After watching this, I realize I left off the vTX antenna, which will run you about $10, and I left off the receiver, which will run you about $15-$25. So.... I dunno if $200 is even possible. But I think this is just about the best you can possibly get.
I caught it but you were so close I wasn't gonna be THAT GUY lol but for not sacrificing too much quality the completely doable 225 ish still far surpasses the Wizard
Happy model fyujon, ELRS and 400mW VTX (which I think is underrated) for 20 bucks through aliexpress and I think it comes with a linear antenna. If you go through pyro it's 30 bucks but you still get ELRS and VTX. It is a ceramic antenna though but I've had no issues with it on my race builds so far.
The Darwin FPV Johnny 5 comes in under 169.00, it has an 800mw vtx, I think just 4s for the motors, but the stack seems 6s capable, hard to beat if it fly's, they also have a lightweight 7 inch for 169.00.
After including props, antenna and receiver, the budget is up to around 240-250 usd. For $260 you can buy prebuilt analog IFlight Nazgul5 v2, comes with an 800mW vTX and F722 FC. $275 for the ELRS version. Which I think is an excellent option, if you don't want to deal with sourcing the parts and building
The nazgul is a fucking sweet quad, i got one 1.5 maybe 2 years ago and it still rips after many crashes. I broke a motor but thats only cus i smashed a pole. Overall the nazgul is fuggin excellent and would definitly reccomend to a new pilot vs building a budget quad.
It’s really tough to build when good deals happen, this past summer I was nosing around various sites and GetFPV had the GEPRC Mark4 HD for $299 in their clearance section, looking back I should have bought 2 of them.
Recently bought the JB kit and followed along with the build guide since it was my first ever quad. Very detailed guide, drone is a blast to fly and surprisingly tough. Ive only had to replace one arm so far (and numerous props) but other than that it has taken everything I have dished out with my inexperience in quads. I went with a Crossfire Rx which made it a little difficult to get all the software side of things figured out but I was eventually able to get it after switching between multiple videos in the J.B. School of everything FPV and Quads. I have nothing to compare the quad to since I haven't flown anything else but would recommend it to anyone who wants to get started in this hobby! Thanks JB!
I am running the Velox F411 stack, Emax Eco II 2207 @ 1700kv, Caddx Baby Ratel 2, and Xilo Stax VTX on my 5" freestyle, housed in a TBS Source Two frame, I've been really impressed with that setup! My total cost, excluding batteries, was $225.
I built a quad 2 weeks ago with these parts: Iflight xing e pro's tbs source one v5 hglrc zeus f7 48 amp belheli_s stack hglrc sooter beeper caddx ratel 2 eachine x805s 1.6W happymodel ep2 elrs rx a total of about 270, not exactly a "budget" build, but it flies very nicely
This is what I built and I crashed it so many times when I was learning fly. I went into Walksnail because this is what I had from fixed wing. I have never broke a part and I have so much fun with this.
wow, i didn't realize this price raise in FPV. i have bought Nazgul 5 6s analog BNF 1-2 years ago for nearly half of today price. At that point, buying parts separately for DIY was more expensive than getting exact same drone but prebuilt from iflight. Taranis qx7, Hawkeye Little Pilot VR googles (for my particular needs it was best fpv purchase yet) and few extra batteries and i was set up to go for pretty cheap as FPV goes. Those Hawkeye Frankenstein googles were discontinued so I'm glad that i risk getting something out of the box which actually works, is much more comfortable than box googles, cheaper than most recommended entry level stuff, diversity! and most important for me - excellent air flow!
JB...I am into RC intensely(crawlers, dragcar, 1/8scale racing)but was never really into FPV drones ... your build series changed that drastically. I will give it a shot 4sure now and about the price issue...well everything got way more expensive in general, specially when its related to hobbies.
$270 for Diatone Roma L5 F7 , GPS, 1W vtx... PNP. Haven't gotten it yet, but it seems like a good deal. Shipping seems to take forever or no updates for a while week now. I have the x220 from 4 years ago with a F3 on it (no osd). Just ordered the speedybee F4 FC to put on it tomorrow ☺️
I would have gone for the Eachine TX805 for the VTX. Runs under $20US and outputs 800mw. Running one on an 8 year old piece of crap kwad I stiched together from leftovers, and it's actually fantastic.
