Category: Betaflight

  • ArteryTek AT32 Flight Controller – NeutronRC F435

    ArteryTek AT32 Flight Controller – NeutronRC F435

    OK, I’m kind of hyped with this! What you see on the image looks like an any other flight controller, right? Looks again! It’s not STM32 but ArteryTek AT32! And F435 as a bonus 😉 With the continuing chip shortage supply of STM32 is limited and prices high. Maybe have an alternative source of MCUs…

  • STM32 F1, F3, F4, G4, F7 and H7 flight controllers

    Currently, almost all flight controllers we use on our multirotor FPV drones and airplanes are powered by microcontrollers from an STM32 family. When we say about flight controller families or generations, we refer to them by the family of the MCU. For example: F1 flight controllers are no longer supported or You should get F7…

  • Betaflight 4.2 Gyro, Looptime and Gyro Stage 2 Lowpass Filter

    Betaflight 4.2 brings some very important changes to how various tasks are processed. Especially how gyro,m filtering and PID loop are working together. First of all, the gyro is sampled always at the gyro native speed. This means, MPU6000 will be sampled at 8kHz. Always. At the same time, PID and filtering are working as…

  • Betaflight 4.2 – new features and most important changes

    It’s been a while since we had the last release of Betalight. After all, Betaflight 4.1 was released in October 2019. Half a year ago. Luckily, developers were not hibernating over the winter, and brand new, 4.2, release is scheduled for May 2020. Slightly more than 2 weeks from now. Below is the list of…

  • Betaflight vs EmuFlight vs INAV

    Which flight controller software flies better out of the box? You know, the stock, default settings, no tuning. Just flash and fly. Betaflight, INAV or maybe EmuFlight? I decided to test it on one of my 5-inch FPV drones and compare: Betaflight vs INAV, Betaflight vs EmuFlight and EmuFlight vs INAV. The results are divided…

  • EmuFlight and INAV Matrix Filter

    Matrix Filter will have its premiere together with EmuFlight 0.3.0 and INAV 2.5. Which of those two will happen first is still unknown. After originally developing Matrix Filter for INAV, I also ported it to EmuFlight code and already some time ago they accepted my code proposal and merged it. You have to admit, that…

  • A brief history of a flight controller – From MultiWii to Betaflight and beyond

    I will tell you the history of probably the most successful family of Open Source flight controllers: MultiWii that continues its life today as Betaflight, EmuFlight, and INAV. Other families like OpenPilot were not that successful and practically died. On the other hand, the history of ArduPilot is not that interesting and we can leave…

  • Was I disqualified from Betaflight?

    The best way to fight with haters and different types of fanboys with whom you do not agree with is to ignore then. Just like that: do not feed the trolls, it makes no sense. Sometimes, tho, it’s so hilartious… Like today I learned that I was disqualified from… Yes, from what? Betaflight? Some other…

  • Betaflight VTX tables: SmartAudio and Tramp VTX configuration for Betaflight

    Smart Audio and Tramp VTX control are no longer working out of the box in Betaflight 4.1 right after flashing. The reason is that in Betaflight 4.1 you have to configure something that is called VTX Tables. Why you have to do it? Long story, the bottom line is that you have to do it.…