In the background, I have been flying FPV a lot. And enjoy the freedom of flight from that point of view. However, it's always great to watch the speed and acrobatics from a third person perspective. To recapture that fun, I have built up the Drone Art AeonQX6 quad as a line of sight acro. So much f ...

Thanks to local drone shop, NewBeeDrone... I was able to get my hands on the new Runcam Micro Swift. It's a small, 5.67g CCD camera. Usually all the small cameras are CMOS based. And aren't ideal with how it handles light and shadow transitions. Or how well it operate at night.Looking forward to use ...

Check out this flight controller and PDB combo: FuriousFPV Piko BLX. Not only does the FC+PDB integration makes sense. but it's a F3 with SPI gyro in a 20x20 mounting format. Made for micro multirotor frames. And supports quad or hex configuration.Since FuriousFPV came on the scene, I swear it feels ...

Nowadays, there are a couple of ESC firmware that multirotor guys are flying with. It's generally either KISS or BLHeli enabled ESC. So it's nice to see another company producing ESC with the ease, simplicity of KISS with great performance and smoothness...while being very receptive to feedback fr ...

I, like many friend in this hobby, started out flying a little brushed quad that we received as a gift. That was the gateway...and from there, we kept building bigger and more powerful. Faster. Eventually, we find that we can not fly our fast FPV quad everywhere... so we look for something smaller t ...

Got some new receivers in that are compatible with the FrSky protocol. No doubt thanks to midelic's work on RCGroups. Hoping the sqaurish format will allow me to bury it into micro FPV quadcopter builds. It was difficult finding a location for the regular FrSky X4R-SB.The RX-F801 and RX-F802 were pu ...

As FPV racing matures, new rules and classes are put into place. One of the rule is the "250" size racing quads need to stick with 5" props. To breath new life into those of use who has the popular H-style ZMR250 frame, I came had an epiphany and learn that you can configure it to have the motors in ...

The new "Favorite" FVT LittleBee 20a arrived into the HacksMods lab. So it's time to take some clear shots of them and compare with the Flyduino KISS ESC. Which is still one of the highest performing multirotor electronic speed controller. The small size and light weight are great for putting on ra ...

    Alternate configuration with the battery plate. Allows more space to hide things. ...

With DYS/RCTimer SN20a and BL20a possibly having a bad manufacturing batch. Plus, you lose about 10% thrust versus competiting ESC. One of the new ESC some of us have started buying instead are the ZTW Spider 18a Opto Lite as some retailers are calling them. Performance seems good so far. We'll lear ...