TimberQuad: Build and Fly

Timberquad

My first miniquad had a self build wooden frame. It flew great and it could easily fit 6 inch props. Even when I had a nice ZMR250 quad, I still flew the woodquad very frequently. Because of the battery mounted underneath the quad, it had pleasant flight characteristics (more docile with a sort of natural stability). But then it made its last hard landing (it fell from 30 meters high out of the sky on to the tarmac) So it was time to build a new and better one: version 2.0, the Timberquad!
Here it is:

I used 15mm square wood. Most of it I reused from other projects

The top and bottom are 3mm MDF plate material. Not ideal because its very soft but it was what i had lying around.

The frame held together with wood screws (holes must be pre drilled) The extra holes should provide some cooling for what is inside (hopefully)

The measurements in centimeters.

This is the idea. I'm going to use a piece of copper PCB as the power distribution board (PDB) The VTX in the front with the antenna poking through the top plate.

For the motors i'll use the proven "tape and tie" method: Double sided sticky tape and zip-ties

From left to right: PCB, 5V step down regulator, Naze32, VTX. All mounted with double sided sticky tape.

On the Naze32 I soldered the 90 degree pins facing inwards

FPV camera is mounted with hotglue

It weighs 388 grams. Pretty decent, I think.

In comparison: My ZMR250 (glass fiber) weights 450 grams

Plenty of room for Mobius and battery. 

Although a 2200mah also fits on top i will mostly fly it with the battery underneath.

De Specs:

- 280mm wooden frame

- DYS BE1806 2300kv motors

- ZTW Spider lite 18A 125 oneshot ESC's

- 6X45 props

- Eachine 200mw VTX

- Naze32 with Betaflight 2.6.0

- FrSky D4R II (cppm) Receiver 

The next video shows the first flights. It flew already pretty good. Still some fine tuning to do which will likely improve handling some more.