Monthly Archives: October 2017

Eachine EV100: no audio problem — cause, fix, and technical background — UPDATE

Some days ago I published a post on how to fix the totally broken audio on the $99 Eachine EV100 FPV goggles. As it turned out the inbuilt receiver module, a Sinopine SP338RX, is missing “some” components that generate the audio output. Some people are lucky as their modules are only missing the 6.5MHz filter.… Read More »

Eachine EV100: no audio problem — cause, fix, and technical background

There have been a lot of rumors and discussion about the $99 Eachine EV100 FPV goggles recently. I already did some teardown, component analysis, component identification, analyzed the “diversity” feature of the receiver, and wrote about how to fix the gray bar problem in my previous posts. There is another problem with those goggles: No… Read More »

Review: RCBenchmark Dynamometer 1580 — thrust testing and more

It feels like christmas is fast approaching this year… The days got quite short, trees are losing their leaves, and it is getting colder already. And now look what Santa Charles Blouin from RCbenchmark just sent me: Wohoooooooo… The postman, or rather the customs employee, handed over a 1580 dynamometer motor test stand to me!… Read More »

Cutting solder paste stencils with the silhouette plotter — gerber2graphtec modification for tiny structures

Some weeks ago I wrote about using a silhouette portrait craft plotter for cutting solder paste stencils. The described process uses the collection of the  gerber2graphtec python scripts to process the fabrication data from kicad and send the cutting instructions to the plotter. The solder paste stencils I did cut for the VESC came out… Read More »

Eachine EV100: gray bar & distorted image problem — cause, fix, and technical background

There have been a lot of rumors and discussion about the $99 Eachine EV100 FPV goggles recently. I already did some teardown, component analysis, component identification, and analyzed the “diversity” feature of the receiver in my previous posts. With the goggles being more and more used, people experience a new problem with these goggles: Depending… Read More »

Pagoda 3/3B antenna — 60 sets + Assembly jig on one PCB panel – fishpepper edition

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 »