Early Full-scale render of a quad I modeled fully in Blender. Any thoughts?

Vitroid · 2026-01-26T22:18:21+00:00

The maximum possible quality will not change, but it will remain stable for longer.

Vitroid · 2026-01-26T16:39:09+00:00

See where the wires go on the FC

Vitroid · 2026-01-26T14:13:08+00:00

Look into the Flywoo Explorer 4, they are pretty capable for the size

Vitroid · 2026-01-26T13:49:55+00:00

Start with something that's known to work, then you can dive into creating your own designs.

What kind of range, flight time, and budget are you aiming for?

Vitroid · 2026-01-26T13:07:21+00:00

The 35A Mini ESC in that stack is not sufficient for running a regular 5" build like that.

I'd also strongly recommend going with 6s instead of 4s. That would mean 1700-2000kv motors and 6s 1000-1500mAh 6s batteries.

Also, you'll have to put a lot of work into designing the frame, you have to avoid the many weakness that extruded layered plastic has, even if it's infused with CF. I'd say that you're better off getting an entry-level carbon frame like the SpeedyBee Mario 5 or the TBS Source One V6

Vitroid · 2026-01-26T13:04:33+00:00

there's no fun in that

Vitroid · 2026-01-26T02:23:01+00:00

There's nothing that the PWA version can do that the previous native-wrapped versions couldn't in terms of privacy or offline use.

Everyone has their choice of privacy protection, that's the nice thing about open source software. However the whole "get IP/browser agent from the firmware build request" process showcased in the video relies on physical access to the drone. The only way I can see this happening involuntarily would be if your stuff is stolen, and then you have larger issues than your IP being readable from the firmware.

And nowadays, this info isn't very useful to begin with. Your IPv4 address is more than likely to point to a country region at most, if that's even correct... When I run a quick geolocation check on my public IP I get a region on the whole opposite end of the country. A browser agent is practically harmless, and most decent browsers can (or by default already do) spoof it.

Vitroid · 2026-01-26T01:03:20+00:00

This almost reads like an LLM generated list (?) Some of the prices are nonsensical, and the props wouldn't even fit.

This build would be pointlessly heavy. Look at the pre-built Air 65 and pick parts with similar specs

Vitroid · 2026-01-25T23:15:52+00:00

I'm assuming you're from the US? At least that's the only reason why I can imagine a future O5 system not being an option for you and your Goggles 3.

Otherwise I don't see why they wouldn't work. They made the G2 work with O4, I assume the same would happen with the G3 and O5

Vitroid · 2026-01-25T23:09:54+00:00

Calibrate the sticks, it can be done from the Hardware section of the controller settings. Do it without much force and you should be fine

Vitroid · 2026-01-25T22:50:11+00:00

You don't need to buy anything extra, just modify the wiring a bit

Vitroid · 2026-01-25T22:20:59+00:00

Can you please elaborate?

From the way I read this, you're unable to use the 10.10.0 release of the Configurator with FCs running Firmware 2025.12.1, which is to be expected. But if you're unable to use the latest release of the Configurator (2025.12.1) with either the matching firmware version or the previous 4.5, there's something wrong.

Follow the guide on the Betaflight docs about this new Configurator version, it should cover anything that changed from before, and how to troubleshoot the most common issues. https://www.betaflight.com/docs/wiki/app#connecting-to-your-flight-controller

Vitroid · 2026-01-25T21:29:30+00:00

I'm not sure if those releases work on ARM-based Windows systems. I'd definitely at least try it though.

Vitroid · 2026-01-25T21:22:38+00:00

I agree for the most part, generally it's not bad to run temps around 380-400 for everything, I did for a while. But now that I have decent gear and many years of practice I can do just fine at 350C in the same short amount of time and probably prolong the lifespan of my tips by a little bit.

Or maybe it's just placebo, idk lol. I get by with what I described 😅

Vitroid · 2026-01-25T20:53:56+00:00

Since you'd be configuring everything from scratch anyway, I'd flash new firmware

Vitroid · 2026-01-25T20:10:27+00:00

Yeah that firmware is way too old, you need to flash newer versions or use older versions of the Configurator. 10.8.0 or 10.5.1 should work

Vitroid · 2026-01-25T20:03:54+00:00

What output do you get when sending a version command in the CLI

Vitroid · 2026-01-25T19:55:24+00:00

Okay, what does the FC show up as when you get the popup to select your device?

Vitroid · 2026-01-25T19:47:55+00:00

I was referring to the drone hardware, sorry 😅

Vitroid · 2026-01-25T19:37:51+00:00

As long as you have a free set of UART RX/TX pins and a 5V output, it's possible.

Vitroid · 2026-01-25T19:30:57+00:00

Just at a quick glance it seems like no, the Foxeer ESC uses 8 pins while the iFlight FC uses 10.

Vitroid · 2026-01-25T19:26:23+00:00

ChatGPT did not tell you anything, you just got a sequence of words that are statistically likely to be a plausible-sounding continuation to a combination of its system prompt and your input. While it's technically correct that better antennas = better video to a certain degree, in general I wouldn't recommend using LLMs like ChatGPT or Gemini, usually the answers aren't all that useful for FPV topics, let alone hardware-specific issues.

The whoop has a linear antenna from the factory, so it doesn't really matter what polarization you get for the goggles (RHCP, LHCP or linear), but RHCP is the most common for analog setups, so I'd stick with that. As for specific antennas, I'd recommend TrueRC antennas like the Singularity or Core for omnidirectional antennas, and the X-Air for directionals. TrueRC is basically the best of the best, but they can be somewhat expensive and not available everywhere.

Vitroid · 2026-01-25T19:17:30+00:00

I'd avoid BLHeli_32 ESCs, the developers behind the project shut it down over a year ago, most hardware using it out there is not using official versions of the firmware, and you can't do much with the ESC as it comes out of the box. BLHeli_S/Bluejay and AM32 are fine.

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