I can vouch for the JB Analog build kit for sure! My wife got it for me for Christmas, the build was super smooth and the quad flies AMAZING! I posted a vid of the maiden on my channel, Thanks JB! Edit : I can also vouch for Emax eco motors and the Source 1 frame, I run the Source 1 v4 with those motors, we crap, and that stack. Wow I guess I chose wisely when I built it. The stack runs BF 4.4 perfectly, as well as Bluejay on the esc. Excellent video!
I know it's kind of out of scope, but I have been having a blast with the DarwinFPV Baby Ape. Its a 3" still in the low $100 range and the most bang for the buck. Slap a receiver of your choice and your ready to rip. Batteries are inexpensive too.
Followed Troncat's 2022 $200 build which is somewhat identical to this build and I blew $320 (on just the quadcopter)- for anyone newbie really wanting to get started .... Multiple batteries, goggles, charger, and a radio ..... Get ready to bust out $1K total. And that's still assuming you have a decent soldering iron and a itty bitty hex driver. .... Also you should get some simulator time ($20) ...
Hey there JB is there a chance you could compare the current digital video transmission options (dji, walksnail avatar, hdzero, sharkbyte) and just look at the difference so those of use who want to go digital can see what best sits us without buying them all.
Excellent list, Joshua! Thanks!!! 😃 I almost won... Well, I did won, but as I had already won the F7 stack, I decided not to take it. 😬 But, anyway, I almost got the F4 SpeedyBee stack from UAV Tech! 😂 Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
I knew it! This is just a sales video for Bardwell’s own quad kit!! Hahaha.😂 BUT!Let me say, without this man I probably would have quit FPV and so would countless others.🙏 So EVERYONE get out there and buy his quad…he deserves it!!😎 And also buy the Demibot frame to help that other guy out. 👍
Idk but I'm buying drone parts from aliexpress from now one. Just got 2 55a jhemcu 30x30 ESCs for $56, run cam nano 3s for $13, 4 mamba 1606 for a 3" for $38. The Chinese are liquidating everything and for those prices I wouldn't mind the wait, Got plenty of other quads to fly in the meantime.
I love the source 1 v3 frame so much i bought 3. Im still flying and crashing the snot out of the first one.. hsvent even broke an arm. So i got 2 freshies still in the bags
Great video JB, really super dooper! Can I recommend you make this type of "get up and go for not much dough" video on the cheapest FPV drone available every six months maybe..? Also DarwinFPV needs a mention when discussing cheap and cheerful. 👍♥️😁
I don't think you will see this but i may ask when live. They make supercapacitors. If when flying you lose some power or drop in power why don't you put supercapacitors on each motor? When you have a car amp if you have a slight power loss. If the power drops off they give it a boost to keep it consistent. Not regular capacitors i am specifically talking about super and ultra capacitors. Might be a good experiment.
Supercapacitors take up a lot of space, especially when you are dealing with high voltages. The battery itself is a big capacitor, in a sense. You just size the battery and choose its C rating to be able to supply what the motors need.
I swear Bardwell. I've been making a part list for myself with some of the parts you included and If you make this items sell out and I'll rain hell fire on you sir
You can really save alot if you install one of those plugins for coupons! (honey etc.). Alot of times you cacn save 10%+ on banggood with just coupons. With that I got my very nice Evoque f6d for 270 USD
I’m not usually a stickler on pronunciation and this is more of an observation, but I’ve literally never heard anyone pronounce pico, “pie-co.” It’s somehow uniformly been said “peek-o” by all of my profs and colleagues and others in my life. Not sure which is right, but that one caught me off guard.
Hi, i just started and i wanna start building my drone, can i lust the parts i woud wanna use? In my head its a long range drone with freestyle capability, the stack is speedy bee f405, suource one frame, the razer mini camera, LP3 elrs reciver, foxeer lolipop 4 antenas, foxeer reaper extreme vtx and xing 2 2207 1700kv motors, is a more expensive build than this in the video because it have a more power full vtx, and better mottors, planing using it on 6s for freestyle and 4s for long range, its a good idea to do something in the middle or i shoud do a build for freestyle and a separate one when i have the money for long range?
I do not mind paying if it is a solid stack , I bought a cheap $60 stack and the camera pad just peeled off like nothing garbage stuff out there I use t motor or speedybee $350 is a really clean build Now ., I flight makes really good frames so solid best frame for tree flying I have hit everything and never broke anything The emax hawk pro $208 Amazon on sale
why doesn't anyone talk about the eachine tx805s vtx? it?s 25 bucks and is rated for 1.6w but only produces 800mw but that still is very good for the price
Very good affordable setup, but I would go for xing e-pro motors or velox v2 probably, as they are cheaper and I don't really like emax eco, for some reason they seem less appealing.
