Nyuki 100 Brushless Indoor Micro Drone

THE IDEA

The inspiration for the Nyuki came from the desire to have a small indoor brushless FPV drone. I was tired of the lack of power with brushed indoor copters and I didn’t like that the brushed motors only lasted so long. Another thing that I wanted this small copter to have was protection for the circularly polarized antenna on the small FPV cam VTX combos. Thus the Nyuki 100 was born.

FEATURES

• Brushless Power
• True 90 degree X frame 
• Can run any 11xx size motors with standard 9mm mounting pattern.
• Fly up to 2.5” propellers
• Compact FPV backpack with cam angle between 15-20 degrees.
• Integrated antenna protection
• Super strong one piece main frame
• Super small fly anywhere size
• AUW (w/500mah 2s lipo): 94g

BUILDING AND TESTING THE FIRST NYUKI

The first prototype was cut out on my companies CNC machine. The build was very fast mainly due to the Piko BLX. Having and integrated PDB and FC made the build very simplified. I flashed the Piko BLX with Betaflight and then started tuning. I wasn’t getting the performance I wanted, in fact it was flying really bad… I did some troubleshooting and found the problem to be the ESCs. They were some old 7A ESCs using PWM communication that did not even have OneShot protocal. The ESCs were very unresponsive and would not react fast enough. The commands from the flight controller were so delayed that the quad was flying terrible. I swapped the ESCs for some Aikon 30A SEFM BLHeli-S ESCs (overkill I know) and the quad flew great! Moral of the story is to use high quality ESCs.

I was having a blast with this little quad. I could practically fly it anywhere due to its size. I was flying it in my house, at small parks with cool sculptures, inside my office and more. After a week of flying I had a bad upside down crash which caused the antenna protection on the side plate to break on the first prototype. Even though the carbon broke it still protected the antenna. So the next day I cut out side plate V2 with a bit more strength for the antenna protection and I haven’t had an issue yet even with similar crashes.

FLYING CHARACHTERISTICS

Given that this micro drone is running Betaflight and BLHeli-S, it really does fly like a larger 5” quad. Indoors the 2s power is more than enough. It performs better than any Tinny Whoop with upgraded motors that I have ever flown. It flips and rolls so gracefully and is super locked in. Outside the 2s setup lacks power in wide open spaces, but it really shines when you stick close to obstacles and try some precision flying through small gaps. I currently have parts coming for a 3s Nyuki setup that should be great outdoors.

CONCLUSION

The Nyuki is a great indoor copter on 2s with some great potential for outdoor performance on 3s. I have really been enjoying flying this little copter. It is super nimble and very durable. I am also very excited to announce that the Nyuki is available for everyone at Armattan Productions (link below)!

FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS

After getting some feedback from the community on RCGroups, I have been working on a few optional parts for the Nyuki. In the near future I will offer a thinner 1.5mm main plate to make the frame even lighter, provide removable propeller guards and offer a frame with integrated propeller guards. If there is anything else you would like to see added let me know and I can consider designing it and making it available. 

WHERE TO PURCHASE

http://armattanproductions.com/pages/kit_detail/651

MORE VIDEOS ON THE NYUKI

Check out my YouTube channel to find more videos on the Nyuki

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKbRhfVajDvPmXvItZAZJLg

MORE CONTENT

Check out my Instagram for more content on the Nyuki and other flying related content.

 https://www.instagram.com/rotorex_fpv/