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Mister Sinewave posted:I've been tempted to grab one just to see but haven't brought myself to do it. Yeah I mean I already have a mavic (but I loving live in an airport zone so I can’t fly it anywhere near my house) but it the Tello seems kinda nifty and I already have a controller for my phone. The picture quality seems pretty good too.
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For that price you'd be better off getting a Hubsan H216A.
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OK guys. I bought a DX6e transmitter with a receiver, a mini ft scout, a power pack A, and a battery. Also some guy traded me an RC plane called a Zip Stick for an Amazon Echo Dot I had laying around and never opened. In have n no idea how any of this stuff works oh God. The Dregs fucked around with this message at 19:48 on Apr 14, 2018 |
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First loiter test of my new heli: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YftdsUkPIdo Forgot my Gopro, but it was more than stable enough that I could grab my phone and snap this short video. The wind was swirling around a fair bit too, so I'm very happy.
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ImplicitAssembler posted:First loiter test of my new heli: Cool poo poo. I'm surprised the prop is generating enough lift rotating that slowly 
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Slash posted:Cool poo poo. I'm surprised the prop is generating enough lift rotating that slowly Yeah and look at the way the blades are bending too. Is that safe?!?!?!  ImplicitAssembler posted:First loiter test of my new heli: ok make with the specs. I have a trex 450 clone that I've been too squeemish to fly CrazyLittle fucked around with this message at 18:54 on Apr 16, 2018 |
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CrazyLittle posted:Yeah and look at the way the blades are bending too. Is that safe?!?!?! Soxos 600 heli , Rail Blades, Savox Servos, Hobbywing 100A HV ESC, Scorpion HKIII-4034-335KV motor, Mauch PowerCube2 & power sensor, Pixhack V3 Pro, HERE GPS and current 2 x 5200mAh 6S Tattu lipo in series. Getting about 18 mins of hovering., which should translate to about 22 minutes of forward flight. That'll drop some with canopy, payload mounts & and new landing gear, but got new 8000mAhs arriving today, which should get me on the other side of 30 mins with full payload. (up to 1kg)
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Oh okay, so you can definitely decapitate yourself with that thing
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Oh yes! With 3500watts of peak power, it properly wouldn't even notice.
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ImplicitAssembler posted:Oh yes! With 3500watts of peak power, it properly wouldn't even notice. Neither would you!
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As a heads up, it looks like the FAA is considering repealing section 336. They're getting asked by the 'Commercial Drone Alliance' to kill the part of the regulation that allows pretty much all hobby flying. http://amablog.modelaircraft.org/amagov/2018/04/13/write-congress-now-protect-section-336/
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BabelFish posted:As a heads up, it looks like the FAA is considering repealing section 336. They're getting asked by the 'Commercial Drone Alliance' to kill the part of the regulation that allows pretty much all hobby flying. Is this the "google wants to own 0-400ft" thing XJet was talking about a few days ago? That seemed pretty alarming.
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It is. RIP US hobby flying.
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evil_bunnY posted:It is. RIP US hobby flying. I'm from Toronto. Google is literally in the process of buying our downtown core.
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Autonomous delivery drones are loving overrated anyway.
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What's the latest hotness on the multirotor front? I just gutted my old qav250 clone I built about 2 years ago and I want to build something fresh. I had an SP Racing F3 flight controller, Littlebee ESC's strapped to each arm and a big clunky VTX in the trunk. I know I want one of those 4-in-1 ESC's but is there anything else new and exciting I should be on the lookout for? I usually just fly recreational FPV around a few places in town, no racing.
