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Illuminated Tricopter Upgrade - Adding an Addressable LED Ring

tomaja
tomaja
29 Nov 2015

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Adding Remotely Controlled Headlights to Tricopter

 

Introduction

My project for the LED Roadtest+ was named Illuminated Multirotor and this post will finally give some info about my latest tricopter.

This is my third tricopter build and the first one built using carbon fibre parts and integrated flight controller. For this one I ordered parts from David Windestål at RCExplorer.se. His Tricopter 2.5 build was inspiration for me to enter the hobby and the first RC vehicle I built 3 years ago. Buying the kit from him was a chance for me say thank you.

 

LED strip mount

I repurposed the old Chinese umbrella wires to make a lightweight wireframe mount for my WS2812B LED strip image Wires were painted black to match the Tricopter body.

Unfortunately, I forgot to take pictures during the wireframe build. I only have post-build pictures.

 

LED strip mount was attached using metal clips (also made from umbrella parts). These clips make it easy to attach/detach the mount to/from tricopter body:

image

 

LED strip was carefully attached to the wireframe mount using zip ties:

image

 

This is how it ended up. I'm very satisfied with the outcome:

image

image

 

Future work

LED strip is not where it ends when it comes to illuminating this tricopter.

I ordered some high brightness LED from Würth Elektronik and matching boards from Ebay. I will use these LEDs to make strong headlights.

 

Dragan

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