Mobula 6 upgrade: Ultralight lowrider

​The Happymodel Mobula 6 is proving to be one of the most popular drones of early 2020 just like the mobula 7 in 2019. What makes it so successful? It is small, light and agile and fast enough given the power source. And, with the introduction of esc firmware capable of running at 48khz, it seems to offer the flight time.

Even though it’s a great quad as is, I always like to tinker to see what can be squeezed out. In my opinion it is the super light weight of the Mobula6 that makes it so good in all the parameters above, so how to make it better? Make it EVEN lighter.

For this particular mod I've chosen to remove the canopy and replace it with a lowrider camera mount which I must credit Chaotix from the micro motor community forum with. This was a mod to mount split aio cameras to before canopies were commercially available and offered the following advantages:

• Cheap!
• Light
• No ducts in view
• Very low profile (more on the advantages of this later)

I wanted to see if these benefits were still applicable today and so far as I can tell – yes they are.

First time I did this mod was on a silverised E011C with bolclash split cam about 2 years ago. This was well used and abused and still holding up

So how is it done?
Get a pack of zip ties (like these) that are at least 80mm long and 4mm wide. The smaller the zip mechanism the better. Use a new blade on a hobby knife to cut a slit along the length as below. The lens of the camera will be wedged in this slit and tightened at an angle that suits your flying.

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