I thought it would be nice to have a thread where any forum members who are participating in IGOW4 could post their weekly video submissions.

I'll start it off with my IGOW4 preseason week #1 submission (we’re not gonna talk about how many batteries I burned through to make this submission. It’s real damn hard to hover in a cube in acro mode):


As a side note, for anyone who is as cheap as I am-
I considered making a 28" cube out of scrap wood, but, I'm guessing that as the weeks progress, we're going to have to make multiple other obstacles. I don't want to spend time cutting up wood and screwing things together when I could be flying, so I decided to go the PVC route.

But... I'm cheap. I had a $25 Home Depot gift card (for those folks outside of the US, it's a chain hardware store).
Four 10 foot lengths of pvc were only about $4 each. Cool.
The damn connectors can get expensive.
A single PVC Side Outlet 90-degree socket is $5.
A 4-way T is priced the same.
I'm not about to spend $20 on the connectors alone.

So, I bought T sockets that look like this, they're about $1 each, and pvc caps that are about 50 cents each:


And drilled out holes to fit m3 bolts to attach the caps to them:


Came out to: 
$1.50 per connector (x4): $6
$4 per 10 foot length of pvc (x4): $16

$24 total, and after making this cube, I've still got 20' of pvc pipe for any other obstacle I might need to make.

I'm going to make mine tomorrow. I'm considering making it a double cube, ie, 2 cubes high. I will probably me making mine out of 21mm poly pipe (outflow pipe) sourced from Wickes (a similar shop to Home Depot, but in the UK). Total cost should be about £12 for one similar to yours, Lemony (8 pieces of pipe and some connectors).

Right now I don't even have a quad that will work for this challenge. The Meteor85 is way too powerful (and I did try earlier). It's hard to control in Angle, let alone Air. So the job for today is to put the Meteor65 stuff on to a Meteor75 frame that i have, solder the vtx/cam to it and see if it works. Then i might have something for IGOW. Plus I miss having my Meteor75. As much as I bitched and moaned about 1S, for flying in the back garden, it's 1S all the way.

I seriously considered putting that thing in angle mode for the hovering bit. I put the prop guards back on my BuzzBee98 build for future challenges, and I honestly think it would have been easier to do all of that with it on 2s. I find that as I get larger, they’re more stable and less sensitive/squirrelly.

Can that meteor85 run on 1s to tone it down a bit?
I might need to bring my rates down on this little 65mm, but that means compiling Silverware again and resoldering on a connector to attach it to an stlink. Maybe I can do it through stick commands, but with no osd I’m kinda working blind.

Technically the 85 can run 1S. But I don't have any Lipos with XT30 connectors and no adapters. Plus I have a spare 5A AIO FC, a new Ant Lite camera and OVX303, plus all the stuff from the Meteor65. the only decision is whether to stick to 65mm or go to 75mm. I haven't decided yet, but I might build it as a 65mm, just to do one.

I've been practicing with this.  Got it on amazon so my kids can make blanket forts but work well for making gates and other shapes to fly around.  

Gonna practice a bit more then will share a video.

Dude, that thing is awesome. I’m gonna need a purchase link.

Lol, yeah it's perfect for making obstacles.

Fort Building Kit

(25-Apr-2023, 05:06 AM)cali_quad Wrote: Lol, yeah it's perfect for making obstacles.

Fort Building Kit

That’s about $40 out of my price range, but I’ve saved it in my cart. It’s pretty damn awesome.

It’s a long way away from the forts I used to make out of chairs, broom, mop, cushions, rope, and sheets/blankets.

(25-Apr-2023, 09:58 AM)Lemonyleprosy Wrote: That’s about $40 out of my price range, but I’ve saved it in my cart. It’s pretty damn awesome.

It’s a long way away from the forts I used to make out of chairs, broom, mop, cushions, rope, and sheets/blankets.

The way I look at it, 86 rods in the kit can make around 12 freestanding square gates.  Even more if you hang them or stack them.

Here's mine for this week:

Nice use of existing "obstacles" and such a wonderful companion to stand-in for your pole... typically my family members engage in swatting motions anytime a drone is near them.

Lol,
Tks dude. I'm thankful to have her, wasn't planning to do the figure 8 like that , but what I originally thought of was not happening so I asked her to standi in (pun intended)..

Nice flying.

Tks Lemony!

Here's my preseason week 2 submission.

I'm not 100% sure that whatever the hell I was doing were technically split-s'.
I did fly standing up while flying for the first time during part c of this weeks challenge- I got tired of having to walk all the way over there after every crash, which was about every 15 seconds.