This post is a follow up on my recent Pagoda3/3B panel design. Recently I have been asked to do an updated revision of my previous pagoda antenna panel for easy ordering. Maarten Baerts recently updated his great pagoda design. My pre-previous article on how to order 160 antennas for 40 bucks was a great success… Read More »
Remember my post with the Eachine EV100 disassembly pictures? I was asking for help to identify the video decoder chip… It was this rcgroups post by Flycry who gave the decisive proof. He was suggesting that this is an Mstar MST7336. The logo looks good but the pin count did not match (100 vs 64)… Read More »
There have been a lot of rumors and discussion about the $99 Eachine EV100 FPV goggles recently. I already did some teardown and component analysis in my previous posts. The internet forums are full of people complaining about the small FOV and the missing or “not real” diversity feature. The small FOV can be checked… Read More »
It seems like I have tracked down the manufacturer of the display that is built into the Eachine EV100 goggle. I was doing some google picture search in order to identify the viewfinder. On accident I stumbled across this banggood viewfinder offer for a similar product. Have a look at the first picture, do you… Read More »
There has been a lot of talk about the new Eachine EV100 $99 FPV goggles recently. Many rumors, some obviously biased “they are so super mega great” reviews and “they are absolute crap” reviews. I am not going into details on this, this has been discussed on youtube and rcgroups in and out. The main… Read More »
I just got some feedback from jaap, he successfully built himself a 2S pepperFIISH pocketrocket. His build features the new Racerstar BR1103B motors and uses the new frame design. Looks like he is having some serious fun with it! Jaap writes: I’ve been having so much fun with this new micro quad. It’s amazingly small,… Read More »
As you might know I am quite busy with the development of my tinyOSD. This will become a nice alternative to the common max7456 based OSD we see nowadays. All graphics are generated by a custom firmware running on a tiny STM32. Right now I am working on the proper betaflight integration. Just by chance… Read More »
Recently I have been asked for my recommendation for a super lightweight pocket rocket. At the time of writing there are no stock lightweight RTF 2S copters I can recommend. You will have to assemble it on your own, luckily you can buy all the needed parts, there is no need to assemble circuit boards… Read More »
As you all might know racerstar cloned my opensource tinyFISH FC and tinyPEPPER 4in1 ESC, claiming it is their very own invention. Sadly they messed things up… There are lots of reports of not all motors spinning when you arm the FC with a fully charged Lipo battery. The symptoms fade away once your battery… Read More »
I was recently joking that my 2S pepperFIISH quadrocopter is strong enough to carry a friend’s GoPro. Too bad I did not make a bet on that… Out of curiosity I tried it, lacking a proper GoPro camera I fastened my Xiaomi Yi camera to my poor little 29g quadcopter (44g with battery). Let’s crunsh… Read More »