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FAA Regulations - How Difficult Is It To Be A Recreational Drone Pilot?

After a few years hiatus, I have decided to build a new quadcopter. It will be a Tarot 650 Sport utilizing strictly old tech stuff as it is what I'm familiar with and my needs are modest: 15 minutes endurance, a three-axis stabilized GoPro Hero 10 camera and the ability to fly/land autonomously but assume manual control as needed. I will be using an analog vtx and to assure a clear signal I have purchased a video transmitter that has switchable power levels up to 1000 mW - I expect that 600 mW…

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Monocopter build

I'm trying to build a monocopter. It has one wing, one motor and one servo. Show Betaflight setup for a monocopter. Monocopter has one wing. Monocopter has one motor EDF. Monocopter has one servo. Servo moves Hiller flap at 90 degrees to wing axis. Magnetometer is used to control translation. show betaflight setup: 

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madflight - DIY Flight Controller RP2040 / ESP32 / STM32

Hi All!I'm working on madflight, a new DIY friendly flight controller for RP2040 / ESP32 / STM32 microcontrollers using the Arduino IDE. A fight tested release can be downloaded from Github:https://github.com/qqqlab/madflightThe project is under heavy development, but the main components are working: IMU sensor fusion, PID control, radio control and telemetry, barometer and GPS. Converted Betaflight config files allow the code to run on most commercial flight controllers.

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