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RMM TBS Discovery: Updated Layout, Never Ending Persute of Perfection


Hello, Have no posted anything in sometime now, but have been super busy. The main even my daughter has turned One years old yesterday. I have been truly blessed with this child and just everyone in my life. Today once things have come down a little bit i was able to optimize my frame to get the video quality i was after.
Team Black Sheep  once again prove to be the true leaders of making ultimate FPV machines.
So i finally got the lens replacement for my SJ4000 action camera, which is pretty much a GoPro3, with the GoPro 2 lens. I paid 89.99 for this camera and the quality is up to par with the GoPro, its defiantly not a Sony HDR but close.
I have decided not to run the Sony Camera until i finish designing and printing the 2 axis gimbals for my TBS. I am not quite ready to share my results but i did have a maiden flight which was successful but that going to be a separate write up.

So back to the video transmission. if you remember i had my video transmitter right where the gopro sits now, which posed an issue of the signal being blocked by the frame as the antenna was not high enough.
TBS makes a VTX FlameWheel mount that you can pick up on GetFPV.com for $10, and that has improved my video range and quality tenfold. Now i just cant wait to get my real cloverleaf antenna which i know will dramatically increase my range over this $5 antenna.

Also by removing the Sony camera and the very heavy housing i was able to pick up almost 3 more minutes of flight, and for those who are worried about the lens being too exposed on the gopro, i have something printing as we speak actually that will resolve that issue. ill be posting that tomorrow.

pictures speak a thousand words, so ill let you judge on your own.
Ill post of video photage taken with this frame revision and camera tomorrow.


A little bit more info on the photos, i figure ill show you guys what it actually looks like from my point of view as i fly. The Information Overlay is the MOST IMPORTANT thing you can possibly add to your FPV experience, it will save you Thousands of dollars, nothing like loosing your machine because you miscalculated how much battery you have left or fly out to far and not know where home is because the world looks very different from above. Having exact distance from launch and direction where home is, is just as essential as knowing how much power you have left.
Also you see the Win8.1 Tablet with my Groundstation software that has a lot more information on what the quad is doing and mainly the map so if i get tired of flying or just simply dont want to manually fly back, i can throw the Position hold on, and quickly maps out a path for it to follow home and altitude and it will just come back to me.
Now all these things are soon to be incorporated into a Ground Station Briefcase that will mount onto a tripod.
So far i got a 12 inch 600nit bright touchscreen that will be the ground station and have another 10 inch diy 600 nit bright FPV screen that i will use to actually fly.
There is a ton of work that needs to be done to the ground station as i want to have redundant and hopping video receivers and will program an arduino to pick a best signal and output to the screen that way i improve the video quality even more. but more on that next week.
Lastly showcased is the TBS love-seat. its the memory foam coach looking thing that the go pro sits in, virtually eliminates all vibrations for perfect video.



















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