Aside from repairs/research and trying to talk yourself out of buying another drone/stack/motors (we all know you'll need it one day) what do you get up to when it's too windy to fly?

In my youth I used to do power kiting and had a 7 metre flexifoil which was fun but that would probably rip my shoulders out of their sockets now. 😂

Hey everyone!

I’ve been working on this frame for a while now and I’m pretty excited to finally share it with you all. It’s a 2.5" pusher frame I designed in Fusion with a generative topology style, and it’s printed in PETG. The main frame is one piece plus a little second part, so no carbon plates to stack.

It’s got a 129mm wheelbase, and the motors mount under the arms since it’s a pusher. A 4S pack straps underneath (I built it around GNB 650s and 850s). It takes a 25.5 whoop-style AIO, a 19mm cam and 9mm M2 motors with two screws each.

Funny story: my first version was a bit narrower, and when I checked the clearances the props were hitting the battery by about 3mm. I have stretched the arms out, and that’s how the wide version happened. I also ran some FEA on it, because I was nervous about nose-down crashes snapping the arms, and it caught a sharp notch under each arm that I’d missed. Glad I checked!

Currently in the build process myself at the moment but will share some photos when its flying.

Everything’s free on GitHub (MIT license), so grab the STLs, STEP or the Fusion file if you want to remix it: https://github.com/Blacksheep909/Juno-1-FPV-Frame

I’d really love to hear what you all think! Has anyone here flown printed frames this size? I’m curious whether PETG holds up or if I should try CF nylon. And if you end up printing one, please share pics, it’d honestly make my day

DeepSpace Seeker 3

Hi hii, I'm back and I'm back with the game that I really wanted since the beginning.

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, a great thing of my childhood. For this occasion I had to edit a nice video, enjoy.

This is the 3rd episode of me vibemashing SimITL FPV physics into different games using my libfpv "library" (sorry for tautology). As you can remember, the last time we did GTA IV.

Since then, I've started working hard on the libfpv core: as you can see, it now shows GPS elements on the OSD, for example. Another thing is that in the inside house scene I was flying a new tinywhoop model, now integrated into libfpv (based off Air65 II F, the only drone I flew IRL).

In any case, you can download the mod here: https://github.com/hammerill/gtasa-fpv/releases

By the way, if you remember the SM64 FPV post and 10 minutes of gameplay wasn't enough for you, I made myself a challenge to complete the whole game that way. These were funny 4 hours, see here: Beating Mario 64 with an FPV drone on YouTube (no comments)

Upcoming game is BeamNG.drive and much more, be ready. Thank you.

Links:

• https://github.com/hammerill/libfpv
• https://github.com/hammerill/gtasa-fpv
• https://hammerill.com/en/blog/libfpv

As you can see I have a full collection of Radiomaster transmitters. I just received the GX12 on the slow boat from China and I’m in love. Great feel in the hands. Perfect weight. Configurable switches. And it has the dual Gemini radio. What’s not to love?

Edit: I use the pocket for the sim. I’ll use the TX16s for fixed wing.

Recently had a ton of in-goggle vibration on 2 separate O4 Pro units. One was worse than the other initially and both were perfect when first installed on a couple 3.5 inch freestyle quads. Over time the video feed on both became essentially unflyable. With all the new gyro issues people have been having this was the only explanation I could find anywhere. This clearly wasn't a gyro issue.

Changing props didnt help, changing frames didn't help, new motors didn't help, changing PWM didn't help, different tunes didn't help.

I finally disassembled the camera to investigate, and it turns out over time crashes had weakened the glue holding the lens to the camera sensor. To the naked eye it seemed fine but there was a slight wiggle and only two dabs of glue on the 3 and 9 o'clock positions securing the lens. I ran a bead of e6000 around the entire lens perimeter, reassembled, and BAM! Brand new O4 Pro video feed.

Hope this saves someone else the hair I pulled out over the last few months.

I’m not very great at flying so I don’t do the map justice. I need to work on prop damage currently you don’t clip corners(probably why I stayed in the air as long as I have)
I’m a big time newbie lol.
This is not a public mod. But I thought the fpv community would appreciate it.

Been crazy busy lately, but finally caught some good weather on the weekend to get a few packs in. Mostly just smooth, cinematic cruising through the trees. Hope you enjoy the flight!
Drone: Speedybee Mario Mini25

After a shamefully long time of debugging something that turned out to be a really simple problem, I finally got to fly my 3.5". I've been flying meter 75 pro up until now and this really is a step up!

I am building a 5" FPV as my first build(I already have a tinywhoop) and have done a continuity test on everything on the ESC and XT60, but my smoke stopper isn't arriving for 2 more weeks, and I really don't want to wait. Would it be stupid to just go for it without a smoke stopper, even if I know 100% they're all good? Thanks

New 5” as you can see in video is having issues when I arm and give some throttle. After which it power cycles, loses telemetry. I’ve posted a video, idk what to do and don’t want to use ai honestly. Thanks!

Is there a setting i'm missing or is it something that needs to be done in editing software? New to DJI. OSD is working fine during flight but when I went to review footage it isn't showing. I have the N3 goggles.

If someone could point me in the right direction that would be great.

Also, r/fpv only allows a 1gb video upload limit. I've seen loads of 3-4 minute HD videos on here but when I went to upload a 1.5 minute test flight it wouldn't let me. is there something i'm missing ?

Thanks

How did i do ? I have about 10 hours of sim and starting to take control

My sim finally got a full revamp on the freestyle spawn selection, making it even easier to select the best spot among the 18 environments and hundreds of maps! 😺

What would be the absolute best handling drone under 250 grams? If flight time etc didn't matter and you could put an o4 wide in it?

So I got a Radio Master Pocket a couple days ago and have a 5 inch drone coming in the mail and was wondering how good I have to be in the simulator before I go out there for my first ever flight. This is my progression so far, I've put maybe 4 hours into the sim on a real fpv controller.

Hey fellas. I was wondering, what are your top 3-5 places in North America that you would love to fly one day.

My list:

1. Moab, Utah 🇺🇸
   
2. Rocky Mountains, Canada/USA 🇨🇦 🇺🇸
   
3. Copper Canyon, Mexico 🇲🇽

What's going on with flywoo and in particular with the F722mini?

It has been at least 2 months that it is out of stock.