Category: RC & FPV
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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:
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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…
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Hardware SmartPort Inverter using BC547 bipolar transistors
This post is only a short update for SmartPort inverter for F4 flight controllers. Here is alternative SmartPort inverter circuit using bipolar BC547 instead of unipolar 2N7000. All other aspects of operations are the same like in MOSFET version.
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INAV 1.6: Fixed Wing PIFF Controller
Another new feature of upcoming INAV 1.6 (BTW, INAV 1.6 ALPHA-1 has just been released) is brand new PID controller for fixed wings. I repeat: this new controller is used only on fixed wings, multirotors are not affected. So, what is new about this new PID controller? First of all, it is no longer a…
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How to connect APM Power Meter to INAV
This topic was eluding me for some time now. It’s time fix the problem and finally present a short tutorial how to connect 90A APM Power Meter for flight controller boards running Betaflight / INAV software and equipped with Current Meter ADC input. I will not show where to connect APM Power Meter to flight…
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3D Printed 433MHz Moxon Antenna With Arm And Snap Mount
It’s still middle of winter here in northern hemisphere, but I’m slowly preparing for next flying season. One of my goals is to push my DIY HC-12 Telelemetry System to a next level. In both range and quality. For quality I’m planning small hardware LTM decoder with LCD. For range, I want to reach at…