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Family flying day. Started with training my son on the Simple Soarer 2 channels. Continued to flying a dorne with him and to wrap up the day took everyone to see me fly the TT with the sports wing 4 channels.

Hi everyone, I am working on a free falling drone that could orient it self mid air using reaction wheels instead of propellers (this is my second post about it here) and I got some good advice to use a pre-made flight controller. So I just bought a Lumenier F4 AIO board with some ESCs and...

Hey everyone! I am working on a project to build a robot that could control it's orientation while being thrown into the air (the robot is a small cube). The robot uses 3 reaction wheels to orient it's self mid-air. I am currently using a IMU and a Raspberry Pi 3 to process data and control the...

Hello! A little while ago I bought the darkmax 220, and recently I wanted to go from FlySky to FrSky. I got the receiver yesterday (XM+). Binding the receiver when without any real pain, I had to look up some video's on YouTube. But when I plug in my receiver to my quad it does not seem to talk...

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Hello, I'm looking for a drone hardware store with some knowledgeable and handy technical people that will assemble a Betaflight drone from the parts that they sell. I will then need to be able to write a program that will control flight of the drone, and do some things in the air (be able to...

So I powerlooped on an extremely flat battery (stupid) and couldn't pull out, so I plopped down relatively lightly in the grass. I didn't lose telemetry (lua, voltage, ex.), but the fc is getting no sbus signal. Connections are all good. I tried a different receiver, no luck. I also tried to...

Not sure where to post this. Maybe better off on the Flotetest forum, but I guess scratch building is technically correct. I was thinking about ocean kayaking the other day (as you do), and had an idea. I am a recreational fisherman, and have always wondered what I could see under the surface...

Hey guys, I'm using this thread as a sort of build log for my next Arduino airplane. I've been working with UAV avionics as a hobbyist, intern, and university researcher for about 2 years now. This will be the first plane, though, that I will lay out exactly how all the systems come together...

Hi there, I've built and tested a prototype of the Rocket Drone (I'm currently patenting), equipped with a "hybrid" motor/engine. This could be an interesting way of retrieving the model rockets (water or pyro), without using the parachute. Please take a look at it and let me know your opinion...

So I have built up my new gremlin and it was flying fine for a couple weeks. Then I crashed really hard strait into a wall. Now the drone starts drifting really badly and I am not sure what to do. I have it soft mounted, tried recalibrating the acc. What else is there to do. It takes off fine...

I am a high school student and I recently (September 2017) bought a $35 quad that can go pretty fast outside and I really enjoy flying and after that I now want to get a faster FPV quad, that I could learn to fly with. I don’t have anything yet besides the transmitter that came with that quad...

Hi, i want to build an racing drone but don't know what parts to buy.. i have selected some parts from Hobby king and was hoping someone could let me know if these will all work together and if not what will work instead. Also if there is anything else i need to get in the air...

Today DJI released their newest drone, the Mavic Air. It is smaller than the Mavic Pro and larger than the Spark, but apparently folds to smaller than the Spark. I guess we now know why the Mavic Pro was not just called the Mavic. Here are a couple features: -4K 30fps video at 100 Mbps -3...

Im kinda new to the drone scene I had a couple a few years ago and had to sell everything because I lost my job and needed to pay those damn bills! Lol this year Im trying to get back into it. I just bought the Blade Inductrix FVP and I love it. money is of course tight but I did build my first...

Im kinda new to the drone scene I had a couple a few years ago and had to sell everything because I lost my job and needed to pay those damn bills! Lol this year Im trying to get back into it. I just bought the Blade Inductrix FVP and I love it. money is of course tight but I did build my first...

Check out the Spidey at randbranddesigns.com!! It is meant for a super light sub 240g race quad. Let me know if you are interested!

Hey everyone, I am fairly new to drones & quad copters.. I started flying Mini 3 and 4 channel RC Heli's around my office a couple years ago. The batteries all died and they stopped working. After about a year the itch came back when I saw one of Steel's FPV Acro videos. My first venture...

Autonomous paramotor (Opale Hybrid 5.2) Ey guys! This is my first real post (besides the "mandatory" introduction post) and am excited to share my new project! So I bought a wing from Opale almost 3 years ago, planning to build a cool camera platform but unfortunately I did not find the time...