Joshua, I purchased the Eachine X220 V2 out which you can’t find any of them anymore, It seems like. But anyway, I purchased it came with the idea that I can connect any receiver I wanted. So I started off with the original fly sky receiver, and when I went to takeoff the 1 ESC‘s that was on the arm burned up. So I decided to just take the frame get a Speedy Bee F7 V2 flight controller and ESC’s in one. I decided to buy the Xing 2207 1800kv motors and when I bound it to my FlySky if someone like it was heaven going up. Another words I felt like if I kept on with the accelerator it would probably shut down. You have a reason why that would happen??? I’m just curious. I’m hoping you can help me with that.
So watching this not knowing anything about drones is so foreign sounding to me. But i want to get into fpv freestyle. Any videos on the terms you see such as rates or heli b vs heli 32 and stuff like that?
I have the eachine novice iv I had it in the air for about 30 sec and didn't Hit the disarm button and wet grass went on the flight controller Burnt it out and one of the motors What motors and flight controller Would you recommend As a replacement And/or upgrade I still have the vtx and transmitter and all the other parts I just want to get flying again
If u fly analog . You will pick up a great deal from someone who has switched to digital and hey if it's a year or so old it's still very capable and most likely mpu6000 instead of new gyros .
Aaaand since you probably had to look at 5 vendors to find all the parts in stock, add another $100 in shipping costs on your orders spread out across the companies
FFF. $200 budget blown. I left off the receiver because each person will use their own protocol, but realistically add another $15-$20. Also I think I left off the vTX antenna so that's another $10.
I'm glad you did this. I've been speccing out my first ever race rig for next year (been racing with freestyle quads). I made similar decisions, didn't compromise so much on the video, and wound up with a disappointing number, given that I'll want to build two quads. /sigh
I used the Speedybee 800mw vtx i think it was 29 TBS source one v5 , same speedybee stack the Velox motors.. same Foxeer cam... in other words.. I like your build here.. just a few more $$ in the vtx...
the foxeer nano razor sucks, because no OSD control... I have that thing and it is not that great. and I bought the t motor Velox V2s, almost got the 1950kv 2306's, but then realized that the 2207s 1750 kv are way more efficient. I don't know if that is 2306 vs 2207 specific, or KV specific.. but I think that the 2306 have less stator material , thicker stator laminations than more expensive motors. they do cut down on materials on these, so I guess more copper wire (less kv) means also better efficiency, combined with a little bit more stator volume on the 2207s.
Unfortunately, the trend of higher component and product costs in China is not ending, and will actually accelerate over time (along with wage/manufacturing costs) due to major demographic miscalculations and general mis reporting of population in China only now coming to light. China is in real trouble far more than you probably have heard.
Arris sells x220 , pre bound ready to fly to a qx7 for about 300$ that's what got me in the air and I'm beating on until I get an HD setup. Love the videos brother keep it up 👍
If building a racing quad, happymodel pancake FC with built in ELRS and open VTX could get you under 200 maybe but wouldn't recommend for freestyle because of ceramic antenna
Hi Josh would you be able to build a budget drone using Australian dollars, I get a lot of hate when I ask for people to build one in australia, saying things like “I’m not doing this because your too lazy to convert to Australian dollars” what they don’t understand is if I could build a drone here for under $307 AUD it would be amazing. unfortunately for that price I could only afford the stack, frame and maybe receiver, my last tiny whoop cost me in excess of $650😔
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After watching this, I realize I left off the vTX antenna, which will run you about $10, and I left off the receiver, which will run you about $15-$25. So.... I dunno if $200 is even possible. But I think this is just about the best you can possibly get.
Rx elrs $13!
@Joshua Bardwell, do you not recommend AKK VTX and Cameras? They're pretty cheap these days.
I caught it but you were so close I wasn't gonna be THAT GUY lol but for not sacrificing too much quality the completely doable 225 ish still far surpasses the Wizard
Happy model fyujon, ELRS and 400mW VTX (which I think is underrated) for 20 bucks through aliexpress and I think it comes with a linear antenna. If you go through pyro it's 30 bucks but you still get ELRS and VTX. It is a ceramic antenna though but I've had no issues with it on my race builds so far.
