To all the people asking about my RC radio software, it's a Flysky FS-I6X model running OpenI6X firmware. OpenI6X is a special version of OpenTX that can be flashed to this particular radio. I have been using it for about 2 years now and it really brought a new life to this old champ. It's been working flawlessly, but the gimbals on this unit aren't very precise so I will probably swap it for a Radiomaster soon. I won't be making any tutorials about this software, because there are already tons of them on RUclips, just go search for it. Also visit OpenI6X Github page to learn more.
I was just going to leave an angry comment how ardupilot firmware won't fit on any damn speedybee flight controller like the one you had shown, there are a few H743 flight controllers like mateksys h743 mini or the hollybro's kaukute or whatever they call it but yea, my elrs Rx is built into the jumper t pro V2 I'm using, I guess I would just cough up the $70 for a new flight controller with full ardupilot firmware support. The mateksys ditched the mpu6000 with a bit of an upgrade, the holybro is still rocking the mpu6000 but both got 2gb flash and full size onboard ardupilot, just saying would have made things a touch easier from the get go probably.....but yea interesting way of accomplishing it if you have an external Rx elrs and a flight controller that can't run ardupilot itself. Pretty awesome, All hail Mavlink!
Now to add a wireless charging feature and it will be completely autonomous. later add some machine learning for it to loiter and observe when things stop for long enough along the patrol route
I made a custom 10 inch drone (ardupilot flash in it)with SpeedyBee stack and it is as much stable as DJI ... 55 min hover time with molicell p45B batt.
That’s awesome. I have a couple of old quads with NAZA v2 FC that I just don’t trust anymore and this seems like a perfect solution. My very first build ever was an APM 2.6 and that thing was rock solid. I didn’t even know this was a possibility. Do you think it would do good with a 680 sized quad with 15” props? I’d love to get that quad and my old TBS discovery back in the air reliably.
Dropping drones from a mothership is definitely one of the most interesting projects I ever did, and I had a total blast while working on it😄. I also had a lot footage from this project and it's all posted on my Patreon now, so feel free to take a look. However it wasn't really a proper swarm, so I am really excited to test it now when I have all the hardware to do so
I was playing with Ardupilot in 2014 with a 700mm CF quad and pixhawk. It weighs a couple of kilos so I haven't used it since laws were made and miss the fun I had making BVLOS missions. Good to see that things have improved since with miniaturization and that they solve the waypoint glitching as the copter flies through it! Tempting to get back into it again on a smaller but still useful scale.
is a great project🎉.. basically, theres company do this stuff BUT with keep it secret how their done it and what components ande all setting they use. u do a great job to make many others people think abt this project. it just like kind open others people mind and think together and inovate together. keep it up. to think that, i just say adding an sensor will make the quad became more precise of the location. height sensor, visual sensor and others. congrats again you make the door opened to the world.
A video where the quadcopter follows you would be cool, One when you can throw it to autonomous flight and then guide it with voice commands would be legendary.
So any DJI drone, minus the voice commands. The drone would never hear you over it's engines, so you'd still need a controller unfortunately. But amusing people who want to waste money on consooming Chinese junk isn't the focus of the drone world. It's the pointy tip of the spear of modern warfare.
14:20 There is a new feature in the main branch (and will release in v3.5) that is specifically made for this. It allows you to have mavlink and controls with single tx/rx pair.
Yeah this is critical to truly be a useful feature in my mind. Figured it was only a matter of time since CrossFire has supported using the RC control link to receive Mavlink telemetry and rebroadcast over first Bluetooth, then WiFi for many years.
The shorter you capacitor leads the better. Ideally, you'd want the cap right up against the ESC. Fantastic project and video. Thanks for sharing your work with us.
This is awesome information. Thank you for showing that ExpressLRS has AirPort telemetry features to transmit and receive data to and from a control station. I already have most of these components on hand and want to experiment with these features. I am curious to see if I can adapt this to my work.
