Hiking light with a FPV drone
It’s all about a balance of weight vs requirement if you’re hiking in the mountains. Here’s a guide to balance weight and the ability to shoot some great footage
Tag: FrSky
X-Lite Pro Switch Configuration
The Frsky X-Lite Pro has a limited set of switches and pots. Here is my set up
Switching from FrSky R-XSR to TBS Tracer with a FrSky XLite-Pro
Time to move from FrSky R-XSR to TBS Tracer – the new low-latency setup from TBS. Here’s how with a base setup of Betaflight & OpenTX
RX Loss in the snow
Snow crystals from a previous landing interfered with the RX electronics and resulted in a mid-flight equipment failure
Shadowfax
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Operational: November 2020 – I lost my Cragon 5″ drone in the mountains, so I wanted my new 5″ drone to be reliable for operation. No jello for movies, no… Read more »
Hornet
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Operational: October 2020 – active The design brief for this drone is a drone that is reasonably light-weight, quiet and fun for practising with, yet still supporting the XT60 4S… Read more »
Cragon v2
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Operational: September 2018 – September 2020 (death by loss in the mountains) There were two iterations of the Cragon. Cloud … Dragon … Cragon .. well, that was the reason… Read more »
Cragon v1
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Operational: August 2018 – August 2018 (death by drowning in a river) Cloud … Dragon … Cragon .. well, that was the reason for the name. Check out the Cragon… Read more »
Gold Paw
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Operational: April 2019 – active Gold Paw … named due to the gold bling motors. I wanted to build a new drone to improve upon some aesthetic and functional design… Read more »
Variable throttle power with OpenTX and X-Lite Pro controller
We’ve all had those days … the drone is too powerful for the location you want to fly in! Here’s a way of using one of the X-Lite sliders (potentiometers)… Read more »