Right on! I have a blog at the rcgroups forun with more info should be easy to search up, username is JIPPERR. I've posted a design template for my current gimbal frame. I may update this soon as I've been going over the design a bit. But nothing major has changed so far.
wow, pretty much helpful! I'm already finished soldering part and assembling, now playing with PID's, maybe you would like to make a video part on how all these features sets in GUI. I think best useful feature is relevel by rc input button
Andrey would love to see what you've got built! I found the most important part of setting the PID was starting with a reasonable voltage setting. I run 3s and have the motor voltages set to 60, 90, and 120 for pitch roll and yaw. Happy to make a vid showing the GUI settings. I have a blog post on the subject at rcgroups. www.rcgroups.com/forums/member.php?u=619520
Dang I know that I'm a rookie at this at an entry level but PID's and GUI's and don't get me started on DJI . Nice work on the rig setup, for myself I'm running 6s Kraton with a front and rear foxeer cameras ( only one wired) and some AKK to make it happen lol. Looking forward to the next video.... can't have too many FPV ground vehicles videos with all the rules and regulations that came to flying drones
@@jkeithfowler cheer! Ya I had plans to do some fixed wing fpv but transitioned to ground fpv after drones got regulated. Turns out this is more fun and i can run my car anytime i have a free minute, no need to go to an airfield etc.
I love this body. I lobe this build! I love this car bro! It's really awesome brother! Really well done so far bro! I enjoyed the video and getting to hang out with ya for a bit on it! Thanks for sharing with us!
I am full swing in creating a stabilized gimbal with pwm injection for my head tracker and manual control. I hit a road block in with the frame parts... The one that came with the gimbal controller is made for a GoPro and is too big. I can cut it down and maybe re-drill the holes, but I think I should make some 3D prints of those parts. Never done it before, so this should be fun. I am working with a Super Baja Rey 2.0 so I have lots of room to work with in the cab! I am torn about using a Crossfire PWM adapter or just use the Radiolink controller I got. Both have great range, maybe I use a combination of both.
Right on! Loads of space in that SBR for sure. Sounds like an epic build! If you want to message me on instagram and i can send you a link to the design for the frame. I went with radiolink and its been pretty good, but also i dont really know better 🙃
Right on! These are the stock black and chrome slash wheels but I took all the chrome off with bleach. Tires are proline BFG TA KO2, they are a bit bigger than standard short course at about 120mm diameter (PRO1013400). Because the rims are weird I ordered some 2.2 foams and cut them down to fit 👍
Hello! Your videos are fantastic, is there a streamlined setup for a similar system? I am getting the Walksnail FPV system and I am trying so hard to find a gimbal thats around this size.
Hi, thanks so much for the nice comments! If you go back through some of my vids you can see in a bit more detail the gimbal I started with. In the end I made my own gimbal frame to get the size right. Happy to share the design, construction methods, and setup if you want to give it a shot. Doing a pitch and roll gimbal will make it lots simpler, yaw makes it more complicated but it is quite fun once working.
@@JIPPERR_1 I'm definitely plunging headfirst on this haha. Each day I learn a little more about these things. The first 4 or 5 times I tried to look up tiny gimbals I came up woefully empty handed. Then I got comments I should just make my own but I don't really know the intricacies of balancing nor do I truly want to spend hours tuning one 😅 (also no 3d printer) I was hoping i could get one that would autostabilize out of the box. I was looking through all your gimbal videos but I probably need to review them a few more times. Its very inspiring to see the success you've had with the setup, I think it looks great on the drives you've posted. The frame is huge! I'm trying to brainstorm something that looks a little smaller. I keep seeing these gimbals that are upside down (amazon etc), wondering if those will even work if I turn them up the other way, or If I should just mount it upside down and have the cam pop out the windshield or something. I would prefer to see some or most of the car (instead of your first person) but I'm willing to try both. Also worried about chopping up my RC car too much because its my only one, but we'll see! I saw you mention a group chat, I wouldn't mind giving that a go as well. I think I also need to cool the VTX? Its not flying around in the sky with wind whipping around it, how hot does your DJI vtx run? I am guessing the Walksnail one might get hot.