I was wondering why he used two RX/TX. I thought it could all be on one link now. At least that's what I was seeing in the ELRS Discord like 6+ months ago in testing.
Fantastic project that's very inspiring. Nice demo of features in Ardupilot and EpressLRS to enable MavLink telemetry. Lots of great information, nicely organized. Having four of these drones configured with LEDs and telemetry opens some interesting opportunities for follow-on projects/demos. Some suggestions:: - fly drone in evening and use camera with long exposure to capture light paths as drone(s) fly a mission path and change LED colours, relative to position - use two drones to carry a small banner/flag, with string between - have camera drone follow a second drone. think would require sharing gps telemetry.
Yes please do a swarm video with following tracers lights so it looks like an in motion freeze frame to motion and then make it look like it takes off like a lightning bolt "special effect ".
What an incredibly informative and well thought out video! Figuring out a way to do all of this with a single radio link would seem to be the next step
And lets add motion sensor on the ground that informs the drone if they are triggered to let the drone fly to the area where the motion sensor is to scout the area.
Thanks for the awesome video. I would love it if you would overlay some text descriptions when you're calling out part names or some technical words for us that are just coming up in the drone space. Thanks very much again for all the info and the links in the description.
Very cool project. I’m impressed you got all that functionality out of a sub250g. For me, the requirement to have a complete second RF link (transmitter module and receiver) is a deal-breaker for ELRS Airport mode. I’m sure they will figure it out eventually, but for now I’d prefer to use something like CrossFire that can send Mavlink data to Mission Planner over WiFi using the same module and RX as the RC control link. Also not a perfect solution, but it works.
The video is good, but: 3:50 - If you want to increase the stiffness, then simply print the structure a bit different, not so flat. Try it with a U-shape frame or something what looks like pipes, this gives a lot of stability with the same amount of material in comparison to a flat frame structure. With the U-shape or pipe shape of the frame you could hide the cable much better. 4:16 - You could use simply some longer screws for the BLDC motors. Why so complicate? 24:22 - The geo-fence is nice, but 6 distance sensors like the VL53L0XV2 to prevent collisions with humans or a wall or a tree would be useful. But possibly not so easy to add to this software?
Great project, just a heads up, ELRS supports mavlink telemetry over the Rc link directly, so the second receiver was not neccesary. It does require some playing around but i managed to get it working.
Hi! You know what, mavlink-rc is exactly what I want to test next, but I couldn't find any good documentation. Can you share some details on how you got it working and on which hardware?
@@BasementCreationsChannel the documentation is still being created as this has not been merged into current ELRS version but i would be happy to help you set it up.
Very nice project, waiting for you to release more information regarding the frame (model files to print), so that I can try building my own. Subscribed :)
Hi brother... I am from India ... The content is very good and informative ... A kind request ... Can you make a video to connect raspberry pi with this drone ? Please a kind request from all engineerings from INDIA 🇮🇳
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To all the people asking about my RC radio software, it's a Flysky FS-I6X model running OpenI6X firmware. OpenI6X is a special version of OpenTX that can be flashed to this particular radio. I have been using it for about 2 years now and it really brought a new life to this old champ. It's been working flawlessly, but the gimbals on this unit aren't very precise so I will probably swap it for a Radiomaster soon. I won't be making any tutorials about this software, because there are already tons of them on RUclips, just go search for it. Also visit OpenI6X Github page to learn more.
I was just going to leave an angry comment how ardupilot firmware won't fit on any damn speedybee flight controller like the one you had shown, there are a few H743 flight controllers like mateksys h743 mini or the hollybro's kaukute or whatever they call it but yea, my elrs Rx is built into the jumper t pro V2 I'm using, I guess I would just cough up the $70 for a new flight controller with full ardupilot firmware support. The mateksys ditched the mpu6000 with a bit of an upgrade, the holybro is still rocking the mpu6000 but both got 2gb flash and full size onboard ardupilot, just saying would have made things a touch easier from the get go probably.....but yea interesting way of accomplishing it if you have an external Rx elrs and a flight controller that can't run ardupilot itself. Pretty awesome, All hail Mavlink!
