Stephans Blog

category: drohnen

Giving up Drones and FPV

I guess you already realized, that there were almost no new posts about FPV or Drones anymore here on this blog.

That was a fun hobby, for a while. After almost a year of not flying at all I think it's time to admit, that I am not really i

31.8.2020
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DIY Lipo 1s Volt Checker

If you fly small drones like the Blade QX Nano at home in your livingroom or any other tiny whoop, you end up with the problem having a lot of 1s batteries but no 1s battery checker. There are a ton of checkers out there, but most of them need a

2.9.2018
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5 inch sub 250g possible?

Thanks to the not so new drone laws and the rules that were introduced, it is in most countries only allowed to fly drones freely without regulations if the drone is lighter than 250g - especially if you want to do FPV. (in Germany, if the drone

21.8.2018
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Drone beginners guide

This is the german version, I will translate it bit by bit in the upcoming weeks

(Achtung: das hier hat keinen Anspruch auf Vollständigkeit, die Links zu Amazon habe ich nur der Einfachheit wegen gewählt. Amazon hat auch nicht immer das

14.1.2018
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create your own custom sounds for Taranis X9D (Mac OS)

Everybody who owns a Taranis X9D (or something similar) is familiar with this problem: the standard soundfiles are crap and the soundpacks available for the tarans can do a hell of a lot, but not what you need.

The lucky ones of you, who have access to a Mac can change that by using MacOS' own speach synthesis to generate nice voice outputs for your Taranis

8.10.2017
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new brushles micro built

I do own quite a lot of drones now, as you can read and see here for example. Especially the tiny whoops below 250g got my attention - not only because that with the new regulations for drones,

2.7.2017
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Blade Inductrix upgrade

Blade inductrix upgrade

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unfortunately it was necessary, to upgrade the blade inductrix. The original one is a bit... lame! so I exchanged the flightcontroller and gave the inductrix a new brain (`Furious FPV

8.6.2017
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My drone pool

During time and usage the number and kind of drones one flies change... so I wanted to show here my current pool of drones. This will change over time, of course. These things tend to get broken more or less often - if you do it right emoji github:smirk So

18.5.2017
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Drones and such...

Some of you might know, that in Germany there is a new regulation for drones and UAVs (unmanned areal vehicle). I just wanted to post something about that. As this is my Hobby and I'm directly affected by this...

I already wrote some things a

17.5.2017
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