Choosing a FPV LCD monitor

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…

minimOSD Extra setup and customizing

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 They tiny boards come with a software version that is likely outdated and has a poor layout.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…

The perfect FPV UAV radio antenna tower?

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…

Quadcopter FPV frequency selection primer

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…

The best SD card yet for the GoPro 3

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…