Category: RC & FPV
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Fly at night with RunCam Night Eagle
Do you know, that with proper equipment you can fly your drone at night? In darkness? Without any lights? You only need a special camera that can see in the dark. I’m using RunCam Night Eagle that unfortunately is now discontinued and only Night Eagle 2 is available. Night flying itself? Pretty cool!
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7 inch quadcopters fly like shit? Well, kind of, yes…
So, you got yourself a 7-inch quadcopter drone, you try to tune it, and you finally discovered that something is bloody wrong? Whatever you do, no matter how long you tune the PID gains and filtering, you can not get rid of jello and some strange vibrations? Welcome to the club mate! Apparently, scaling 5-inch…
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INAV Airmode and Motor Stop on Multirotors and Fixed Wings
What are Motor Stop and Airmode features in INAV and how they differ from each other when used on multirotors and fixed-wing airplnes? Should you use Motor Stop on multirotor? Should you use Airmode on a fixed wing? Long story short: On multirotors, Motor Stop not recommended to use while Airmode is recommended to use.…
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Just flying: INAV 2.0 on a 7 inch long range cruiser
One of the first videos recorder with my 7-inch endurance quadcopter based on iFlight XL7 v2 frame. Since that evening I have changed a few things and now this 7″ drone flies better. But’s let’s keep a track how it was back then:
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iFlight XL7 v2 7-inch endurance quadcopter
7-inch drones are “special”. They are not as smooth as 5 inchers but they shine in terms of range. Cruising speed of 50km/h, 8 minutes of flight and it easily can fly a distance of 5 kilometers before the battery runs dry. I never really flew it that far, but it should be doable with…
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Crossbow LRS: this one did not went well…
Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. This time I’ve lost. Not by much, but always. During testing of my DIY LoRa RC link, radio caught a glitch during a flip few meters above a ground. It was not even a failsafe situation. Link recovered a few milliseconds later, but it was too late and quadcopter…
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Worth to see: 250m inside of a chimney in a FPV drone
I’m posting this not without a very specific reason. A few days ago one of my friends accomplished something quite amazing: he “dived out” a 250m tall chimney of an abandoned factory. By “dive out” I mean: flew inside a chimney at its base, climbed 250m up inside the chimney and then flew out. Simple,…
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How FPV looked 2.5 years ago…
A few days ago I went back in time. Or to be more precise I started to browse my photo archive. And I’ve found pictures of my first FPV quadcopter… Oh my… ancient times… Doesn’t it look awkward? At least a little… But this baby was pretty cool to think about it. At least when…
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Very custom FPV quadcopter for my daughter
When few months ago my older daughter (10 years old) started to express interest in FPV quadcopters, I was both happy and concerned. Happy, since I would have someone to fly with. Concerned, since she has no idea how to fly, I do not have a quadcopter for her and there is a big chance…