seriously, didn't know that this day will ever come: i'll build my own cinewhoop and it's a classical, well known one.
bought this one cheap second-hand (the picture is actually from the seller!) for 25 EUR incl. shipping costs!
most of the parts are already there, excluding the frame! but i couldn't wait any longer to present the newborn in my fleet.
UPDATE I: oh i hate the lettering on the omnibus flight controllers. it's always too small and if you didn't double check your wiring, you blow something, like i did... i connected the vbat not to the vbat input, i accidentally connected vbat to the current input and the holy smoke came up. damn it! maybe i have another omnibus laying around, and eventually i can merge those two boards to have one (change the stm32 chip). time for a new tool? hot air solder station?
UPDATE II: yesterday, i've received my new Aikon F7 board and i really love it from the first moment! never had to solder so few things and finished a build this fast. just solder 6 wires for the esc and power, the 4 wires for the foxeer micro, 3 for the receiver and 5 wires for the vtx. done! okay, that's most of the time this few solder points, but this time it wasn't any hard to solder. this board is well layout! also there are two jumpers for the vtx to bridge for vbat or 5v and pit and always power, which both were already set to my likings (vbat and always on).
after this was finished, i needed to flash latest betaflight 4.2 and pasted my cli things like osd, aux and set the ports. was done in about 15 minutes from unboxing the fc to first hover.
now i'm looking forward to get a proper insta360go mount, find a usb-L-adapter and speedybee-bluetooth module.
UPDATE III: I changed the motors from iflight xing 3600kV to emax rs1606 4000kV. also changed the speedybee bluetooth module to the flywoo nano bt 2.0 (so tiny!). first hover worked fine with way less throttle than before AND i could do it with my GNB 3s 520 mAh.
UPDATE IV:
As of today, the receiver is now an ExpressLRS diy 20x20 868MHz, seated in an 3D printed custom part.
UPDATE V:
custom ducts, or prop guards in this case. No more Bluetooth needed. Testing the best LiPo/propeller combinations: 4s 500mAh or 4s 650mAh or something else?
UPDATE VI:
changed the 4in1 esc to the 20A one made by racerstar (maybe racerstar and uruav are the same? Both websites look identical!), but now only DSHOT300 is possible. But all my esc are now running bluejay firmware.
UPDATE V:
Changed the propellers to Foxeers Dalprop F3 Fold, and that's the right set!
sneek peak:
longer flight...what it usedd to be:
some time ago, i was testing how to fly a cinewhoop:
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