Posted by admin on September 5, 2010
After all those test flights i made a list of things which needs to be improved/changed, one of the things was to improve the range of my Futaba T6EX 2.4GHz transmitter (i will write about the other few things a little bit later )
There are few way’s how to do it.:
Posted by admin on August 13, 2010
Like “Ernest” commented in a post “this camera records some beautiful video, getting that camera hooked up to a pan and tilt system using a head tracker would be a dream come true.”
Posted by admin on August 4, 2010
This is my new toy it’s a 95g High Definiton Video Camcorder from DOD, the F200HD.
Posted by admin on June 28, 2010
I have found a head-tracker which will work with this Futaba T6EX 6CH radio (DT-3K from Flytron), for those which dont have this tracker here is how i managed to move the camera left/right, up/down. All that will be illustrated in the following text, you will need the Futaba 6EX users manual and and/or look [...]
Posted by admin on June 28, 2010
I made 2 scheme’s to help you guys with the wiring (READ THE USERS MANUALS FIRST!!!) of the FPV stuff, one if you are using the Futaba T6EX radio and the other if you using a Futaba 7C radio without any head-tracking devices (The radio have to be in HELI MODE so you can pan [...]
Posted by admin on June 22, 2010
The camera I have is powered with 3.3 – 5.5V, low power consumption up to 60mA. The ESC I have hase a built-in BEC : 5v / 3A, so i could power the camera from the BEC but since i have 4 servos which in some situations will operate at the same [...]
Posted by admin on June 21, 2010
Since I like to build stuff by my self i made a camera mount plan for the easystar. It’s nothing new, there are several online shops which are selling similar camera mounts under the name “EasyPod” or something like that. This is the ver. 1, so probably after a while i will make some improvements [...]
Posted by admin on June 20, 2010
The camera i have comes mounted on a pan/tilt system with 9g DETRUM servos. This servos have a 90° normal travel and I wanted to modify the “pan” servo to have 180° travel which gives you later an beautiful in-flight side view.
How to get 180 degrees servo travel?