FPV Quadcopters
FPV Quadcopters
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What is FPV?
First Person View is named so because the pilot flies these aircrafts with a first-person perspective provided by a video camera on board the quadcopter that relays live video feed through a screen or video goggles.
If you're coming from the Fixed Wings page, this is what I moved on to a few years after I first started. FPV Quadcopters are specialised flying machines that are not only capable of flying at a very high speed (imagine 0-100kmph in 0.5s) but are also very agile. These machines require specialised carbon fibre frames and a super fast flight controller that can provide control outputs at a high frequency.
This page shows my journey with FPV Quadcopters. The page scrolls backwards in time with my most recent videos at the very top.
Disclaimer : I despise using the word 'drones' for their negative portrayal by the media as dangerous war machines. These are hobby machines meant to have a lot of fun, not intended to hurt or cause harm to any individual.
Some of the equipment I currently use
Lindholmen
Lindholmen
Defunct cranes, once used to build ships, now form the iconic skyline of Gothenburg.
Dollar Store 2022
Dollar Store 2022
A desolate Dollar Store that closed down in 2021 is now a fun place to fly around!
Enduro action!
Enduro action!
My first attempt at following a moving target, in this case an Enduro rider on his practice session.
Vässla Ad
Vässla Ad
Made an attempt to create a short clip to use as an advertisement for the startup company I was working for.
Cinematic FPV
Cinematic FPV
My attempt at creating an immersive audio-visual experience of a local park in Eksjö
Life at Linneryd
Life at Linneryd
A cinematic view of Linneryd, my workplace for Vässla AB.
Geneta IP
Geneta IP
Casual flying around the Geneta IP football stadium in Södertälje on a foggy night.
Two years later
Two years later
A revisit of the site next to Stockholm University after 2 years.
Södertälje
Södertälje
Found a good spot for flying just 15 minutes by cycle from where I live. It is now my most frequented spot for practice sessions.
Fagersta
Fagersta
Flying in a wide open space in the Swedish town of Fagersta. I was testing out my latest quad setup. Still getting used to the rates.
Stockholm
Stockholm
The first flight in Stockholm. This is the field right next to Stockholm University.
Interesting fact : the helicopter in the infamous Stockholm robbery of 2009 stopped on this very field before heading to the G4S cash facility at Västberga.
Maiden
Maiden
My very first attempt at flying a quadcopter.
It was flown with a stabilization attempt where the quad would return back to a level orientation when there was no input from the control sticks.
Baby steps... Simulator
Baby steps... Simulator
This is how I learnt how to fly a quadcopter.
The flying of acrobatic quadcopters is a steep learning curve as control over 6 degrees of freedom of an aircraft while only having a first person visual frame of reference could be quite intimidating.
Parallel Charging board
Parallel Charging board
Each Li-Po battery has a capacity of 1300 mAh and provides a flight time of about 5 minutes which isn't a lot by any means. The only way to have significant flight time is by having several batteries and changing them after every 5 minutes of flying.
What do you do when you have too many batteries and it takes forever to charge them?
You charge them parallelly!
To save costs of buying a brand new parallel board, it was entirely possible to fabricate the most basic version using the equipment at KTH.
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