I recently bought a SkyRC quattro / Hitec X4 charger for my TinyWhoop and pepperF1SH batteries. Unfortunately this charger does not have the 1.25mm molex picoblade connector you find on the standard picoblade connector used on the TinyWhoop batteries. The MX connector is a close fit, but having a different spacing (1.5mm VS 1.25mm) damages… Read More »
UPDATE: please refer to the latest revision v0.2b! In this post I am going to share all the parts you need to build your own super lightweight tinyFISH flight controller with an integrated, FrSky compatible rx. All the following information applies to the current version 0.2 of tinyFISH (tagged as revision 0.2). Changes compared to… Read More »
pepperF1SH This post is the 14th in a series of posts about the adventure of building the world’s lightest brushless FPV quadcopter: project pepperF1SH. Time to dye the 3d printed camera and battery mount from shapeways. Those parts are laser sintered in polyamide (nylon) and can be colored using cloth dye. I previously dyed shapeways… Read More »
Even though my newest toy, the 32.4g brushless fpv copter pepperF1SH is not using circular polarized antennas, I started preparations for the next outdoor racing season. After seeing Maartens nice Pagoda antenna design, I realized that I will never again build those oldscool timewastingwirecage-antennas… So I needed some pagoda antenna PCBSs. Joined by some friends… Read More »
When building my tinyFISH fc and the tinyPEPPER ESC I was faced with soldering 0402 sized components. That is quite tricky to do manually, a stereo microscope helps a lot! Do not go for a monocular scope, 3D relly helps a lot. As this is just a hobby project and I am running on a… Read More »
This post is an update about my 4in1 blheli_s ESC previously known as uESC. I renamed it to tinyPEPPER and i just finished soldering a first prototype: This thing is TINY! Firmware flashing worked out of the box, blheli configurator allows to change all settings and i can use the betaflight gui to control the… Read More »
I am currently building a tiny 4in1 Blheli_s ESC for a micro brushless copter. The final design will be 20x20mm, run blheli_s, support 1S @4A, and will probably weight less than two grams. In order to verify my hardware design i soldered a breadboard version of my circuit and started to port the blheli_s code… Read More »
I am working on a custom 4in1 blheli_s ESC for micro brushless setups. I wouldn’t like to reveal too much at this point, except it is going to be tinytiny (20x20mm) as you have seen with my version of a Frsky compatible tiny rx (see my uSKY project). UPDATE: you can find more about the… Read More »
This is the 11th post of my series documenting the development of a custom firmware for the FS-i6s transmitter. CC2500 adapter In order to remove the mess of cables inside the modified transmitter, i designed an adapter pcb to adapt the CC2500 transceiver module to the pads on the transmitter pcb. It’s no rocket science… Read More »
This is the 10th post of my series documenting the development of a custom firmware for the FS-i6s transmitter. This is just a quick update on my progress. Radio protocol The radio link is functional. It is not tested thoroughly and is missing a lot of safety features, do not use it right now! Transmission… Read More »