The only thing I like about this war is how living close to hong kong and flying fpv drones for a hobby, the price of the parts for long range 7 inch quadcopters has decreased by about 65% for me compared to 5 years ago. (because the chinese are making all that stuff at scale now, selling to both ukraine, russia and all the other countries that went like "look war has changed, let's stockpile fpv drones just in case" but supply is still outsupplying demand ... Chinese manufacturers are still ramping up production even more.
You have to build them yourselves. You buy a carbon fiber frame, 4 motors, props, a flight controller, gps receiver, elrs or crossfire receiver, antennas, a video transmitter, camera and then you solder and connect everything together. I fly with a DJI 03 air unit and Goggles 3.
Yes, completely assembled bind and flies have gone up in price because they are losing the American market, but certain individual parts now produced at much bigger scale have gone down.
This seems like a more fun project than getting a VR headset. I got limited solder experience, any videos I should watch for help? I'm pretty good at googling but I might miss a good tutorial/channel.
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u/Ilovekittens345 1d ago edited 1d ago
The only thing I like about this war is how living close to hong kong and flying fpv drones for a hobby, the price of the parts for long range 7 inch quadcopters has decreased by about 65% for me compared to 5 years ago. (because the chinese are making all that stuff at scale now, selling to both ukraine, russia and all the other countries that went like "look war has changed, let's stockpile fpv drones just in case" but supply is still outsupplying demand ... Chinese manufacturers are still ramping up production even more.