@Ultimate Headfirst is the way to go! Similar to you I started with the traxxas fiesta rally car because i felt it had the most room under the body shell and like you say the gimbal is pretty big. I wanted it under there so that it would be protected in a crash and to have a bit more of a scale driving experience. The controller i use is the storm32 and it can be setup in lots of ways so no problem having it supported from the bottom rather than hanging down from above. Its made for hobbiests so its quite configureable. Also this is one of the less expensive gimbals so not a major investment to strap to an rc thats going to crash and roll, get wet, dirty etc. There are definitly more sophisticated gimbals out there, but this one works well with rc transmitters protocols (pmw, sbus, ppm) and runs pretty trouble free most of the time. Check out @Smokeefpv here on youtube, he's got a gimbal setup using some different equipment from me. The big challenge is that if the gimbal is not purpose built for the fpv camera you'll end up having to add weight to ballance it so that it runs well. But then it'll be to heavy to survive for very long. Overall im definitly happy with the results, but definitly cost more time than anything to get it to this level. I guess my hope is that by sharing what I've done it'll help others who want to try the same thing and save them time. It takes some time to learn gimbals though :) I wish or dji or any other company would sell a micro sized fpv gimbal! Surely drone and quadcopter people would want that too. I usually turn the vtx power way down when i run and if i run out of range or know I'll be going fast then i turn it up. It gets pretty hot and will go into low power mode if i leave it on hogh power all the time. A fan is a good idea 👍
I like to run everything off a single battery so what I do is add one of the red JST plugs to the esc side battery plug. Then that is used to power all the FPV equipment. I show this a little bit in my BASH-CRAWL pt2 video 👍
I saw you had 2 cameras on the gimbal somewhere, is that for 3D viewing? How do you send the signal to the goggles? Do the goggles have a "side by side" option to convert the signal to 3D?
So ya that is a 3d system, sadly its not produced anymore :( i did quite like it but thankfully once things are in motion there is a 3d effect due to the relative motion of near and far things. The way this system worked was unique to the goggles (skyzone 02x) where there was one camera signal for each eye. The goggles tune in two separate frequencies, one for each eye. So its a pretty simple system, only drawback is it uses up two channels. It's quite effective, but i still had trouble gauging inclines.
There is a bit of latency on the head tracker, and the gimbal moves a bit slowly for the HT inputs but generally works pretty good. I honenstly dont use the HT that much as the gimbal also turns with the steering and takes care of any issues due to the car sliding or wiggling around. It could be set up with 1:1 motion which is probably a good thing for head trackers but im not quite there yet. I should probably play with the HT more. Probably I'll do a vid about the HT all on its own as folks really seem interested in this part.
@@JIPPERR_1 awesome!! =) I'm looking to use this for general purpose FPV usage... planes, drones, cars :-D I use a headtracker with a 3d printed servo gimbal on my fixed wing and it's a little notchy (just the nature of servo gimbals...) plus none of the stabilization of course. Fantastic work man; can't wait to see where you go with it!
Its great on cars cause it stabilizes the view, I'd watch out on aircraft though, to steep an angle or sudden jostling at high angles could glitch it out. No problem on a car, big problem on an aircraft! Definitly cant do any inverted manuvers. But ya, total game changer for fpv cars 👍
Sorry to bug you again, but quick question on the location of the 2nd IMU (which I believe is the board itself or frame IMU?) which the manual says needs to be above the yaw motor. I tried booting up my 3-axis gimbal in the inverted orientation and the pan motor started spinning uncontrollably which I think is attributed to the board being below the yaw motor. Did you experience any similar behavior and if so, how did you bypass that by having your board below the yaw/pan motor? ^_^
@@JIPPERR_1 Dude, your video is really cool! I loved your project and I'm going to try to build one! I can't find this model to buy, can I use the "ZD Racing DBX 10 1/10 4WD" or the "MJX 14209 HIPER"? Will this aluminum structure fit these models? or in one of them? Thank you very much!!!
Awesome RC and great fpv
Thanks much!
@@JIPPERR_1 😁☝
Awesome set up!
Another awesome video, ordered my storm32 gimbal today. Excited to tackle this project!!
