Racing Drone Upgrade

This is my step by step process on how I upgraded a racing drone!

I started off with an old drone that someone had made but did not have a use for anymore.

Everything on the frame worked, but I wanted to upgrade the frame as the 3d print was heavy and very fragile.

In addition to that, I wanted to rework the positioning of the devices like the flight controller.

After looking at the prices of frames online and how expensive they were, I opted instead to go and get a sheet of carbon fiber at Lowes.

With a bit of ingenuity I took a 3d printed file of a qav250 and got the sheet cut at the cities library.

Now with my new frame, I set out to

move all of the components over.

This is where the fun begins…

I started by attempting to solder my escs onto the power distribution board, and after several tries and one esc that caught on fire, I ‘successfully’ finished soldering my escs.

Now onto the motors

Now for motors.

I transferred over the motors and soldered them to the escs.

One motor died on transfer and upon replacement an escs completely stopped working.

After trying many different things I decided to reach out to the local community and see what advice they had.

Reaching out to the surrounding

community was the best thing I could’ve done.

I leaned so much that I did not know.

- I learned that my flight controller was a horrifically old device.

-My motors were really weak

- My build was all wrong

After visiting a very generous

local drone enthusiast, I was given 4 much better motors and escs, and instructed on how to put the build together.

Here is my drone after my new

motors and escs have been installed.

Looking much better!

After about a week I finally got

the general skeleton down. However I had an issue with connecting my esc to the flight controller.

Back to meet with the guy I met with a couple of weeks ago!

When I went back he changed my

second motor over to my 6th port and programed the flight controller to recognize 6 as 2.

After that, it worked!!!

Here it is, the final result!

After about two months I finally finished!

I will attach all 3d files below.

Let me know what I could’ve done better.

Hope you enjoyed