After posting about my script that panelizes a 4×4 grid of pagoda antennas into a single gerber files I recently get a lot of mails how to order those on Seeedstudio. By using my script, you can order 160 antennas for around $ 40 — perfect for people that fly as good as I do… Read More »
pepperFIISH I finally found some time to take my new 2S version of the pepperF1SH quadcopter for a walk fly: Watch this video on YouTube It was quite gusty that day but most of the time I did not notice it in flight. This was just some thrust testing, turn on the speakers, it sounds… Read More »
Busy times… The pepperF1SH for the world tour is more or less ready, I am just waiting for the batteries to arrive. Openground gets a new low level driver library, which by the way seems to reduce the flash usage to one half of the old one… Ah and by the way I started to… Read More »
I just uploaded the design files for the pepperF1SH to armattan productions. I ordered frames designed by others in the past, they come in very good quality and the shipping time to germany is quite fast. I think they ship from Taiwan. You can visit my store and buy my pepperF1SH designs following this link.… Read More »
When you build a tiny and lightweight indoor quadcopter, every gram counts. It is nice to see that there are very nice camera and video transmitter all in one combinations available. One example of such a nice set is the VM275 camera. It is sold under different names, most of the times you can spot… Read More »
Some weeks ago I added a bootloader mode to my custom FrSky compatible firmware OpenSky for commercial or DIY receivers. This allows hassle free updating of the OpenSky receiver firmware using the STM32 bootloader protocol. For targets such as the D4R-ii or others using an STM32 processor with the factory programmed bootloader nothing special had to… Read More »
Have you ever assembled your quadcopter motors in the wrong order? I am quite sure you did! I am going to show you how to swap motors in betaflight without the need of a soldering iron! This tutorial is based on betaflight 3.1 and betaflight configurator 1.9.1. On older betaflight versions you had to set… Read More »
This is a previous revision, please have a look at the more recent revision 0.5. In this post I am going to share all the parts you need to build your own super tiny tinyPEPPER 4in1 Blheli_S ESC. All the following information applies to the current version 0.4 of tinyPEPPER (tagged as revision 0.4). If… Read More »
When you buy a BLHeli_S ESCs, the factory has pre-programmed those with the BLHeli_S firmware for you. This firmware comes in two parts, the BLHeli_S bootloader and the main firmware. The bootloader is the code that allows you to upload the latest BLHeli_S firmware using the blheli suite or -configurator. When you build your own… Read More »
We had some time at a nice flying spot. This church has been deconsecrated and will be demolished soon… Thanks to all that make this possible! Testing pepperF1SH 🙂Watch this video on YouTube Pilot: Sebastian Quadcopter: current pepperF1SH prototype, 30.7g AUW, 56mm props, X frame!