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Category: RC & FPV

  • GPS Racer: worklog #7 – flying at night

    Like promised, I took GPS Racer equipped with night vision camera RunCam Night Eagle and IR projectors for a night flight. And it worked. Not as good as I expected, but worked. RunCam Night Eagle is sensitive enough to fly at night. Just like that. As long as there is at least some light, you…

  • GPS Racer: worklog #6

    I have to admit, I have a talent for building ugly looking quadcopters and airplanes. But this is a step forward. This is the ugliest quadcopter I’ve ever seen… just look at it… So ugly, that almost beautiful… Those two “eyes” are IR projectors and that almost not visible FPV camera is RunCam Night Eagle……

  • GPS Racer: worklog #5

    I’ve finally decided to make a decent use of my GPS Racer quadcopter. Until now, I mainly used it to test new things for INAV and that is more less all. RunCam Owl Plus FPV camera turned out to be non-flyable in the night, so I’ve decided to go one step further… RunCam Night Eagle…

  • Scarab Knife 200 finally in the air

    It took me much more time to put my Scarab Knife 200 4″ from CarbonBird.com into the air and actually fly it. First try that happened 2 weeks ago failed due to beginner mistake: too long motor screw caused one of the motors to overheat. I had to order shorter M2 screws and redo some…

  • GPS Racer: worklog #4

    Yesterday I finally maidened my GPS Racer in full FPV configuration. RunCam Owl Plus and VTX finally arrived, it was not raining, so I took recording gear after sunset and went flying. To be precise, it was not “night”. But it was pretty dark. Too dark for my RunCam Swift. Owl Plus was sensitive enough…

  • Hands on: Scarab Knife 200

    This pile of parts you see below will turn into an FPV mini quad next week. To be precise, it will turn into Scarab Knife 200 by CarbonBird.com. It’s late and I’m overwhelmed with the number of parts in the package, so I did not even attempted to unpack everything… Bottom line is: this looks…

  • Soldering for beginners: ESC, PDB and all those cables…

    As some of you might have noticed, I’ve started to publish videos on YouTube from time to time. I was rather not advertising them here. This will change and you might expect a series of overdued posts with some of my videos. Today something hardware related: soldering for beginners using ESC, PDB and power cables…

  • GPS Racer: worklog #3

    GPS Racer project is almost done. Last week I’ve assembled al the electronics I had and maidened it over the weekend with partial success. Build is still missing FPV gear: RunCam Owl and VTX did not yet arrived so. Without them, final specification is:

  • Project "GPS Racer" – worklog #1

    I know that I should not start new project when old one are still in progress. I really, really know that. But since I’ve somehow lost my interest in Project Dualcopter and I have a real need for a new quadcopter, Project “GPS Racer” has finally started. What is GPS Racer? During my work as…