It’s possible that you can brick your flight controllers due to human error (where FC doesn’t talk to computer anymore, just timeout or says connection fail). You might still be able to fly using that FC as normal, but there is no way you can connect the board to Cleanflight or Betaflight configurator.
In this article we will briefly explain the different flight controller firmware options available for mini quad (FPV Racing Drones). We will take a look at the background of these FC firmware, as well as what they were intended to do.
This article explains what FC looptime is and whether faster looptime is really better for your quadcopter. We’ll also talk about gyro update frequency and ESC refresh rate which is equally important.
Anton from CapeFPV team shared with us how to get better and more linear throttle response, by doing ESC (BLheli) and flight controller (Cleanflight) calibration and configuration.
The other day, my quad dropped from about 50 feet because I accidentally disarmed my quadcopter mid air and crashed. Sascha (aka Arakon) was kind enough to shared with me how he setup his switches and modes to avoid this from happening.
In this post I will share how I use Blackbox to tune PID, following some basic and simple steps.
Do you know that you can now change settings on your ESC in BLHeliSuite, via your flight controller? That’s right, no complicated programming tool, USB linker or Arduino. All you need to do is just connect your flight controller, and you can flash firmware and change settings on your ESC!
If you haven’t checked out Boris’s Betaflight, then you are missing out! It’s a modified version of current Cleanflight firmware, with many excellent performance improvements.
I was asked about the difference between RC rate and Pitch/Roll/Yaw rates, so here is my understanding of what they are, how they affect your quadcopter based on Betaflight/Cleanflight firmware, and how to set them up.
For those using Cleanflight, here are a few CLI commands that might help you improve your multicopter’s performance! Many people are running these now and having good feedback.
Blackbox feature in Cleanflight is useful for tuning PID, and diagnose any performance related issue you might have with your multicopter.
New PID controllers (PC) have been added to the Cleanflight (CF) firmware. We discussed the three PID controllers 1, 2 and 3 in Part one. This post is part of the Cleanflight setup guide.
However, 3 more PC’s was just added to CF literally just a few hours ago (29 Jan, 2015). I am sure not many people has used them yet including myself. I will update this post again when we have conclusion how these PC performs.