Building a 6S4P Samsung 30Q Pack for the X8 – Fish Paper, Spot Welds & No BMS Madness Building your own battery pack is one of those things you decide to do once, swear you’ll never attempt again, and then instantly start planning your next one because it’s honestly addictive. For the Project-X8 VTOL build,…

Laminating the Skywalker X8 With 22g Fibreglass Cloth – What I Learned & Would I Do It Again? For this stage of the Project-X8 build, I finally committed to fully laminating the Skywalker X8 airframe using 22g lightweight fibreglass cloth. The goal was simple: increase durability, stiffness and surface strength while keeping the weight gain…

Building a Skywalker X8 for long-range FPV and autonomous flight is basically a balancing act between strength, serviceability, and weight. The EPO foam fuselage is roomy and forgiving, but mounting electronics, batteries, and accessories usually means hacking away at the foam and hot-gluing things in permanently. That works… until you want to change something. Then…