"Sidewinder" 3" toothpick

By aiye400 on Oct 09, 2022

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My 2nd ever build, this lightweight little guy flies great and will absolutely rip. The GPS has since been removed as I just wanted to test it out and see how fast I could get it to go. Awesome toothpick build.

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h1nt3r1   Oct 09, 2022  

I'm curious about how you managed to get the gps working, since that fc only has two uarts (occupied with receiver and vtx?), did you use softserial?

aiye400   Oct 09, 2022 
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yeah I used softserial to get the gps working, I put the gps on a uart and used the vtx on the softserial since its slower. but the tiny little gps did t give consistent results so I ended up taking it

h1nt3r1   Oct 09, 2022  

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