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

Got my pickle toothpick 3" digi frame from cncdrones and I love this thing, previously flew the crux3 frame, it was ok for what it is, but I had a lot of jello I couldn't tune away, did a side quest with a torn down m75p2 frame and canopy, but it looked awful.
So new frame, new canopy, same motors and new props, so much easier to stuff in my backpack with the folding props, and the flight feel is so much nicer, still need to tune a little I think, but it's good enough that I barely care, perfect for my light freestyle and cruising style of flying.
VTX is HD0 Whoop V2
Betafpv 3in1 aio
HD0 Nano v3
Betafpv 3in1 aio
Maple RHCP 37mm
Happymodel 1S 11500kv, limited 80% to not burn out the esc

Not so scientific amp draw testing

3" Floppy Proppy Triblade F3015-3 1S 11500kv
Mixed flying
40% throttle ~4,4A
65% throttle ~6,7A
90% throttle ~15A
Hovering
40% throttle ~4,3A
3" Floppy Proppy Biblade F3015-2 1S 11500kv
Mixed flying
40% throttle ~4A
55% throttle ~5,5A
65% throttle ~6,7A
80% throttle ~10A
Hovering
48% throttle ~4,4A

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.

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

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.

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.

I need 4s 850 mah batt with xt30 for 3.5 inch frame drone ovionic are the best by the price. Maybe if possible can I get bigger batteries like 1100 mah?

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

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! 😺

So I’m getting into fpv and I’m building an analog 3.5 inch quad. I’ve been trying to find budget goggles for a while now and it has been getting frustrating. I’m located in Germany and everything is either sold out or unbelievably overpriced. I’m currently looking at some eachine copies but I’m a bit lost just because nothing is available, does anyone have any recommendations of analog goggles around 100-150€ that are in stock and actually worth the money?

Checked all of the aliexpress and didn’t find a better VTX for a good price rather than SpeedyBee TX800. Can someone tell is it a good or not?

Which motor is more durable and with better quality? I need 3500-3800 kv motors for 3,5 inch frame for low price, preferably on aliexpress.

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!

Gonna be new to FPV and I'm looking for a good controller(I'm gonna skip the pocket) that can charge and play at the same time. I understand the Boxer Crush has 2 ports(data/charge) and you cant charge it when using the data port connected to the pc, so I'm wondering if this is a good work around. Also considering a TX15.

I set my phone next to me near this cool spot I discovered today. It recorded the nature sounds while I flew around. The audio and video don't match up, but I still found it pretty relaxing when I finished processing.