For those of you without $1300 to spend on an FPV drone, you can pick up a pretty decent package for about $250ish: https://betafpv.com
As a new Mavic Mini owner, the one feature I'm craving for is FPV.
DJI FPV
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#82At $1299 this is a lot more affordable than I imagined it would be.
Honestly I was hoping for a package around $600-700 but DJI took this in another direction which is probably smart for their bottom line. I'm hoping in 1-2 years they'll have a "mini" or cheaper version.
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#83That’s impressive. I’m not sure I understand how you can still communicate and see the video feed even when the drone is far away.
Long-range FPV builds can go out for miles--especially if you build specifically for that, and fly in areas with low radio noise like mountain ranges: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqDcd7cDv4Y
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#84There has been a huge divide in the drone world between high performance first person view (FPV) drones capable of acrobatics and the "tripod in the sky" type drones that companies like DJI have popularized. The former has been very DIY and the latter have attracted companies to build integrated solutions. This new drone from DJI brings an truly staggering amount of innovation and integration to the FPV space: - Low…
High-res digital video has been available to the multicopter community for a long time now through https://www.dji.com/fpv . First released by DJI, later the technology was licensed to others (at least the camera / VTX side of the electronics), se for example caddex vista / nebula ( https://caddxfpv.com/collections/dji-1 ).
Interesting that it is all sold out too...
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#8550Mbit, 28ms latency wireless link at 12km distance, and on a battery budget, eh? I'd love to hear more, I love science fiction.
The goggles / video transmitter system has been around for awhile--DJI just hasn't made their own FPV-focused drone with them included yet.
6 mile range test: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4X8ExuJWt6E
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#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Low res analog video -> high res digital video Major benefit of analog video is a progressive degradation of quality as a signal gets weaker and almost instant reacquisition after a complete dropout. I'm curious to see how DJI competes with that on a digital video. > ~5 minutes fly time -> ~20 minutes fly time For FPV racing that's rather a downgrade. Ideally you'd like to land with almost empty battery right after…
>Major benefit of analog video is a progressive degradation of quality as a signal gets weaker and almost instant reacquisition after a complete dropout. I'm curious to see how DJI competes with that on a digital video. The good news is that you can find that out right now. DJI HD FPV has been available for over a year, this is just their first drone offering in the category. The short answer is that it degrades very…
> it degrades very gracefully
Pretty convincing comparison by Joshua Bardwell:
Shark Byte: https://youtu.be/9iKc2v05blw?t=926
vs DJI: https://youtu.be/9iKc2v05blw?t=1046
vs analog: https://youtu.be/9iKc2v05blw?t=1227
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#87It isn't the first offering. Teal drones gave it a shot some time back and has a pretty solid product with excellent performance. They didn't get many sales with the sport models and pivoted to military and industrial applications though. I worked for them for a moment... weird company and founder, but good engineering team. Also, does anyone have a solid guess as to what sort of restrictions this thing has on it? I…
It's hard to imagine this thing not having the same GEO-zone lockouts as all the others. I have a DJI Mavic Mini and the lockouts are very, very strict. I can't fly it at ALL at my house outside. I wish there was a little more compromise.. in some cases it would be a heck of a lot useful if you could fly even with some draconian restriction like a 25ft max altitude. My house is in a restricted zone due to being on th…
This may help you.
Check out the faq/start. I haven't looked into minis, but the larger mavics are well supported.
If you want to really have some fun with your current drone, check out a program called Litchi. It costs lunch to get a copy but it gives you a full ground station with mission planning capabilities, a Google Cardboard compatible FPV function (a bit laggy for precision flying but if you pick you lines through obstacles you will be fine), limited head tracking that moves the camera gimbal as you look around and a heads up display / audio feedback.
All in all, modified dji + litchi + google cardboard headset + burner android phone is a surprisingly capable package that can be repaired, tweaked and has a very low price point if you can navigate the used goods market.
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#8850Mbit, 28ms latency wireless link at 12km distance, and on a battery budget, eh? I'd love to hear more, I love science fiction.
Ocusync has been out for some time now and it already sounds like magic. I think when compared to wifi or some radio bridges it usually operates in much less congested environment. Nonetheless, if you think about frequencies used, energy going down with r^2 and bandwidth they are doing, it's an amazing feat even in ideal conditions. And here's it's a moving object, on battery, with four electromagnets around it.
My son has a Mini2, the transmission range on this is pretty amazing.
We were watching a neighbor's house over the holiday, which meant mostly checking for delivery boxes on their porch and putting them inside. We could drive the Mini2 out the window of our house and 2 blocks away to check the porch without getting out of our seats. And this is a suburban area full of houses, trees, and a shit ton of interference at the wifi/4G/LTE ranges. The video never lost a frame.
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#89There has been a huge divide in the drone world between high performance first person view (FPV) drones capable of acrobatics and the "tripod in the sky" type drones that companies like DJI have popularized. The former has been very DIY and the latter have attracted companies to build integrated solutions. This new drone from DJI brings an truly staggering amount of innovation and integration to the FPV space: - Low…
DJI digital video has been out for quite awhile now for hobbyists to include in their custom builds. Transmission range is not a valid point because a clean analog video signal and Crossfire outpaces DJI enormously. The 20 min flight time is a lie, Joshua Bardwell measured 10 minutes hovering. That's extremely easy to surpass on typical light weight 5 inch freestyle drone with a 1300mah battery that cost a fifth of t…
I think the biggest thing is accessibility. DJI continues to break down the preexisting knowledge required to get into a space.
For better or worse, because there's a lot of irresponsible drone flyers as a result too, but this product makes fpv flying much readily available for those who want to try it without investing the time/effort to learn about how to do it better with other setups
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#90The motion controller reminds me of a project I made many years ago, where head tilting of an oculus rift would control the cameras on your drone: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7654141 Also cool that they have been embracing virtual practicing it seems. The original DJI controllers were impossible to pair with simulators, so I had to hack it: https://github.com/Matsemann/mDjiController/ I sold (or basically ga…
Head trackers are cool, but DJI stuff is a step in the wrong direction there. Right now everything is open, you can write a small Arduino script to track your head with an accelerometer, send the channels through your radio to the drone, and add two servos there that move according to your head motions. With DJI, all of this is closed. I'd be surprised if you can connect/have access to any of these things.
Well, nobody is stopping the community from making their own open source/open hardware OpenTX based motion flight controller, do they? Just like Naza32 didn’t prevent people from developing Cleanflight/Betaflight