overkill. The lighter you make it, the better it will fly and the longer the motors will last.

I'm not trying to be picky here. When your target weight for a build is in the 35g range, even 0.5g counts!

Thanks for the tips Unseen, no worries here.  This is my first 'ground up' micro build. Before this was hacked/modded toy quads

I did remove the heat shrink from the arms and battery lead, 0.6g and the wires I always leave extra long while I am working out component locations. 
I tried to leave just enough length I can "pop-the-top" 



Had to remove the giant glob of epoxy and re-solder power leads on the TX03 just to get it fitted in the mount.


The XM+ is overkill but I kind of wanted to try it out. I will eventually move it over to my NOX5R (if I dont build another quad first. )

Everything soldered, checked for shorts and ready for conconfiguration. 

Nicely built!

I've been using the FD800 receivers on my micro builds and they are great for the price.

A couple of tie wraps and some heat shrink will keep your XM+ antennas out of the props at the expense of a little more weight.

That antenna won't last long unless you do something to protect it though. In the worst case, the part of the PCB where it is soldered to will snap off. The fact that your TX03 is firmly held in the mount probably adds to the risk.

I did a similar build a while back and printed a bow that sits over the antenna and provides a little defence for it in a crash.

Thanks for the tips Unseen. I just put the FD800 in my cart on BG

I'm going to see how the antennas work like this for now. she is a porker at 43g without lipo.




I was thinking of taking apart a rubber ducky antenna to solder on. Would that work? I haven't research anything about it yet but had the idea last night. I have seen where people have broken the PCB right there and dont have the weight to spare for protecting it at the moment.

Nice build! Like what you did with the Rx antennas!

Those antennas look pretty safe, nicely saved!

If you can extract the dipole from a 5.8GHz rubber ducky antenna, it will probably save you a little weight as well. It'll certainly work OK. You just need to be careful when you remove the current one that you don't strip the tracks off the PCB.

(07-May-2017, 07:06 PM)unseen Wrote: Those antennas look pretty safe, nicely saved!

If you can extract the dipole from a 5.8GHz rubber ducky antenna, it will probably save you a little weight as well. It'll certainly work OK. You just need to be careful when you remove the current one that you don't strip the tracks off the PCB.

Thanks and thanks.

An updated picture just for fun. 
The TPU mounts did not hold up well 


My latest Brushed Video DVR from the X100