Flying with a multirotor drone with INAV always had a problem: braking. When you were flying fast and then release the stick, a drone was not braking very fast, then it was going back to the place where you released the sticks. Rubberbanding. Irritating. Over the time there were at least 2 attempts to fix…

Betaflight 3.3 RC1 Betaflight is at the end of next release cycle. Betaflight 3.3 RC1 has been released only 2 days ago and that brought us a (not) Kalman filter! Long story short: Raceflight was using Kalman (Fast Kalman Filter – FKF) RS2K left RF and brought FKF to Betalight Betaflight did some changes and…

After flying chinesium (XMR250, Reptile X4R 220, Martian II) and frames from DemonRC I’ve decided to switch to completely different brand. My choice is Armattan Rooster, the newest freestyle frame from Armattan. Rooster arrived few days ago, and this is what I can say about it before putting all the stuff into it: sunken nuts…

Cloners gonna clone and chinesium keeps being chinesium! It did not take long for Banggood / Realacc to clone Lumenier AXII FPV antennas and call them Realacc UXII circular polarized FPV antenna. Coincidence? I do not think so. I've ordered few of those in December, they arrived last week and this is what came in…

Things are changing in INAV world. Different manufacturers start to realize that world does not end on racing miniquads and people might be interested in other types of flight controllers. Flight controllers that were not designed with racing in mind. And today I can finally show you prototype of such flight controller: qUark F4 Vision…

Looks like I was able to solve all major known problems with my DIY long range radio system Crossbow. I'm writing known, since no idea what lies beneath… Anyhow… What changed? Quite a lot: I've extended Arduino-LoRa library with ability to transfer full packet in single SPI transaction. Right now, each read of write to…

It's been a few month since, for the last time, I presented to you the most popular flight controllers used together with INAV firmware. So, as you can suspect, it is time for the next one. This time, I've looked into last 3 months of the year 2017: October, November, and December. Important, this is…

My memory is not as good as it used to be. I just realized, that third part of my motor winding series was not yet announced over here. So here we go… In this video I terminate motor into Delta pattern and do first test of freshly winded motor.

Finally, much later than I originally expected, Crossbow LRS, my DIY medium range RC radio link was used to control something that flies. Not much, and not far. It was only my experimental 6″ GPS Racer quadcopter. And I reached only 350m. Small steps, I had no intention to beat and records after all. Just…