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Most FPV pilots head to the field carrying a small mountain of gear: a radio in one hand, goggles or a separate screen in the other, plus a bag of receivers, antennas, and cables tying it all together. It works — but it has always bugged me. Why are the two things I stare at most, the controls and the video feed, living in two separate boxes? So I stopped asking and started building. Meet the BERT RC Controller — a single handheld unit that fuses a fully custom ESP32-based radio with a long-range RubyFPV digital video ground station. One device. Two brains. Everything I need to fly, in my own design, down to the last toggle switch. ...

Finally designed a fully 3d printed quadcopter frame. I am using FreeCAD 1.0 on Ubuntu for designing this frame. After a few alterations and numerous wasted PLA print materials, the quadcopter frame is ready. It will running on Pico Pi 2 and fully modularized components for newbies. The best part is that I am going to run RubyFPV on it with CM0 …. stay tuned….

So this one a little bit different. I am using all modules expect the gyro and some 3.3V regulator for the sdcard (It may having lots of IO and separated it from the Pico Pi2) What is this actually? It is a flight controller with: Pico Pi 2 as the flight controller. It will be compatible with betaflight. BMP580 via I2C ICM-40609-D via SPI with interrupt pin. This will make it even smoother and less load on CPU INA229 measuring voltage and current BL-M8812EU2 for RubyFPV Compute Module Zero: It provides the core processing capability of Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W in a compact, embeddable form factor, with on-board RAM and optional Wi-Fi® connectivity. Featuring 4-lane CSI and DSI for image and video capture and display applications, Compute Module Zero. I had enabled TVOUT for connecting to analog video display as debugging or development purposes. This will be using sdcard as I am using the LITE version and will be installing RubyFPV system that broadcast digital video feed. ov5647 camera module CSI port. 2S to 3S. Will upgrade in future version. Blackbox Enabled 2 x UART (one for ELRS another for GPS) 1 x Software UART as Telemetry (MAVLINK) to RubyFPV 4 x DSHOT150, DSHOT300 1 x I2C output for Magnetometer and other accessories 1 pair output power to the 4in1 ESC board. The design already sent for fabrication and pending all the modules to be shipped. Once done will start to solder all the components and lets make it real.

I am building something fun for everyone. It will be running on Linux. I hope this works out. Now left 1 more section to be completed and sending it for fabrication…. Stay tuned.

No doubt the power of digital system. Only 100mW and the quality never dropped.

The RubyFPV is really astounding!!! Very stable and solid. I had migrate my Eachine ev100 into a custom designed 3d case, putting the Pi Zero 2W, USB hub module, 5 DCDC regulator, bl-m8812eu2 WiFi module card and etc into one single case. I had chosen yellow because it looks like minion. Below is my build video: Subscribe my channel for more updates.

Previously had designed and not working great as not added any fuse and polyfuses between the balancer lead and battery. This round I had made it to protect some serious shortcircuits that we never thought it will happened. Safety first. What I had done this round is added the poly fuses to all the balancer leads. This will reset after it breaks off. Just cool it down and the fuse will be back to normal. For the battery leads, all added a fuse holder with fuse. This will allows the fuse to be easily changed if ever shortcircuit is happened. ...

After so many years, finally able to fiy in acro mode. I had been training myself intensively over simulator until I am confident enough to try it on REAL world. The system also had upgraded with digital video feed and is truly a whole new game. < ...

Something coming up soon. This little guy will be driven by 2S battery. Yeah… meaning going to running on my latest 2S ESC version. Will keep you guys update soon… Stay tuned….

Had been really long busy year. Finally able to fork out some spare time to kickstart back my long waited project. This will be combining the Flight Controller, 4 x ESC, Current Sensor, High Efficient power regulator for 3.3v and 5v, Powered by 2 x 18650 battery and many more!! Hope to get this done quick then can start to fly with my new BigRC (Installed with RubyFPV system and custom controller using ESP32). This will be mini long range quad!!! ...