DucktileMedia
Drone Enthusiast
Ben, if your making a shield, make it out of carbon. G10 is transparent to rfi from what I understand. Bart would know best though since he tried this. It shouldn't be this complicated.
So what I am gathering is that the Hoverfly GPS is more than double the cost of the NAZA and works about as well or less so? Trying to get familiar with Hoverfly since someone I am looking at building me a quad uses it but this is a bit worrisome. Why does the hoverfly cost so much but only works about as well as the NAZA. Now granted the Hoverfly pro versus the wookong is cheaper. But the hoverfly sport don't even have altitude hold from what I have read. The hoverfly sport is just a board for manual control if I read it right. Still a little confused on the benefits of the more costly Hoverfly products?
So what I am gathering is that the Hoverfly GPS is more than double the cost of the NAZA and works about as well or less so? Trying to get familiar with Hoverfly since someone I am looking at building me a quad uses it but this is a bit worrisome. Why does the hoverfly cost so much but only works about as well as the NAZA. Now granted the Hoverfly pro versus the wookong is cheaper. But the hoverfly sport don't even have altitude hold from what I have read. The hoverfly sport is just a board for manual control if I read it right. Still a little confused on the benefits of the more costly Hoverfly products?
Mainly for me being a complete and total newbie to RC and to flying. I would like the auto leveling and the altitude hold to work. It would be nice to have the RTH feature but I could live without that. Stability is the big thing I guess and the fact you all say that I can learn this pretty easy. I am mainly looking to to do FPV and hobby type aerial photo or mainly video. I was disabled with an on the job accident and need a hobby. I can move around fine and still have all my marbles lol. But I have really gotten into the multirotors from all my reading and have always wanted to do RC flying. But my job never allowed me the time to invest into a hobby. Thanks to everyone for all the answers and help so I can make the right decisions in what ever it is that I do decide to get. I will be taking the advice and getting a mQx very soon. So that I can start learning how to fly and get better at it.
Excellent decision on the mqx! You'll have a blast while getting your wings. Best of luck. As you have read it is fun and addictive.
I am really curious to see how the freefly FC works out. I'm betting they nail all these factors but charge a little more for it, but who knows. I still haven't seen a pic of their gps but I bet it comes in a nice shiny enclosure with an external led.
Bowley,
The HF boards are a bit bigger but they've got a ton of processing power and room for expansion when HF gets around to utilizing the resources of the boards. There are frames designed for the boards, you just have to look for them.
Bart
Have you seen the rumor that he Freefly FC will be $2k
guys, my shop won't be open until the middle of next week but here's the link for the mounting kit I've put together.
http://aerdro.com/?product=hoverfly-progps-mounting-kit
It puts the GPS board 2" above the PRO board to get it away from RFI and EMI and has improved the performance of my heli's. There are also 1.25 standoffs in the event that the full 2" isn't necessary.
THe kit does away with the plastic hardware and grommets that come with the PRO putting everything on rubber stand-offs much like MK does it. If I can get the antenna mount made for less $$ I'll drop the price of the kit, fwiw.
Regards,
Bart