BEST FPV Head Tracker
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I made a DIY headtracker (based on the same open source project that Motionsic used). There are 3 things I would recommend to someone trying it out.
1) Keep part of the plane's fuselage in the camera's field of FOV. Many FPV pilots like to keep the camera view as unobstructed as possible when the camera is in a fixed position. But when the camera moves like this, it is easy (for me) to lose the exact orientation and not know if the camera is off-center without a visual frame of reference like the fuselage.
2) On your transmitter have a switch dedicated to override any inputs related to the camera position (from the headtracker or your transmitter's pots/sliders) and center the camera's servos. You want to be able to instantly set the camera to center if anything goes wrong. This has prevented me from having a bad crash.
3) Don't forget about your receiver's (or flight controller's) failsafe positions for the channels controlling the camera. If your control link enters failsafe, you probably want your camera's to center so you can see what is happening. If nothing else, it will help you see where your plane crashes at. :)
As an rc pilot of 50 years, and a full scale pilot of 25, I never even considered the getting lost aspect that new full scale pilots go through! Good catch. One of the early lessons you learn in pilot training is that the instructor distracts you as he's teaching you to get to know the airplane, then asks you to fly home. It sure looks different from up there! I think you just. Saved some people some money.
It sure does! I do that same lesson with my full-scale students as well. Navigating isn't taught in RC so the arrow pointing to a home waypoint by way of an on-screen display would be a smart tool for a beginner with this set up. Thanks for watching!
Situational awareness is key! :)
Hm... If you get lost in the RC, do you do the 4C's and contact the local ATC to find your RC plane? 😂😂😂😂
Thank you so much for this inspiring video. I had to get the Bronco right away and have now enjoyed a dozen of FPV flights with it. Best FPV platform ever 😊
That's awesome! Glad you enjoyed it.
This video is great! Definitely got me even more interested in fpv flying. However a more in depth video showing how you guys put all this together would be even better.
We will be doing a tutorial for beginners at the Motionsic channel soon, if Zach doesn’t beat us to it😉
Being old enough to remember when the transmitters was a box about 3 feet square with a big antennae sticking on top, the control stick was an on/off button connected to the transmitter, you had one channel and the rudder would alternate between full left and full right each time you pressed and released the button. The planes were, basically, set up as free flight, and you turned them with the rudder, if you needed to make two left turns, you would press and hold the button (if "left" was the next command) to make the turn, then you'd blip it quickly to get the "right" turn signal passed so you could make the next left turn again. The rudder was driven by a rubber band escapement in place of servo motors. Saw models fly off because the rubber band broke, losing rudder control.
Today you can fly one like you're sitting in the pilot's seat.
Hi
Good job explaining how to get this all together!
Thanks! Let’s jam together again soon, Juan. 🎹 🎸 -Zach
RC flying never interested me, but actually being in the POV while flying is badass.
One love your Chanel. Two I have a question for you . I’m 14 and me and my grandpa went rc flying for about 3 hours it was fun but I use his 30 year old spectrum radio and all my different planes are on it. Ok now to the point, it won’t Change models anymore and it’s just real old so what’s your recommendation for a like 6 channel multi plane radio.
Thanks, Samuel! I’d take a look at the NX6.
Thanks man but that’s a bit too many pesos. Good news tho I got some 10$ electric cleaner and as long as I slam the button down with a sledge hammer it works. Not convenient but hey. What works works.
This seems so damn cool, and I want it even though I don't even know how to fly yet.I also think the tech could get better for range and such. But, it seems a little to complicated for me, and I would love a in depth video with a shopping list for a full setup, and an in depth "how to" video detailing every step. Nice video, once again!
I have a challenge for you! Do exactly what you just did in this vid but instead of using the hand remote to fly the plane, use a mock cockpit like they use in flight sims etc . Would be so cool to fly like you were using the instruments in a real plane, and you could also simulate the feeling of turns and pitching etc
Good example: If you talk fast enough, you really don't need to say anything that actually explains how to install and setup the device. However, they repeatedly this isn't for beginners. But, they leave our useful information for experienced technicians. Nothing more than a "watch me fly" video.
RUclips in a nutshell
You really got to know the hobby before you watch videos like this if youre expecting anything from it
You should do a video on installing and setting up a head tracking system. I know I would love to combine my DJI FPV headset with all my old RC planes
Very cool. This is just going to keep getting better.
More fpv content soon please ❤
Cody!!! Flicking awesome brotha
Great video Ive just bought a few items I can’t wait to give this a try I’m gonna be using a flight controller and DJI 03 air unit
This would be a dream come true for me. Piloting RC planes normally looks really hard and piloting a real plane is scary 😂 as a gamer I’ve always dreamt of something like this.
5:12 "we have workage" 😂
lmao that opening sentence
Its so cool with a twin engine aircraft for some reason
Awsome I'm going to do it myself
Impressive 👌
interesting, for YEARS there have NOT been a HT on the market to buy. there was one about 7 years ago, but until now its been no one. you had to build your own.
Equals an x wing thermal dynamix propeller to spin from the vacume
CHINA IS ALREADY WATCHING YOUR KIDS GO TO SCHOOL EVERY MORNING ...LOL ...NICE VID WATCHING FROM GHANA
For those who like to mod-hack existing designs
= to reduce the air-pressure on top of the wings
= angle the tail-horizontal-stabalisers to pitch down
Leading-edge of wings to horizontal-stabalizer(not front-edge to avoid rough switching top-bottom air-flow)
Reduce that line by about 30% to have the air-flow under the stabalizer for rear distributed-structural air-support.
There is a bigger niche to shoot-down rather than look-cool
That's cool. No issues with Interference between DJI O3 and Spektrum RX I guess? What about O3 not sending full power video signal since not linked to flight controller? Did you get enough range? I was about to order motionsic gimbal and sensor/buddy box for my O3 and came across this. I wish they made it wireless buddybox. Thanks for the video.
An exceptional thing would be two cameras providing stereoscopic (3D) image that gives a sense of depth.
that intro caught me off guard
This is a real world simulator plane game.😂
Thanks,, any idea what is the range of the head tracker and the dji air unit? Please also put a link for an ERLS and a flight controller that would work with radiomaster TX16S (and Spketrum NX if possible). Thanks
FPV is the truth, FPV if the way
Way cool. I'd like to look 'up' relative to the aircraft more, so as to look further into the turn for better depth perception: trajectory control/obstacle avoidance - like flying a real airplane.... Amazing though! well done.
Nice, but would be better to use a Stereocam system for an immersive 3D experience.
Objects will appear truer to life by allowing a real sense of depth of field wich is essential in flight to better estimate the distance to your opponent.
- Try the Skyzone 3D FPV Goggles Kit (3D Camera, Dual Transmitter, Dual Receivers).
- The BlackBird 2 3D FPV Camera. Recommended for a radio controlled model aircraft.
- LUCIDCAM - immerse in VR with 3D Tech: Field of View 180° x 180° / 2K-mp4/60fps with dual mics. (Its housing should be removed first)
I have watched Robert’s videos and it got me interested. I purchased his head tracker and gimbal and installed. The problem I am having is I can pan but not tilt. I see in my servo monitor screen the servo moving but the camera does not go up or down. Haven’t flown FPV yet and figure I could being able to look L and R. Any suggestions for the setup to correct this in Spektrum NX8???
Cool setup. Set another camera up at the bottom then you can use it for surveillance
These jams tho!!!
The only thing this needs is roll tracking so the head tracking is fully immersive.
That can be done. I've got it setup thar way on my rc Crawler so i can lean out the window and watch the tire placement.
A Bronco? Nice!
Motionsics bag is real nice, but I like blackstar fpvs sidewinder head tracker setup better!
Why are we STILL using physical servos to pan and tilt a camera? We surely have the technology to use a 180° camera and pan/tilt it in software leading to a much more compact, lighter and more streamlined set up with no lag.
Because head tracking is still a small part of the hobby and developing something like that needs a lot of resources. You’d need to build it from the ground up. Spektrum actually did it with Fatshark a long time ago but the range was quite limited and it never saw the widespread adoption necessary to become mainstream
What would be even cooler is a seat with a stick, throttle and rudder pedals for remote control !!!
A bit more refinement and i will want one. Just need a real control stick and throttle and maybe a HUD Be great for us old pilots
Have you done any videos replacing the traditional radio transmitter-controller ( e.g. Radiomaster TX16S ) sticks with more realistic controls like Thrustmaster TPR rudder pedals, Thrustmaster flight stick, and Thrustmaster throttle?
