I know this already discarded tech is shitty and complicated far beyond its ability to repay in usefulness. Noted. I just want to know if any of the shit Im thinking has been done or thought about before.

What if I had two mirrors on tracks that could move the mirrors closer or further apart simulating various eye gap widths. In the center of the mjirrors is a galvo constantly looking back and forth to each mirror. This image stream could maybe even be stabilized via input shaping at the galvo or otherwise shaped either with good ol maths or by a system whos intellegience is artificial.

I didnt dig long, but a SoC capable of 1080p at 30fps is well under $50 and to my mind would be adequete to take the stream from the galvo camera and create decent quality two eyeball feels. I base all that that on zero knowledge and thus defer to you more eggheadeder redditor types. Could that solve some weight issue, or bandwidth issue or present a topology that is simpler to deploy?

I want a cinewhoop that is fun but also cinematic and can get good videos inside and outside. But the mos important feature is for it to be a good outside cinematic drone that’s also fun, I want a DJI o4 PRO on it and I have a budget of like 400-450$

Hi you guys, we are a group of university students doing a research project on drones and would love a minute of your time! :)

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DJI Avata 2 in Sport Mode, flown with the FPV Remote Controller 3. I’m working on keeping the lines smooth while flying low between the trees.

Full flight: https://youtu.be/wt_-KPvfPSY

I’ve found one (pnp) on Ali but it’s listed for 131 euros (140 dollars) that seems Kinde expensive to me…
I’m new to tinywhoops, maybe someone knows where I could get the same thing cheaper ?
The official Beta fpv site does not work, they’re probably out of stock or something

Hi everyone,

Now that the new Meteor Pro II series is out with the DJI O4 Wide, I'm trying to decide between the Meteor65 Pro II and the Meteor75 Pro II.

A bit of context:

• I already own larger drones so this would not be my main FPV quad.
• I don't race.
• I don't plan to do serious freestyle with it.
• I mainly want something that's simply fun to fly.

Typical use would be:

• indoors when the weather is bad (small flat, BTW);
• small gardens and parks with trees and obstacles;
• flying around benches, bushes and playground-type areas;
• very light outdoor cruising on calm days.

I have owned the Meteor 75 Pro and it was fun but the narrower FOV, specially flying indoor, wasn’t great Although maybe the 65 Pro won’t fly well outdoors so i want to poll your opinion if you’ve got the chance to flight them already

1. Is the 65 noticeably more fun in tight spaces?
2. Does the 75 feel too big indoors?
3. If you could only keep one as a "grab-and-go fun whoop", which would you choose and why?

I'm especially interested in opinions from people who have flown the new Pro II versions.

Thanks!

So I'm going on vacation and i want to take my drone with me, but im concerned about the heat. Im going with a car and staying in a small tent so i dont have airconditioning for storing while im not flying.

I have a torvol lipo safe bag that is 3/4 full, i know that to charge the batteries they need to be cool, my flight time will be impacted all that. The thing that concerns me is when im doing something else, how en where do I store my gear?
if i leave it in the car, it will get to hot, in the tent it wil get to hot. Ive seen some tips on putting the lipo bag between the ground and the tent so ground temprature keeps it cool (with the risk of it being stolen).

what are soms tips for taking my gear with me? where to put my lipo bag? where to put my gear? can i leave that in the car or also a no go?

thanks in advance :)

I currently have 3 analog drones. I use the eachine DV800DM, the googles are pretty mid and have connection issues and the change between videofeeds of the diversity is so slow sometimes. I have been looking for new goggles, but im not sure what to get. Im considering the HDZero Pro Goggles, cause they have analog aswell as HDZero and I might get an HDZero Freestyle VTX but im not sure. DJI would probably be the best bet, but its kinda too expensive for me. Should I just stick to analog and buy some analog goggles with a better reciever? What can you guys recommend?

I have an air 65ii and I’ve gotten pretty good. The air65 definitely struggles in the wind but it does work. I just want to have something specific for outdoor flying. I have absolutely no idea where to start. I assume you have to get flight controllers specific to the rating of the battery/motor?

Does anyone know what this means, im pretty sure i have good battery as it shows 16.5 volts for 4s

Got it setup, was on second pack having a blast and crashed on the bed. Wanted to see if turtle mode could get me free. Didn't know that if a prop was being stopped and try turtle mode that it could fry the ESC. Couldn't get it flipped over so I went and picked it up. Brought it downstairs and when I went to relaunch one motor wasn't working. I swapped the plugs with another motor and the issue travelled to that motor and then in betaflight manually tested the motor function, that motor still not spinning. Seems like I fried the ESC and thus effectively fried the entire AIO.

Extremely disappointed and to be honest a bit angry. Why the fuck is this shit so fragile? They can't make it a little harder to burn out the fucking thing?

Hey guys, ive got a Bingchat, airdrop, supposed to 7.5k, but I lose video transmission at a block or 2 away.

Is there anyone/anyway to upgrade this feature? My mini5 pro is incredible.

If I could get the same transmission I get with dji into the Bingchat, I'd be extatic!

Is this even possible? The Bing is well over 249g, so I know the legalities involved, etc.

Thanks in advance!

I took my 2" out this morning after applying a new preset from UAVTech, that's all I did to my drone differently to many other times I have flown here.

Suddenly I'm getting 50M range when before it was going over the 3rd field with no issues, I've checked the antenna, packet rates, version check, both TX/RX on 3.x - The only thing I have changed was the preset, I put the ELRS 250Hz preset on too in BF and selected the correct UART.

