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Florent Roque

If you have not watched some of Florent Roque’s flight videos, they are worth a gander! I don’t think this is the most mind blowing one, but I do love the theme song from Inception, sooo. I think this is the best one: https://youtu.be/IcSUMBSgVyM

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Betaflight Conf. and BlackBox Explorer Trace Templates

A couple of new features in the new Betaflight Configurator 10.3.1; new features in the latest build of Betaflight Blackbox Explorer (3.0.0) and BBE Trace Templates for download and use. Download BF Config.: https://github.com/betaflight/betaflight-configurator/releases Download BBE: http://andwho.sytes.net:8080/job/Borisb_Blackbox_Log_Viewer/ Download BBE Trace Template(s): tiny.cc/filtercalc

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BF Config 10.3.1

If you have not downloaded the latest configurator from https://github.com/betaflight/betaflight-configurator/releases check it out!  You can now load versions of BF with the AKK & RDQ VTX Patch OR set to “Development” and flash the latest unstable builds right from the configurator.  In the release notes of the builds it even shows you the changes just

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PlasmaTree PID Analyzer – Noise Analysis Review in Detail

An interview | review of the noise analysis generated by the Plasmatree PID Analyzer. Flo, the developer of Plasmatree, walks us through the graphs, provides some tips, and talks about kwad resonance noise and how to manage your rig’s vibrations that are picked up by the gyro (noise); in detail. Resource links: Plasmatree GitHub: https://github.com/Plasmatree/PID-Analyzer

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UPDATE: Betaflight 3.4.0-RC1

Link to Defaults Google Drive: http://tiny.cc/filtercalc Jenkins Website: http://andwho.sytes.net:8080/ BF Config Github: https://github.com/betaflight/betaflight-configurator BF Github: https://github.com/betaflight/betaflight ================================================= Want to support me? https://www.patreon.com/uavtech Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mark.spatz.79

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Betaflight 3.4.0-RC1 New Features Brief and Resources

A brief of the new features in Betaflight 3.4.0 and review of resources for taking advantage of the flight performance enhancements found within. Release page: https://github.com/betaflight/betaflight/releases 3.4.0 New Features Wiki: https://github.com/betaflight/betaflight/wiki/Betaflight-3.4-features 3.4.0 PR Merge List: https://github.com/betaflight/betaflight/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Amerged+milestone%3A%22Betaflight+v3.4%22 UAVtech New Features Doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PO67ALynAQX6UUzbSg6BbOPOUZNkfdYvmha0i3lzo9k/ UAVtech Depot: http://tiny.cc/filtercalc ================================================= Want to support me? https://www.patreon.com/uavtech Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mark.spatz.79

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Review: D-Setpoint | Buttery PIDs | BF 3.4.0 Proposed PIDs & Prop Wash

A follow-up video to JB’s video on D-term Setpoint Weight: https://youtu.be/Rw3BjfaH564 Fint’s post on D-term instability Bug in 3.3.1 and 3.3.2: https://www.facebook.com/groups/betaflightgroup/permalink/168402113855673/ CTZsnooze on Setpoint Weight Value: https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showpost.php?p=39652488&postcount=55065 BF 3.4.0 Defaults Change Feature Request: https://github.com/betaflight/betaflight/issues/5852 A copy of proposed 3.4.0 defaults: http://tiny.cc/filtercalc Butter PIDs PR: https://github.com/ButterFlight/butterflight/pull/151 Butter PID Equiv. PR: https://github.com/ButterFlight/butterflight/pull/162

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Input Delay | Phase Delay | Sampling Delay

A review of the different delays you experience in flying your kwad copter.  The biggest piece of this for flight performance (jello and prop wash) is keeping filter delay to a minimum. Links to my files: tiny.cc/filtercalc Study links: – Demo: http://cristal.univ-lille.fr/~casiez/1euro/InteractiveDemo – Abstract: http://cristal.univ-lille.fr/~casiez/1euro/  – Paper: http://cristal.univ-lille.fr/~casiez/acm.php?id=N05397 

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How to use the PlasmaTree PID Analyzer

How to use the Plasmatree PID Analyzer as a tool for PID tuning your kwad.  This video covers how to download, install, run and interpret the results. Github Project Link:  https://github.com/Plasmatree/PID-Analyzer Project RC Groups Link:  https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?2953533-Betaflight-PID-Analyzer FB Blackbox Groups Link:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/291745494678694/

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Helio Filter Review – No Notches! (Where Hype meets Reality)

This video takes a look at the Helio board and filtering options that a very different than any other FC board you will purchase. Helio logs at: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1UZf5IEf7cM-vWh7G7S4dmjQDjnSymKDh?usp=sharing For help on tuning your Helio filters, I recommend joining their Slack at: https://flyhelio.slack.com/join/shared_invite/enQtMzA2OTg2MDc4NDUyLWNlNzFhMTcyZDQ5ODBiNjA0ZmRiMTE1MTAwMGYxMWRjNWY5N2JkMjVlZDJmMWVlOWUxYmFhMGEwMTgzZjkzYjY

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Betaflight 3.3.x Noise Profiles vs. Filter Approaches

https://youtu.be/qzH-zLBYKdsA look back at the filter approaches reviewed here: https://youtu.be/4v9aZeIDkvI  Approach #2, which differientiates between 8k vs. 32k sampling is found here: https://youtu.be/ryONT42HPTY.  Video to the Gyro DLPF and looking at the latency of the two approaches is at: https://youtu.be/yBaSinrpMPs This video looks at noise profiles to see which approach is best based on your

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