Warning: Looooong article ahead (but luckily with loads of pictures) Time to put some power to this BFight 210! But not straight away a battery. First, I'll power up the flightcontroller board through the USB connection, to check out the settings in Betaflight. It's important to have the receiver set up correctly, as well as modes, ans (most of all) the failsafe options. It comes with an OMNIBUS F3 controller, pre-configured with Betaflight 3.1.7. Or at least, mine did. If you are reading this well after I published, chances are that Betaflight 3.2 or later is on yours, but at the time of this writing, 3.2 was only just out. I'll probably re-flash to 3.2 in due time, but first, I want to find out what this little quad has to offer straight out of the box. So here's some screenshots of what my Betaflight 3.1.7 configuration looked like, after setting only a few essentials: I did not change anything on the Ports tab. UART3 was set to be the receiver, and t...
This blog is all about my flying adventures with unmanned vehicles like drones, and model airplanes. Initial focus will be on my self-built drone project. As time progresses, I'll fly different drones and airplanes, undoubtedly, because this is such an addictive hobby!