So, I've come to one of 2 conclusions, 1 something is dodgy on the AIO, or interference, so what is the likelihood that this is caused by interference? It was the same if I stood in the middle of the field as well so I don't think it's that (although there is a military base about 5 miles to the west of here)

So, before I go and add another 2g to my already fat little bastard I'd welcome any ideas to check.

Specs should you be interested: BetaFPV F4 20A Aio and RM Pocket on 250Hz

Thanks for looking and, as always, Happy Flying

Not much to show around in this, but just worried about this frame because every time I'm trying to tighten a screw, the driver hole gets stripped. Had to replace 2 screws till now, and I'm using an INGCO ratchet driver along with this battery operated one. Any alternatives? Is it because this frame is cheap?

Any other ideas? This gave me a pretty nice drone audio, but I guess the first crash will destroy the mic…

I am flying with an 04 PRO, and i am a fan of minimal overlays, i really only need what's crucial for me to fly and know when to take my drone back, what do yall have turned on? Thanks

What happened: My O4 Air Unit Pro was already successfully paired and working with my Goggles N3. Accidentally pressed the bind/link button on the Air Unit by mistake, which knocked it out of the existing pairing. Now the Air Unit’s link LED is showing solid red and I can’t get it to re-bind with the goggles.

What I’ve tried so far:

**•** Reset the Goggles N3  
**•** Updated firmware on both the Air Unit and Goggles N3 to the latest version  
**•** Pressed and held the link button on the Air Unit to trigger pairing mode  
**•** Tried searching/linking from the Goggles N3 menu

Result: Goggles aren’t detecting the Air Unit at all during search.

Setup:

**•** DJI Goggles N3  
**•** DJI O4 Air Unit Pro  
**•   TX12 Radiomaster**

Attaching photos/videos of the setup and the LED status. Anyone run into this exact issue after an accidental bind-button press? Trying to figure out if this is a range/interference thing, a firmware mismatch even after updating, or if I need to force a factory reset on the Air Unit itself.

Any help appreciated 🙏

You can see the antenna sticking out of the vtx with blue gummies, it almost bends at 90 degree angle. Will this cause damage or effect the video transmission. Thanks.

No download, no launcher, no account: open the tab and you’re flying a flying-wing over an island. It’s built on Babylon.js v7.

Hi all.

I'm going to re-write the whole text to not confuse somebody :)

In this video i forgot to take off the props, I know, but I was struggling very long and just came in from an outdoor test, so I knew what exactly will happen. Nevertheless, I'll never and you should never do this with Props mounted!!!!!

In this video you can see that my motors are not spinning, if I arm my drone. The same occurs in Betaflight when I tried to run the motors.

There was a looong journey until I get here (~18 hours of troubleshooting), so I'll give you a short recap:

First: I'm a noob, started with a Meteor75 Pro O4 and got my hands on this nice little sub250 copter, Deepspace Seeker 3.

The problem:

The copter was shipped with an outdated BLHELI (i guess). Some weeks ago I may already flashed the ESC, but wasn't 100% sure if I really did it.

After coming back from Holidays I wanted to fly it again (before it worked fine). But the copter started to flip over when arming.

While troubleshooting, I came to the esc-configurator and noticed a warning:

Unsupported Firmware d2ÿÿÿÿ version '2.20' (Layout 3) is not yet supported. Let us know by opening an issue. Only flash firmware if you are fully aware what you are doing. (spoiler: I did not know what i was doing ;) )

Because I wasnt 100% sure if I already flashed the ESC, I decided to flash it again, to get rid of the outdated BLHELI to the AM32 firmware.

I found out better to use https://am32.ca/configurator for this and selected the target called AM32_DEEPSPACE_AIO_F421_2.20.hex (spoiler, did not work).

I ended up with the ESC being stuck in startup melody, restarting again and again in a loop, but only with the first 3 beeps but not the last 2 beeps for the ESC-FC-connection.

Then the journey began again. I tried different targets that chatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini told me to try:

1. AM32_HAKRC_G_F421_2.20.hex
2. AM32_HAKRC_G_F421_2.19.hex
3. AM32_HAKRC_G23_F421_2.20.hex
4. AM32_HAKRC_G23_F421_2.19.hex

But nothing worked. In the video you see what happened.

The Problem was NOT the Ramp rate, that is often resetted to 0.1% or so, not the DSHOT or directional DSHOT settings, startup power or idle power.

I took pictures of the ESC from all sides, but nobody was able to tell me what target to flash!

THE SOLUTION (for me, so far)

I then flashed AM32_JHEMCU_F421_2.20.hex

This one worked out of the box. My motors are running nice and smooth, no bad noise anymore. BUT I did not fly the drone, because its already dark outside :( I will tell you more tomorrow.

ATTENTION before simply doing the same like me

Before you flash the same target like me do a research. This one might not work for you. There is no "right" target that works for all of you, i figured out. I can't guarantee this will work, it depends on the ESC, the manufacturer and maybe more, even if you got the same drone like me. The Seeker can be shipped with different ESCs!!!!. Only try it using a smoke stopper.

Why i write all this? Because it was a looong journey and I hope this will help any of you to prevent you wasting your time too :)

For those who downvoted my post: thanks for nothing. Not sure why, I would never downvote somebody looking for help or being a noob. But hey, I just hope i can help at east one of you :)

Can anyone give me a good drone build that costs under $155, i tried chatgpt but the things it gave were either super hard to find or to expensive and got the prices wrong. i want to build the drone by myself but i dont really know what i need, other than the batter frame and motors ofcourse, so can someone please put together a good build with all the parts I need to put into my frame for under 155 usd, also, im new to this hobby and 3 inch build recomendations are proffered, thank you.

What are some online fpv stores in the USA that are not Pyrodrone, Get fpv or race day quads