Right on! I have a blog at the rcgroups forun with more info should be easy to search up, username is JIPPERR. I've posted a design template for my current gimbal frame. I may update this soon as I've been going over the design a bit. But nothing major has changed so far.
wow, pretty much helpful! I'm already finished soldering part and assembling, now playing with PID's, maybe you would like to make a video part on how all these features sets in GUI. I think best useful feature is relevel by rc input button
Andrey would love to see what you've got built! I found the most important part of setting the PID was starting with a reasonable voltage setting. I run 3s and have the motor voltages set to 60, 90, and 120 for pitch roll and yaw. Happy to make a vid showing the GUI settings. I have a blog post on the subject at rcgroups.
www.rcgroups.com/forums/member.php?u=619520
@@JIPPERR_1 thanks for the links! I'm sure I can get here something useful here for me
Dang I know that I'm a rookie at this at an entry level but PID's and GUI's and don't get me started on DJI . Nice work on the rig setup, for myself I'm running 6s Kraton with a front and rear foxeer cameras ( only one wired) and some AKK to make it happen lol. Looking forward to the next video.... can't have too many FPV ground vehicles videos with all the rules and regulations that came to flying drones
@@jkeithfowler cheer! Ya I had plans to do some fixed wing fpv but transitioned to ground fpv after drones got regulated. Turns out this is more fun and i can run my car anytime i have a free minute, no need to go to an airfield etc.
I love this body. I lobe this build! I love this car bro! It's really awesome brother! Really well done so far bro! I enjoyed the video and getting to hang out with ya for a bit on it! Thanks for sharing with us!
I am full swing in creating a stabilized gimbal with pwm injection for my head tracker and manual control. I hit a road block in with the frame parts... The one that came with the gimbal controller is made for a GoPro and is too big. I can cut it down and maybe re-drill the holes, but I think I should make some 3D prints of those parts. Never done it before, so this should be fun. I am working with a Super Baja Rey 2.0 so I have lots of room to work with in the cab! I am torn about using a Crossfire PWM adapter or just use the Radiolink controller I got. Both have great range, maybe I use a combination of both.
Right on! Loads of space in that SBR for sure. Sounds like an epic build! If you want to message me on instagram and i can send you a link to the design for the frame. I went with radiolink and its been pretty good, but also i dont really know better 🙃
Nice setup! this would be pretty cool on my Outcast 8s!!!
I'd love to see someone do this then go for massive air 👍👍 I'm getting there but slooowly
Very cool bro
Fantastic overview, brotha! You built an awesome rig 🤙
Thanks Chadd! Hard to cover it all in one go, so many details to get into. Its been a journey building this one 👍
I wanna see that RC car in action
Check my vids :)
What wheels and tires are those? I love the way they look. 👍
Right on! These are the stock black and chrome slash wheels but I took all the chrome off with bleach. Tires are proline BFG TA KO2, they are a bit bigger than standard short course at about 120mm diameter (PRO1013400). Because the rims are weird I ordered some 2.2 foams and cut them down to fit 👍
Looks really good, and I saw the driving video before :)
Can you use different amount of compensation per axis?
Thats correct each axis can be setup individually
Hello! Your videos are fantastic, is there a streamlined setup for a similar system? I am getting the Walksnail FPV system and I am trying so hard to find a gimbal thats around this size.
Also planning to do only 2 axis for simplicities sake, pitch and roll, but i do like the idea of your gimbal turning with you, thats insane.
oh! and I am using a traxxas rally vxl 1/10 (non fiesta)
Hi, thanks so much for the nice comments! If you go back through some of my vids you can see in a bit more detail the gimbal I started with. In the end I made my own gimbal frame to get the size right. Happy to share the design, construction methods, and setup if you want to give it a shot. Doing a pitch and roll gimbal will make it lots simpler, yaw makes it more complicated but it is quite fun once working.
@@JIPPERR_1 I'm definitely plunging headfirst on this haha. Each day I learn a little more about these things. The first 4 or 5 times I tried to look up tiny gimbals I came up woefully empty handed. Then I got comments I should just make my own but I don't really know the intricacies of balancing nor do I truly want to spend hours tuning one 😅 (also no 3d printer)
I was hoping i could get one that would autostabilize out of the box. I was looking through all your gimbal videos but I probably need to review them a few more times.
Its very inspiring to see the success you've had with the setup, I think it looks great on the drives you've posted. The frame is huge! I'm trying to brainstorm something that looks a little smaller.
I keep seeing these gimbals that are upside down (amazon etc), wondering if those will even work if I turn them up the other way, or If I should just mount it upside down and have the cam pop out the windshield or something. I would prefer to see some or most of the car (instead of your first person) but I'm willing to try both.
Also worried about chopping up my RC car too much because its my only one, but we'll see! I saw you mention a group chat, I wouldn't mind giving that a go as well.
I think I also need to cool the VTX? Its not flying around in the sky with wind whipping around it, how hot does your DJI vtx run? I am guessing the Walksnail one might get hot.
