Hexacopter First Flight

I managed to get the Hexacopter to fly after a few flips on takeoff.  It turns out that the motor configuration and wiring for a Pixhawk is not intuitive or well documented.

1. You have to search through DIYdrones forums to find the information here.
2. Connect motors 1 to 4 to Pixhawk inputs 1 to 4, same as a quadcopter.
3. Connect motor 7 to Pixhawk input 5
4. Connect motor 8 to input 6

Bingo!

Quad to Hex

I decided to go further and build a hexacopter.  I was able to use my existing 550 quadcopter parts and purchase an inexpensive hex frame from Banggood.com, two more motors, two more ESCs, and use some extra landing gear parts.  Here is what I have so far: