I took the lessons from the 1st toothpick and made a better one. This time I made the frame slightly bigger (110mm) but still beefier than the normal idea of a toothpick - again I cut the frame myself on a Bantam Othermill Pro.
This time I used the BetaFPV toothpick 26mm AIO board, coupled with the Caddx baby turtle whoop, with the 26mm board also. This simplified the stack immensely, and I didn't need extra spacers. I splurged on a little circular polarized antenna along with a TBS 400mw VTX. Of course the antenna is not a light as a dipole, but at 72g I thought the overall dry weight was not terrible.
The BetaFPV board is a dream to work with. First of all, the power cord and capacitor are already soldered on. I don't know about you, but I have a hard time soldering ground connections on these boards - maybe there's a large ground plane in one of the board layers that acts as a heat sink?
This is the toothpick testing acro mode.
Also have a look at the first flight.
Frame |
Beefy Toothpick HD frame by joshielevy
Thingiverse.com
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Flight Controller |
BetaFPV Toothpick F4 V2 2-4S AIO Whoop Flight Controller w/ 20A 4in1 ESC - XT30
(24 builds)
Racedayquads.com
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$41.99 |
Motors |
4 x RacerStar BR1103B 1103 8000Kv Micro Motor
(6 builds)
Racedayquads.com
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$34.76 |
FPV Camera |
Caddx Baby Turtle Whoop Version Analog Camera
(7 builds)
Caddxfpv.com
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$64.99 |
FPV Transmitter |
TBS Unify Pro32 Nano 5G8 V1.1 VTx Video Transmitter
(400 builds)
Pyrodrone.com
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$29.95 |
Antenna |
FOXEER Lollipop 2pcs FPV U.FL Antenna 5.8G 2.5dBi Super Mini RHCP Antenna UFL for RC Drone FPV Quadcopeter Multicopter TX/RX (85
(2 builds)
Amazon.com
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$21.99 |
Receiver |
FrSky XM+ 2.4GHz Micro ReceiverDefault Title
(1149 builds)
Racedayquads.com
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$15.99 |
Misc Parts |
Toothpick PicklePod2 : full options Toothpick/TP3 pod canopy by ledroneclub
(15 builds)
Thingiverse.com
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