@Ultimate Headfirst is the way to go! Similar to you I started with the traxxas fiesta rally car because i felt it had the most room under the body shell and like you say the gimbal is pretty big. I wanted it under there so that it would be protected in a crash and to have a bit more of a scale driving experience.
The controller i use is the storm32 and it can be setup in lots of ways so no problem having it supported from the bottom rather than hanging down from above. Its made for hobbiests so its quite configureable. Also this is one of the less expensive gimbals so not a major investment to strap to an rc thats going to crash and roll, get wet, dirty etc. There are definitly more sophisticated gimbals out there, but this one works well with rc transmitters protocols (pmw, sbus, ppm) and runs pretty trouble free most of the time. Check out @Smokeefpv here on youtube, he's got a gimbal setup using some different equipment from me.
The big challenge is that if the gimbal is not purpose built for the fpv camera you'll end up having to add weight to ballance it so that it runs well. But then it'll be to heavy to survive for very long.
Overall im definitly happy with the results, but definitly cost more time than anything to get it to this level. I guess my hope is that by sharing what I've done it'll help others who want to try the same thing and save them time. It takes some time to learn gimbals though :) I wish or dji or any other company would sell a micro sized fpv gimbal! Surely drone and quadcopter people would want that too.
I usually turn the vtx power way down when i run and if i run out of range or know I'll be going fast then i turn it up. It gets pretty hot and will go into low power mode if i leave it on hogh power all the time. A fan is a good idea 👍
Please.. how did you power the vtx on a rc I can’t find a video now where please how did you do it
I like to run everything off a single battery so what I do is add one of the red JST plugs to the esc side battery plug. Then that is used to power all the FPV equipment. I show this a little bit in my BASH-CRAWL pt2 video 👍
I saw you had 2 cameras on the gimbal somewhere, is that for 3D viewing? How do you send the signal to the goggles? Do the goggles have a "side by side" option to convert the signal to 3D?
So ya that is a 3d system, sadly its not produced anymore :( i did quite like it but thankfully once things are in motion there is a 3d effect due to the relative motion of near and far things. The way this system worked was unique to the goggles (skyzone 02x) where there was one camera signal for each eye. The goggles tune in two separate frequencies, one for each eye. So its a pretty simple system, only drawback is it uses up two channels. It's quite effective, but i still had trouble gauging inclines.
Yip! 🍻🍻
🥰🤩💥💯👍👏👏👏
This is bad ass! =) How 1:1 is the movement with your headtracker? Any latency? ^_^
There is a bit of latency on the head tracker, and the gimbal moves a bit slowly for the HT inputs but generally works pretty good. I honenstly dont use the HT that much as the gimbal also turns with the steering and takes care of any issues due to the car sliding or wiggling around. It could be set up with 1:1 motion which is probably a good thing for head trackers but im not quite there yet. I should probably play with the HT more. Probably I'll do a vid about the HT all on its own as folks really seem interested in this part.
@@JIPPERR_1 awesome!! =) I'm looking to use this for general purpose FPV usage... planes, drones, cars :-D I use a headtracker with a 3d printed servo gimbal on my fixed wing and it's a little notchy (just the nature of servo gimbals...) plus none of the stabilization of course. Fantastic work man; can't wait to see where you go with it!
Its great on cars cause it stabilizes the view, I'd watch out on aircraft though, to steep an angle or sudden jostling at high angles could glitch it out. No problem on a car, big problem on an aircraft! Definitly cant do any inverted manuvers. But ya, total game changer for fpv cars 👍
@@JIPPERR_1 ooh, that's good to know. Thanks for the heads up! =)
Sorry to bug you again, but quick question on the location of the 2nd IMU (which I believe is the board itself or frame IMU?) which the manual says needs to be above the yaw motor. I tried booting up my 3-axis gimbal in the inverted orientation and the pan motor started spinning uncontrollably which I think is attributed to the board being below the yaw motor. Did you experience any similar behavior and if so, how did you bypass that by having your board below the yaw/pan motor? ^_^
Which RC Car is that?
Hi, this is a Slash 4x4, proline baja bug body and proline bfg ta ko2 tires for shortcourse rims
@@JIPPERR_1 Dude, your video is really cool! I loved your project and I'm going to try to build one!
I can't find this model to buy, can I use the "ZD Racing DBX 10 1/10 4WD" or the "MJX 14209 HIPER"?
Will this aluminum structure fit these models? or in one of them?
Thank you very much!!!
@@k9fpv best to stick with slightly bigger rc's 👍 the zd racing dbx10 would be a good one. Cheers!