Category: Blog

The Mikrokopter Octocopter build is almost finished. All I need to do is to figure out the software bit and I can get it into the air.

Take me to the build page!

A good friend of mine, Chad Kapper from the US, (who incidentally owns his own production company) has just started a RC youtube show. Since he knows a thing or two about filmmaking, the show is very professionally made, has great flow and is technically appealing. Chad is also a FPV flier and in this episode he uses his TwinStar to get some air to air footage of the Parkzone F4F Wildcat that’s being reviewed. Visit his site www.Flitetest.com

If you like the show be sure to subscribe! The more people that like the show the bigger and better the show will be.

Great job Chad! Keep up the good work!

The Swedish RC magazine “Radiostyrt” has just published an article about the 24-hour competition I entered during my stay at Domaine du Planet. The article is written by my friend Daniel Larson (http://www.pbase.com/larson_daniel) who was on the same team as my self. The article is four pages long with lots of pictures. Ahhh I hope I can reenter the competition next year. I had such a good time.

For those of you that cant read swedish or can’t get a hold of the magazine, Daniel shoot a bunch of great pictures during the competition: http://www.pbase.com/larson_daniel/24hours

A good friend of mine, Corey, who lives on the other side of the “pond” (the US) asked me if I wanted to help building a Mikrokopter Octocopter kit he recently purchased. I accepted right away. It’s not every day you get to build a 2000 dollar multi-rotor platform and compare it to your own 100 dollar platform… I’ve just started the build, check it out here

Take me to the buildlog

Sorry guys for not posting as frequently as before, but life is really beating me down at the moment. Just for you guys I stayed up late last night editing my latest video – “Reflections”

This video was filmed in the small town I grew up in, Tibro. I love flying over the water. It’s tough because you don’t get the same visual references for estimating hight and speed. But I like a bit of a challenge. Hope you enjoy the video

For those of you that have missed it, GoPro has released a new firmware for the HD Hero camera. Why then is this such a big deal? The new firmware transforms the HD Hero into a great FPV camera by enabling live output. Now there’s no more need to “trick” the camera for FPV use. You simply enable live output in the settings menu once and every time you plug in the AV cable, the camera outputs a live video feed.

The updating process is pretty straight forward. Simply follow the instructions on the GoPro site and you’ll be fine. I’ve updated my camera and I can confirm that it works great. I’m so glad that I took the time to write the “GoPro Hero HD Live output trick” guide now 😉

I would like to devote this post to all of you that have helped me financing this page and my projects. Without you guys this page wouldn’t be where it is today, and for that I thank you. I would like to give a special thanks to Corey from the USA for all his generous donations. I also want to thank Lucas from Switzerland, Charles from the USA, and Micke from Sweden. Micke donated a Hitec Optima 6 receiver which will be placed in the Tricopter.

No matter if you simply visit this page, write a comment or donate money, I’m grateful for your support.

Hi guys! Sorry for disappearing on you. I’ve been moving to a new apartment (Yay!) and I lost my internet connection a bit earlier than I expected. But now I got it back and the move is nearly finished. The new apartment is 3 room 72.5m2 compared to our old 2 room measuring 57m2. This means that I get a RC-room!

It’s quite a mess at the time but I think it will be awesome once it’s done.

The weather here in Sweden has been terrible the past two weeks and I’ve only flown once since the last update. Oh when I say fly, I mean crash.

The horizontal stab came loose during launch… Now I need a new wing, fin and stab. I will definitely take the time to fix her up or get a new once because F3K is awesome.

Next update will be soon

Ever wondered how to get live video from a GoPro Hero HD camera? I know lots of you do, because I’ve got a ton of e-mails asking about it. That’s why I decided to make a guide explaining in detail how to get your GoPro Hero HD camera into Live output mode. It doesn’t require any modification what so ever to the camera. It’s also safe, easy and fast to do.

Click here to read the guide

The guys over in France have made a promotional video for Domaine du Planet using some of the material I shot during my stay.

I have not edit it, or have any part of making it (except shooting the aerial video). I’m glad that they could use some of the videos from the Tricopter.