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thank you! yes, there is a lot of thrust indeed:) The radio issues were gone after I added two 470u capacitors to vcom and ground and one to the battery terminals, like this image shows: https://frankpiesik.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/dsc00229.jpg With this amount of capacity, the radio behaves almo...

finally, here is the video: http://youtu.be/w2nzqslwzCk
you can see that I use a new frame. It now protects the
propellers too. the whole copter now weights about 65g.
given that one motor does about 30g lift, there is still
plenty of headroom.

uups, I'm wrong again! Connecting the caps to vcom and gnd was right in the first place. Sorry for the confusion, I mixed up some tinker memories. I've added a picture of my working setup were you can see how I connected the cpacitors: https://frankpiesik.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/dsc00229.jpg goo...

Hi Alfredvc, I just realised, that I was wrong with my description. The two capacitors are connected to VCC and DGND. You can see it on this graphic, it's connector P5: http://wiki.bitcraze.se/_media/projects:crazyflie:hardware:crazyflie_control_board_rev.f_-_component_placement_top_annotated.pdf Gr...

thanks, I'll try to make a video this weekend...!

Hi,
I made some experiments with the 8.5*20 mm Hubsan motors and
wrote my results down here:
http://frankpiesik.info/2014/06/01/crazy-experiments/
To hold the motors and safe the cf, I've made some 3d-printable frames
you can download here:
https://github.com/Piesi/pCraze


greetings!