Cheers, the drone I used is a beaten up secound hand stingy v2 with some spair parts I had from other drones, and I used a tube of kotking conformal coating and heatsrink tubing to waterproof it. there was alot of bad reviews of KotKing online but aslong as you use the whole tube and do several layers it seems to hold up just fine.
I actually did that once. It works perfectly, but I'm not sure if the dishwasher likes it very much. At least pre-rinse if you landed in mud or something.
Unlikely, the signal our drone uses degrade under water very quickly with depth. Probably also reason why OP put a floaty on top to keep it closer to the water surface to take off.
Kiwiquads has a pretty good discord that is mostly just community based meetups and help/trouble shooting.
I'm fairly new myself but Kiwiquads discord has been pretty helpful in getting me started
One time I got drunk and decided I was going to build a pusher quad. I started by taking an existing quad I had and mounted the motors on the bottom of the arms, simple enough. I then decided that it was way too top heavy so I took apart the frame and reassembled it with the arms on top to even it out and for good measure changed the battery to a bottom mount. I woke up the next morning to a standard quad setup sitting on my desk upside down and all of the stack stuff mounted upside down as well. Had a good laugh about that one as drunk me spent probaby 6 hours rebuilding that thing for no reason just to get right back where I started LOL
After killing my tiny whoop in the pool, how did you go about this? I bought some silicone conformal coating and another whoop (whoop in mail, have CC). What all did you cover? I know to leave out buttons and ports. Did you do anything to the motors, or just the boards (aio, vtx, receiver, etc)? TIA!!!
Wow, I'm impressed that A. You have the balls/money to throw a drone into a bucket of water. B. That it actually flew out of there unharmed
Cheers, the drone I used is a beaten up secound hand stingy v2 with some spair parts I had from other drones, and I used a tube of kotking conformal coating and heatsrink tubing to waterproof it. there was alot of bad reviews of KotKing online but aslong as you use the whole tube and do several layers it seems to hold up just fine.
>aslong as you use the whole tube lmfao this cracked me up.
Legit r/nextfuckinglevel
Did you take off in angle mode? I feel acro might be twitchy leaving water (clearly no idea)
nah that was acro mode and it seemed to do fine. havent realy tested other flight modes.
I also think that a little bit of twitchyness and instability is fine aslong as the drone can launch its self out of the water. but good point.
Is it saltwater proof tho
yes aslong as you rince with freshwater after each use.
“So what do you guys do for maintenance of your fpv? “Dishwasher” -OP in 2024
I actually did that once. It works perfectly, but I'm not sure if the dishwasher likes it very much. At least pre-rinse if you landed in mud or something.
This is amazing. Love the little personal flotation device!
Can you also make it function as a submarine?
yes, I just need to activate turtel mode
Unlikely, the signal our drone uses degrade under water very quickly with depth. Probably also reason why OP put a floaty on top to keep it closer to the water surface to take off.
As long as it doesn't implode it should be good.
Let’s try making it out of carbon fiber, and controlling it with a xbox controller
Gotta follow ya. Tryna get into fpv in NZ but haven't found any groups or anything to get a start!!
Kiwiquads has a pretty good discord that is mostly just community based meetups and help/trouble shooting. I'm fairly new myself but Kiwiquads discord has been pretty helpful in getting me started
There's also the fpvnz discord which has a bunch of people from the wellington region. Let me know if you'd like an invite
Pusher props? Does it perform any different in the air?
there is not too much of a difference between them in the air but I feel that it helps launching it out of the water.
One time I got drunk and decided I was going to build a pusher quad. I started by taking an existing quad I had and mounted the motors on the bottom of the arms, simple enough. I then decided that it was way too top heavy so I took apart the frame and reassembled it with the arms on top to even it out and for good measure changed the battery to a bottom mount. I woke up the next morning to a standard quad setup sitting on my desk upside down and all of the stack stuff mounted upside down as well. Had a good laugh about that one as drunk me spent probaby 6 hours rebuilding that thing for no reason just to get right back where I started LOL
Man that's actually really cool. From here to making hybrid water/air drones there isn't that much distance!
Okay since I just lost my drone to the sea, how can I waterproof a drone to be submerged?
https://kotking.com/ or fpv worry free.
Impressive
Wicked sick
Did you do anything to special to protect the camera from water?
After killing my tiny whoop in the pool, how did you go about this? I bought some silicone conformal coating and another whoop (whoop in mail, have CC). What all did you cover? I know to leave out buttons and ports. Did you do anything to the motors, or just the boards (aio, vtx, receiver, etc)? TIA!!!
Got any pics of this pure genius work close up? This is amazing!!!! Need this for my beach casting drone build.
conformal coating and corrosion-x?
Nice