Video glasses or goggles are a great way to get totally immersed into your flight. With some mods like ski goggles and paint you can block out 100% of all sunlight, but I prefer some dark tinted lenses so that I can still look down to my RC sticks or equipment if needed. Glasses are…
Why foam? Foam is very lightweight and easily repaired. But foam is flexible so wings will require support spars to add rigidity. Spars should be preferably fiberglass or carbon fiber, not metal. Carbon spars might mess with the antennas because it is conductive, they “might” interfere antennas depending on wavelength. Foam is great for planes…
A single LCD screen can be your entire monitoring setup, or as a secondary monitor if you have friends with you. It gives them something to look at if you are wearing video goggles. Beware though that so often with TV’s they have a “feature” that when static is on the screen it will cover…
These two are some of the most capable autopilots out there right now, lets see what they got. 3D Robotics ArduPilot APM 2.5 / 2.6 – A popular full featured autopilot that can put used on planes, quads or ground vehicles. Open Source Arduino based. Telemetry can be added; 3D Robotics 900MHz 100mW but you…
If you are reading this, then you probably know that the minimOSD is the standard on screen display for the APM Arducopter or APM Arduplane. They tiny boards come with a software version that is likely outdated and has a poor layout. To fix this and upgrade the firmware to EXTRA read on: Buy a…
Here is my latest ‘invention’ per say. Really all it consists of is a camera tripod and upside down inexpensive monopod from Amazon Prime. The monopod extends to 6 feet then add that to the height of your tripod. You can then have a super stable-collapsable-12-15′ high radio tower! edit: if that monopod is out…
I have a full book coming out on this soon, but here is some quick info. Never run anything on the same freq and avoid the associated harmonic frequencies when possible. Your radio control should be 2.3-2.4Ghz. and your video on 5-5.8Ghz.You can get the 3D robotics telemetry in either 433 or 900mhz, either one…
Some GoPro owners have had issues with freeze ups or their SD card isn’t able to keep up with the recording stream, in these cameras you are going to need a CLASS 10 or greater SD memory card, class # refers to how fast the card can write; 10MB/s (megabytes a second). A Class 6…