How much did this whole project cost?
The countdown to my small autonomous drone patrol army has begun. ;)
You're not alone :-)
Now to add a wireless charging feature and it will be completely autonomous. later add some machine learning for it to loiter and observe when things stop for long enough along the patrol route
@@lionnelmurimi651 И потом добавьте функцию сброса. Чтобы дрон убивал флашеттами тех кто будет на дороге патрулирования. Скайнет готов.
Hell yeah
Wireless charging pads, set a route that brings em back to the pad for charging and get a whole squad in rotation.
Potrzebujemy więcej takiego kontentu w polsceee
From Romania, I totally agree with you.
I made a custom 10 inch drone (ardupilot flash in it)with SpeedyBee stack and it is as much stable as DJI ... 55 min hover time with molicell p45B batt.
That's really impressive flight time man!
That’s awesome. I have a couple of old quads with NAZA v2 FC that I just don’t trust anymore and this seems like a perfect solution. My very first build ever was an APM 2.6 and that thing was rock solid. I didn’t even know this was a possibility. Do you think it would do good with a 680 sized quad with 15” props? I’d love to get that quad and my old TBS discovery back in the air reliably.
@@Jpilgrim30 go to mamba H7 flight controller Gives you goosebumps..... All setup with this flight controller is good....
awesome! do you need PCB supplier?
Did not know ELRS was putting out Mavlink now, great news! Awesome project.
Thanks man! I will be testing experimental Mavlink-RC soon. It sends both telemetry and RC on just one ELRS link, similar to crossfire.
Could be fun😉
Definitely interested in the swarm mode! The mothership deployment method is very intriguing! I look forward to seeing more of your videos!
Dropping drones from a mothership is definitely one of the most interesting projects I ever did, and I had a total blast while working on it😄. I also had a lot footage from this project and it's all posted on my Patreon now, so feel free to take a look. However it wasn't really a proper swarm, so I am really excited to test it now when I have all the hardware to do so
more ELRS Airport is needed in youtube! :)
Well done and keep it up
Truly. This is the first time I've heard of it
Oh fuckin tell me about! Mavlink and ELRS ... match made in heaven
I was playing with Ardupilot in 2014 with a 700mm CF quad and pixhawk. It weighs a couple of kilos so I haven't used it since laws were made and miss the fun I had making BVLOS missions.
Good to see that things have improved since with miniaturization and that they solve the waypoint glitching as the copter flies through it!
Tempting to get back into it again on a smaller but still useful scale.
>laws
@@kiq4767 2014 was before there were drone laws
is a great project🎉.. basically, theres company do this stuff BUT with keep it secret how their done it and what components ande all setting they use. u do a great job to make many others people think abt this project. it just like kind open others people mind and think together and inovate together. keep it up. to think that, i just say adding an sensor will make the quad became more precise of the location. height sensor, visual sensor and others. congrats again you make the door opened to the world.
A video where the quadcopter follows you would be cool, One when you can throw it to autonomous flight and then guide it with voice commands would be legendary.
So any DJI drone, minus the voice commands. The drone would never hear you over it's engines, so you'd still need a controller unfortunately. But amusing people who want to waste money on consooming Chinese junk isn't the focus of the drone world. It's the pointy tip of the spear of modern warfare.
@@bashkillszombies Voice commands to a control device that relays that information to the quad-copter would work
I heard nail polish works. I saw a good builder like you build a POPSICLE STICK drone! Shaved down arms for lighter. Nail polish for strengthening
The radio control is Flysky, but should prolly be Flyski. They are looking for you from the east, to work their drones. Excellent setup
14:20 There is a new feature in the main branch (and will release in v3.5) that is specifically made for this. It allows you to have mavlink and controls with single tx/rx pair.
