Nothing is more frustrating than going out for a flight only to be limited in height and distance after an upgrade of the firmware of your drone. You are looking in your settings, and all of the settings look fine, still there is no way going further than 50m The
Category: How-To
Skins for your drone
As you know, I like to personalise things. Standard is boring, and things are so much nicer if you give it a personal touch. Of course the footage that comes from the drone is more important than how it looks, but both is better! I have spraypainted the UpAir drone
Create your own powerbank
Powerbanks, they come in all shapes and sizes. Most of them are good enough to charge a phone, but are dead after 1 or 2 charges. I needed a better solution! I use my phone to fly with the Phantom 3, and I could hardly get 2 flights out of 1
How to livestream your FPV video feed
People streaming their flights to social media, we have all seen it on Facebook, or Youtube… This is a great way of sharing and showing what you are doing. This was already an option with a DJI drone, but there is also a way to do it with any other
Advanced mode in Mission Planner
you might have updated your mission planner only to find out you have lost a few functions you had before. Well, there is a way to get back all these extra functions. After opening your mission planner, but before you connect your drone you need to do the following Go
Tuning PID’s
If you have modded your UpAir you can do simple things like calibration and change some flying modes. But the mod also gives you the opportunity to adjust the PID’s The PID’s control how the drone behaves on user input and influences from outside like wind. Every drone is different,
Reset the ESC of an UpAir One
If for whatever reason one or more motors are not performing as they should, you could try to do a ESC reset. The ESC reset does exactly what it says, it resets the ESC’s in the drone, and supplies the same amount of power to all 4 of them. If
Auto Tune UpAir One
We all know that upAir is a great drone to tune and mod, and with this mod you can make it just that little bit better. *UPDATE* this has been done by a few people I know, and the results vary a lot. Please make sure you have a SCREENSHOT
How to set date and time on an UpAir One
This has been tested and does not work on the PLUS model Create a new text file called TIME.TXT (use CAPS) Put the file in the ROOT of your card Open the file and type YOUR current date and time in this format: YYYY.MM.DD HH:MM:SS so it would look something
How to calibrate UpAir One Plus compass
This is the sequence to calibrate the compass on an UpAir One Plus drone Only calibrate the compass when UPair APP or the status indicator prompt you to do so. 1-When the Status” YELLOW” shows on the APP, start the calibration. The status shows “BLUE” after successful calibration of the
UpAir One smart battery custom battery panels
As you might have read, I have been painting my drone. It was bright white, and now it’s black and blue. The batteries were still white, and since the weather is bad at the moment I thought it would be time to put some colour on them as well. First
Download firmware for the Hubsan H501S
Firmwares are back! You can download them again! These include super flyers and custom firmwares! Get the firmwares here On this page I will have the latest firmwares available for the Hubsan H501S, both standard and advanced. You can also choose to update and remove the altitude restrictions, More on that
Change LED colour on the Hubsan H501S Standard
This video shows you how to change the LED lights on a Hubsan H501S Standard. You can choose between: Blinking, Solid and Off
How to paint your drone
How cool would it be to have a drone that has the colour you want, instead of the standard colour. My drone was as white as white can be, and I find it a bit boring, that was my reason for the change. I have painted it in matte Navy
USB Mod UpAir One V4 – PX4 board
When you have a PX4 board, you should try to use QGroundcontrol instead of Mission Planner. You can download it here Some people already found out that they don’t have an USB port inside the drone. That is right! This is the V4 UpAir One. **UPDATE It seems that the compass
Balance Propellers
We have all seen footage from ourselves, or others that had a lot of vibration or so called jello. 9 out of 10 times this is caused by unbalanced propellers. Unbalanced propellers will cause vibrations in the drone, and that will not only affect your video or photo, but vibration