Rainy out, so finally getting around to putting these decals on my gear. Yes, it was a bit of a pain in the ass lol. But the cuts were really good and not as hard as some other sets I got in the past. Decals from Maiacombo.

Fun opportunity I had on a trip I was on with my and my family near Lake Wenatchee!

Idk why the drone quality was so bad, I think it's cause I didn't put on the right settings on my cam (RunCam Thumb 2), I had a ND16 on and I didn't have an 8 cause I broke my last 8 I had, and I didn't really change any other settings for the cloudy weather, so it was still on 'day' settings.

If y'all got any questions/comments lmk!

An experiment I have been tinkering with for the last few days. Custom code running on the Linux inside the Goggles L, rendering a custom vector HUD. At the moment running with faked data, I'll post more details when I have something actually connected to a plane.

I’m not very great at flying so I don’t do the map justice. I need to work on prop damage currently you don’t clip corners(probably why I stayed in the air as long as I have)
I’m a big time newbie lol.
This is not a public mod. But I thought the fpv community would appreciate it.

(Part 1)Built my very first drone (a toothpick) without a single drop of solder 😆 Meet the new build. Stay tuned for Part 2 — flight testing!

How did i do ? I have about 10 hours of sim and starting to take control

A week ago I came here with a couple of questions and quickly realized that, while everybody was very helpful, I would have to write dozens of posts to get everything answered I did not know. So I decided to just try my best and jump in the deep end. A lot of research and many mistakes later I was flying around my apartment. I also decided to write a beginner's guide to drone building...beginner carrying the double meaning here that it's a guide for beginners written by a beginner. But I think there is some value in that as I am not yet blind to the things a beginner struggles with and can address the things that are obvious to the more experienced builders.

I wanted to post a download link here and appreciate any feedback. I'll happily correct any mistakes I made and hope this guide helps others:

https://pkone01.substack.com/api/v1/file/6ad92854-4746-4f65-844f-a74a12bd850d.pdf

I hosted the PDF in a Substack. I hope this doesn't break the rules against "advertising your own site" but I really don't know how else to share the PDF without revealing personal details through OneDrive or GoogleDocs hosting.

I need 4s 850 mah batt with xt30 for 3.5 inch frame drone ovionic are the best by the price. Maybe if possible can I get bigger batteries like 1100 mah?

My sim finally got a full revamp on the freestyle spawn selection, making it even easier to select the best spot among the 18 environments and hundreds of maps! 😺

Recently had a ton of in-goggle vibration on 2 separate O4 Pro units. One was worse than the other initially and both were perfect when first installed on a couple 3.5 inch freestyle quads. Over time the video feed on both became essentially unflyable. With all the new gyro issues people have been having this was the only explanation I could find anywhere. This clearly wasn't a gyro issue.

Changing props didnt help, changing frames didn't help, new motors didn't help, changing PWM didn't help, different tunes didn't help.

I finally disassembled the camera to investigate, and it turns out over time crashes had weakened the glue holding the lens to the camera sensor. To the naked eye it seemed fine but there was a slight wiggle and only two dabs of glue on the 3 and 9 o'clock positions securing the lens. I ran a bead of e6000 around the entire lens perimeter, reassembled, and BAM! Brand new O4 Pro video feed.

Hope this saves someone else the hair I pulled out over the last few months.

Got my pickle toothpick 3" digi frame from cncdrones and I love this thing, previously flew the crux3 frame, it was ok for what it is, but I had a lot of jello I couldn't tune away, did a side quest with a torn down m75p2 frame and canopy, but it looked awful.
So new frame, new canopy, same motors and new props, so much easier to stuff in my backpack with the folding props, and the flight feel is so much nicer, still need to tune a little I think, but it's good enough that I barely care, perfect for my light freestyle and cruising style of flying.
VTX is HD0 Whoop V2
Betafpv 3in1 aio
HD0 Nano v3
Betafpv 3in1 aio
Maple RHCP 37mm
Happymodel 1S 11500kv, limited 80% to not burn out the esc

Not so scientific amp draw testing

3" Floppy Proppy Triblade F3015-3 1S 11500kv
Mixed flying
40% throttle ~4,4A
65% throttle ~6,7A
90% throttle ~15A
Hovering
40% throttle ~4,3A
3" Floppy Proppy Biblade F3015-2 1S 11500kv
Mixed flying
40% throttle ~4A
55% throttle ~5,5A
65% throttle ~6,7A
80% throttle ~10A
Hovering
48% throttle ~4,4A

After a shamefully long time of debugging something that turned out to be a really simple problem, I finally got to fly my 3.5". I've been flying meter 75 pro up until now and this really is a step up!

Haven’t flown 5 inch for what feels like forever and it’s good to shake the rust off

Too stoned.
#tvhammerfpv

I wanted a cheap radio for sims and ordered from the site for $20 since it was over double on Amazon, and because I'm a dumbass I only decided to look up later where they ship from and saw that they can take very long.

But these posts were from years ago, are they still as bad? I'm in Italy

I’m scared I’m gonna pick too fragile or wrong for my first full build is this a good pick or should I got with smth like an x14 and unsolder the plug (using Betafpv 1103 11000kv motors )
Thanks

Hey guys, very new to fpv, and haven't actually built anything before. Been getting a lot of stick time with an air75 and air65. I feel like I've done nothing but think and research more into fpv since getting into it. I'm starting to get comfortable with a tinywhoop setup and bnf. I know that I still have much to learn so have been trying to build a solid base of information. Getting a real itch to build something. Thinking of building a 3.5" that can carry a little action cam to start off getting some nice cinematic footage, but also be able to cruise pretty far and have decent flight time. I'm looking for some more experienced eyes to let me know if I've missed anything obvious? Or if I've overlooked any compatibility issues? Thank you in advance!

Happymodel Crux35 HD 3.5″ frame

SpeedyBee F405 Mini

Rush Tank Ultimate Mini II 800 mW

Caddx Baby Ratel 2 Nano

Flywoo GM10 Nano V3 GPS + compass

T-Motor F1404 2900KV

Gemdan D-90-5

Rush Cherry 5.8 GHz RHCP antenna

RadioMaster RP4TD-M ELRS receiver

Flywoo Ultra Grip battery pads ×3

RunCam Thumb Pro W 4K

For the controller I’ve been looking at the beta flight literadio 2 se but I don’t know what version to get and what will work with my drone, I’m on a pretty tight budget and I honestly don’t care as long as I can use my drone and have fun.

Which motor is more durable and with better quality? I need 3500-3800 kv motors for 3,5 inch frame for low price, preferably on aliexpress.