I have 2 daily drivers, since I often break one when I go to the park and I like to experiment, although I am very new to flying. 

OG Orange was originally bought for a steal from some guy on a classifieds site since I was waiting for parts to build my first quad (now Purple Boi) and was impatient - being the noob that I was I didn't realise it had a spektrum receiver installed and I have a FrSky radio, so I ended up having to wait for a receiver to arrive anyway. I live in Bangkok so there is little in the way of local suppliers. This quad has taken a serious beating from me and I am amazed at the durability (although I have fixed a lot of stuff along the way). I've swapped out a lot of stuff since I bought it as well.

OG Orange:
Chinese alien copy frame
Matek F405-CTR FC (my second, I fried the first)
RunCam Micro Eagle w/ some random Foxeer lens I found (smashed the original)
T-Motor F40 2600kv
FlyColor x-cross BL32 35A ESCs
TBS Unify Pro HV 2 Race VTX
TBS Triumph
GPS Module


Purple Boi:
(different) Chinese alien copy frame
Mamba F405 Stack
Emax Eco 2400kv
EAchine TX805 VTX
Foxeer Predator v3
Foxeer Lollipop 3
GPS Module

Future ideas:
HD camera with recording - I still crash way too much and don't do anything impressive enough to bother with a GoPro
Buzzers (I have them but forgot yesterday to install them)

Until yesterday I had the mamba stack in OG Orange since I had fried my F405-CTR and I was waiting for the replacement, I was about to go to Europe for a few weeks and I wanted to take a quad with me so I hacked it up in a couple of hours and took a lot of spares - that turned out to be a good choice. Anyway, I spent the whole day yesterday tearing it down to the frame, rebuilt it a lot better and put the new F405-CTR + old ESCs back in, transferring the Mamba stack into newly built Purple Boi.



Poor guy lost an eye...



Before yesterday's work...



After, both of them.



I installed a chin guard which came with Purple Boi's chinese frame (at least I assume this is it's intended purpose?) to hopefully save my camera lens from poles this time.



All purple Everything



A tight squeeze - that is actually a 3 board high stack, the VTX is on there at the top. I had to trim down some standoffs to get it all in there.



I thought this looked cool.



Both are around the 370-380 mark. I am just flying freestyle for fun in the park so I am not trying to aim for any specific weight or shave off the grams



Durable AF antenna mount



Current state of The Bois


================ 23/09/2019 ================

Today I added a RunCam Split 3 Nano to OG Orange. Turned out to be a bit difficult to mount since my frame natively accommodates full sized cameras, so I made my own mini-to-full-size mount using some standoffs, but I think this is also why I am getting some vibrations in the video which weren't previously there.



Before shot



Current state of his internals



Pretty dodgy little mount, I might either try to find a micro-to-full-size adapter on banggood or just get a mini sized split 3 and stick this one in a future micro build.



Finished result

I added a RunCam Split 3 Nano to OG Orange today and tested it out on my rooftop. Those vibrations when I accelerate are a bit annoying but not a bad little camera for the price IMO.

Not bad man. Heck of a place to have a failure, hehe.

Deal

Good builds, I would tuck a bit better that wiring on top of the FC just for peace of mind.
That camera makes good video for it's size, I really think it's good

I saw no green in your video, it must be hard to find a good spot to fly over there.

(26-Sep-2019, 10:13 AM)brnmd Wrote: Good builds, I would tuck a bit better that wiring on top of the FC just for peace of mind.
That camera makes good video for it's size, I really think it's good

I saw no green in your video, it must be hard to find a good spot to fly over there.

Thanks - yeah it's really hard to find somewhere to fly and that is my biggest hurdle at the moment. Especially right now it's wet season so the few parks are very muddy and full of puddles. It's that or concrete.