Finally!

Today I got my PCBs for the serial converter and BL-Controls. Now I can finally start building all up. It took an unexpected long time until they arrived.

I hope that most parts I ordered will mostly fit on these small things … the package with the parts looks very big compared to the PCBs ;)

Sadly I had to realize that the guys selling the PCBs are currently on vacation. I should have read their homepage more carefully.

But the positive thing is that they will be back on monday the 19th so they will perhaps ship them tomorrow. Can’t wait to get them and start building.

I will need some kind of tweezers for soldiering the parts. Hopefully I will be able to organize them before the PCBs reach me.

Today a DHL guy stood in front of my door and left a package full of parts for the BL-Controllers and serial converter.

I still wait for the PCBs but according to PayPal the payment is through, so I should get them in the next days too. Hopefully I can start to assemble everything on this weekend.

Long time no post…

Some weeks ago a friend of mine showed me these incredible machines at mikrokopter. I was so amazed about these small flying machines that I got myself the first parts for building such a small flying machine myself.

Because I have nearly no money I split the purchases in small pieces. First of all I got myself four brushless motor controller pcbs and an Atmel programmer pcb from the mikrokopter shop and the nessesary parts.

The next steps will be getting following parts:

• One brushless engine to test the controlers
• Flight-Control pcb with all parts (that will be a pretty big chunk)
• A reciever and a remote to test the flight-ctrl
• A frame
• The remaining engines
• And finally the rotors

Then I should have a complete and flying mikrokopter. I will probably stretch the purchaices over many months while I progress with assembling, testing and earning nessesary money.

Wish me luck with that project. ;)