drones My Top 5 FPV Tips TLDR: Push the throttle stick up These are my consolidated tips for getting going with flying a drone FPV ( "First Person View", or using a live video feed
drones New 180 build Once I started flying FPV with my newly build 180 quad I really never went back to flying my tricopters. As a result, I've started to break them down and
drones San Felipe Drone Fun I had been warned about sand, but probably should have been more careful. The problem was, everything in San Felipe is desert or beach.
drones I Finally Built a Quad This was my first legit build in several ways. Most notably, it was the first build where I used a pre-fab carbon fiber frame. The durability can't be beat, and
drones Fly, Crash, Rebuild, Repeat I tried to do some nice cinematic flying today. I'm not great at this. Basically I'm trying to keep moving forward and make the turns nice and gradual. I'm also
arduino Telemetry Project Update This has been quite a journey already. More than anything, I'm surprised at how many powerful new tools I've learned about.
arduino Home Baked Telemetry System I thought that it would be a realistic challenge to build my own telemetry system, considering that I had already worked with most of the components I wanted to use.
drones Switching to CC3D & OpenPilot I recently picked up a CC3D because I figured that I had tortured myself enough dealing with Arduinos and MPU6050s. At this point I feel no shame in buying an
drones Tricopter Buildng Update Yaw Control Recently I have been having a hard time holding a consistent heading after taking off. The first version of the frame was short lived Yaw is movement along
drones Tricopter Maiden Flight It's alive! The scratch, open-source, arduino-powered tricopter has taken to the skies.
