DT750 Hexacopter Anycopter Build

This is a overview of how I built my first hexacopter based on the Anycopter hub, so far I have been building tricopters and quadcopters. I really like the anycopter hub for building up multirotors.  I used three anycopter hubs for the body and the 1/2" wooden booms.  The body was cut from Lexan (polycarbonate).  Stabilized by a KK2 flight controller with 1.6 firmware, flying with autolevel on.  The power distribution board was from Hobby King, for 2 bucks it was worth every penny, for all my other builds I made my own but this little board made things so easy, I can't believe I didn't use one earlier.

The pictures are an overview of the parts I used and how I assembled them together. 

The Specs:

• Motors: DT750
• Flight Controller: KK2 1.6 Firmware
• ESC: Hobbyking 20A ESC flashed with simonk
• Width: 26" motor to motor
• Props: 10"x4.5 slowfly
• Frame: Lexan and 1/2" wooden dowels
• Crab leg landing gear from Hobby King

Check the video for a general overview for how I assembled it and a maiden flight.

The finished hexacopter

View of the hub, I used #6 bolts, drill the holes with a 1/8" drill bit and it's a nice fit that you have to use a screw driver to get the bolts through, you don't want the holes too loose.  For the top plate I did drill out the holes a bit larger so I could just slip it on the bolts.  It's really only there for mounting the electronics, the strength for the body comes from the bottom two plates.

DT750 Motors, zipped tied on.  The motors also had the shafts swapped out from the stock threaded 4mm to a smooth shaft so a prop adaptor could be used, see the related articles to do it.

Another view of the hub plates and landing gear.  The landing gear was mounted to the bottom anycopter plate using the bolts that camewith it.

Coming together nicely!

ESCs were mounted and wires run to the hub, the top third plate in removed so I could start the wiring.  The Hobby King power distrubution board is tiny.

Cut the wires and solder them to the hub, use lots of flux and pre-tin the board and wires.  This is where you also would solder on any extra leads that you want to power FPV or other equipment from the flight battery, don't forget to solder on wires for the XT60 battery connector so you can get power to the system.

The top plate put on and bolted together.

10"x4.5 slowfly props mounted with a 4mm collet prop adaptor.

KK2 board mounted with foam tape, receiver mounted with velcro and wiring done.

20A ESCs flashed with simonk mounted on the booms with zipties

3s lipo battery mounted on the bottom with velcro and strap.

Finished!

 Ready for take off!