Tiny Whoover. A simple build for the E010 micro

by davereap | March 1, 2018 | (3) Posted in Projects

Here is my simple build solution to make the tiny whoover, using the E010 micro quadcopter mechanics.....from bangood ,
The tiny e010 quad is on sale at the moment for £9.54

The tiny whoover needs just 7 parts.     Ive been using 8mm EPP.



Here is the pdf file for the stencils      simplified for E010 .pdf

From the basic whoover plans cut out a single main deck , a top centre strip and the motor pylons...glue these in place...My side walls are made from one 20mm wide strip of 8mmEPP .   Using hot glue the strip is bent around the shape and fitted below , align the strip with the main deck edges . This gives a wall depth of 20mm below the main deck.  There is plenty of clearance for the motors and electrics.
For a camera mount I cut 2 x1" squares , glued them together and trimmed out a suitable hole for the camera.. this was mounted on the centre bar about 1" back from the nose.


First carefully dismantle your quad.   The shrouds with their motors are cutaway from the frame, and cleaned up.   The front motors are left attached to the board and these motor and shrouds are glued up into the holes in the main deck..

Note the position of the board and motors in this view from below. The orientation of the parts is arranged as it would look on the original quad.

The rear motors are de-soldered and short extension leads soldered in their place.   These extension leads seen in the above picture are passed up through the main deck , then cut to a better length and re-soldered/joined to the rear motor leads. Note that these extensions are soldered to the board before the board is hot glued to the main deck.

The rear motors with their shroud are fitted onto the pylons .. the original pylons are lowered by 10cm and a section removed for the shrouds to sit on..

The controller board can now be hot glued central on the main deck.. the socket should be coming out of the board as seen .  NOTE.  every thing is fixed in the same orientation as it was on the quad.  

On the bottom of the side walls/skirt I ironed on some laminating film, this is a tough, smooth and slippery film. The film is trimmed , both on the inside and outside , leaving about 1/4" over inside and out .  this was then ironed "up" and round onto the side walls..
The bottom edge / surface of the film is then given a coat of spray polish and buffed up. making it even more slippery.

The original flight lipo is held on with velcro. under the main plate at the rear.

performance is great, be it on carpet or hard flooring.

edit I knocked these out for some friends in about 90 minutes this morning.


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Here is a whizz about at our indoor flying location, where there is plenty of room . Indoors at home I just dont seem to be able to avoid things even though its nicely manoeuvrable.  lol.  it goes fast on carpet and its a little rocket on hard surfaces.  Much faster than the quad itself when flying.  


The following are a number of build pictures 

The controller board stays in the same orientation as it was on the original quad.  The front two motors in their shrouds are glued into the deck.

Small bits of velcro are placed to hold the original flight battery.

Short extension leads are soldered to the rear motor connection points and passed up through the deck . These are re soldered to the rear motor leads

The rear two motors are hot glued to the motor pylons. Here you can see the extension leads connected to the motor leads. The leads are hot glued to the pylons keeping them tidy.

The camera sits in the cutout near the front of the top bar. Behind the camera is a strip of velcro to hold a small lipo.

Have fun, the EPP build ensures it is almost impossible to do any sort of damage, it just bounces off whatever it hits


COMMENTS

Sheriff on March 20, 2018
Bonjour Monsieur,
I would like to gain from your experience modifing the Tiny Whoop:
Starting from the same small quadcopter, I would like to build a Handley-Page HP-42 with no moving surfaces. How big / small should it be to takeoff with only the limited power of a E010 micro quadcopter?
Guillaume
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Tiny Whoover. A simple build for the E010 micro