I recently got a new dedicated FPV camera that seems to have a ton of adjustability. It needed a mount and some protection so Blender and the Replicator saved the day.
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After strapping my old GoPro 960 on and quickly mounting the power filter, OSD, and 5.8 GHz vTx, I needed a spot to mount the rc rx.
I had envisioned a streamlined roll cage of sorts to protect the flight controller, but measurements and guestimations were a bit off and what came out is more of a hump-back. It did give me a decent spot to mount the rx, as well as a nice carrying handle..
Indoor hovering was all I could do as I waited for the weather to cooperate and to get time fly.
I took my groundstation over to my parents' where I had previously flown my quad from their house across the street from a neighboring empty lot. It's a small lot, but its not bad for testing, nice practice for FPV in closer quarters, and it's fun to get a new perspective on the neighborhood.
Recent rain has caused the natural green stuff to shoot up though, and the lot was in need of a good mowing. I had joked about using the y6 to chop the weeds down, but in zooming around I lost it on the throttle control and the landing gear got snagged.
From what I remember it was a fairly graceful flip, but the video shows it to be a little fast. I'm thinking the twist when the front arms hit first caused the most stress for the break. Ah well, this was one of my design goals, make it easy to swap in a new part.
I really, really, wanted to fly longer so I brought out the quad, but I stuck it in the weeds causing a prop and nut to fly off. Ugh... Besides that, cutting through the weeds coated the camera with plant guts.
Flight seemed nice and smooth. Not sure if this is the flight controller or the Afro ESCs or what. The camera also did very well when looking into the sun. Now I need to rebuild and give it another shot..
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