FPV drones stand for first person view drones. These drones have a unique ability that other drones don’t have. They can do flips and tricks and stuff but the important thing is that you can see what the drone sees. To see through the drones you will need a certain type of goggles and a Transmitter.
The drone is made up of lots of parts:
- Motors that spin the props.
- Props that lift the drone.
- Flight controllers that’s the brain.
- The camera is your eyes
- The ESC or the power house and many other things.
Then you have your goggles that helps you see what the drone sees.
But the goggles have these things that you can attach to it, the antennas. The antennas help you go out farther out from where you are standing.
The Radio transmitter is the controller of the drone but first you have to bind the drone to the transmitter in order to control it.
Then after making sure everything works, you go to a place called Betaflight and make sure nothing explodes into flames and everything is good!
Once you finish that, go out and have fun with your drones and your lipos. Oh I forgot, you need to get your self a lipo battery and a lipo charger with a lipo checker. these guys help out alot.
Ok, not that we have everything, we should be able to plug it in and everything goes nicely.
I hope you enjoyed this post and I’ve inspired you to get into the hobby. See you in the air!
4 replies on “FPV Drones”
I have so many questions! While I am a bit intimidated by this hobby (probably the mention of explosions), the uses of a camera-drone seem endless and creative! Questions: How do you bind? Does this require special tools? What is a lipo? What mistakes have you made in this process and what did you learn? Is this an expensive hobby? What are there laws in New York City about flying drones? I’ll stop there 😊
Matthew, I’m so happy to read your piece. You’ve been writing about drones since I’ve known you, and this is so informative!
Thanks for the information. I might buy one.
Pure AWESOMESAUCE! My kids have drones that they play with but this is NEXT LEVEL stuff! Looks like someone has an engineering based career in the works! I know you like to soldering and this could be a really good use of that newly found skill.