Tag: Drone
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Benewake Launches NOVA20, a Tiny Solid-State LiDAR for Robots’ Near-Field Safety
Benewake has introduced the NOVA20, a solid-state linear LiDAR meant to cover the close-range blind spot around embodied AI and mobile robots. It detects objects from 5 centimeters to 1 meter away.
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Elsight Adds Cellular-Based Positioning for Drones in GPS-Denied Areas
Elsight has introduced a Positioning capability that locates drones and other uncrewed platforms using cellular network measurements when GPS is jammed, spoofed or unavailable. It is offered as part of the company’s Halo product.
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Diatone Hey Tina Whoop162 with FalcoX
I will be very frank with you: I do not like those tiny whoops. You know, 2″ and smaller propellers, plastic frame, a camera on top. You know, those almost cheapest FPV drones you can get. I’m saying that builds like BetaFPV 65X or Emax Tinyhawk are bad. I just do not like to fly…
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A very cool, futuristic looking, 3D printed quadcopter frame
I love this part of me being a creator and an influencer, where I can show you some amazing things created by other people. And today, the joy is double, because it is an extremely cool frame designed by a guy from Spain that goes under the nickname of Micrathene FPV. What it is? Well,…
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Detecting Betaflight PID tuning issues with Blackbox: excess P gain
Almost all quadcopter PID tuning tutorials can be summarized into one sentence: “Increase P until you see oscillations, then lower it”. Plus some thoughts about I and very vague advices about D and that is all. When I got into the hobby, I’ve read all of those tutorials. And I did know more about PID…
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x525 V3 Quadcopter Frame Review
There are many cheap quadcopter frames on market. Big, small, X, H, foldable, good and bad. And choosing a correct frame for a purpose is both hard and critical for further drone performance. One of cheap, and on a first glance, versatile frames, is x525 V3. Is it worth the money? Well, it’s a hard…
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Wooden quadcopter, work continues
Work on wooden quadcopter continues. This weeken I’ve been able to almost finish. Almost. Frame itself is done, motors and ESC are in place, electric cables soldered, but this wooden multirotor is grounded. The reason is flight controller Thunder QQ Super. Why? Because it is crap. Really. The first unit was broken and 2 motor channels…