One beautiful thing about flying FPV quadcopter, is building your own quadcopter. After my warpquad 230 and my X210 (QAV-X 210 clone) it was time for a new build! Since I’m flying I always loved the builds from Davis Helvensteijn aka Dquad. Their latest frame is the Dquad Obsession. A great looking frame, with an
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It is more than 3 and a half years since I bought a frame for my quadcopter builds. My first frame was a X525 glass fiber frame and then I started designing my own SG frames. I saw the Lisam LS-210 and because of the low price, I decided to give it a try. When
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Few years ago it was not an easy job flashing special multirotor firmware to the ESCs. You needed to remove the shrink tube, use DIY cables or at least an Atmega Flashing Tool. Then we got the 1-wire protocol for easily flashing ESC via the signal cable. But we still needed to use additional adapters
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If you have read my Cleanflight Best Flight Controllers post, you know that I have ordered the SPRacingF3 FC to test. The board was developed by Dominic Clifton, the man behind the great Cleanflight firmware. My board is a clone from Banggood and because of this I have decided to make a donation to Dominic
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In the past year I mostly used the CC3D and Naze32 boards, flashed with Cleanflight. Today I received my new custom firmware flight controller – the KISS FC. It is a 32bit flight controller with STM32 F303 processor, just like the SPRacing F3 flight controller. The KISS FC has its own custom firmware, but because
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I have been using the Cleanflight 1.11 RC1 since two weeks on my CC3D and it performs great on my acro quad. Today the final / stable version of 1.11 was released and I wanted to mention some of the interesting changes. Here they are: Probably the most important is that the new Naze32 rev6
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I am currently experimenting how to get better performance of my CC3D and CleanFlight. I will share my experience so far and which settings can you change in order to improve your copter’s flight performance. Please note, that I am not an expert like Dominic, Boris or all others CleanFlight developers. Big Thumbs Up for
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