Friday, 5 February 2016

V2.0 cavequad

Spontaneous Projects is a chronicle of all of my projects, a reference for me, and a way to prevent others from making the same mistakes. 

The cave quad 1.0 had a limited payload, and is designed as a race quad. The particular flight that these are designed for requires a stable and controllable platform which is resistant to light impacts with the walls, and can run into the ceiling safely. 

It also needs to carry a lot of lighting and a large number of cameras and recording devices. 


V2 was designed ground up for this purpose, 600mm prop to prop with 11" props for stability and payload. 


  • Lighting is provided by 3 sets of 4 parallel LED's driven at about 1A
  • A single Flight camera facing forwards and looking down from near the rear of the quad to offer better perspective
  • a recording camera located just under the main camera
  • A gimballed camera on the front wit

    h its own lighting rig with a tighter beam, 
  • Protective cage to reduce the chance of clipping a prop
  • DVR recording on the ground, in case the whole quad is not retrievable

  • Parachute to make a freefall from 100m with a broken prop non-terminal

  • In theory it also has an on screen display that will be recorded on the DVR


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