Good guesses everyone! The content of the mystery package was a complete FPV setup. I will be building this FPV setup for a friend from www.fullkontroll.se. In return I get a Starmax A-10 twin ducted fan ARF airplane. I hope to be able to finish this build in the two weeks of vacation we have from work, now around Christmas. A list of what was in the package can be found after the “Read More”
Sorry about the lack of updates lately. I’ve been working overtime nearly every day at work for last one and a half week. But today I have a little teaser…
This enormous package just arrived. It’s 1.3 meters high and weighs quite a lot. Anyone care to take a guess what it could be?
The answer will be reveled very soon…
Where is the fun in making a standard motor mount? Why not make one that you can steer? Since the wing only is a 3 channel airplane, why not use the rudder stick for something useful…
More pics and description on the project page
The few moments I’ve gotten this week I’ve been dedicating to build of the BAitT flying wing.
I have now added spars and glued the two wing-halves together. This wing feels a lot bigger that the old one!
The pictures and text are posted the BAitT project page
Something very rare happened this weekend, it didn’t rain, or snow, or blow hurricane winds. It was actually good enough weather to go out and fly. So I grabbed my TwinStar with the pan/tilt HD camera setup that I have jet to try out, and ran out to the car and drove to the field before the weather-gods had time to change their minds.
The flight went great! The sun had just broken over the clouds and there was a mist over the town. The flight was so beautiful;
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Since the weather has turned fowl here in Sweden and it’s getting dark well before I get home, I decided it was time to dust of the old hotwire cutter.
This time I will be making a 120cm wingspan Zagi10 flying wing. It will simply be a 50% scaled up version of the old AitT wing.
I will call it the Big Always in the Trunk wing or BAitT for short.
Click here to continue to read about the BAitT project
ay! Today I got a new 1.3GHz 300mW transmitter and a 1.3GHz receiver!
I placed an order after the flight with the HD camera that didn’t turn out that well.
I plan on making a guide on how to mount a more effective, lighter and more crash resistant antenna on this transmitter. I will also remove the connector and replace it whit directly soldered cables. That way I don’t need to worry about the connector suddenly giving up during flight.
Now all I need is some good weather this weekend and I should be able to test it out properly
I decided to have myself just one more try on making the HD camera work with a remote sensor PCB.
At least it looked nice.
I was super careful with every solder point and confirmed that every point was good in a microscope. I also measured all the connections with a multimeter. I pair twinned all the cables and then twisted ground wires around every pair. I then added epoxy to make sure that no cable or solder joint would be stressed or damaged while testing the camera out.
I hooked up the display and plugged in the USB power… First a flicker on the display… Then a for a split second a black display… But then! I can see my self! I’ve got picture!
But? There is something wrong? The picture isn’t moving?
I stretched out my hand and grabbed the camera lens and swiveled it around a bit, but the picture remained the same. No matter what I did, the picture wouldn’t change. So I tried rebooting the camera. The display flickered on and only displayed a black picture with the OSD information on it this time. I tried again, and again, and again. I tried pushing buttons, moving the camera head around, letting the power be unplugged for minutes, letting the power be plugged in for minutes before powering it up. No matter what I tried I could not get it to work. I couldn’t even get a frozen picture like the first time I booted it up. After an hour, with no progress, I stopped trying.
I had one more thing to try before I gave up. I powered up my soldering iron, plugged in my heat gun and starting cutting up some heat shrink. I decided to shorten every single wire by about half or 4 cm.
A couple of hours work later I was done. Ready for another try. I plugged in the display once more and powered it up… Black… only a black screen with the OSD numbers… I tried again. Same results. I tried pushing buttons, plugging stuff in an out but I knew, deep inside that I was defeated, once again by my archenemy, the Camlileo P10…
In episode #118 of ATTF Diggs and Jamie talks about my latest FPV video.
Jamie calls it — “The coolest FPV video I’ve ever seen before”, he particularly liked the part in the ending when I fly by the tractor.
It’s funny to hear them trying to pronounce “Dadde”.
They start to talk about it at 19:50 into the show.
You can download the episode here: ATTF #118.MP3
A big thank you to all the guys at ATTF!
I think this was one of the best FPV flights I’ve done! It was such a good feeling cruising around in the clouds. The weather couldn’t have been better and the setting sun made this one of my favorite flights ever.
