Tricopter
Intro: Tricopter
This is how I built my first tricopter. I did not design the base plates for the frame David Windastå did. Most of this is also from flight test and Hall studios. I will not refer to it as a drone because the topic of drones causes controversy so let's begin. Here is a video of the first flight
STEP 1: Parts to a Tricopter
You will need tools
Drill
Jigsaw or hand saw
Pliers
Soldering iron and solder
Hot glue gun and hot glue
Packing tape
Zip ties
Tape measure
You will need
3 brushless motors 3 electronic speed controllers $21.50 each $64.50 for all
3+ propellers (you will crash and break your propellers) $2.79 each $8.37 for 3 sets
A metal geared servo $26.61
Kk2 board $29.99
A 3 cell 2000mah battery $8.50
10 Male to male servo leads $3
Radio and receiver $60
A sheet of plywood
Wooden booms any width up to 1 and 3/4 inches. Hight of 1/2 inch
11 screws and 10 nuts ( Any will work)
Wire harness aka power breakout cable $3.99
Wire Close hanger
lipo battery charger $30.00
total cost $204.97
STEP 2: Working on the Base Plates
STEP 3: Booms
STEP 4: Drilling
STEP 5: Back Boom Attachment
STEP 6: Putting on the Booms
STEP 7: Painting
STEP 8: Yaw Mechanism
STEP 9: Soldering Motors to Wire Harness
STEP 10: Connect to the Flight Controller
STEP 11: Landing Gear Battery Holder
For a battery holder I drilled two holes under the frame to attach zip ties to to hold the battery.
STEP 12: Setting Up the Kk 2 Board
You go in to menu then Down to set motor layout and the tricopter
STEP 13: Flying
STEP 14: Add Any Thing That You Want
Fpv
Bomb drop
GPS
Retract landing gear
And many more
11 Comments
diy_bloke 7 years ago
i love DIY, but ofcourse for 200 USD one can also get a ready made Tricopter or quad copter.
Great build though
NoorBhatia1 8 years ago
slash359 8 years ago
NoorBhatia1 8 years ago
NoorBhatia1 8 years ago
slash359 9 years ago
4vulpes4 8 years ago
Cheers
berbankgreen 9 years ago
You need to do a few things, typically...
load tricpoter layout M4, M4 being the yaw servo (make sure you don't select "high" in the settings, keep it on low)
Reverse the servo from100 to -100 in miscellaneous settings.
Centre all trims to zero in the receiver test.
Now take the Plimit and Pgain settings down to 10 inPI editor
I gain and I limit should be zero.
fly it. If its spins, check the tail motor is tilting enough. Increase Pgain by 10 until its stable but not oscillating, then do the same to Plimit.
If tail rotor is juddering decrease its settings likewise in PI editor.
You should get close if you follow this.
gearup500 9 years ago
I hope this wins. Nice video!
4vulpes4 9 years ago
It would be great to have a video of the Tricopter in action
slash359 9 years ago
Please comment what type of mod you would want me to do