Maiden flight of the Titan tricopter

One day flitest showed up as a recommended channel on my youtube page, since then I got hooked. Especially on the tricopters. My previous RC experience was with electronik and nitro cars. I thought I would have no problems building a tricopter myself having a background as a toolmaker and having tackled multiple electronics projects. It took me about 8 hours to build. I spend a lot of time on soldering all the bullet connectors and had some problems setting up the controls since I'm not yet used to all the terms like aileron, yaw etc.

To start of with here is a list of what the tricopter is made off:
-KK2.0 flight controller, firmware 1.6
-254x119 props
-Turnigy 2200mAh battery
-Turnigy plush 25Amp speed controllers
-HexTronik DT750 motors
-Titan airframe (www.fortisairframes.com)
-Turnigy 9XR remote with FrSky transmitter and receiver

As you can see a lot of the electronics are the same as what David uses for his tricopters. Only problem with that is that the titan frame is designed to be used with different motors and unfortunely the DT750 motors don't fit the motor mounts that come with the frame. Luckely I can 3D design and 3D print my own parts. So I came up with these motor mounts.

My motor mount designs for DT750 motors and 10mm booms are available for download here: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:130749

Then I designed another mount for the yaw mechanism: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:131246

Installed yaw motor adapter.

Another thing I would like to share is what I did for the inbuild voltage alarm of the KK2.0 board.
I got myself the hobbyking 4x3.5mm ESC power breakout cable (part ID 015000085), replaced one negative female connector for a male connector on the breakout cable and on the KK2.0 used a male connectore for positive lead and a female connector for the negative lead (shown on the photo below, ran out of red heat shrink so I used clear heatshrink instead. Makes the voltage alarm wire easier to find too). By leaving the positive connector on the battery side female and making the negative male, I can't accidently reverse the polarity of the voltage alarm. And the positive terminal on the battery can't accidently short out.

I choose the titan airframe because of it's well thought design. I can definitly say I put it too the test. I had some serious crashes because I didn't sync the speedcontrollers properly on the KK2.0 board. And today I got too confident and flew it into a tree. So far it's only costing me a bunch a cable ties and if your unlucky, then ones in a while you might loose an O-ring that secures the arms. I also want to complement on the customer support of fortisairframes.com.