The Darwin FPV Johnny 5 comes in under 169.00, it has an 800mw vtx, I think just 4s for the motors, but the stack seems 6s capable, hard to beat if it fly's, they also have a lightweight 7 inch for 169.00.
Calls out his $80 flight controller.
Proceeds to build something else entirely. This is why we love you JB
Troncat FPV also does some really good budget build videos. Great pilot too.
After including props, antenna and receiver, the budget is up to around 240-250 usd.
For $260 you can buy prebuilt analog IFlight Nazgul5 v2, comes with an 800mW vTX and F722 FC. $275 for the ELRS version. Which I think is an excellent option, if you don't want to deal with sourcing the parts and building
The nazgul is a fucking sweet quad, i got one 1.5 maybe 2 years ago and it still rips after many crashes. I broke a motor but thats only cus i smashed a pole. Overall the nazgul is fuggin excellent and would definitly reccomend to a new pilot vs building a budget quad.
That's the problem with building your own drone: mass produced prebuilts end up cheaper and better.
@@Leos74 not always. I just built an amazing analog quad with top shelf everything, for about 300. Prebuilt is excellent for new pilots tho.
It’s really tough to build when good deals happen, this past summer I was nosing around various sites and GetFPV had the GEPRC Mark4 HD for $299 in their clearance section, looking back I should have bought 2 of them.
Recently bought the JB kit and followed along with the build guide since it was my first ever quad. Very detailed guide, drone is a blast to fly and surprisingly tough. Ive only had to replace one arm so far (and numerous props) but other than that it has taken everything I have dished out with my inexperience in quads. I went with a Crossfire Rx which made it a little difficult to get all the software side of things figured out but I was eventually able to get it after switching between multiple videos in the J.B. School of everything FPV and Quads. I have nothing to compare the quad to since I haven't flown anything else but would recommend it to anyone who wants to get started in this hobby! Thanks JB!
I got the Tbs source one v3. I have crashed it so many times and the frame is still really good. I support open source!!
Great to know!! I just bought the v4 (since v3 was out of stock) and am almost done building it.
I am running the Velox F411 stack, Emax Eco II 2207 @ 1700kv, Caddx Baby Ratel 2, and Xilo Stax VTX on my 5" freestyle, housed in a TBS Source Two frame, I've been really impressed with that setup!
My total cost, excluding batteries, was $225.
Emax just ran a closeout on the Hawk Sport. I picked up 2 of them for $164 each. Best purchase I've ever made.
FWIW, I like that TBS / source one frame. It is sturdy and easy to build in and I feel it performs really well. I have two quads built on it.
havn't broken mine yet
I like the fact that there are so many files for it on thingiverse. I like options
I run the V4 and its really nice as well.
Bardwell is the kinda guy that could say Fuc* YOU to your face and you still smile and like him the same! What a awesome guy y’all!
I built a quad 2 weeks ago with these parts:
Iflight xing e pro's
tbs source one v5
hglrc zeus f7 48 amp belheli_s stack
hglrc sooter beeper
caddx ratel 2
eachine x805s 1.6W
happymodel ep2 elrs rx
a total of about 270, not exactly a "budget" build, but it flies very nicely
This is what I built and I crashed it so many times when I was learning fly. I went into Walksnail because this is what I had from fixed wing. I have never broke a part and I have so much fun with this.
I’ve been waiting for someone to come out with a new cheap build video thank you sir
wow, i didn't realize this price raise in FPV. i have bought Nazgul 5 6s analog BNF 1-2 years ago for nearly half of today price. At that point, buying parts separately for DIY was more expensive than getting exact same drone but prebuilt from iflight. Taranis qx7, Hawkeye Little Pilot VR googles (for my particular needs it was best fpv purchase yet) and few extra batteries and i was set up to go for pretty cheap as FPV goes. Those Hawkeye Frankenstein googles were discontinued so I'm glad that i risk getting something out of the box which actually works, is much more comfortable than box googles, cheaper than most recommended entry level stuff, diversity! and most important for me - excellent air flow!
found a built 5 inch drone on a facebook group for 40 bucks. flies great and guy said it was never flown.... cant complain for 40 bucks!
JB...I am into RC intensely(crawlers, dragcar, 1/8scale racing)but was never really into FPV drones ... your build series changed that drastically. I will give it a shot 4sure now and about the price issue...well everything got way more expensive in general, specially when its related to hobbies.
