As soon as the Marmotte came out I knew I wanted to do something custom with the cage. I don't like mono-plate designs, I wanted something for a micro camera, and I have had good luck in the past doing customizations with the original Chameleon hardware, so I took my Chameleon mod, mashed it up with the new stuff I've been trying in some other frames I've been working on, and spit this thing out in an afternoon. :D Man I love having a CNC!
I'm over the moon happy with how this thing came out. I've had these EFAW motors sitting around for a while and been meaning to save them for something special, so I figured this was it! Also got one of the new Aikon 55A ESCs, so this is a top notch build! Finally got a chance to take it out and put it through it's paces this week and I'm blown away! Probably one of the best quads I've built to date.
UPDATE APRIL 2023:
So I've since done a bit more work on this quad. I upgraded the arm joints to use the same method I used on the QAV-R 2 frames with the center lock and a full bottom plate. I also swapped over to ImmersionRC Ghost and a DJI Vista. I recently updated this frame to Betaflight 4.4 and its absolutely on rails. Still one of my favorite setups years later.
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Did you just cut down the existing Marmotte carbon if a big selling point of the frame was that it used space grade carbon?
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NOICE Ryan, and fyi to all armattan is now offering either choice of carbon types for purchase AND replaceable arms options :)
interesting, I hadnt seen the replaceable arm one. Do you have a link? I'm curious to see how they execute it.
No I just heard bardwell say it in a livestream since he's moving all his gear over to marmottes from roosters. I only fly strix screeches now 5 & 6", luv them for bout 100g. #poormanshyperlow ;)