It’s time to start saying goodbye to F3 boards in INAV. History repeats itself and after we let F1 boards go, the same fate upon F3. Why? STM32F303 does not have enough RAM to handle everything that is demanded of it: OSD, telemetry, GPS, navigation, etc. INAV already is not enabling the majority of new…

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.…

INAV is great, but INAV is not the best in everything. For example, INAVs internal IMU (Inertial Measurement Unit) algorithm is suffering from the infamous artificial horizon drift. I explained this phenomenon already in one of the videos, you can watch it over here. We somehow mitigated this on fixed-wing airplanes in INAV 2.2.1, but…

Let’s do a “Questions and Answers” about new EU drone regulations that will be (should be) the law starting from June 2020. It’s all described in EASA regulations 2019/945 and 2019/947 as well as explained by me over here. In this video let’s talk in-depth about: what will happen when you will be caught flying…

One of the mistakes pilots makes when they build their first drone is they use too small motors. People think that if a motor works fine with 5-inch props, it will work with 7-inch props as well. After all, both have plenty of power and power is the key to everything. It’s not true. Power…

Some time ago I started to feel a need to have a bench power supply. Not laboratory-grade, but something that can deliver both some volts and amps. Of course with overcurrent protection. Aliexpress is full of such a power supply units and at the end, I’ve decided on Yihua PS-3010DF with 30V voltage and 10A…

The second half of 2019 belongs to Mateksys? Hard to tell, but they seem to be pulling new interesting flight controllers out of their sleeves! Only yesterday I showed you first images of Mateksys F765-WING and today it is time for Matek F411-WING SE! Mateksys F411-WING SE is an improved version of F411-WING from the…

This is preproduction sample, some details of Mateksys F765-WING might change in the final version that will hit the market! Matek F765-WING on Banggood Looks like Mateksys did it again, and the next flight controller in WING family will be one again the beefiest flight controller around! What’s new? A lot. It’s still the same…

Starting from June 2020, unified European Union drone laws will become a reality. European published two regulations 2019/945 and 2019/947 that describe the unified rules that all member countries will have to implement before June 2020. Some say that drone hobby is dead in EU and corporations are winning. I took a few hours of…