Welcome to Team GreenHopper FPV (1)

This was my first week to Tiny Whooping! What fun. Tiny whoop is the newest craze in the multirotor hobby which involves small, brushed quadcopters carrying AIO camera with a live, analog down-link. Tiny Whoops are all custom built aircraft that use extremely powerful coreless motors made by Chaoli  and advanced flight controllers like the F3 Evo running sophisticated software like BetaFlight.  My goal is to be able to reduce my lap times by 33% on multiple courses. I plan on flying indoors in both large and small rooms, outdoors in an open area and outdoors with obstacles. I also am making a YouTube channel, Team GreenHopper to show my progress.

The aircraft I will be flying to start out is a custom built quadcopter based off the carbon fiber QX90 frame. It has the newest F3 flight controller and a super small flysky receiver to take control input from. It took over a week to find the best parts to use and over an hour and a half to build it. I certainly got to practice making a lot of very small solder joints which was difficult.

 Here are a few pictures.

I also modified my ev800 goggles with a DVR so I could record my flights and upload them to YouTube. This took a lot of research and planning to be able to do since their is no documentation for the modification. I ended up having to use an oscilloscope to find the video output of the integrated receiver. After I did this, I soldered the input from the DVR to the V-Out on the googles, and after using a multi-meter to find ground and VCC, those were soldered in too. In the end, it worked out well as you can see in the picture below.


Finally, I added a few 3D printed parts to the quadcopter that I printed out at home with ABS filament. I added an antenna protector to keep the AIO camera safe and prop guards to ensure my propellers don't mess up the walls. Overall, it was a very productive week!