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FrSky SmartPort Telemetry on AnyFC F7
STM32F7 CPU family present in newest, experimental, flight controllers like AnyFC F7 (as well as upcoming AnyFC M7 with smaller STM32F722) simplifies many things. For example, comparing to F4 boards, SmartPort or S.Bus connection is extremely simple and can be done on any free UART. No more hardware hacks, external inverters and other “special” ways…
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Hands on: AnyFC F7 from Banggood
Before we proceed, short clarification. Legal background of AnyFC F7 flight controller from Banggood is iffy. It’s not that BG ripped the design from Sami Korhonen (sambas). Sambas published design of his AnyFC under Creative Commons BY-SA. So, it’s free to copy this design as long as Sambas is referenced as author, and license is…
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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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3D Printed Paddle Wheel Boat
It’s not a secret, that me, and QuadMeUp, are not only about quadcopters. From time to time I like to do something completely different. When I was a child (10-12 or something like that) I loved to build boats. Simple crude design: styrofoam or bark, simple sail or DC motor and tinwire propeller. No RC…
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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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Talking Taranis – teach FrSky Taranis to talk to you
One of the most important features of modern, computerized, radios is that you can make them talk to you. After all, with setup telemetry link from UAV, radio should “know” things. Things like battery voltage for example. Why not make FrSky Taranis (or Horus or Taranis X Q7) talk to you and report LiPo voltage…
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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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3D Printed Faceplate for SkyZone SKY-01 FPV goggles
While SkyZone SKY-01 are pretty good FPV goggles, they are not very comfortable. Instead big faceplate, they only have rubber eyecups. This approach works, but well… Like always, there is a solution: 3D printed faceplate for SkyZone SKY-01. Thingieverse has at least few different designs, but I’ve chose the one from the link above. They…