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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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RaceFlight One Source Code, drama continues
This is the follow up of yesterday entry RaceFlight One source code has been published and what does that mean. Before you continue I suggest reading that post first. Another day, another drama. Or rather the same drama continues. There are two major updates on the topic of RaceFlight source code and team conflict. RS2K…
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RaceFlight One source code has been published and what does that mean
In the beginning of time, there was MultiWii and it was good. But then times moved on and 8bit ATmegas were end-of-line for flight control. So, Baseflight was created. In the beginning, it was supposed to be only a MultiWii port to support STM32f1 flight controllers in a for of Afroflight Naze. And it was…
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Crossbow LRS, I’m still doing this wrong…
Only two weeks ago I thought I solved all my major problems with DIY LoRa RC link. I was wrong. I was able to solve one problem (link unstable due to rouge packets messing up with protocol decoding), but an old problem came up again: PPM input from Taranis is no longer stable. At least…
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EXUAV Y120S drone racing frame: go home designer, you are drunk
Chinesium is amazing. Well, to be precise, not only chinesium manufacturers will do anything just to stand off a little. Just like this little (120mm) quadcopter frame called EXUAV Y120S. Why do I even bother to write about it? Simple: I love crazy designs. Just look at those pictures below: No, it’s not a tricopter.…
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Arduino hygrometer with DHT11 and SSD1306 OLED display
One of the things I like about Arduino ecosystem is that you can prototype pretty decent device in very short time. It might not be pretty, but will work. Just like my DIY hygrometer built with DHT11 and SS1306 OLED display I’ve built few weeks ago: Simple, efficient and runs on 4 AA batteries. The…
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Visual Studio Code as Arduino IDE replacement
I can say a lot of good things about Arduino ecosystem. List will quite long, trust me on that. But Arduino ecosystem has one thing that sucks a lot: Arduino IDE. Programming environment for Arduino is crap. Period. I would not call it the worse development environment ever, but it's pretty close to that title.…
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3D printed racing drone, part 1
I've been pretty busy last 2 weeks. Among other things, I've started to design 3D printed racing drone frame. I'm fully aware there are plenty designs available on Thingiverse, but almost all of them forgets that plastic filament is not carbon fiber laminate and what works well with carbon, will fail with filament. So, I…
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How to wind an electric brushless outrunner motor with dLRK winding schema
This time, another “motor winding” video. In 13 minutes and something seconds I: show some tool that I find useful for motor winding wind a 12N14P brushless outrunner electric motor with dLRK winding schema terminate this motor into Delta configuration BTW, in next video I will show you if it worked or not 🙂