Nope! Flite Test has a great video doing something similar with FPV as well.
@@TailHeavyProductions Bummer! Please consider it. I hope that one day quadcopter racing leagues (DCL and DRL) would switch to separate stick [right hand], rudder [feet], and throttle [left hand] controls...like the flight simulator game players have done already.
Maybe I missed it but did you mention drift? That was the problem with my last head tracker.
We never had issues with drift unless we were inside during set up or testing (which is to be expected). 👍
Hey I have a question? What cord do I need to connect the fpv head tracker to the goggles and transmitter??
Can you guys do an EDF jet take off and landing tutorial video?
fantastic
Think this would work in a race car? I’m thinking an oval track with this system. Track would be smooth.
Work great on rc cars. Look up dji fpv rc cars on you tube.
Hello. Can you give a link to the drawings of your model, on which you put the camera? I would very much like to repeat it for experiments with FPV.
this is so cool :D
So I bought this motion fpv stuff but I didn’t realize I needed googles … I thought they were part of the head tracking kit. Can anyone tell me what googles work for sure?
Will it get hooked up to a joystick and cockpit controls to get the full experience?
BRUH NOW ITS SOLD OUT,,, OF COURSE
trying to get into the FPV drone/uav hobby. any idea for a starter headset and model?
can this be used with fatshark analog goggles as well
Next step is two cameras with parallax so stereo vision
YOV-10D Bronco turret version
whats the difference from your 90$ gimbal and the 5$ from aliexpress?
new dji goggle have head tracker build in
Hi guys, I have an Oculus Quest VR glasses lying around, can I refurbish them to be used as FPV glasses? Any clues or ideas would be appreciated. My vision is to add a HDMI input to them and use a small webcam as an input. rotation is not required, and also I do not need small latency, I wood definitely not use it for racing, just in slowly moving R/C models. not even flying, maybe in a car model.
I wonder if they'll work for the personal missile system I'm building for my backpack..
Or was I going with mini attack drones.. I can't remember... So many evil plans..
Would this work on an RC car without a line of sight connection?
I think it will be nearly impossible to get a optically clean cockpit canopy
How on earth haven't we figured out how to do this with software? Get a 180° camera of some kind. Send video to goggles. Process into 4:3 or 16:9 with head tracked direction.
Because there is limited bandwidth for the video so it only makes sense to use all the bandwidth you have for what you can see. If you sent spherical video and cropped it in the goggles, you’d be throwing away a lot of information. What you’d have left would be much lower resolution. Most people want the best visual fidelity they can get.
Dumb question how do you save the video from the camera and not needing a insta360 attatched
DVR
Seems like somebody should use the 360 camera technique of two fixed, wide angle lenses and then use software to just steam a 1080p ‘slice’ back to the visor. Should be lighter and more aerodynamic.
Hi, may I know for the dji fpv system to work with the dji fpv goggles, what must the air unit be connected to? For example, must the air unit be connected to a receiver, flight controller, etc, or can you just connect the air unit solely to a power source such as a 7.4v lipo battery?😃
Solely to a battery is what we did 👍
Ok tks!
SJI fpv.... what was that again?
Haha DJI users spend all that money yet have to add a head tracker system. The last two iterations of Skyzone goggles have had one integrated into their goggles. Not to mention adding an HDZero system I ended up with a lower cost digital system that is a fixed latency system that operates faster than DJI. Not to mention DJI is like Apple where even though you buy something from them you truly don't own it, they do....
Where do you guys fly out of? Ohio here.
Needs uxys dilution battery and a uxsys dilution robot vacume the new one for spining a turbine
You know what could work? a 360 fpv camera, You won't even need servos
What is that plane?