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johnnyonetime posted:What's the latest hotness on the multirotor front? I just gutted my old qav250 clone I built about 2 years ago and I want to build something fresh. Your FC is still decent, does it have a Betaflight OSD on board? If not, you might want to think about replacing it with a CLRacing F4, or one of the Bardwell F4 boards. BF OSD is amazing compared to the old multiwii kind. If the F3 board doesn't have an OSD and you don't care about that, at the very least look into LUA scripts for your Taranis (also get a Taranis/QX7) so you can change settings on your fancy new TBS Unify VTX. Unify's are just perfect, you can power up right beside someone while they're flying and they won't even get a blip on their screen. Look, I even have on in my rig below! IRC Tramp's are also a good choice, but the 5v Unify is not only small, but THIN. The Tramp is thiccc You should definitely swap the ESCs for Spedix or Aikon 30-35a. There is a thing called DShot now, which is a digital protocol instead of analog and it lets you do some more advanced things, like ESC reversing and playing the game of thrones theme when you plug the battery in. Turtle Mode(or anti turtle mode) was born out of the ESC reversing, it allows you to run certain motors in reverse to flip you over if you landed upside down. Built up a Hyperlow CG with RevoltOSD. Finally giving  EDIT: Oh yeah and my new Immortal T antenna is made of some sort of rubber now. The one on my Rooster is hard plsatic and cracked in a few places, this one should actually live up to its name. bring back old gbs fucked around with this message at 17:43 on Apr 20, 2018 |
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You should mount the antenna vertically, if possible. Every antenna has null zones at the top and bottom along the antenna axis. When it's horizontal, the chances of being in the null zone are way way higher than if you were to use it vertically. TBS should have made some bullhorn version instead, which would be a nice compromise and essentially get rid of the nulls for the most part, by sacrificing a bit of range (which doesn't matter with miniquad flying distances).
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bring back old gbs posted:Your FC is still decent, does it have a Betaflight OSD on board? If not, you might want to think about replacing it with a CLRacing F4, or one of the Bardwell F4 boards. BF OSD is amazing compared to the old multiwii kind. If the F3 board doesn't have an OSD and you don't care about that, at the very least look into LUA scripts for your Taranis (also get a Taranis/QX7) so you can change settings on your fancy new TBS Unify VTX. Unify's are just perfect, you can power up right beside someone while they're flying and they won't even get a blip on their screen. Look, I even have on in my rig below! IRC Tramp's are also a good choice, but the 5v Unify is not only small, but THIN. The Tramp is thiccc Awesome thank you! Exactly what I was looking for. The TBS Unify VTX looks sweet. I have various janky VTX's and that one looks really slick. I didn't know that DShot did the turtle mode which is really interesting. I do have my Taranis x9d so I am familiar with LUA scripts. I'll report back with what I end up building.
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Sorry if I missed a recommendation post somewhere, but: The school I work for is looking to blow some discretionary tech money and the topic of a drone came up for photography and film classes. We have a GoPro hero 5 Black already and an iPad for viewing it, so a camera would be a waste but it needs to have some kind of gimbal for the GoPro. I think the upper limit is around $500 CAD. Is there anything in this range that works?
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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxAbuxcdYaQ https://rotorbuilds.com/build/11758 Falcon Tinyshark on 2s, with an FXT T80 and Unify Nano. Thing rips, getting used to flying gates so I'm a little shaky in the video.
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tuyop posted:Sorry if I missed a recommendation post somewhere, but: A used GoPro karma Or just forget the GoPro and buy a spark or phantom 3 advanced
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tuyop posted:Sorry if I missed a recommendation post somewhere, but:
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DVR from my newly upgraded Banshee. New power train and a bunch of aero-mods and it's much much faster, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLh9Lhk0fFA
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I’m a grown up y’all, just filed my first COA. Operating up to 3000’ AGL in a valley in Colorado. Gonna try and get a special permit for the National Park next door too.
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So, haven't really done anything with my quad since august, because I've been away at school. At the time, I was working on a 4s 3" build with a betaflight f3. How out of date is it? I imagine it's fine, but is there anything new I'll be missing out on?
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spiderbyte posted:So, haven't really done anything with my quad since august, because I've been away at school. At the time, I was working on a 4s 3" build with a betaflight f3. How out of date is it? I imagine it's fine, but is there anything new I'll be missing out on? It's all hype on the flight controller side, F3's are still perfectly viable. Let the github guys battle it out for a few more months. Definitely look into the new Emax 1106/4500kv or AirbladeUAV 1404 motors if you haven't already. Micro 4s motors have arrived, 1306/1407 is some heavy, old hat. You can also get 1106/16000kv motors and run them on 2s now (I think my buddy's is 2.5") and you get a drat near silent little guy(compared to a 5" i mean, it'll definitely be louder than a tiny whoop) with a ton of pop.
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bring back old gbs posted:It's all hype on the flight controller side, F3's are still perfectly viable. Let the github guys battle it out for a few more months. Definitely look into the new Emax 1106/4500kv or AirbladeUAV 1404 motors if you haven't already. Micro 4s motors have arrived, 1306/1407 is some heavy, old hat. Nice to hear. I haven't been able to tinker with any of it since August and I can't wait to get back at it. Haven't been able to scratch that flying itch in forever!
