Gearbest Holybro Shuriken 250 RC Racing Drone

After my previous not so normal flight review of the Ideafly grasshopper I was asked to try and Holybro Shuriken 250 RC Racing Drone. But first, here is the Holybro Shuriken 250 review.

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Gearbest Ideafly Grasshopper F210 Upgrade – Make it fly better!

I assume you’ve seen my video on Youtube (if not, scroll down) and want to make your grasshopper do the same. In short, you can achieve this by just updating 2 (or 5 to be more exact) components’ firmware. Lets head to the Ideafly Grasshopper upgrade right away:

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Ideafly Grasshopper F210 Racing RC Quadcopter – RTF – Review for GearBest – First Impression

I fly racing drones as a “serious” hobby and compete regularly in our local league and international races. Gearbest contacted me asking for a honest Ideafly Grasshopper review, “can it really fly 230km/h??”, to be exact. Although i still have no answer about that, it’s parts makes it a good starting point for anyone who wants to fly a drone!

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Racing Drone parts list – sept. 2016

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…

My previous list was posted 10months ago, you can find it HERE. A building log can be found HERE.

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Tiny Whoop parts list, where and what to order

Everybody these days is flying the new Tiny whoop. I’ll go through what and where to buy, with a short and to the point tiny whoop parts list.

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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 🙂

PID tuning in the Air – FPV miniquad

PID tuning is the more complicated and less understood task in the FPV racing community. Although stock, default, PID values give an OK flying characteristic, I strongly suggest putting the effort into understanding how to tuning works.

This post will not cover PID tuning, but HOW-TO tune your PIDs in the air, using your remote. This will help make the process much easier and faster!

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