Do you have any links or documentation to support this configuration?
@@jaredwhite4955 can't send links on RUclips. It's a pull request 2753 on the elrs github.
Yeah this is critical to truly be a useful feature in my mind. Figured it was only a matter of time since CrossFire has supported using the RC control link to receive Mavlink telemetry and rebroadcast over first Bluetooth, then WiFi for many years.
The shorter you capacitor leads the better. Ideally, you'd want the cap right up against the ESC.
Fantastic project and video. Thanks for sharing your work with us.
Thanks for the tip!
I really should learn to use Ardupilot. It just has so many powerful features to take advantage of. Thanks for your demonstration!
That's really cool. I would love to have that on a long range drone
What an amazing project... thank you so much for sharing! Lots of love to the Netherlands from Germany
Thank you, I have been waiting for ELRS telemetry!!!!
Love that all that fancy stuff that is way above my skill level is stuck on a flysky transmitter🤯
i use to have one of those FLY SKY radios !! ohhh those memories
You just answered all of my questions🙌.... Very nice dude🙌🙌
Glad I could be helpful🙂
Based and dronepilled
Ardupilot is a great open source project
11:54 bro ur thumb on life support ong
hell yeah
omg that is so beautiful build, i immediately subscribed
This is a great project thanks for sharing. Waiting for the swarm mode.
amazing video, thanks!
Awesome....two receivers of course!
This is awesome information. Thank you for showing that ExpressLRS has AirPort telemetry features to transmit and receive data to and from a control station. I already have most of these components on hand and want to experiment with these features. I am curious to see if I can adapt this to my work.
Brilliant, instant sub impressive with that hand launch start
Have you heard of ELRS Mavlink-RC? Its airport + rc all in one. Would have solved all your problems man
I was wondering why he used two RX/TX. I thought it could all be on one link now. At least that's what I was seeing in the ELRS Discord like 6+ months ago in testing.
That's next on my to do list! Just gotta figure out how to set it up
This is seriously awesome. Will watch more of this if you make it, looking forward to more polish.
The best introduction DIY FPV drone❤
Absolutely AWESOME !!! Thanks for all the tips along the whole project !
Fantastic project that's very inspiring. Nice demo of features in Ardupilot and EpressLRS to enable MavLink telemetry. Lots of great information, nicely organized. Having four of these drones configured with LEDs and telemetry opens some interesting opportunities for follow-on projects/demos.
Some suggestions::
- fly drone in evening and use camera with long exposure to capture light paths as drone(s) fly a mission path and change LED colours, relative to position
- use two drones to carry a small banner/flag, with string between
- have camera drone follow a second drone. think would require sharing gps telemetry.
Thanks! And those are some great ideas, I will make sure to test some of them in the future
Congratulations on winning 🇵🇱drone competition and a great project 👏
Awesome build! Congrats!
Awesome work!
It's quite complex and cool, love it ❤
Yes please do a swarm video with following tracers lights so it looks like an in motion freeze frame to motion and then make it look like it takes off like a lightning bolt "special effect ".
oh man that throw was sick
Thanks!
This thing is so awesome! Looking forward to content on swarming.
Great video! Nice work, especially winning first place. Looking forward to seeing more of your builds!
Nice project man. Keep it up. Love what you are doing
Well explained, great video.
Nice Info
This is so impressive! Well done
Congrats to the winner 🏆
Thanks!
Great work love that kind of stuff. +Sub. 🦅🦅
Would love to see a low cost mini 4k clone build in the future.
Great work brother, really enjoyed ur video. Smart guy🙏
What an incredibly informative and well thought out video! Figuring out a way to do all of this with a single radio link would seem to be the next step
ELRS offers "MAVLink" mode which enables RC control and bidirectional MAVLink over a single link. You lose Yaapu though currently.
it's a really good project, awesome
Thanks brother. Need to learn this!
