My first Single-Copter is finally finished! My advice and struggles

Well thank you. Personally I’m very impressed by this design SingleCopter of Benjamin Prescher on Ardupilot - #9 by juandediosyanez that @juandediosyanez is working on, and you will find precise documentation about it. It has not run ardupilot yet, and I haven’t worked on it so I don’t know its limitations, but it looks better than mine (no hot glue and zip ties? it this dark magic?).

I’ve posted my 3D parts here in the past : All the 3D printable part of my 3D printed Single Copter . You’ll have .stp and .stl , but this was not made with CAD but with Catia so I can’t asses the quality of the .stp on CAD.
I strongly advise you to not blindly copy my parts, but redesign them to understand (or get rid of) the weak points and how to put everything together.

Here are the details that I should have written months earlier :

Motor : 900Kv MT2216 TMotor (ESC : 20A T-motor, prop : 10" x 4.5")
servos : shitty 9g servos from amazon that break all the time (have some spare and don’t hesitate to open them to switch broken gears with one that works from another broken one)
For those who don’t know what else is needed and may end up here, if I recall, you need : Computer (Navio2 in my case), power module for the computer, 5V BEC for the servos, RC transmiter (FrSky Taranis X9 Lite), RC reciever (FrSky R-XSR), battery (4S 2500mAh LiPo), LiPo Battery Voltage Monitor (safety).

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