Piccolino Piccolino is a 1,69 gram radio controled helicopter. It has 2 channels like it's brothers, the PicooZ.  100mg Infra Red receiver by Nick Leichty .  By the way, a 10mAh LiPo battery is on board.  

Born on Monday, Marsh 05, 2006


1.69 grams

2 channels

full carbon

no servo's

no swashplate

InfraRed control

Alexander van de Rostyne never written this page. His site, pixelito.reference.be, no longer exists when he created the Piccolino.
Therefore, to faithfully recreate the most this page, I used his words on RCGroup and rcpilot-online.

Pictures, Videos, Specials


 

 


Alexander Van de Rostyne


The Pixel Family

The buttons below show some of the ancestors of the Pixelito . There are quite some famous ones. The Pixel 290 was actually one of the prototypes for the Piccolo from Ikarus. The Pixel 2000 became as famous as the chick next to it, and was for years the lightest RC helicopter in the world at 49 grams.

Click on one of the small pictures if you want to visit my old site for more details. Be aware that this site dates from 1999 and is a bit 'shaky'.


I must admit that the race for making smaller and smaller is starting to hit barriers . One day it will become very difficult for even de most skilled modeler to cope with that. The biggest challenge for the Pixelito was the size of parts. Manipulating, gluing, adjusting, even just see them is a problem. The funny thing is that it was relatively easy to make the Pixelito compared to the effort required to make the first Pixels. The main reasons for this are the progress in battery technology, the availability of micro motors, and the flood of micro electronics that come to us. 


The plan was (and still is!) to make a small site on it, but I just don't seem to find the time in between all the other things I am doing. I wanted to see how far (small) I could stretch the autostability concept I used for the Silverlit helicopters. So I ended up at 1.69 grams in the air! Here are some of the specs of Piccolino.
Rotor 63mm
100mg receiver (!) by Nick Leichty (Thanks Nick, gave me excellent support)
4mm motor for main rotor
3.2mm motor for direct drive tail
10mAh LiPo battery. 
To be honest that was without the canopy (about 0.06 gram more with canopy)..