Prof Scratcher in his normal habitat |
Prof Scratcher:
First you need to
understand me a little bit so you know what background I come from.
I’m from a family of
tinkerers and crafters with creative genes. I personally have an engineering
background having worked most of my adult life as a process/manufacturing
engineer in aerospace electronics manufacturing. By nature that job requires
fixing processes, inventing new processes and a whole bunch of problem solving.
Apparently
that’s his story and he’s sticking to it. Back to the good Professor defining a
scratch built quadcopter
PROF- “Scratch Built” is
exactly that, a quad built from purchased or home manufactured parts and
pieces. Scratching like a barnyard chicken.
How
is it different from Ready to Fly?
PROF- A “Ready to Fly”
(RTF) comes complete or nearly complete and ready to fly out of the box. In
many cases there is more to buy, which seems to be the nature of this hobby,
things such as more batteries, battery chargers, first person view (FPV)
goggles [more on that late] and the list goes on.
Once unboxed the flight
battery is charged, the transmitter is charged and you’re ready for your first
crash! Did I mention that crashing, buying more parts and fixing these things
are all part of the hobby?
How
and when did you get into this briar patch that we will call a “hobby”?
PROF- UMH! My first quad
and how I got into it? Try to keep up Grasshopper.
I had purchased a 3D
printer kit and built that device basically from scratch. (I will be using the
word ‘scratch’ a lot, so get used to it.) While looking for something to print,
I ran across a design for a “V-Tail” quadcopter! Oh boy I can use this hobby to
start another hobby, cool. I love serial hobbies.
A few months later I had
printed and built my first quadcopter frame.
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