Throw mode?! 👏👏👏👏
Wpadł sub, bardzo dobry content!
Dzięki!
word - subbed
Nice work
Amazing build!
This dude is ridiculously smart! 🧐
Awesome. Do the next on swarm flight. Waiting for it
wow just brilliant. nice engineering.
Best regards from the open source community
smart frame design nice positioning of the electronics would help with interference on the drone its self nice work
Thanks
Yes. 😊
Congratulations... Very good video and explanation.
Very great job broo
And lets add motion sensor on the ground that informs the drone if they are triggered to let the drone fly to the area where the motion sensor is to scout the area.
Magnificent work.
a video about the following function would be cool
love it!
Thanks for the awesome video. I would love it if you would overlay some text descriptions when you're calling out part names or some technical words for us that are just coming up in the drone space. Thanks very much again for all the info and the links in the description.
3d printing on a carbon fibre effect build plate works very well to make the frame look like it is carbon fibre
Amazing. Very informative video. I hope this is used for good.
Dawno nie widziany gość, no elo 😎
those come in handy...don t feed the demons....keep your license you earned it...good report..
Fantastic 👍🏻
Good job dude.
Amazing! I want to try it! :) Thank you for sharing! You earned my sub! :)
Bro u made me change my mind o ardupilot 😍😍
That's my mission😉
Very cool project. I’m impressed you got all that functionality out of a sub250g. For me, the requirement to have a complete second RF link (transmitter module and receiver) is a deal-breaker for ELRS Airport mode. I’m sure they will figure it out eventually, but for now I’d prefer to use something like CrossFire that can send Mavlink data to Mission Planner over WiFi using the same module and RX as the RC control link. Also not a perfect solution, but it works.
Great Work, Well Done ;-)
good job
Very Cool!
Pls more Videos of that Drone
sharing knowledge is always a beautiful thing , tnx
that's pretty good!
The video is good, but:
3:50 - If you want to increase the stiffness, then simply print the structure a bit different, not so flat.
Try it with a U-shape frame or something what looks like pipes, this gives a lot of stability with the same amount of material in comparison to a flat frame structure.
With the U-shape or pipe shape of the frame you could hide the cable much better.
4:16 - You could use simply some longer screws for the BLDC motors. Why so complicate?
24:22 - The geo-fence is nice, but 6 distance sensors like the VL53L0XV2 to prevent collisions with humans or a wall or a tree would be useful. But possibly not so easy to add to this software?
Great project, just a heads up, ELRS supports mavlink telemetry over the Rc link directly, so the second receiver was not neccesary. It does require some playing around but i managed to get it working.
Hi!
You know what, mavlink-rc is exactly what I want to test next, but I couldn't find any good documentation. Can you share some details on how you got it working and on which hardware?
@@BasementCreationsChannel the documentation is still being created as this has not been merged into current ELRS version but i would be happy to help you set it up.
Zajefajne!
Very nice project, waiting for you to release more information regarding the frame (model files to print), so that I can try building my own.
Subscribed :)
Thanks! The files are already in the description
Very fascinating 🤗😎
This could be great as a security drone who is constantly circling a building or something else
Hi brother... I am from India ... The content is very good and informative ... A kind request ... Can you make a video to connect raspberry pi with this drone ? Please a kind request from all engineerings from INDIA 🇮🇳
I don't know if it's needed but maybe you could use nylon screws instead of metal for additional cost savings
The background music sounds like a ticking clock, it's driving me crazy lol
5:47 I have the same exact wallpaper right now :0
Can you tell me what it is? Looks cool
Wallpaper Engine was the best thing I ever purchased on steam😄
Great Video
Thanks man! Love your long range quad build by the way
Sick vid bro can you make a fpv drone with active tracking that follows you around that would be a sick innovation for the community
That would be cool, but it will probably require a companion computer. A bit complicated topic, maybe will try it in the future