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The new Fatshark HDO looks like an awesome goggle with OLEDs, but they made it 4:3...? Everything in the industry has been moving toward 16:9 for a while now and Fatshark releases a high end product that's a step back in tech. It seems like nearly everything they make has a dumb sacrifice built in, but it's pretty surprising that their flagship product would have such a glaring one. Am I missing something?
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All the top end fat sharks have been 4/3 forever, because that’s what’s best for dying quads. I wouldn’t give a poo poo if I flew fixed wing or helis, but 16/9 cam/goggles on a quad are a little silly IMO. The reason everyone + dog has moved on to pano aspect ratio is the screens being way easier to source. E: the real drawback of the HDO’s is the FoV angle. If you’re gonna talk about dumb limitations, let’s talk about the fan power input, dumbass DVR, limited IPD, etc. The new faceplate is an improvement at least. Their new battery with a usb charge circuit is also kinda cool, but prob takes hours and hours to charge since they have to step up the input. Just put a loving xt60 adapter in the box, jesus. It’s on par with having an 18650 battery case but no way to change the low V alarm. These are the things that actually need fixing. evil_bunnY fucked around with this message at 06:58 on Apr 27, 2018 |
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evil_bunnY posted:
*That* drives me nuts. "Oh, my 18650 hit 4v, I better beep annoyingly for the next 30 minutes". I keep meaning to make a plug-in stepup module to avoid that, but that then runs the risk of nuking the 18650's.
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evil_bunnY posted:All the top end fat sharks have been 4/3 forever, because that’s what’s best for dying quads. I wouldn’t give a poo poo if I flew fixed wing or helis, but 16/9 cam/goggles on a quad are a little silly IMO. My DOM V3s are 16:9, and my Caddx SDR1 camera is native 16:9 output. I thought the HD3 was also 16:9? With Runcam, Foxeer, and Caddx all making native wide cameras at the top end, I would have thought Fatshark would be continuing the trend but I guess not. Quite frankly I went from 4:3 Attitude V2s up to my Dominators and I can't imagine going back to 4:3. There's so much more information to see around corners- at least for freestyle- I rarely race.
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McMadCow posted:My DOM V3s are 16:9, and my Caddx SDR1 camera is native 16:9 output. I thought the HD3 was also 16:9? With Runcam, Foxeer, and Caddx all making native wide cameras at the top end, I would have thought Fatshark would be continuing the trend but I guess not. Aspect ratios are pretty much a taste thing. I fly cruise/acro; when bumbling around 16:9 would be great (since you spend most of your time scanning the horizon), but elevator-heavy acro moves in 4:3 are much more pleasant to me. evil_bunnY fucked around with this message at 09:11 on Apr 27, 2018 |
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ImplicitAssembler posted:*That* drives me nuts. "Oh, my 18650 hit 4v, I better beep annoyingly for the next 30 minutes". I keep meaning to make a plug-in stepup module to avoid that, but that then runs the risk of nuking the 18650's. I've been debating cutting my Attitude v4's open and putting a trimmable pot in-line of the beeper red wire for volume control. Think that would work? I don't want to cut the beeper entirely, but it's loving annoying since I use 18650s for all my quad accessories
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I use a regulator cable, then plug a lipo alarm set to 3v/cell into my pack. Just what the doctor ordered for $500 goggles.
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moron izzard posted:A used GoPro karma Thanks, and to you evil bunny. Where do people (Canadians in particular) buy used drones? I found a website that looked promising and sent inquiries to two sellers, but a week later I’ve heard nothing back from them. I also checked Kijiji but there was just nothing there.
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I decided to play with FPV quads. I've got several years of electric fixed wing flying and had a couple of collective pitch helis I sucked at, but still finding the stick feel very challenging to get ahold of after a week or two of playing with sims and an acrobee. Mostly I'm astounded by how slow and precise everyone on youtube can fly tiny whoop variants around their houses; mine wants to accelerate like crazy in any direction and holding altitude is difficult. I'm still messing with rates to make it less aggressive. How long did it take you guys to get over the hump of generally being able to put a quad where you want it? Even flying LOS this is quite challenging and I can't wait to get to where I can have some fun.
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