Year: 2012

Fly-Sight uses a 200mW 5.8GHz transmitter. The single cell 850 mAh battery is good for over an hour of transmission.  The battery is recharged via micro USB plug like most cell phones. Fly-Sight comes with multiple bases so it can be moved from one plane to another easily.  Each base has a small circuit that…

Mounted the last pre-production Fly-Sight on my plane last night. Looks pretty good I think.

Finally almost all the parts are in. Still waiting on the updated shell but otherwise good to go! Pictures of the last preproduction Fly-Sight below.

First batch of Fly-Sight PCBs are here.

Fly-Sight PCB sent out to be mass produced.  Promised delivery is the 22nd.  I’m excited and anxious; it feels great having passed such a large milestone, but there’s still a long way to go before I start seeing them on other people’s planes.

Test board for audio circuit using all SMD, and battery protection circuit. Both worked great!

While this bread board may not be the prettiest thing it worked great! Ryan’s design gives sweet sound and lets us cut $8 off the cost of the unit. Here you can see boards for V2 repurposed to hold the audio amp, and a V3 board to transmit signal.  Considering the audio group goes on…

Take a look. More to come soon.

The second revision was short lived.  I made a printed circuit board (PCB) to hold the video transmitter, to avoid having the pads pull off.  I switched reed switches and was still using an off the shelf battery charger.I never built a complete one, only the circuit board.  I was still having problems with the…

Six months ago I was looking for a small, light weight camera to make another one of my smaller planes into a FPV platform.(First-Person Video)  While shopping I was pleasantly surprised at how the cost and weight of the airplane side components had dropped from when I first started dabbling in FPV. It was now…