{"id":126,"date":"2022-10-09T04:03:39","date_gmt":"2022-10-09T04:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crossidea.us\/?p=126"},"modified":"2022-10-15T08:11:10","modified_gmt":"2022-10-15T08:11:10","slug":"darwin-tiny-ape-fly-to-the-moon-%f0%9f%99%84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crossidea.us\/?p=126","title":{"rendered":"Darwin Tiny Ape: fly to the moon??"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This time, I got a customer from South Tangerang, He sent me his troubled Micro Quad. it was a Darwin Tiny Ape (2.5 inch micro quad), however he tried to assembled by himself using a Crazybee F411 Pro RX Flight Controller.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He sent it to me because it just simply unable to fly (just flip and suddenly disarm). Okay then, we&#8217;ll check it later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/crossidea.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/9A81EA25-E495-4DBE-9597-AB0CF304E2AF-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-127\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crossidea.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/9A81EA25-E495-4DBE-9597-AB0CF304E2AF-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/crossidea.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/9A81EA25-E495-4DBE-9597-AB0CF304E2AF-scaled-600x800.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/crossidea.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/9A81EA25-E495-4DBE-9597-AB0CF304E2AF-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/crossidea.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/9A81EA25-E495-4DBE-9597-AB0CF304E2AF-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/crossidea.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/9A81EA25-E495-4DBE-9597-AB0CF304E2AF-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/crossidea.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/9A81EA25-E495-4DBE-9597-AB0CF304E2AF-1024x1365.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/crossidea.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/9A81EA25-E495-4DBE-9597-AB0CF304E2AF-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>The frame itself looks promising, thick arm with braces to enforces each arm. unfortunately, the standoff is made of nylons (M2 i guess).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is the highlight of its specs:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>2.5 inch Tiny Ape Frame<\/li><li>1103 Brushless Motor<\/li><li>Crazybee F411 RX (<a href=\"https:\/\/tokopedia.link\/MHH40HVLYtb\">https:\/\/tokopedia.link\/MHH40HVLYtb<\/a>)<\/li><li>2S Lipo Battery 450Mah.<\/li><li>Frsky D8 SPI Receiver<\/li><li>Runcam Nano Camera<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ae01.alicdn.com\/kf\/Hf35ee71a705e4f3c8863add7950a0ec8E.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>Credits: Aliexpress\/Google Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The FC itself is a decent one, it has complete feature and somehow &#8216;more than enough&#8217; 20A ESC for tiny build like this (overkill somehow :))), you can add your own expresslrs receiver (UART 2 is available tho), as UART 1 is already prepared for VTX (TBS&#8217;s Smart Audio).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIst to do:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Check board alignment\/orientation<\/li><li>Check ESC&#8217;s firmware <\/li><li>Check Motor direction<\/li><li>Bind<\/li><li>Try to have maiden flight :))<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/crossidea.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_1230-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crossidea.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_1230-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/crossidea.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_1230-600x800.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/crossidea.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_1230-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/crossidea.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_1230-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/crossidea.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_1230-1024x1365.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/crossidea.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_1230.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>October 9th, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Board alignment (Checked &#8211; Done, previously, the owner got it wrong in installing the FC <br>(please check the arrow on the board))<br>If you want to install a FC on your preferences, you can adjust the orientation on Betaflight Configurator tho.<\/li><li>ESC Firmware (Checked &#8211; Done, the owner uses BlueJay for the firmware (just make sure he install a same version on each esc)))<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"874\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/crossidea.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_1254-874x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crossidea.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_1254-874x1024.jpg 874w, https:\/\/crossidea.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_1254-scaled-600x703.jpg 600w, https:\/\/crossidea.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_1254-256x300.jpg 256w, https:\/\/crossidea.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_1254-768x900.jpg 768w, https:\/\/crossidea.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_1254-1311x1536.jpg 1311w, https:\/\/crossidea.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_1254-1748x2048.jpg 1748w, https:\/\/crossidea.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_1254-1024x1199.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 874px) 100vw, 874px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>October 15th, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After rebuilding the micro quad, dealing with gyro orientation mostly, finally now can fly smoothly and perfectly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>:))<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This time, I got a customer from South Tangerang, He sent me his troubled Micro Quad. it was a Darwin Tiny Ape (2.5 inch micro quad), however he tried to assembled by himself using a Crazybee F411 Pro RX Flight Controller. He sent it to me because it just simply unable to fly (just flip [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[44,43,7,46,45,47,42],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-project","tag-darwin","tag-darwin-fpv","tag-fpv","tag-micro","tag-micro-quad","tag-quad","tag-tiny-ape"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/crossidea.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/9A81EA25-E495-4DBE-9597-AB0CF304E2AF-scaled.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossidea.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossidea.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossidea.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossidea.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossidea.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/crossidea.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312,"href":"https:\/\/crossidea.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions\/312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossidea.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossidea.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossidea.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossidea.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}