$270 for Diatone Roma L5
F7 , GPS, 1W vtx... PNP.
Haven't gotten it yet, but it seems like a good deal. Shipping seems to take forever or no updates for a while week now.
I have the x220 from 4 years ago with a F3 on it (no osd). Just ordered the speedybee F4 FC to put on it tomorrow ☺️
Please do the same video of a (DJI) Toothpick version!
I would have gone for the Eachine TX805 for the VTX. Runs under $20US and outputs 800mw. Running one on an 8 year old piece of crap kwad I stiched together from leftovers, and it's actually fantastic.
I can vouch for the JB Analog build kit for sure! My wife got it for me for Christmas, the build was super smooth and the quad flies AMAZING! I posted a vid of the maiden on my channel, Thanks JB! Edit : I can also vouch for Emax eco motors and the Source 1 frame, I run the Source 1 v4 with those motors, we crap, and that stack. Wow I guess I chose wisely when I built it. The stack runs BF 4.4 perfectly, as well as Bluejay on the esc. Excellent video!
I was just shopping for a new build today and it was darn near the same exact things
Speedybee F7 50a stack is next level
I know it's kind of out of scope, but I have been having a blast with the DarwinFPV Baby Ape. Its a 3" still in the low $100 range and the most bang for the buck. Slap a receiver of your choice and your ready to rip. Batteries are inexpensive too.
Great information!
Josh, arris is selling a really good fs drone for 180$. Pre built and everything.
Awesome video it's great to see that there's still some decent budget options out there. I think you forgot the receiver though.
The pyrodrone motors are another good contender!
Please mention which goggles and remote controllers are compatible.
this will be my first build, so i don't know which things are compatible.
sameeee
As someone who is getting into doc this video was great
Followed Troncat's 2022 $200 build which is somewhat identical to this build and I blew $320 (on just the quadcopter)- for anyone newbie really wanting to get started .... Multiple batteries, goggles, charger, and a radio ..... Get ready to bust out $1K total. And that's still assuming you have a decent soldering iron and a itty bitty hex driver. .... Also you should get some simulator time ($20) ...
Hey there JB is there a chance you could compare the current digital video transmission options (dji, walksnail avatar, hdzero, sharkbyte) and just look at the difference so those of use who want to go digital can see what best sits us without buying them all.
Excellent list, Joshua! Thanks!!! 😃
I almost won... Well, I did won, but as I had already won the F7 stack, I decided not to take it. 😬
But, anyway, I almost got the F4 SpeedyBee stack from UAV Tech! 😂
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
I knew it! This is just a sales video for Bardwell’s own quad kit!! Hahaha.😂 BUT!Let me say, without this man I probably would have quit FPV and so would countless others.🙏 So EVERYONE get out there and buy his quad…he deserves it!!😎 And also buy the Demibot frame to help that other guy out. 👍
Idk but I'm buying drone parts from aliexpress from now one. Just got 2 55a jhemcu 30x30 ESCs for $56, run cam nano 3s for $13, 4 mamba 1606 for a 3" for $38. The Chinese are liquidating everything and for those prices I wouldn't mind the wait, Got plenty of other quads to fly in the meantime.
I love the source 1 v3 frame so much i bought 3. Im still flying and crashing the snot out of the first one.. hsvent even broke an arm. So i got 2 freshies still in the bags
The nazgul 5 is a great option for 260$
Great video JB, really super dooper! Can I recommend you make this type of "get up and go for not much dough" video on the cheapest FPV drone available every six months maybe..? Also DarwinFPV needs a mention when discussing cheap and cheerful. 👍♥️😁
Awesome video as always! As a fellow JB to JB, can we get a part 2 - build and fly?
Yusssss!
Hello Joshua. Which shop for these parts is in EU please? I don’t want to pay tax. Thanks.
I don't think you will see this but i may ask when live. They make supercapacitors. If when flying you lose some power or drop in power why don't you put supercapacitors on each motor? When you have a car amp if you have a slight power loss. If the power drops off they give it a boost to keep it consistent. Not regular capacitors i am specifically talking about super and ultra capacitors. Might be a good experiment.
Supercapacitors take up a lot of space, especially when you are dealing with high voltages. The battery itself is a big capacitor, in a sense. You just size the battery and choose its C rating to be able to supply what the motors need.
