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Eric Cheng

Tag: fpv

I did 13 FPV flights in the past few days using Fat Shark Dominator Goggles. After previously having done over a hundred flights using an inexpensive, 7" LCD (I’m still using my starter FPV kit), it was really cool to be effectively projected into a flying virtual camera. When there is something like an Oculus Rift available for ...

I’ve traditionally used an external LCD when flying FPV, but I’m going to give goggle flying a try over the next couple of days, using a Fat Shark Dominator. Instead of buying the Fat Shark battery, I’m using a Turnigy nano-tech 370 mAH 2S battery, which costs $3.99 and is available from HobbyKing’s USA warehouse. ...

Hanging out with Blind Jimmie Fulton, who was thoroughly jacked into FPV.

Here are some behind-the-scenes shots from Tonga, which were taken by my good friend, Julian Cohen. Although I mostly flew from the boat, I did a couple beach launches, as well. It’s important to have a tough, waterproof case for work like this. My entire Phantom with FPV and 6-8 batteries fits in a single ...

Clean DJI Phantom quadcopter with gimbal and internal FPV transmitter

DJI Phantom with DJI Zenmuse H3-2D brushless gimbal, GoPro HERO3 Black edition, internal ImmersionRC 600mW 5.8Ghz FPV transmitter, and modified radio with pitch knob on back. I’ve ben using my first DJI Phantom quadcopter now for about 6 months. It’s been on hundreds of flights, and I crashed it numerous times while I was learning to fly it, ...

Gallery: Clean DJI Phantom quadcopter with gimbal and internal FPV transmitter

DJI Phantom Quadcopter FPV Deconstruction

Jan 28, 2014: Updated post is here (but if you’re a newbie, the content in this post is still very relevant). Multi-rotor aircraft like the DJI Phantom quadcopter are finally being sold, ready-to-fly, in a way that is accessible to mass-market consumers. However, the first modification a multi-rotor owner makes immediately pushes them into the hobbyist realm, which ...

First-person view (FPV) photo gallery to accompany the “DJI Phantom Quadcopter Deconstruction” post.