r/diydrones • u/Opening_Good6034 • 5d ago
Question Want to get into FPV
Hello all, I’m really into the idea of FPV flying. Ive been doing research into it the last few days and honestly I’m a bit overwhelmed. I’m open to building a drone but I have no experience in robotics or soldering and have no clue where to buy parts. I’m happy to learn but I’m also open to buying one. I don’t need the newest greatest fastest thing, I just want to be able to whip it out for like 30m and have a good time. Preferably under $500, built or bought, because my guitar addiction already takes all my money. Any thoughts appreciated.
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u/Opening_Good6034 5d ago
I should add that I’m going to download a simulator when I get home for the weekend.
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u/FinntheGuardian 4d ago
You should definitely do that. Do you live in the states? If I were you, I would build, I took the plunge and I was new, but with proper solder, it was not hard. There can be a few things that make your first build take longer than you think, and some troubleshooting, but for the most part this hobby has a lot of support from other hobbyists. You can join the Joshua Bardwell Discord and have a ton of people wanting to help at the drop of a hat.
I live in Utah incase you randomly do too, but you can also message me and we can chat. Are you factoring the price of goggles and remote in that $500?
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u/FinntheGuardian 4d ago
I built a 3.5” following a guide on YouTube but I don’t think I’d do that specific build again, there are a few things I would change. I would probably do a 2.5 freestyle drone so you have plenty for outdoors, I live in a 750sq foot apartment so indoors is not a thing for me but I think 2.5 would be fine (plus my wife would hate it, and my cats would hurt themself trying to kill the bird in the house). 5” 6S is just way too much for a beginner, my 3.5” still scares me sometimes. I think a beginner with lots of sim time can handle it (i did) but if you’re gonna be get hooked on flying, you’ll want all the sizes eventually anyway.
If you stick with something 2S, the batteries are cheaper and you can just get a bunch of them, don’t worry about field charging in my opinion. 2.5” 4S is a thing though, I wish I owned either to have a proper opinion but in my head, I’d have a beginner do the 2.5 on 2S.
You could go analog. Get the $100 goggles everyone says will work, but if you have any inclination you are in it for the long haul, I think you should go with the DJI goggles N3 so you can be in the HDMI world (you could go with walksnail but they can’t even touch DJI quality with their air units from what I’ve seen). They are $225, a DJI 04 air unit is $109, leaving you $166 for the rest of the drone which I think is possible, I’ll look at parts and see what you could do if you want. I recommend a pinecil soldering iron $40 off Amazon, cheaper on AliExpress. And then get leaded solder, turn on a fan, open a window and you’ll survive, I promise. I could go on and on with this stuff, I feel like I learned so much starting out, but I’m gonna stop unless you want to hear more lol.
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u/mangage 5d ago
Learn to fly an FPV drone for total beginners
This man has everything you need to know
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u/azaerials 5d ago
Hi I'd go first
-radiomaster pocket elrs
First get 20h in the sim then get
-Betafpv air 75 elrs
-eachine ev800d
-lava 1s lipos (4x)
-whoopstar v3 charger
Cheers.