Quadcopter with a Small Passenger.

This time I take my little buddy for a ride on my magic carpet.
He's not stuck on with any glue or velcro or anything. Just sitting on top. The quadcopter is balancing it there as part of its normal stability program. Any acceleration by gravity seems to be totally cancelled.

My little buddy weighs 125 grams.

Those of you who have worked for former telecom giant Nortel may recognize my little buddy as the Nortel Cash Cow.

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Science & Technology

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• Quadcopter
• Arducopter
• passenger
• balancing
• indoor
• flying
• Nortel
• cash
• cow
• payload
• accelerometer
• gyro
• funny
• trex
• 450

[96sunvalley]

Cool! When I saw the title, I thought you were gonna put Mikey on there! LOL

[Nomoreidsleft]

@96sunvalley If Mikey sends me a Mikey doll, it's going for a ride.

[MikeysRC]

Great idea to have the frame stick out beyond the props!

[Nomoreidsleft]

@MikeysRC Yep, it's like training wheels for multi-rotors. It literally bounces of walls. Great for indoor flying.

[simonstuartmurray]

Thanks for your video response Nomoreidsleft. But I have to admit - I don't think I've met your little friend before!

Nice stability and flying. Now you have to take it outside and do a loop!

I like your extended arms. It has inspired me to make my next copter with extended arms. Plus I think I will make circle of carbon fibre strips, around the arm extensions, to completely protect the props.

Simon

[Nomoreidsleft]

@simonstuartmurray It can literally bounce off walls, especially with the two foam balls in the front. You could go with the landing strips, but I was thinking of adding the rods from a setting of heli training gear. One caveat with the extended arms is that I'm using round tubes, they are lower in air resistance to reduce any loss in lift.

[96sunvalley]

@Nomoreidsleft Now that I wanna see! Hehehe!