Many people started out flying FPV with a small LCD screen eventually moved to FPV goggles mainly because it’s more immersive, and unaffected from bright sunlight. But for those who wear glasses might have trouble using FPV…
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Some people prefer to solder their motors directly to the ESC, and avoid using bullet connectors. This help reduce additional weights, and possible electrical resistance. However by using gold bullet connectors, things get more flexible…
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I have been flying medium range FPV for a couple of months now, here are some of my thoughts how to avoid fpv crashes, or minimize the damage to your plane in crashes. Learning is…
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After upgrading my tricopter flight controller to KK2.1 from KK2.0, the original settings does not work anymore. Although I can make roll and pitch perfectly stable now, I was having tricopter yaw unstable problem. The…
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Why use a voltage regulator in a multicopter? Some times you might need to power some part of your quadcopter or tricopter with a specific voltage. For example some cameras require 5V, and 12V power, some…
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Larger battery allows for longer flight time. Unfortunately the increase of flight time isn’t proportional to the increase of battery size, which means you are looking at something like this.
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I wrote a tutorial on how to use GPS and SD card shield with Arduino, to make a GPS logger. But I received requests for a much simpler tutorial on just how to use the…
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Just a quick walk through how to use the SD card module with Arduino. It is the same for Micro SD card modules. The Arduino official site provide a library for this purpose, and I…
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Flash ESC SimonK Firmware Using Arduino Without USBasp adapter
by OscarI will show you how to flash the ESC with SimonK Firmware with the Arduino, even when you don’t have a USBasp programmer adapter. So what is Firmware Flashing? Firmware is the program and settings…
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The 808 key chain camera is a small color video camera with audio that also takes photos. I have been using this camera a lot on my RC FPV planes and quadcopters, and since then…
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Multiwii is a quadrotor autopilot system (FC firmware) developed by many RC hobbyists around the world. This project uses an Arduino board as a the processor, however it’s been seen to run on other platforms. This…
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What is Magnetometer and Why Calibration is important Magnetometer is simply an electronic compass, it gives readings in X, Y, Z directions, it is used alongside with Gyro and Accelerometer to give the aircraft a reference to…