I finally finished the first version of my quadcopter.

Here is a short demonstration video:

The frame was CAD designed and laser cut into plywood at SoFAB. Carbon booms come from RCExplorer store. In this video, I use different semi-automatic and automatic Arducopter flight modes:

• "Loiter" mode to fly given a straight pass (01:27), using compass and GPS.
• "Circle" mode to perform the panorama (00:39) at a specific rotation speed, but also to take the footage around (01:43) me given a specific radius.

The image is stabilized using a Walkera G-2D gimbal (2 axis). The yaw axis isn't stabilized by the gimbal so I had to post process some footage using the warp stabilizer in Adobe Premiere Pro. I'm going to replace this gimbal by a 3 axis ones soon.

Setup:

• Flight Controller: APM 2.5
• GPS: u-Blox CN06 Plus (RCTimer)
• Motors: T-Motor MT2216-12 V2 800KV
• ESC: Favourite Littlebee 30A (BLHeli)
• Props: Graupner E-Prop 9x5
• Battery: Zippy 4S 5000mAh 20C
• RC/TX: Graupner MX-16 HoTT / GR-16
• Video TX: ImmersionRC 5.8Ghz
• FPV Goggles: Fatshark Attitude V2
• Camera: GoPro 3 Black
• Gimbal: Walkera G-2D
• Total weight : 1.7 Kg
• Flight time : ~ 15 minutes

I'm going to explain how I built it in detail in the "Projects" section.