@@JoshuaBardwell thanks for the answer I was thinking about a few days so wanted to ask.
I think SpeedyBee TX800 at US$29.99 is a killer deal
Hi JB, can u do an "All in one flight controller roundup" for 2022. Appreciate ur contents and the work u do. Thanks
I swear Bardwell. I've been making a part list for myself with some of the parts you included and If you make this items sell out and I'll rain hell fire on you sir
The Mamba TX500 is an amazing 500mw 17$ vtx
You can really save alot if you install one of those plugins for coupons! (honey etc.). Alot of times you cacn save 10%+ on banggood with just coupons. With that I got my very nice Evoque f6d for 270 USD
I don't see the getfpv build guide card on the screen near the end. Maybe it's just me.
Was also searching for it ....
Dang. I remember when you could get a Mamba F405 stack for $45 😅
I’m not usually a stickler on pronunciation and this is more of an observation, but I’ve literally never heard anyone pronounce pico, “pie-co.” It’s somehow uniformly been said “peek-o” by all of my profs and colleagues and others in my life. Not sure which is right, but that one caught me off guard.
@Joshua Bardwell is Aliexpress could be a good place to get FPV part
It has a BMI270 gyro so it can only run a 3.2k PID loop.
Hi, i just started and i wanna start building my drone, can i lust the parts i woud wanna use? In my head its a long range drone with freestyle capability, the stack is speedy bee f405, suource one frame, the razer mini camera, LP3 elrs reciver, foxeer lolipop 4 antenas, foxeer reaper extreme vtx and xing 2 2207 1700kv motors, is a more expensive build than this in the video because it have a more power full vtx, and better mottors, planing using it on 6s for freestyle and 4s for long range, its a good idea to do something in the middle or i shoud do a build for freestyle and a separate one when i have the money for long range?
I think the speedybee tx800 for
That is a excellent VTX, I run it on 3 of my quads and it pumps out the ghtz.
rush tiny racer vtx 800 mw 20$ and its small as a reciever
How do you guys get the parts so cheap i pay 55 for this frame
I do not mind paying if it is a solid stack , I bought a cheap $60 stack and the camera pad just peeled off like nothing garbage stuff out there I use t motor or speedybee $350 is a really clean build Now ., I flight makes really good frames so solid best frame for tree flying I have hit everything and never broke anything The emax hawk pro $208 Amazon on sale
why doesn't anyone talk about the eachine tx805s vtx? it?s 25 bucks and is rated for 1.6w but only produces 800mw but that still is very good for the price
I got mine first fc esc stack for 40€😅 it still forks perfectly fine 😮
hey would the speedybee f405 v4 stack be better than the v3 for the drone
Very good affordable setup, but I would go for xing e-pro motors or velox v2 probably, as they are cheaper and I don't really like emax eco, for some reason they seem less appealing.
Yes its absolutely possible
I remember buying Diatone Roma F5 analogs at $159 and now they're above $300. 😱
I have the TINYHAWK 3
Joshua,
I purchased the Eachine X220 V2 out which you can’t find any of them anymore, It seems like. But anyway, I purchased it came with the idea that I can connect any receiver I wanted. So I started off with the original fly sky receiver, and when I went to takeoff the 1 ESC‘s that was on the arm burned up. So I decided to just take the frame get a Speedy Bee F7 V2 flight controller and ESC’s in one. I decided to buy the Xing 2207 1800kv motors and when I bound it to my FlySky if someone like it was heaven going up. Another words I felt like if I kept on with the accelerator it would probably shut down. You have a reason why that would happen??? I’m just curious. I’m hoping you can help me with that.
The akk fx2 ultimate mini is only $20(at least in my country). Its 1200mw and pretty good actually
What about Eachine Tyro 119 or 109?
what are the recomended props for this qwad
Can fpv know it all ship to India
So watching this not knowing anything about drones is so foreign sounding to me. But i want to get into fpv freestyle. Any videos on the terms you see such as rates or heli b vs heli 32 and stuff like that?
I have the eachine novice iv I had it in the air for about 30 sec and didn't Hit the disarm button and wet grass went on the flight controller Burnt it out and one of the motors What motors and flight controller Would you recommend As a replacement And/or upgrade I still have the vtx and transmitter and all the other parts I just want to get flying again
TBS Source One v3 is the best
What about those TCMMRC $80-$110 PNP quads (just needs a receiver)?
