3" Whirlygig tricopter

By adamjcooney on Oct 22, 2019

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3D printed 3" Whirlygig tricopter by 1Smug_Bastard using PLA and an Ender 3 Pro. Choose your flight controller carefully. I wasn't able to get DRonin to work with this stack but BF 3.2.2 out of the box works well enough. It's so small I don't know if I miss the Auto Tune and Servo Calc functions in DRonin. Working on a remix with integrated prop guards. I should have used a smaller VTX but its what I had lying around.

Another remix with prop guards.

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Part List

Frame

Whirlygig 2 and 3" Toothpick frames (v2) by 1Smug_Bastard (5 builds)
Thingiverse.com
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Flight Controller

20x20mm Skystars Talon Mini Flytower F4 OSD Flight Controller & 15A BL_S 4in1 ESC & 40CH 25/100mW VTX (2 builds)
Banggood.com
$50.50

ESCs

20x20mm Skystars Talon Mini Flytower F4 OSD Flight Controller & 15A BL_S 4in1 ESC & 40CH 25/100mW VTX (2 builds)
Banggood.com
$50.50

Motors

FPVDrone 1104 7500KV Brushless Motors 2-3S for RC 80 90 100mm 120mm Mini Multirotor Drone Quadcopter(4pcs) (5 builds)
Amazon.com
$32.99

Propellers

16pcs Gemfan 2040 3-Blade Propellers 2.0 Inch Triblade Props Compatible 0804 0806 1103 1104 1105 6200-10000KV Brushless Motors (
Amazon.com
$8.99

FPV Camera

Caddx Mini FPV Camera Newest Turbo EOS2 Mini FPV Action Camera 1200TVL FOV 160° Wide Angle 1/3" CMOS 16:9 for FPV Quadcopter Ra (5 builds)
Amazon.com
$1.00

FPV Transmitter

Team Blacksheep TBS Unify PRO 5G8 HV - Race (SMA) Video Transmitter
Amazon.com
$24.95

Receiver

Frsky XM+ Racing Drone Receiver Mini D16 SBUS Full Range Receiver for FPV Drone Compatible with Frsky X9D / X9D Plus X9E X12S Tr (2 builds)
Amazon.com
$16.99

Batteries

RDQ Series 7.6V 2S 300mAh 50C LiHV Micro Battery For Tinyhawk S - PH2.0Default Title (2 builds)
Racedayquads.com
$4.99

Power Distribution

20x20mm Skystars Talon Mini Flytower F4 OSD Flight Controller & 15A BL_S 4in1 ESC & 40CH 25/100mW VTX (2 builds)
Banggood.com
$50.50

Misc Parts

BMS-101HV Nano HV-Digital, Coreless (2 builds)
Flightcomp.com
$18.49
Show stores (5)
$210.44
$259.90

Discussion

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IronMew   Nov 03, 2019  

If you point the rear servo downwards you can make it into an inverted-tail tricopter and enjoy big tuning benefits: https://www.flitetest.com/articles/inverted-tail-tricopter

catSupremacy   Oct 24, 2019  

oooo cool! got any flight footage?

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