Happymdel have been working away on another toothpick style quadcopter (Larva X), and a new whoop flight controller (crazybee V3). Lets take a look at them in some more details.
Larva X Toothpick Style Quadcoter
I call this a toothpick style, as it is probably closer to a regular 2.5inch quadcopter than a toothpick as it does not use the signature 2 blade toothpick props. That said it is super light at 50g, and has all the other makings of a toothpick build, so if you are picky.. just swap the props for a 65mm version. Looking at the video released by Happymodel it does fly well, but needs abit of fine tuning:
Other cool features include a better camera (runcam nano 2), 1103 7000kV motors. The new crazybee V3 flight controller (more on that below) and a new diamond 200mW VTX that includes a built in DVR.
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Crazybee F4 Pro V3 Flight Controller
At the heart of the Larva X is the new crazybee V3 flight controller. This new flight controller is Happymodels take on the BetaFPV/GEP RC 12A F4 flight controller. Just like with the other Crazybee boards, this one inlcudes a built in receiver which is great for micro quadcopters, but if you want to use your own, there is also a noRX version. Otherwise this is the same as any other crazybee board except for the new uprated ESC.
But strangely rather than using 12A ESC like on the BetaFPV/GEpRC boards, the crazybee specs only mention 10A (maybe to cover themselves, see my commentary below).
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Many may not find this very exciting given the bad reputation for the crazybee boards burning up. But I just wanted to say, that since we sell theese boards, 95% of the faults are because the crazybee v1, v2, has only 5A ESC on them. Most of the time when the board dies it is because people are using toothpick motors that can draw more than this. I will also say with the first version of the Mobula7 HD, happymodel was slightly careless shipping them with a motor KV that drew more than 5A, so the first batch of mobula 7HD units had an ESC failure rate of 50%. Now that they have the 9000Kv motors, the crazybee boards have a failure rate similar to other FC’s we sell.
Full Specs of the Crazybee F4 V3
| MCU:STM32F411CEU6 (100MHZ, 512K FLASH) Sensor: MPU-6000(SPI connection) Board size: 28.5 * 28.5MM Power supply: 2-4S battery input (DC 7-17V) Built-in 10A(each) Blheli_S 4in1 ESC Dshot600 ready Frsky version Built-in SPI Frsky receiver with telemetry(D8/D16 switchable) Flysky version Built-in SPI Flysky receiver with telemetry(AFHDS/AFHDS2A switchable) No RX version need to add external Receiver Built-in Betaflight OSD(SPI Control) Built-in Current meter Max 70A Current meter scale set to 470 Built-in 5V 1A BEC Built-in voltage detection |
| MCU upgraded to EFM8BB21 Power supply: 2-4S LiPo/LiPo HV (7v/17v) Current: 10A continuous peak 12A (5 seconds) Support BLHeliSuite programmable Factory firmware: F_H_40_REV16_5.HEX Default protocol: DSHOT600 |
| SPI BUS receiver Frsky D8/D16 switchable Compatible Non EU transmitter both D8 and D16 mode Channels: 8ch or 16ch Failsafe support No ground interference ( Transmitter and receiver 1 m from the ground): 300m |
| SPI BUS receiver Protocol: AFHDS and AFHDS-2A Switchable Channels: 8ch(AFHDS) or 14ch(AFHDS-2A) No ground interference ( Transmitter and receiver 1 m from the ground): 300m Failsafe support |
| No RX version support external serial-bus receiver like XM+, crossfire, S-FHSS etc |
