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So... yesterday's post brought this enigmatic grey baggie from downtown...
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Ahh... Okay. It's my order from Bang-em-good; guess they had to relabel downtown for last-mile delivery. $69 for a 105mm wheelbase Brushless FPV NanoQuad kit, COMPLETE with VTX, camera, and 5 sets of props. All you have to add is a nano receiver to match whatever RC transmitter you're using. What's not to love about this deal...? I added a spare set of hardware and upgrade TPU camera pod as they were only a few dollars each.
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Hmmm... VERY iPackaging, replete with QR code.
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EACHINE has come a long way since the plain brown boxes and Ziplok baggiezz of a few years ago.
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Mhmmm... TPU camera pod is squishy... but not too squishy. I like it.
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A bit furry tho. Interesting to see hobbyist-grade 3DP being used for production quantity manufacturing; I wonder how many of these kits BG actually moves in a quarter...?
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It will def need a wee bit of touchup.
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Well, they're not gonna do a lot of detailing for $4 delivered.
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This is what they say it's SUPPOSED TA look like on the quad. A bit nicer than what came in the box.
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In Da Box: One TPU camera pod, a little carbon fiber cross frame (sorry... pic of that was fuzzy as hell) and a bunch of boring little crack baggies with the individual parts inside. There's the EACHINE feel we all know & love.
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The TPU camera Pod fits a 20mm stack to a nano mountless FPV Cam/VTX as are commonly used on brushed "Tiny Whoop" type ducted-fan quadcopters. These cam kits are typically very light (2-4 grams total) and very cheap ($15-25)
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The camera lens will pop into the round slot; the tiny VTX board will go across the flat on the back with the little protrusion supporting the antenna. Typically they mount with uber-sticky foam emblem tape or get glued down with clear silicone RTV sealant.
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Here's a quick mock-up so you can see what the general layout is; I was in the middle of another problem with my son and his vidiot games so I had to forego taking pics of each individual part and the usual "ooohing and ahhhing". I may follow up with more pics later.
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On the left is a similar 120mm wheelbase build on a custom frame from some friends of mine in the trade; when I got that frame the whole idea of a stack of 20mmx20mm boards was still very new as almost everything was still 30mmx30mm. Now 20mm is "huge" and we have "toothpick" frames based on a 16mmx16mm stack.
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In the back is my antique (~2.5 years old) TAROT TL130 FPV MicroQuad; technology has advanced to the point that the only thing I can really use from it is the motors & props, and they're still "fat pigs" by today's standards.
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All these tiny quads are a direct result of the crazy 250 gram limitation imposed by the US FAA; they're trying to kill old-school model aviation by requiring full telemetry and transponder and registration on any model aircraft heavier than "two sticks of butter".
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Other nations have adopted this limit without any real consideration of how ridiculously small it is.
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But there's still a lot of fun to be had with the tinies, and tiny quads means tiny LiPos and motors; this translates into smaller, cheaper everything which reduces cost-of-entry greatly. I'm loving it.
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mnem
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