CUTE66, DIY mini FPV drone kit with brushless motors
During cold winter days, when outside are -10ºC, somehow you can’t find the mood to play outdoor with your favorite FPV drone. Luckily, small brushless quads like this Cute66 are suitable for both indoor and outdoor flights. The DIY CUTE66 kit includes everything you need to build your own FPV drone.
According to your existing remote controller, you can opt between...
Happymodel Trainer90: DIY FPV drone kit
As fun as it can be to enjoy flying your own FPV drone, you might have a little extra fun with building your own. Happymodel Trainer90 contains all the essential parts required to build a flying machine. In addition, the package also includes a 600TVL camera with integrated 5.8G video transmitter. Due to its small size, it is an excellent...
Fighter 220 DIY FPV Racing quadcopter
DIY does not necessarily mean cheap. For the price of Fighter 220 you can find really nice ready-to-fly (RTF) racing quadcopters. Anyway, in my opinion, building your own drone doubles the fun and also makes you understand how these flying machines work.
Like most of the modern racing drones, the Fighter 220 is also based on the versatile F4 flight controller....
GTENG T908W review: Wannabee DIY drone
GTENG T908W it is advertised as to be a DIY quadcopter but, if you ask me, it is more like a modular drone. You don't need to solder or something like this, just put together the main parts and you are ready to fly.
In my opinion, the fact that a drone can be easily split into parts should not...
Flytec T11S DIY building brick drone
Building brick drones like this Flytec T11S doubles the fun. In my opinion there is no kid that never have played with a Lego - it was my son's favorite toy too for few years.
The Flytec T11S DIY drone comes in parts and needs to be assembled by yourself. All the electronic components come with connectors, so no soldering required.
Compared to...
Flight controller repair or buy a new one?
A few months ago I received the Eachine QX110 V-Tail mini racer for review. First flights went smoothly, even after minor crashes it was flying like a new one. Courageously, I tried to do some flips in "Acro" mode and I landed upside down. Lots of smoke and fun was gone.
Arrived home, I powered up the drone - one...
Realacc 021 DIY mini quadcopter: Learn to build and fly
Realacc 021 Lego alike, building bricks mini drone
Lately I wrote about many building bricks drones but this Realacc 021 will be actually the first one that I personally build, review and test. I just placed my order and I'm waiting for it :)
As I previously mentioned, the fact that a quadcopter comes in parts should not scare you. Especially that we are talking...
FrSky receivers with PPM, CPPM and SBUS: XSR and D8
Today, I will review two FrSky receivers, the mini D8 and the XSR ACCST. While the Micro Frsky D8 features PPM and SBUS, the FrSky XSR has S-Bus CPPM output.
For those who are new in the field, let me say a few words about radio receivers. Their main function is to interlink wirelessly the flight controller with the transmitter...
HELIWAY 902HS DIY building block drone
HELIWAY 902HS - Lego alike building brick drone
In my opinion the building bricks concept of the HELIWAY 902HS is really nice because it doubles the fun. Kids can learn not just to operate a drone but also to build their own.
This cheap DIY KIT includes everything you need to build a flying machine, from motors, flight controller, battery, to the remote controller....
Propeller mod for Eachine QX70
3-leaf propellers on Eachine QX70 (aka Tiny Whoop)
Having some free time, I decided to mod my QX70 by replacing the stock props with Hubsan 3-leaf propellers.
I got this mini FPV drone about a month ago but, due to its limited flight time and noise operation, I kept it in the box till now. Doing some research, I found out that these shortcomings...
DM002 drone review: Dirty cheap and easy to build
Recently, I received the DM002 quadcopter for tests, a Chinese RC toy quite entertaining at an attractive price. I assembled it and played around with it, and now it is time to write my review, of course at the end of which I will draw the conclusions.
As I previously mentioned many times, the fact that a drone comes in parts should...