Drones - FPV

DALRC XR215 V2 FPV Racer Build

hugues — Tue, 02 Aug 2016 13:05:45 +0000

This is a build video of a FPV 215 racer using the following components:

-DALRC XR215 V2 Full Carbon Fiber Quad Frame for FPV Racing FPV Build in OSD BEC BB Ring:http://goo.gl/dcIW2V

-Foxeer XAT600M DC5V-22V 600tvl Sony Super HAD CCD FPV Camera: http://goo.gl/ETYdS0

-Gearbest kindly provided motors for this project, Emax RS2205 2300KV Racing Edition :http://goo.gl/mV4P5h

-ESCs are taken from Gearbest's Flycolor Fairy Series V2 20A BLHeli ESCs : http://goo.gl/RU8b36

-F3 Flight controller Deluxe was kindly provided by Gearbest for this build : http://goo.gl/CDDK3C

-Propellers are DALprop J5040 : http://goo.gl/huUCeE

-ESC firmware is BLHeli with oneshot125 downloaded and flashed with the BLHeliSuite software (latest version)

-F3 flight controller firmware is Betaflight (latest version) downloaded and installed via the Betaflight configurator (Chrome app)

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Review & history of flight controllers for FPV racing (MultiiWii branch)

hugues — Tue, 02 Aug 2016 12:56:52 +0000

The whole flight controller firmware landscape has changed dramatically in the last couple of years since the introduction of the Naze board for FPV racers running baseflight firmware.

As opposed to software (r)evolutions, flight controllers hardware did not evolve as much (apart from processing power increase, nothing revolutionnary). One noticeable novelty on hardware level is the relatively new open source "SP racing F3" board. Made a quick tech review of this board in the video which, as I understand it, became the state of the art flight controller for "seriously pro" FPV racers.

This video also shares some brief historical & evolution about hardware/firmware for FPV racing (MultiiWii evolution branch).

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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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