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 […]
Category: Tutorial
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 […]
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 […]
Adding the RunCam Micro Swift camera to a Micro quad
If there’s one thing the current crop of micro quads have in common (and for the purposes of discussion, I’ll class micro quads as up to 130mm motor-to-motor) it’s the quality of the camera in the all-in-one VTX/Camera combos. That’s not to say they are awful – in fact that fact we get a tiny camera […]
Getting the RSSI value to show in your Betaflight’s OSD (FrSky based)
I had a question pop up a few days ago in the form of a YouTube comment. It was how did I get the RSSI value to show in my OSD on one of my Mini-Quads. In this particular case, I was using the MicroMinimOSD with the MWOSD firmware, but even with the newer flight […]
Martian III Quad build – Part 3
In the previous part of the build, we’d installed all the electronics into the frame, and had pretty much completed the physical build – I’d stopped at the top plate and it’s four risers just so they weren’t in the way for heat shrinking the ESCs. We’ll come to that part in a little while, […]
Martian III Quad build – Part 2
In the first part of the build, we discussed the parts I gathered to build the Martian III, so let’s actually get on and put it together now. First off, this means disassembling most of the frame down again – just leaving the legs and the base plate – I’ve done this so I can […]
Getting iNav ready for the SkyHook Discovery 2.6 – enter the cardboard V-Tail
Last month I got the biggest plane I’d ever held in my hands for a review. This is the Skyhook Discovery 2.6. It’s a really quite stunning 2.6m motor-glider that’s made of balsa and composite and has been careful thought out for flying FPV. It is huge, but thankfully it all breaks back down a […]