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Squishy, destroyer of worlds

By thumbtwiddler on Jan 02, 2018

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THE BOY IS HERE

After about a year or so of mix matched parts and 1 blown up esc, I finally have squishy in his final form, although it is very different than before.
It went from being a modded martian 220 III to a QAV R and now to a poorly-cut-but-still-somewhat-accurate Alien 5 knockoff. You may ask "why would you spend an extra 20 dollars to get the same martian frame?". Surprisingly, this Chinese amazon dealer made the frame based off the actual alien and not the Martian. sure the quality of the carbon is jack shit, has a poorly recreated top plate, and needs to be washed/ filed down in some spots but still, 50 dollar Alien.

The difference between the martian and the alien is that the alien is generally more slim and light, while the martian is generally wider and chunkier to avoid a lawsuit as it isn't directly accurate to the Alien blueprints. This same idea tended to be very popular with fidget spinners as companies could easily slightly modify the fidget spinner design and name and could get away with it as the original design is copyrighted.

update for August 8th, 2018
nvm i put it back on the alien and it flies p good

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upioneer   Dec 30, 2019  
1

you getting any jello on the gopro?

benjo   Jul 13, 2019  
1

Bringing back the red bottoms! oooooh

Flying Kraken FPV   Dec 10, 2018  
1

lol pretty bomb build, love the sparkly props and the eyes

Ryz   Jul 26, 2018  
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I love those fucking googly eyes.

mwm8X8   Mar 20, 2018  
1

Hi mate, are these blue props racekraft ones? I tried similar ones on my rs2205s but my motors didnt handle it well at high throttle. lm not sure if it was overproped or if it was an esc or battery issue tough.

thumbtwiddler   Mar 20, 2018 
1

yep, those were the RK 5051's. i think the reason they are so tough on motors is because they are pretty heavy and also have a ton of torque, resulting in unhappy motors

Danballah   Sep 21, 2017  
1

I program all mine on a 5 year old Linux laptop. What issues are you having with programming?

thumbtwiddler   Jan 02, 2018 
1

mainly installing drivers and other stuff, although i got that figured out!

ftj_85   Jul 10, 2017  
1

nice touch with the eyes lol. Nice build

thumbtwiddler   Aug 27, 2017 

thanks! switched over to a QAV-R 5" clone because I'm more of a freestyle geek

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