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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…
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The best GPS module for INAV
This is my personal best GPS module for INAV: Beitian BN-880 based on Ublox Neo-M8N. Currently I have 3 pieces of BN-880, all works just great, and if I will have a need to have another one, I would also choose it. Why? It really works well. On the outside it gets a solid 3D…
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Tutorial: replace battery in RunCam HD
My RunCam HD died after 5 months in a drawer. Reason: battery destroyed. It had enough energy for approx. 2 seconds of operation. So I had a choice: buy original battery from RunCam for $9.99 plus shipment, or fix it DIY style. I’ve choces the second option. Luckily for us, RunCam used generic 803035 LiPo…
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BLHeli_32, should I care?
Looks like BLHeli team is not wasting their time and is preparing something new for our multirotors. After BLHeli_S, we will also have BLHeli_32. According to an announcement posted on RCGroups, new software for ESCs (and new ESC of course, since it will not be compatible with current Atmel and SiLabs MCU) will be: Running…
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Hands on: Eachine ProDVR
Since cameras like GoPro Session are heavy and my FPV goggles (Skyzone SKY-01) lacks built-in DVR, I’ve purchased DVR by Eachine: Eachine ProDVR. There is probably enough written on the web how it’s made and that it has problems with PAL signal and there are hacks to fix it. Oh well… Instead, here are just…
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GPS Racer: worklog #2
I’m once again realizing, that doing multiple things at once is not a way to work. Something like that happened to my GPS Racer project. According do original plans, week ago I was only supposed to wait for FPV camera. Instead of that, only yesterday I finished ESC and motor assembly. But OK, it was…