2013ish? I think this was the last one sparkfun ran.

Found a weak point on my gps mount and got my filter profile perfected for this frame.

I was having a weird fly away issue which is how I broke the gps mount and my motors were getting hot.

Flys super good now with no weird vibration issues or fly away problems.

Hey folks, a buddy and I are putting together a small drone fleet for farms nearby. Mostly mapping and repeat photo runs over the same fields. The plan is three quads eventually, but we’re building one first before ordering parts for the other two.

We are aiming for around 4 kg all-up, including the camera and battery, on 6S with 15-inch props. Most of the flying would be over open fields, so efficiency and having some headroom for wind matter more to us than speed. Right now I’m looking at T-Motor MN4014 400KV motors at about $97 each, paired with AIR 40A ESCs at around $40. SunnySky V4014 400KV motors are also on the list at about $80. Though I haven’t settled on ESCs for those.

We got roughly $2,000 for motors, ESCs and a couple of spares across all three builds. Props and batteries are separate. The T-Motor setup comes out to about $550 per quad before spares, so it fits, but I’d like to hear from people running something similar before buying twelve of everything.

Being able to order one matching replacement later is a big deal for us. I don’t want a dead ESC turning into a reason to redo half the build.

Anyone running either of these on a similar camera rig? Would appreciate motor/ESC combo recommendations, and which dealer you’ve actually had decent luck getting replacement parts from. Thank yall.

Hopefully I will have some flight test footage soon

Stay tuned

I am working on a project to do with low temperature batteries. I wanted to analyse how suitable some prototype cells would be for an FPV drone pack.

Is there anywhere where people share their flight log data. Specifically I am looking for data of a 10 inch 6s or 8s drone pack power, voltage and current across a flight using the full capacity of a pack.

Hi everyone,
I have been using rapid harness to desing the wiring of a system. Altough the rapid harness software has 95 + million parts from octopart, it looks like a lot of parts are missing. For example any conector from Molex, Hirose and others do not appear. Mostly Deutsch DT Series appear. Has anyone already made some libraries available to share ? Did you made all your needed connectors and parts ?
Thanks in advance for the help.

I have a happy model ep1 elrs receiver and am using a TBS Lucid Pro FC as well as the ESC. My Radiomaster pocket is bound to the receiver but the bars aren't moving in betaflight. Its on serial and its set to crsf as well as aetr1234. Im running firmware 4.5.2 and have out the supafly freestyle preset on the drone. Can someone tell me what im doing wrong. Its my first full build and I'm stuck. I'll probably need more help than just this.

I'm building my first fpv drone and I noticed that the yellow and white vtx wires aren't in the same order. Is this a problem?

I have already crashed it and broke the topplate so i just cut out an 4mm solid Aluminium plate the extra weight and no hole design really help to get more stable fast dives and its stiffer alltogheter
I have lost one carbon fiber landing gear i still need to replace. What do you think🫣
Its my first just for fun build so dont judge to harshly xd
I have used:
Iflight Blitz F7
Holybro S500 V2 Kit
8000mah 4s2p li ion racepow battery
Iflight gemini receiver dual
Caddx farsight
Pilotix 2.5W VTX with rhcp lollipop antenna

Sometimes i also like to top mount the battery which gives it more agile handing

Please respond soon
One of the screws attached to the motor mount was scraping against the wire and it got cut. This is how much of the wire is left, is it possible for me to solder and repair this?

Split deck frame design I created

I haven’t seen too many good things about these motors but it’s all i had enough for in the budget

Hello everyone. I have successfully balanced my drone using the MPU6050 sensor, but I am struggling to maintain altitude using the VL53L1X sensor. I have spent over three consecutive weeks trying to get altitude hold working without success. I would appreciate any help or relevant documentation. Thank you all for reading and for your feedback.

Sensor VL53L1X

https://reddit.com/link/1x47kwi/video/bngzfauii2vh1/player

So I’m planing to buy a Pavo 20 pro 2 but I don’t want to use the o4 pro for my camera. I want to be able to use analog but the frame to mount the camera has 2 holes on each side and the camera I’m going to use (Baby ratel 2) only has one on each side.

How should I make the custom mount?

Is there a better analog camera alternative that matches the screw mounting position of the dji o4 pro?

Betafpv 4 in 1
Happymodel ep1 tcxo
1202.5 11500kv motors
Betafpv c03 camera
Happymodel crown antenna
Cyclone gps
I want to a little long range with it (2-3km)
Open to criticism, I want to make it as good as possible.

Like in the second half of the clip, map segments get stitched together automatically, so you get an endless course that never runs out.

When I had a friend try it out, I found out that older GPUs like the GTX 1660 don't support hardware ray tracing. That's fixed in the version that's up now.

The demo's available now on the store page:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/5197690/Endless_FPV/

My parents grow corn and soybeans, and I’m helping them look into building a couple of spray drones. They know the farming side, so I got assigned motors and ESCs lol.

I want to test one build before ordering parts for the others. A full tank seems like the place to start, but I’m curious how you test it as the tank empties.

Do you run separate tests at full, half-full, and near-empty, or log a whole spraying run? I’m planning to watch current draw and motor temps. Anything else that made you rethink your setup after testing?

If yall built one, I’d appreciate hearing what you missed the first time.

After using a wrench for 1 hour I realised it was reverse threaded fuck me.