UPDATE: There is a follow up post on how to remove the stiff wires alltogether. I have been building micro brushless quadcopters like my pepperFIISH for a while now. Over the last builds it became more and more clear that one of the weakest spots are actually the motor wires: Most of the small brushless… Read More »
Bargain Alert! Are you still looking for a clone of my tinyFISH FC or 1S tinyPEPPER design? As you all might know, it’s Banggoods 11th anniversary and they celebrate it with some really good offerings: You can currently buy the Racerstar F3D8 clone of my tinyFISH FC design for $11.99 and the clone of my… Read More »
Any reasonable built quadcopter consists to 30% of zip ties, duct tape, hot glue, and of course heat-shrink tubing. The latter is often processed with a gas lighter. I must admit that most of the time I used a lighter as well. Once you figure out how much heat (or fire) your heat-shrink tubing and… Read More »
UPDATE2: a new panel and ordering instructions has been posted here. Enjoy 😉 UPDATE: Please do not submit this to seeed and elecrow. See the updated post here. Recently I have been frequently asked to do an updated revision of my pagoda antenna panel for easy ordering. Maarten Baerts recently updated his great pagoda design.… Read More »
I just realized that my new pepperFIISH frame design for the newer Racerstar BR1103B motors had a minimal design flaw: the center motor axis holes seem to be to small, the small c-clip is touching the frame. Thanks to jaap for pointing this out! [just as a side note, the black and blue BR1103B motors… 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 »
I recently got reports of buzzer problems on the tinyFISH FC and the F3D8 clones. The buzzer beeps on startup and is constantly on afterwards… One of the FC leds does not light up properly as well. Do not throw it away, there is an easy fix! When I routed the final version of my… 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 »