Review & test of Gearbest's Pixhawk and comparison with 3DR's Pixhawk

hugues — Tue, 02 Aug 2016 12:17:06 +0000

Recent 3DR's move not to sell DIY components & parts anymore, pushes hobbyists and prosumers to diversify their supplier's sources. Like many others in the community, my issue is to find an "as good quality as 3DR" alternative for a Pixhawk board. I started looking around for possible 3DR Pixhawk replacement candidates, with a quality I can trust in my builds.

There exist myriads of different "Pixhawk" equivalent boards. Most of them are not direct drop-in replacements as they are equipped with different connectors and have different sizes and shapes. Furthermore, most of them do not share the same quantity and redundancy of sensors (i..e.: two gyro, two accel, compass, baro, etc). A direct drop-in replacement is essential for prosumers and professionals trying to standardize parts, connections and components to a maximum.

Then, I was kindly requested by Gearbest to review some of their new FPV racer quad; offer which I declined being a very poor racer pilot (wouldn't have made justice to their fpv quad), proposing them instead to review their Pixhawk board which looked to be an exact match for 3DR Pixhawk board on all aspects: schematics, size, shape, connectors, etc.

This is what this video is about : a test, review and comparison of Gearbest's Pixhawk (versus 3DR's Pixhawk).

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3DR

Pixhawk

Gearbest

review

test

Training FPV quadcopter

Anonymous — Sun, 15 Jun 2014 17:39:00 +0000

Along gradual building and testing of various UAVs , we accumulate many spare parts that end up laying around. So for a bit of fun we decided to build a trainer quadcopter for FPV fun & training. The attached youtube video shows a FPV kid's initiation journey...

The trainer quad is made of:

-Assembled from various frame parts from : 3DR arms, home made plates, VulcanUAV landing legs, some other frames pieces from HK stuff, etc...

-a Pixhawk autopilot with 3.1.2 fw version

-3DR 880kv motors with 10x4,7 props + quadro ESCs

-powered by a 10.000 mah 4S battery

-5.8Ghz FPV setup with a RMRC 600Tvl camera

-Mobius camera for HD footage

This training quad can be crashed and abused, it is easily fixed.

Video of FPV initiation on a Pixhawk trainer quadcopter

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FPV

quadcopter