G'day Chris,
Happy days, the parcels should keep you busy.
I'm not going to put an in flight camera on the mini quad. It's going to be purely FPV, so the weight of the gimbal should be OK.
I think my wife has started getting wise about how much this hobby is costing. I received the Gemfan props in the mail this morning and she made a comment about the number of parcels that have arrived since she and I have been on holiday.
I'm getting stuck into the X-mode Alien at the moment. Still waiting on parts for the mini quad. Hopefully the missus will be back at work by then. 
The programming board for the blue series ESC's was mailed today and is now at the mercy of Auspost.
Cheers, Mark
On the mount, sounds like a good idea. Are you saving any flight footage in air or only on the ground feed?
Thanks for misordering :-) Will be nice to easily change direction via the programming card, I might even drop the connectors to help save some grams :-) I had a freebie from HK yesterday, they put in some T connector adapter, I'll post a pic later on and if I've got no use I'll see if anyone would like them (its a 2 pack of something....). I'm wishing that they'd thrown in something from the wishlist instead, oh well....
My wife was having a good look at my study / building room today while I was tinkering and I think she is on the same path as yours..... She returns to work on the 5th Jan.....
I had a play with the Mini APM today, I have it taking in the PPM signal, the GPS seems to be working, the power module seems to be working too but I have an issue with the motor output. Wondering if you have gotten to this stage with the miniAPM?
The one test ESC I have doesn't sing when I hook it up, it does if I bypass the ESC and go direct to the receive (in PWM mode). I am definitely getting a PPM signal for the throttle.... I've checked the ESC is getting power (reading same as battery). I thought I only needed to wire in the signal wire of the ESC as the ESC has ground return path via it's powered line. I've checked that the +5V line on the miniAPM (motor output) is showing 5.27V so all good there. I've double checked output signal line to make sure I've got the right one plugged in. I've checked it with wiring in the GND line too just in case. I only have the 1 ESC plugged in as it's my spare, I thought it worked if you only had one plugged in?
If I don't suss it out by tomorrow night I'll post up a pic to see if anyone can work out what I've done wrong.....
New to do list :-) or :-( not sure which yet....
- Get mini APM working so I can reclaim my full size APM, return my normal GPS to the Tricopter and lighten the mini Quad.
- Buy can of CorrosionX (that is some great stuff - will waterproof most electronics - absolutely magic stuff - wish I ordered it before I bought the liquid electrical tape)
- Mount the brushless gimbal mount onto the Tricopter and move FPV camera.
- Mount sonar onto Tricopter
- Mount Action Cam to new gimbal and have fun
- Mount new mobius onto the miniQuad
- Change power connectors to the lipo connectors
- Find my old IXUS HS115 and load CHDK - connect to APM and mount to Tricopter (for aerial mapping)
- Change the minimOSD's to 5V (2 new ones plus the 1 on the Tri)
- Desolder the 2 broken MinimOSD's and mount new chips
- Plus more I'm sure....
And in between each of those get lots of flying in. I managed to get in nearly 30mins of flying up at QLD, so my total is just under 1 hour on the mini Quad. I did have one moment of oh-oh while up there, in ALTHOLD mode it shot up vertically and I was able to return to normal flight by switching back to stabilise mode (after going inverted for a split second) - lucky save on my part or maybe I can call it skill by now :-).
Chris
