Firstly the components in this build (from previous builds and new purchases):

Part Frame
Price

16

ESCs/motors 5.8GHz Naze32

TX
52
30
17

Antenna 2.4GHz Walkera Battery Charger Camera

(pair)
receiver Devo 7
8
10
40
7
10 (no
10
(each)
longer
made)

Now the reasons that I chose these specific parts:

Frame
The frame was from amazon and was made out of carbon fibre, I do not know what grade or
whether it is true carbo fibre but it is very strong nonetheless. The frame came with all the necessary
parts (and spares which was another big plus for this frame) so constructing was easy and once the
frame was constructed the weight only reached 90g, yet another positive for this frame.
ESCs/motors
The 4 motors and ESCs came in a combo pack made by Emax, they are 2280kv 1806 motors with
12amp BLHeli ESCs. The reason I went for them was they were a really great deal at the time of
purchase and they would be perfect for the type of flying I want to do with plenty of power but not
being too scary for a newbie racing quad pilot.
Naze32
The naze32 is widely accepted as one of the best miniquad flight controllers but I already had this for
my previous tricopter project so I repurposed it for this miniquad. I will talk more about the features
later on in the build.
The rest
All of the other parts were from previous builds so I just moved them onto this new frame,
shortened wires and soldered them in, this made for a much easier build.

The build itself

The first thing I did was construct the frame with no parts on at all to see what my options were for
adding component in particular places. Reading the description of the frame from the seller
indicated that they designed it for the battery connecter to be protruding from the top, I
immediately didnt like this idea as it would mean the battery wires would be high away from the
frame which would have potential to get caught up in foliage or branches and result in damage of a
battery or of the quad.
The stand offs for the top and bottom plate were high so would allow plenty of room for provisions
like the flight controller, fpv transmitter and the radio receiver, this would mean the battery could
be placed on top and easily positioned to centre the balance of the quad making it easier to fly.

However I noticed an issue with the front arms and there not being enough room to have the bullet
connectors going to the motors as the arms are very short, this is where I opted to start as I wanted
the quad to be very (in wiring terms) clean.

ESCs alteration
Shortening the wires of the motors and the ESCs and then soldering
them back together would not give me short enough wires so there
would be excess (as you can see in the image the motor wires are far
too long), which would completely defeat the point of doing so. So
Instead of this, I cut away the heat shrink around the ESCs and the
silicon around the shortened motor wires and decided to solder them
together.

You can see the heat shrink less ESCs here: I desoldered the 3 wires you can see and proceeded to
solder the motor wires to the pads that previously
had these wires as you can see.
This is where encountered a big issue. I could not
manage to tin the motor wire to then solder to the
pads. I wondered if my soldering iron wasnt getting
hot enough or the solder wasnt of the right type,
but after googling a little I found that some
manufacturers of motors dont solder new leads to
the motor winding they continue the motor windings
as the motor wires which is perfectly alright however
there is a varnish or enamel on them to stop them
shorting with in the motor as they need to create a
magnetic field by induction. I found a method where
you solder the wire into a table of aspirin and this
will dissolve the enamel away.
I went to my local shop and bought some of this:

They worked perfectly and resulted in the enamel

coming off which was evident as the wires were
now silver instead of brown like inside the motor
(as shown). I then did this for all the motor wires
and installed them onto the frame including the
power distribution board, the naze32 and the
battery connector. You can see how clean the
setup is in these pictures which also decreased
the weight, not by much but every gram adds up.

Figure 2

Figure 1

Figure 1
As you can see here I have heat shrunk the ESC signal and BEC wire to the standoffs separating the
upper and bottom plate, this makes build cleaner and prevents the wires falling into the propellers
which would undoubtedly result in disaster. The nylon spacers between the naze32 and power
distribution board provide ample space to route the back ESC wires to make a clean installation once
again.
Figure 2/3
This shows how the motors and setup correspond to
(figure 3) and you can see that the anticlockwise
motors (2/3) are with clockwise threads (red). This is
so that as the motors spin the threads are actually
self-tightening meaning the propellers are never
going to come off.
N.B. The reason for motors spinning in other
directions to each-other is to counteract the torque
of each motor which would otherwise result in the
quadcopter rotating along the z plane without any
control.
Also when changing motor direction you need only
swap two of the motor leads as the voltage is
converted from DC to AC by the ESC so +/- voltage
enters the motor anyway.

Figure 1

After doing all this the physical part of the quadcopter was complete, here are some images (some
taken after first flight):

Now comes programming and adding more hardware such as cameras, battery voltage readers
telemetry etc and obviously, flying! Thank you for reading!