My daughter got a drone from Santa for Christmas. She was super excited to get one. She got the Tozo q4040 drone. Small and compact. Barely after 5 minutes of playtime she got it stuck in the tree. It finally fell down from the tree due to wind. Low and behold, the arm broke from the 8 ft fall. Not fixable or replaceable. BS on that and she was upset. I was not expecting that too be that fragile from a short fall onto the front yard ground covered with grass and leaves. Just sent it back to Amazon yesterday. She is already wanting another drone and I am reluctant to get another one. Anyone have one they like? She did well with it for a first timer with it flying around the yard and up/down the street until it flew into the tree branches coming back to her. TIA. I am tempted to find a brushless one since a friend of hers up the street got one for Christmas too that was not brushless and the motor is already burned out from constant use in less than 2 days of use which again seems BS for what they go for.
pheller
PowerDork
12/28/17 11:18 a.m.
Even though I don't own one yet, I've done some research. This may interest you:
http://www.controllercraft.com/articles/tiny-whoop-ultimate-guide/
http://www.controllercraft.com/articles/cheapest-tiny-whoop-builds/
Basically, small, cheap, lots of easily sourced parts, and the ability to modify to heart's content.
JThw8
UltimaDork
12/28/17 9:18 p.m.
I've spent a lot of time building and playing with drones lately. Best advice I received and that I can give is buy a cheap one, like under $50
Unless you buy something over $500 with autopilot features you will crash a full manual drone, its going to happen, I killed 3 sub $30 drones over hours and hours of flight practice before I ever powered up my "good" drone that I built. In full manual mode as most drones are it is a steep learning curve. Ever night after work I would sit in a chair on my porch for an hour or so, the first week was flying it straight out to the back of my yard, then straight back, over and over. Then next week I flew it to the middle of the yard and went side to side for hours on end. All the while keeping it about 2 ft off the ground. Then I put it all together and added height and immediately ditched it in the road behind my house and it got run over.
It takes time to learn, small cheap ones are particularly unstable especially if there is wind but if you can learn with them you'll do better moving up later.
