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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 recently started to assemble a VESC brushless motor controller on my own. This is the second post in this series. As you all might know I do a lot of prototyping. Nowadays you can get your custom PCBs made at a very low price. I get most of my prototypes done at OSHPark.com. Three… Read More »
This is a follow up post to my previous blog post on how to replace stiff wires on micro brushless motors such as the Racerstar BR1103B. Last time I cut and re-extended the wires outside of the motor. Encouraged by Sams blog comment I got ready to sacrifice one of the motors for science! To all… Read More »
It’s all about power — At least you get the impression when you follow the latest builds showing up on youtube. When I started with building quadcopters it was quite common to use 3S batteries with three lithium cells in series. Right now most quadcopters (other than micro builds as e.g. my pepperFIISH) will be… Read More »
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 »