Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Fly-Sight History: Part 2

The second revision was short lived.  I made a printed circuit board (PCB) to hold the video transmitter, to avoid having the pads pull off.  I switched reed switches and was still using an off the shelf battery charger.

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Fly-Sight History: Part 1

Six months ago I was looking for a small, light weight camera to make another one of my smaller planes into a FPV platform.(First-Person Video)  While shopping I was pleasantly surprised at how the cost and weight of the airplane side components had dropped from when I first started dabbling in FPV.

It was now cheap to put together a system; however none of my friends were flying FPV.  What was stopping them?

I decided that if the cost of the system was low, then the remaining barriers to entry would be:
Not knowing it was cheap/possible
Not knowing how to put together a system.
I wanted to change that!

FlySight V4 enclosures in production

Sent out the CAD models for the V4 structure.  I'm very pleased with the design, can't wait to show you all pictures of the parts as soon as they come in.