Ansia
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Hi Brammieman - you sound like you might be able to give some advice if you would not mind please.Yeah have several.
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Otherwise build 5 racers by now and had some fun flying with them.
I have a bit Lego complex with those though. The building is more fun to me than the actual racing or acro.
As a result many are by now 'upgraded' beyond what racers would seem useful or desirable with GPS, LEDs, additional cameras, etc. Trying out different flight controllers and software, just to get an idea of what you can do as an amateur drone builder.
Most of them are in parked on my workbench semi permanently.
So back to the beginning as by now I'd like to explore aerial photography a bit further.
Plan is to buy a new mavick pro but need to convince the wife still and safe up the cash.
To entertain her a bit, I bought the tello and so far we both love it. Joining on our next holiday trip to Greece.
Thanks for the reply - I had not thought of Rcgroups but used to go there quite a bit and got useful advice about action cameras......
What can -as far as I know- not be done is optical flow sensors and collision avoidance. Also the telemetry data is typically overlaid over the FPV video signal so its not digital data you can grab and make look nice.
So there are rough edges you can't iron out easily. Thats why commercial drones like DJI or Parrot cost some money to develop.
Sounds greatGPS & waypoint navigations isn't an issue anymore for homebuilts. Not that I have ever build my own, but I had a closer look into the technology involved.
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The Bebop 2 can do all of this and more, without restricting you like the DJI ones do. No-Flight zone or not, Bebop doesn't care. You can grab a slightly used one for around ~150 Euro on ebay.
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But for me the coolest feature: Fly it far far away in a rural setting, press the RTH button and hand the VR goggles over to the kids. With headtracking they can look up, down, left and right as they please while the drone slowly travels back home. My kids love it.
Thanks for some more useful info. I take your point about the kit needed for FPV. It sounds at first glance that the goggles are just a holder for the phone which provides the image. Unfortunately I have just got a new phone so do not want to get another - it might not be the best as I chose it because I want stock Android and this is as close to stock as you can get. It is a Moto G6 plus - also I have a sentimental attachment with the previous versions of this phone and it's distant ancestors.....
If you want to get into FPV you need cheap VR goggles, i have the fiit vr 2. And a phone with a decent screen PPI, like the galaxy s6.
The best android app for fpv using goggles and the flypad is Auriga Bebop which is easier than the parrot app and has very nice HUD telemetry.
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One thing which i don't like about the bebop. It needs a non moving platform for takeoff. That means the gps fix must not move or the beebop doesn't take off. So you can't start from a sailboat under sail. Landing on a moving sailboat is also not easy. I hover just above deck level with the control in one hand and grab the bebop with the other. Then tilt it over 90deg so it shuts off. Worked well so far
We have a large solar array at the stern of our catamaran, which is good for starting and landing at anchor.
Did exactly the same. Still kept the tello though. Also for practicing purposes and just for the fun and worry-free flying. The tello crashes quite good (if you can put it that way - had a few mishaps without propguards while in fast mode and only managed to have a prop pop off, not even broken!).Tello first then bought a Spark. The Spark is amazing
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