Few months ago DJI has released their newest gear for FPV enthusiast – the DJI Digital FPV System. It aims to revolutionize the drone racing industry by providing low-latency HD video transmission. We decided to test it and build a new FPV quadcopter with 3rd party recommended components offered by DJI on their webstore. The
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Just a few days ago a new final version of the most popular flight controller firmware Betaflight was released. The new Betaflight 3.2 version brings a lot of improvements, new features and more supported flight controllers. We will quickly go through some of the new interesting features and explain a bit more about these. Dynamic
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Few weeks ago FPVmodel.com opened the pre-order for the new Betaflight F4 flight controller. It is the next generation of an F405 MCU based AIO flight controller and is finally in stock right now. The “processor” / MCU of the flight controller was upgraded to the STM32 F4, which runs at 168MHz compared to the
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After having built many quads of the Avantquads brand, I wanted to build a lightweight 5” quad with good components. I immediately stopped on the latest model Avantquads Xero S5M – a 5” frame weighing only 63 grams in total. The components for the drone build: Motors: Proton-X 2204 2750KV ESC: Aikon 4in1 30A
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BLHeli_32 was announced a few months ago and currently more and more ESC manufacturers are presenting their BLHeli 32 ESC. Before we start with the comparison of the current best BLHeli32 ESCs, let’s have an overview of what is new in the BLHeli32 firmware. BLHeli32 Overview Lead developer: Steffen aka sskaug Firmware source code: closed
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More than an year ago I published an article about the best Cleanflight flight controllers. I have listed a lot F1, F3 and some F4 flight controllers, which were available at the end of 2015. Meanwhile Betaflight is the more popular and developed firmware, which is used by most FPV pilots. The upcoming Betaflight 3.2
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If you are looking for a new FPV micro drone, you may have a look at the EMAX Babyhawk. It is a small micro brushless FPV quadcopter with integrated FPV camera and transmitter. The micro drone is great for indoor flying and at the same time is big enough to fly outside as well. We
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