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David 08/08/2020
TLDR: Flew badly with the camera, autopilot hated my radio, but flies like an absolute dream without both of those. Really eaasy to assemble, had it set up within a few minutes of opening it. Only down side was it is XT30, not XT60 for the ESC battery plug, so I had to wait 3 days for an adapter/new end. Flies really well off a pair of 18650 batteries as well, and you get a really good fly time off of them. The rating on my battery is 1500mAh, (though for a pair of 18650s, that seems incorrect, I'd expect it to be more like 3000-5000mAh), but I get a really good 15-20 minutes of flight time, and lands with power to spare. I purchased it with the camera and autopilot module - and unfortunately I haven't had any luck getting them to work. The camera upsets the Centre of Gravity significantly, and the extra weight from balancing it (and the camera itself) just made the aircraft unpleasent to fly. The autopilot was not best pleased with my radio setup, as I didn't have a mode selector switch (Spektrum Dx6i), so I couldn't get it out of V tail mode to actually get it to work... Maybe one day I'll buy a new radio and test it out, but for now, it is going to live back in the box. Without those two, an absolute dream to fly. Glides beautifully, enough power to escape from most mistakes, just really nice to fly. It is light enough that when it did end up in a tree (or faceplanting the ground) the only things that happened was the canopy popped off (magnetic, sticks back on easily), and the battery fell out. Belly up landings, again, no minor injuries, barely scratched the EPO. If you're looking for a little plane that is just fun to fly, strongly recommend this one, but don't get it with the camera/autopilot, it is more fun without.
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Q: can you use this with arduino ? which board to select/install ?

Preguntado por Swapnil sobre 2019-08-24 12:49:00

DavidCaplin You can, but, like you said there isn't a preset board for this variant of ESP32. You can make your own, or most of the other ESP32 boards will actually work, I think I used the T-Beam and it worked.

2019-08-25 01:35:45 Servicial (2)
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Q: Will this product be suitable for the NZ market?

Preguntado por hortplus sobre 2019-07-25 03:32:36

skipperthepilot It is certainly not universal - some countries have switched off 2G. Apparently Vodafone NZ have said they'll keep it running until 2025 for IOT/GSM data. I don't think they've disabled the network to everything else yet, but it might be comming

2019-08-15 04:44:27 Servicial (1)
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skipperthepilot Definitely not - the max packet size is about 256 bytes. You could transmit your image as a byte array and get an 16x16 pixel image... Though it does say you can run 300kbps bit rate, so you potentially you could stream 48x48px at 15fps... But I really wouldn't want to try...

2019-06-16 11:10:42 Servicial (0)
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Q: Is this SPI only? Or selectable between SPI/I2C?

Preguntado por skipperthepilot sobre 2019-06-04 12:24:20

Trichology Communication method: Standard IIC/SPI communication protocol

2019-06-10 02:06:25 Servicial (0)
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