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<font size="+1"><font face="Comic Sans MS">I've started playing with
my Radio control gear again, yes spring is on the way.<br>
I never got the 433MHz modules working last year. I've got the
Orange LRS (Long Range System) which is open source and Arduino
based.<br>
I lit up the receiver and the transmitter, but no bind yet. I
will have to flash both to the latest version. I need to use an
USB programmer which has 3.3 volts, which I have. <br>
My programmer is a cheap clone so I'm scratching my head over
the pin out. I still have plans to fly a hacked HSMM wifi
router in a quad copter or plane using these electronics.<br>
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I also have a tiny board with rx, flight controller and a
brushed motor controller. I have to solder on connectors which
will be taxing work with a magnifying glass. People are
building small racing drones with FPV. They will fit in the
palm of your hand. I'm going to swap the new board into a Syma
X5C which is one of the better "</font></font><font size="+1"><font
face="Comic Sans MS">toy class" quad copters. It has geared
6mm motors and runs on one lipo battery cell. With 600
milliamp/hours it will stay up around 7 minutes. It's not fast
but the geared down motors make for a gentle flying machine.
They weigh about 230 or so grams in flight mode with stock
camera so they don't have to be FAA registered (250 gram and
above). With the new rx I can use a more powerful hobby TX and
should be able to fly it pretty high. <br>
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BTW I got a Syma X5c in the mail a couple of weeks ago. I took
it out for a test flight. I haven't seen it since. It might
have flown back to China.<br>
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