Building a quadcopter

In all the years that I have been building, flying, crashing, and rebuilding drones, I have learned one thing for sure: a good soldering iron is the fine line between frustration and fun. When the TS-100 soldering iron first came out, I saw how excited everyone was about it but didn’t think too much into […]

Since the TBS Crossfire Micro has come out, it seems everyone is jumping on the long-range FPV bandwagon. After all, what’s more thrilling than flying your $400 rig out so far that you most likely won’t be able to recover it if you crash! Just kidding, of course, I’ve done it too and it’s exhilarating! […]

One of the most frustrating things for me in building my earlier quads was finding a good place to mount the FPV antenna. Back then, designers and manufacturers didn’t really care about including some design features to mount antennas, and as a result, I must have broken tons of antennas and transmitters. Nowadays many frame […]

As far as flight controller softwares go in the miniquad world, the kings are Betaflight, KISS, Raceflight(now known as FlightOne), and the new kid on the block is Butterflight. Betaflight, KISS, and Raceflight dominate the market share, though, since Butterflight is still up and coming. There is a hot debate – or a matter of […]

The Armattan Rooster is Armattan’s follow up to the very well received and much favorite Armattan Chameleon. If you want to know how good the Chameleon was, check out Joshua Bardwell’s and UAVFutures‘ raving reviews of it. The Rooster and Chameleon are really unique designs that make it really ideal for freestyling. They’re relatively lightweight, […]

All quadcopters have 3 essential parts, which are the bare minimum for them to work: Motors A flight controller ESCs(Electronic Speed Controllers) These three parts are tied together – the flight controller sends signals to the ESCs, and the ESCs tell the motors how fast to spin. You would need one ESC for each motor, […]

To build a really nice and clean fpv miniquad, a power distribution board really helps in cleaning up the wiring. Back in the early days of building miniquads, wiring could get quite messy. You would have to use a really funky looking PDB, or build a wiring harness. Essentially, the process of wiring up ESCs […]

The Betaflight F3 flight controller was developed by FPV Model in conjunction with Boris B., the brains behind Betaflight. The really unique thing about the Betaflight F3 board is that it is designed specifically to be able to use all of Betaflight’s awesome features. Let’s get this Betaflight F3 review started! Feature overview For miniquads, […]

So you’re thinking of getting a Tiny Whoop – or you already have an Inductrix, an Eachine E010, or something similar, and want to turn it into a monster? You’ve come to the right place. This is a list of parts and upgrades for your Tiny Whoop, categorized. Of course there are tons of aftermarket […]