Picked up a pair of Fatshark Scout goggles. Cleaned the lense with an alcohol wipe and dried with a napkin (big mistake). Now there's tiny micro scratches on the lense. Is there anything you recommend I can use to remove them?
Hey everyone! After months of building, I'm releasing Open3DInspection – a browser-based 3D inspection and annotation platform for the oil & gas and NDT industries.
I work in oil & gas previously, and inspection workflows are painful. Teams use disconnected tools—CAD viewers, spreadsheets, marked-up PDFs. I wanted something modern that actually works with the data people already have: drone imagery, LAS point clouds, photogrammetry outputs.
Repo: https://github.com/zawawiAI/Open3DInspection
This is very much an early-stage open project, so expect some rough edges. But the core viewer is solid and the foundation is there for something really useful.
Would love to hear thoughts, especially from anyone doing real inspection work.
I am travelling to Indonesia next week. Do I need to register my drone (DJI Mini 5 Pro) because it might weigh more than 250g grams? (On the Website of DJI it says 249.9+/-4g). If yes, what would be the chances of the weight getting checked by police if I behave normallly?
THX in advance
We've been building a quadcopter for the past 2–3 months and have worked through a lot of issues along the way. We're currently using Mission Planner, and our ESCs seem to be calibrated and working correctly.
Our current setup:
The main issue is that, even with a fully charged battery and full throttle, the drone can barely slide around the table and shows almost no sign of lifting off.
We're also having another issue where the propellers keep loosening on the motor shafts during operation.
At this point, we're wondering if the problem is with our power system, propeller setup, battery choice, or something else entirely.
Does anything in our setup immediately stand out as incorrect? Are these motors simply too underpowered for a 1–1.5 kg drone on a 2S battery, or should we be looking elsewhere? Any advice or troubleshooting steps would be greatly appreciated.
Is this fixable? I dont have the Amazon warranty anymore since i waited over a month to open this (got swamped with work, no days off), but I did get the Asurion 3 year protection plan. for context, the lights blink like this constantly all the time and doesnt really show any signs of it actually charging, otherwise the lights would be full by now (left it on for hours). All light indicators on the drone itself also does this when charging, albeit it starts up with normal charging lights, then defaults back to this blinking. Ive also tried to put the battery in one at a time in the hub, same thing.
Im using a 65w wall charger i got from best buy (it didnt come with a wall charger), and ive tried both a brand new usb c to usb c charging cable as well as the default cable the drone comes with. It is a DJI 5 mini pro. The touchpad controller I got with it charges like normal with both cords btw.
In his latest video has many drone shots in NYC. I was just wondering if you think he's doing this legally. Have any of you ever gone through the process of getting a permit to fly through NYC?
Hiii everyone. Just wondering how much Sydney police the drone regs. I want to self shoot some music videos on my rooftop in Surry hills. Do you think they'd police this much?
Most likely with DJI mini 4 or 5
My brother ordered a couple iPhone screen protectors and it only took ~12 minutes. We didn’t think a screen protector was even worth parking for when we drove by the night before so the order was definitely too small to justify paying a Dasher. Hopefully they don’t start charging for it. As far as manpower goes, it’s the same or less than the free curbside delivery. They just take it to the drone yard (or whatever they call it) instead of the curbside carts.
I've seen a few videos and read a few posts on here talking about it but I'd like to hear some more thoughts on using a quest 3 as fpv goggles. I recently bought a radio master pocket to practice on liftoff and planned to get the pavo 20 pro but from what I've found you have to have DJI goggles to fly the pavo 20 but the DJI N3 are only 1080p for $300. I'd really like to put my quest 3 to use since it has such high quality lenses but everywhere I've looked people say it has too much latency and you can only watch what you're doing on the tiny browser screen. I just think it must be possible to turn a quest 3 into a great pair of fpv goggles but since I'm just starting out I don't even know where to begin.
Any help/advice is greatly appreciated!
Images exceeded 20MB and have been scaled down.
Hi, Just wanted to ask, because I'm looking for my first drone. I can buy DJI neo under that price, but it doesn't have good video quality. And flight duration is bad.
Isn't there anything under 150$ that will have:
I was looking for something but only found that only alternative to DJI is Potensic.
I put together an in depth video on how to properly and safely fly a flag from a drone for 4th of July. This method *should* work for any flag, you may just need to find a different counterweight unique to your country or cause. Happy flying!
I've used sub-250g drones in the past. I was looking at something bigger like the DJI Air 3S, but pretty much everywhere in my area is a "red" Control Zone Airspace. If I wanted to fly it in my large backyard (living on a couple of acres of land) for recording family events and stuff, would I be able to if I had my basic operations? Or would I be automatically locked/disabled from using it due to the location?
How likely am I to actually be flagged, tracked and prosecuted if I fly my sub 250g drone in a restricted area in the UK? My whole town is listed as an enhanced warning zone and I have no travel to leave my town every time I want to fly.
I want to earn from drone flying as a side income for that if I want to learn through class it costs 250 dollars which is around 25k in india,so i planned to buy radiomaster pocter controller to practice it on simulator then renting a drone to practice it on field is my idea, because buying controller is low cost also I can practice it many days without spending more money,i later only plan to buy drone after earning from this drone side hustle because i don't have more money spend on this drone buying in its start.
Is my ideas for learning to fly drones using controller is good or not,is it possible to learn through simulator or what option you all suggest for newbie like me to start.amount able to invest is 100 dollars
Hello there,
Has anyone recently done their flight review for the advanced license in Canada?
Can you provide some feedback on how it was? I am planning to take a flight review prep course because it can be done the same day as the flight review, but I am doing my homework and getting prepared. The material is too generic, and some real scenarios would be much appreciated.
What I found until now was a few YouTube videos where the practical part was take off/landing, checking controls, square movement using only right control (CW and CCW), square movement using yaw control (CW and CCW), circle movement over a POI (CW and CCW), height guessing (visual), etc.
Any other real-world examples would be very helpful.
How is Lumenier constructing a 20000mah 6s1p lithium ion 21700 battery pack? I would understand 20000mah if it were using parallel construction but the specs make it seem like series connection but does specifically say. Is it me or does something not add up?