Thefpv chas pro vtx 1600mw like about 20
I have not yet managed to destroy the TBS frame, good quality. But the 20 mm DJI camera does not fit, had to print something.
If u fly analog . You will pick up a great deal from someone who has switched to digital and hey if it's a year or so old it's still very capable and most likely mpu6000 instead of new gyros .
Is it possible to make the same video for a long-flight drone that carries camera? For beginners.
You can still get a pnp 5” for 100$ if you know where to look 👀, and it was surprisingly decent, crashes and all, its still going.
Hem hem, Ali express
Aaaand since you probably had to look at 5 vendors to find all the parts in stock, add another $100 in shipping costs on your orders spread out across the companies
I got lucky and built one last batch of old stuff and built a five inch for that 100 price range but also 4s
O from cyclone
Find someone who looks at you the way Joshua looks at spreadsheets. 😍
i found a f722 stack from flywoo for $70. it is 20 by 20 tho.
great video, but where is the legendary intro?? Maybe You have talked about it, but clearly I have missed it :D
Just wondering. Why the Emax eco 2 and not the Xing E pro?
There both good
What reciever?
FFF. $200 budget blown. I left off the receiver because each person will use their own protocol, but realistically add another $15-$20. Also I think I left off the vTX antenna so that's another $10.
I'm glad you did this. I've been speccing out my first ever race rig for next year (been racing with freestyle quads). I made similar decisions, didn't compromise so much on the video, and wound up with a disappointing number, given that I'll want to build two quads. /sigh
$228 was the cheapest quad I could put in my cart that'd I'd actually want to fly.
I used the Speedybee 800mw vtx i think it was 29
TBS source one v5 ,
same speedybee stack
the Velox motors..
same Foxeer cam...
in other words.. I like your build here.. just a few more $$ in the vtx...
Only shopping from USA stores also limits u . I've been getting iflight xing pro for $16 ausd . ( so like $12 usd each ?? ) from aliexpress.
I also checked banggood, but not aliexpress. Maybe I should be adding them.
@@JoshuaBardwell I stopped buying from bang good . Aliexpress been my go to now especially for motors .
the foxeer nano razor sucks, because no OSD control...
I have that thing and it is not that great.
and I bought the t motor Velox V2s, almost got the 1950kv 2306's, but then realized that the 2207s 1750 kv are way more efficient.
I don't know if that is 2306 vs 2207 specific, or KV specific.. but I think that the 2306 have less stator material , thicker stator laminations than more expensive motors.
they do cut down on materials on these, so I guess more copper wire (less kv) means also better efficiency, combined with a little bit more stator volume on the 2207s.
Who does need receiver, right? You can always shout at your quad. Right? :-P
can i run this also on 6s? ofc i switch the motors to 1900KV but do i need to switch anything else?
you can get a speedy bee vtx tx800 for £20 i dont kknow us prices
Unfortunately, the trend of higher component and product costs in China is not ending, and will actually accelerate over time (along with wage/manufacturing costs) due to major demographic miscalculations and general mis reporting of population in China only now coming to light. China is in real trouble far more than you probably have heard.
Arris sells x220 , pre bound ready to fly to a qx7 for about 300$ that's what got me in the air and I'm beating on until I get an HD setup. Love the videos brother keep it up 👍
I started with this combo as well in 2018. I got them to upgrade the motors and stack though ::D Solid company.
Yeah for the amount of crashing I'm doing I'm struggling to go to HD setup
The amazon Chinese built ones are less
I got my foxeer camera for 12 dollars for my 5 inch budget build
Speedy Bee TX800 is only $3-4 more and is waaaay better
If building a racing quad, happymodel pancake FC with built in ELRS and open VTX could get you under 200 maybe but wouldn't recommend for freestyle because of ceramic antenna
This build vs DarwinFPV Baby Ape?
jeah
Man, I remember building a 5" quad for a little over $100. Sad times.
Cries in Canadian.
you can cut costs by using fpv camera with a vtx and with an antenna. So it is possible to have drone under 200 $
Hi Josh would you be able to build a budget drone using Australian dollars, I get a lot of hate when I ask for people to build one in australia, saying things like “I’m not doing this because your too lazy to convert to Australian dollars” what they don’t understand is if I could build a drone here for under $307 AUD it would be amazing. unfortunately for that price I could only afford the stack, frame and maybe receiver, my last tiny whoop cost me in excess of $650😔