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They both look pretty darn good from the mcu and imu perspectives but they both only list butterflight support which I'd be a little bit worried about (I expect they will get betaflight targets/configs setup eventually but would be good to find out if that's a thing yet or talk to support about...

Newer versions of betaflight can use "bidirectional" d-shot if you have blheli32 ESCs and can flash them with newish firmware then it uses the one signal line from FC to ESC to both send throttle control and for the esc to report back real time rpm that it is achieving at a given moment. With...

I think @Dugdog47 has more experience with cc3d on some modern stuff maybe but might want to wait for him to circle back around and give his 2 cents. Only CC3D librepilot stuff I ran was on my 3D printed frame (first "real" 5" quad) and was a wobbly mess too but I didn't know any better at the...

Hey yup have seen it plenty of times when bench testing myself too (mostly with betaflight but same behavior) hence not too worried. Other thing is just use the right stick at first after arming no throttle at all and in angle mode in some short grass or propped up on a box or the like on the...

If still just talking on the bench and pinned down the erratic behavior when using angle or acro (any sort of input from controller) will result in strange throttle changes on the motors. The problem is the quad expects the gyro on the FC to do a thing when it increases throttle on the back two...

Yah bench testing with props off or pinned down will result in some weird behavior would also suggest doing esc calibration: Battery unplugged and props off set throttle through motors tab to 100% then power on with battery wait for esc tones to stop beeping, then throttle to 0, should hear...

Sorry not familiar with that quad but as far as I know what you're asking for is called object detection (is it a tree or a cloud) and avoidance (where is the thing relative to the quad and are we going towards it?). This feature sort of needs to be baked into the control system or flight...

The multicolor is pretty sweet one day might add some multimaterial stuff. Recently been doing work on my diy machine to take full advantage of the rails to get biggest possible build volume and just tighten up the quality but now need to adjust my partially 3d printed shelving solution. Going...

Yup love some sims on a rainy day and it's the best way to learn acro flying fpv. I started off line of sight (LOS) only at first just learning throttle control and basic manuevering with angle mode, but when putting goggles on angle mode feels like the quad is fighting you all the time (which...

In general more mass means more load on the motor and esc to change speed of the motor so a heavier prop could burn out components but more blades on a prop means more push per rotation. Essentially they probably chose a prop to get a given flight time but you could change potentially depending...

I'd say no not unless you plan to have a gimbal camera on there with remote control or the like, you can mix switches into a single channel usually so don't need as many channels as switches your using even but still I usually just need 4 channels for the sticks and use two more for switches...

Hi Stuart, Only thing that comes to mind that *might* work is using an OTG adapter for the phone and an external 5GHz USB wifi radio but would need to find one that the Android OS already has kernel modules/drivers built in for so would be able to recognize and use as a WiFi device (honestly...

No need to post across threads really I think most of us on this forum just check out the new posts or ones we're already in so will typically be seen eventually either way... Regarding the question I haven't used APM but in general you just need a UART connection from the FC to the GPS module...

Yup agree, wires need to be thick to be low resistance and thick wire is heavy, if using thin wire need to use weaker motors which means less payload capabilities and or less agility too so all trade offs. Not saying impossible just seems not practical especially for the use case here (have...

First off cool! Secondly I think there are other ping pong playing bots usually just an arm though or other fixed mount and mechanism. I think the noise on a fix mounted system will be more manageable compared with a quad with all the high frequency noises/vibrations. The vision and planning...

Yup racedayquads.com is another very reputable one (founder of rdq, bought rotor riot on YouTube basically to keep that going and is just an all around great seeming dude as well). Both are completely safe though.

Beautiful the image quality is really much better than I would have expected and seems pretty stable, thanks for sharing a bit of your experience with it so far.

Basically all receivers take power (generally two wires for this red and black usually for 5V and 0V or GND reference), and they just have one signal line for connecting to the flight controller. Believe all the tiny hawk models use an all in one FC/ESC combo board and just the vtx is separate...

That phone is great but yah getting dated at this point in terms of hardware to run the latest everything. Glad to hear the quad is working out well, when you get more comfortable with it can upload vid to YouTube and share here.

Look for "adjustable buck converter" on any big online retailer and will find a little board with potentiometers (voltage output adjust knob) on it just check the input and output range, buck converters are more efficient than linear voltage regulator but typically the latter are much smaller...