Recent content by ZefPanda

Maybe we take baby-steps and start with an air-boat first. ?.

Yes I did both of those things. Issue of crash was User/Pilot error. It was my 5th time ever flying a drone, or anything for that matter and mistakes were made. I tried to get a video of the pond, got to the far side, tried to raise elevation above the trees, but i was slightly thumbing left...

Who woulda knew what I was getting myself into, maybe I should take up RC boats since my bird had such an affinity for water ?

I am getting a lot of replies to this post in the past 48 hours. Unfortunately I crashed my solo in a tree and then had it fall into a pond for a few seconds, at this point im not sure if the bird will fly again. I will reassemble it tomorrow and test. I won't be buying components for the Solo...

Bought a crashed solo 3 weeks ago and repaired it. Took it out for its first working video flight with a refurbished gopro hero5, and I managed to crash it into 40-50ft tree on the edge of a retention pond. It beeped and beeped for half the night, keeping all my neighbors up. Got a tree climber...

I only have a gopro hero5 to test the hdmi with. I managed to break the hdmi port off my gopro Hero3 black by 3d printing a case that didn't give enough slack for the static mount and the tension of the cable popped the hdmi port off the gopro mainboard on the maiden flight. I did get it really...

Bending the arm back has gotten some results, now if i force gimbal in to certain position, I am able to move camera up and down with controller, but it makes sounds of resistance. I need to adjust the silver knobs I think to calibrate it, then do a software calibration and then I'm hoping it...

I bought a crashed solo, and the gimbal has the headbanging issue. I have inspected the ribbon cable (even under the plastic housing parts and where it attaches to the mainboard). The cable appears to be okay, and I also tried to adjusting the counter weight/balances (the silver knobs) with no...

Thank you, I will tinker with it tomorrow some more and try that. I inspected the ribbon cable for damage and it seemed okay. The metal arm looks a little off to me, but that just might be how it is made for balancing purposes possibly, I'm not sure. I'm just really happy to have the drone up...

I just bought a crashed 3DR Solo for 100$ (my first quadcopter/drone), and I managed to get it up and running with a factory reset/firmware update and a new motor, unfortunately the gimbal seems to have the headbanging issue. I was looking for a 3DR Gimbal replacement, a Leg replacement and also...