I don’t need a auto pilot or a computer the fly for me. I am old school way better the new guys 😂😂
Influencer heavy Don;t give them your money. Easy to do DIY.
nothing on windows is clean or slick 😵💫
TMI
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Thank you for throwing that pilot doll away. Those things annoy me, I feel they reduce our proud unmanned craft to mere toys.
hey there mate , looks awesome what your doing , i'm doing something similar in that i want to get airspeed pitot tube style on a large scale plane that i do aerobatics with headtracking, but i am struggling to get the data to my dji googles, closet thing i can come up with maybe using the sam FC you have there but i only need it for the telemetry, do you think i can just hook up the FC to my airunit and get the data that way , i can't use gps as it is slow and not actual airspeed, thanks for your time
heres what im doing this is the first video , 3rd flightruclips.net/video/SyYdRhSdjzE/видео.html
The background music is annoying. 🤨🤨🤨
Is there a reason, *other than **_“because it makes me look cool,”_* that FPV pilots use absurd headgear/goggles? It’s unnecessary, most likely disorienting, costly, there’s tonnes of simple, pragmatic reasons that make this a bad design decision. Especially given they then try to “out-perform” one another. If you were concerned with performance, you wouldn’t make absurd, cosmetic design decisions such as _“These goggles look cool. The popular, older boys will surely be my friend now!!!”_
If it really did enhance performance, don’t you think the military would have incorporated this technology by now?
Goggles are a portable, consistent, and easy way to get a big picture in your eyes of your FPV feed. You could use a monitor, sure, but setting it up on a tripod with a sunshade is cumbersome snd results in a less immersive experience than goggles. I use goggles when flying for fun and for work where I need situational awareness I use a monitor, so I can switch between LOS and FPV without my eyes having to adjust to the new brightness level
Zzzzzzzz
I dunno. I suppose you think you will get more views by talking at 100 miles an hour but you lost this viewer.
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I didnt realize you guys were out of merrimack! I've flown over you a fair bit, working on my multi com add-on at Loprinze in Nashua. small world!
lol old tech , you can build your own module , but why dji hasn't put one in there goggles is quite dumb. not sure if you can find fat shark module ht. got a few laying around. to bad propritary radios waited 15 yrs before you could use it. open source rules ,
First
Nope
Noice vid idea!
This is awesome. Bringing Fpv to mainstream is the way of the future.
The same plane can be flown both conventionally LOS and FPV has great appeal!
Awesome video! I saw that you powered your air unit with a stand alone battery. Do y'all have a video on that, or can you point me in the right direction? Thanks!
Thanks! No videos on it, we just soldered an iC3 connector to the power leads off of the FatShark.
@@TailHeavyProductions Thanks! What voltage battery did you use?
Share settings on that trainer/ slave set up please!
Who on earth spends $89.99 for 3 bits of plastic?
The thing is worth $20 at best !
@k_ethan_l If you think that a 270deg servo costs 35USD, you're living in lala-land.
A reliable one sure does! 👍 Don’t want dollar store servos on a set up where if your servo failed, you’d potentially crash your plane from your FPV viewpoint locking in a bad spot. The servos Motionsic supplies with this rig are far from budget servos and it shows.
The no USB+Lipo thing can be solved with a Schottky diode. That's what we do with our flight controllers. You typically have Vin power a 5v regulator, which then powers a 3v3 regulator. So that there is no issue when plugging in a USB cable we have both 5v sources go to the diode first and it only allows one through to the 3v3 regulator.
Not sure why they didn't do that
The Tally-Ho Head-trackers produced after Sep 2022 have incorporated circuit protection so having both USB and Lipo power no longer creates any issues. The instruction manual has not been updated to remove the warning is all 🙂
@@motionsic Cool, good to know. Thanks guys
I love how modestly Cody is mentioned....dude literally designed the bushmaster and is steady developing planes for one of the biggest companies in the hobby
As in the Cody whose name is plastered on half the 3d planes we buy!?
Your narration really reminds me of Warren Miller Ski videos, loved it.
Ya, you lost me at (I've got a friend). Rather your friend explained slowly and gently. Clean and slick my ass. Wow , great, nice to have a cody. piss off. dont even know about the googles
I too have the Motionsic FPV setup on my AeroScout - using DJI FPV googles. Makes a perfect FPV trainer. Highly recommend the Motionsic setup !!!
Thank you for the endorsement😊
@@motionsicjust ordered mine seconds ago . we intend to put it in a turbine jet .
@@666gato Oooh, which Jet? I am curious.
@@666gato Thanks for your support! Please do share your video when you have it.
@@motionsic have not nailed it down yet. It's between a mb339 and a eurofighter typhoon. The typhoon will be a cool factor but the mb339 is a lot more forgiving to fly .
OV-10 Bronco is an interesting aircraft. The Marines had trouble getting a heat lock on it with a stinger because of the massive amount of prop wash.
well done