Category: Tutorials

GB-X210 Carbon Fiber Frame Kit RC Racing Drone – GEP-TX5 Chimp – Gearbest

While browsing through gearbest in the effort of finding a good Racing drone kit i stumbled upon the GB-X210. It is based on a GEP-TX5 frame, more known as Chimp, the very well known EMAX motors, DYS esc and SPF3 flight controller. Gearbest was kind to send me this kit for free for review (you can even see my pictures on the gearbest page 🙂 isn’t that awesome?)

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Bind QX90 tiny drone with a DSM receiver

The DSM receiver used on the Tiny QX90 doesn’t have a bind button. To bind QX90 with a DSM receiver just plug the battery to the quad, turn on your transmitter and click the bind button on the transmitter.

When the QX90 switches on, the receiver tries to bind for about 3 seconds (led blinking). Once binded the led will stay on.

TBS Crossfire binding and set-up with Frsky Taranis

In this short article I will go through the steps to bind and set-up your TBS Crossfire and Frsky Taranis. It’s quite simple and you should be done in a few seconds 🙂

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FPV Camera Tilt

learning to use the FPV camera tilt will help finish more race laps and in turn help you fly faster gradually.

Since the FPV camera acts as our human eyes we tend to want to aim the quad in a way that will point the camera in the natural direction our eyes are pointed usually. If you take a moment to think about it, we point our eyes towards the horizon, mostly. This determines where our FPV cam will be pointed during flight.

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Naze32 Rev6 ESC calibration

You can’t calibrate the ESCs on Naze32 Rev6 like you used to do in rev5, by using the motor tab, as trying will result in your motors spinning when thinking you are about to calibrate your escs.

This is a result of the lack of separation between the high voltage and low voltage on the rev6.

naze32 rev6 ESC calibration process:

The trick to calibrate without disassembling anything is:

  1. plug USB and connect to cleanflight.
  2. move to CLI tab and type the following commands:
    1. set min_command = 2000
    2. save
  3. unplug USB.
  4. plug Battery.
  5. plug USB and connect to cleanflight.
  6. move to CLI tab and type the folowing commands:
    1. set min_command = 1000
    2. save
  7. Done 🙂

Frsky Failsafe for X4R SB and D4R II Receivers

Failsafe should be set immediately after you finish building your miniquad. Failsafe will determine what stick position will be used when your receiver stops receiving information from the transmitter, or when the connection is lost. Setting up frsky failsafe is very straight forward and should take less than a second.

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Miniquad parts list – 210mm racing miniquad

I see too many pilots flying miniquads they built as kits from aliexpress, eBay and some other weird places to buy miniquads from. Their miniquads are more prone to breaking because of a bad choice for a frame, cheap motors and ESCs with low performance and etc…! This Miniquad Parts List is here to battle all those crappy kits and save the newbies some money…

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Naze32 receiver – PWM, PPM and Serial (S.Bus)

There are 3 options for connecting your Naze32 receiver. First is PWM, requires connecting a wire from your receiver to the naze32 for each channel, a total of 8 wires. Second is PPM, requires a receiver that supports PPM (like the FrSky D4R-II), and one single wire. Third is Serial (S.bus or satellite for example), requires a receiver that supports a serial signal (like the FrSky X4R-SB or a DSM satellite) and one single wire.

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