Old jerb... the content of which was neat. The daily activities of which were time wasting and sub-optimal. I miss the environments sometimes, at least when nobody was around and I could just admire the brutality of large-scale automation. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4OzOs7fhXQ
Still driving through the numerous video glitches (loose wire and water, prolly).
This is an old hacked up Helion Animus 18TR RC Truggy, all electronics gutted and replaced with a bunch of hotglue and HobbyKing junk. I had it running on a 3S Lipo, with a heavy throttle limit so that the 2S NiMH brushed motor wouldn't catch fire. Honestly, I'm surprised this thing still works after all it's been through.
I threw a TBS Crossfire Micro RX v2 connected directly to a TBS Unify Pro HV through SmartAudio to control the power output and whatnot. I gave in and got the Tango 2, cause I want my gear to be more able to hit and run night spots without dropping a bag on anything wet and snowy. The FPV camera was an old Runam Owl (the smallish one without mounting bracket). I added a tiny strip of white Lil’ Lites 1-3s Micro LEDs to the bumper so I could see the terrain better.
I did a LR mission strait down a road at like 4am to see how far I could get with the crossfire / unify at full blast, but I gave up cause it took 5 minutes to get a quarter mile out and I got bored and worried about the battery. Needless to say, I think Crossfire is dee wey. I plan on some more cross-town FPV rover missions over 4G once we're in the middle of Winter. I want to try LR on the ground before I make it small and airborne.
This is a marker so I remember what this looks like.
https://www.team-blacksheep.com/products/prod:crossfire_mrx
https://tinysleds.com/collections/all-leds/products/lil-lites-1-3s-micro-leds?variant=14044072902711
Musak;
https://www.discogs.com/Terry-Francis-Architecture/release/75592
4 –Aubrey Marathon
Written-By, Producer – Aubrey
5 –Pure Science The Fight Against Oppression
Written-By, Producer – P. Sebastiane*
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cQKOxTvN5U
Repairs: https://youtu.be/wW24R1h9qfI
Day 2: https://youtu.be/yCAfAEo-GqM
Rush-built some new old stock parts into a junker to bash for the weekend. Unfortunately the OSD was on a F1's serial1, which made adjusting the looptime and tune impossible as I didn't bring an iron. I flew the best I could with stock Beta tune and obnoxious-level obese AUW 750g, and still had fun. My crap FPV cam was so lowrez and washed out from the sun that I couldn't see the vibes and oscillations in the goggles anyway. The slo-mo crash at the end of this is when the port bow arm snapped due to the terrible design of the frame arms.
Detroit Multirotor Pitbull (old-ass heavy frame)
Cobra 2204 2300KV Motors
Rotorgeeks RG20 ESC's running BLHeli (OneShot125)
Naze32 Rev6 FC running BetaFlight 3x
DAL "Indestructible" 5040 & 45BN props
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhQmUxir5gY
Playing around with OBS on Bububuntu 16.04LTS / Older XPS13. Plenty of CPU for analog capture dongle and 2 webcams anyway. Wouldn't it be crazy if your FPV heroes actually did better than a half-charged TV watch and an overheating crapple iphone?
Flying the TinyCawk around the yard FSAG. Hopefully I can throw a Raspberry Pi rig together and take this concept around the city via HotSpot.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS2hkmR3d_k
This is all from the FXT DVR, handbrake'd to an editable format, "optimized" for editing in DaVinci Resolve... so in other words; 2 hours before I could even cut it. Ridiculous. This is a lazy, tired cut with an old early noughties Detroit mixtape soundtrack... for some reason "up north" and this music are associated for me.
Down the stairs is crazy fun once I found a clear line without ghosties. Did a couple packs without crashing; nothing but laps. When I go out long range over the water, I have to wiggle my wings a bit just to make sure the control link isn't starting to feel laggy... no RSSI on this one.
"Good for confuse pontoon crackiz."
I even got some low roman salutes out of them, based on our relative positioning no doubt, lol! Lots of Tr*mp stickers around here ; )
::Gear List::
Stock Eachine H8 Blue Board (w/ prop guards and other superfluous plastic removed)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3531GbVjq0