About a year ago I made 3 videos about Open.HD and they are still sat there on YouTube if you’d like to take a look. in the first video, I talk about what Open.HD is and what sort of equipment we’ll need to get the system set up. In the next video, I connected everything […]
Setting up a GPS with Betaflight
There’s a whole bunch of reasons why you might want a GPS receiver on your Betaflight quad. It might be for helping you know where you are in long-range endeavors, liking the fuzzy warm feeling of having a home arrow, or the increased safety aspect of having the GPS rescue mode available. I’ve already made […]
Using SPI receivers with an ACCESS/ACCST LBT/EU radio
Going on for around a year ago, I made a YouTube video to provide a small tutorial on how to enable D8 on an LBT radio. Typically, your Taranis X9D or QX7 radios. Since that time, FrSky developed their ACCESS protocol, and the radios that support it, don’t support the D8 protocol. In fact, in […]
Using the DShot Beeper in Betaflight – a quick and easy guide
Update: June 2019 At some point (I didn’t quite notice when, I just noticed it one day) the ability to setup Dshot beeper via the configuration tab was added in. It certainly saves messing around with the CLI, and so is recommended. I’m leaving the remainder of the original text as it was for reference […]
GepRC MX3 Sparrow review (from Drone May 2018)
This was the second piece from Drone Magazine for May 2018, and was the cover picture. It was also a case of being able to reuse assets I’d created when reviewing for YouTube. Since I started writing as well, from this point onwards I’ve always taken stills of anything that could be reviewed as I […]
Skyhook Discovery 2.6 build – Part 4 (Camera mount, securing the tail, and finishing off)
In this final build part of the Skyhook, there wasn’t actually much left to do. The electronics were mostly in place, but there were just some annoying pieces to tick off the list. First up was the camera mount. To start with, we had a slightly confusing set of parts along with my camera – […]
Taming Acro Flying in Betaflight (From Drone May 2018)
Or as Drone renamed it “Aerial Acrobat: The smart way to tame manual flight” which is another nice title, but doesn’t quite tell you what it’s about on a blog. This was the first of two articles I wrote for Drone for the May issue, and also included one of my pictures as the front […]
Taking the DShot, or how to use Betaflight DShot commands (from Drone April 2018)
In this piece for Drone, I took some of the knowledge that I had learned from doing a YouTube review on the Diatone GTR-90. A lovely design of micro quad, but one that didn’t allow room for a beeper, and so I looked into how to use the DShot commands in order to give me […]
“Lost & Found” – How not to lose your Quad (from Drone March 2018)
This was my first article for Drone Magazine, which I was very happy to be featured in as it’s a very high quality glossy magazine which is really nicely put together, and the fact that Painless360 already wrote regularly for them had put me off talking to them previously. But having done the Let’s Drone […]
Extreme Fliers Micro Drone 3.0+ Combo review (from DroneZone April/May 2018)
Here’s something I certainly wouldn’t have chosen to ever fly or review, but DroneZone sent it over and asked me to write a review on it, which I did…. and spoiler alert, I hated it. It was way over priced, used old technology, and worst of all it managed to get $3M from an Indigogo […]