There are places that you can go in person, but for everything else, there’s FPV. Whether you’re flying race quads, diving the depths in a yellow submarine, or simply roving the surface of the land, we want to see your builds. If it’s remote controlled, and you feel like you’re in the pilot’s seat, it’s FPV.
When you say “first person view” many of you will instinctively follow up with “flight” or “drone”. But given the ease of adding a camera and remote control to almost any vehicle, there’s no reason to only fly the FPV skies. (Of course, we want to see your crazy quadcopter builds too.)
We went looking for a few less-traditional examples to whet your appetite, and we found a lot. There are super-cute FPV bots for indoors and more robust tanks for cruising around the neighborhood. In the summer, you’ll probably need an FPV lawnmower, and for the winter, naturally, an FPV snowblower or a budget-friendly FPV snow-boat. Or skip the outdoors entirely and terrorize the pool with an FPV sub.
This contest isn’t exclusively about the vehicles either. If you’re working on the tech that makes FPV possible, we want you to enter. For instance, this simple quad/drone tracker will help keep your video feed running and your mind on flying. This cockpit will make the immersion more complete. And nobody likes the jello-cam effect that excess vibration can cause, so we’d like to see camera hacks as well.
And of course, your quads. Is your FPV quad too fast, too light, or does it fly too far? Show us. The contest starts now and runs until Jan 3, 2023, and there are three $150 shopping sprees courtesy of Digi-Key on the line. Get hacking!
2 Possible typo’s here: One you say “whet your appetite” I think you mean “wet” and did you mean the contest ends in 2023 or in 2033 like you wrote?
Takes eleven years to advance things to “taking over the world” status.
Actually, “whet” is correct, but there are other typos (e.g. “nobody like[s] the jello-cam effect”)
It’s definitely whet not wet
Whet is to sharpen
Wet involves liquids
How can I turn a plastic model car Into an rc?
(Psst… You have a typo in your red banner ad)
This is a great idea for a contest!
Thanks! We fixed up the art.
I rather like the idea of an FPV ~1/10 scale Indy 500 contest – a bunch of people build electric indy-style cars, maybe 16 to 24″ length, then FPV race them at a real speedway. Or a go-cart track.
How about PowerWheels instead and you can only change the tires/wheels and upgrade the propulsion system with steering stock except for attached servo, linear actuator, etc. One race is oval and the other is figure 8.
I want to build a magnetic adhered FPV Roomba for gameifying cleaning your HVAC ducts from driving it around inside them, such that the entire duct cleaning industry collapses and we never have to hear a phone solicitation from them again.
2’nd that idea.
This is my contest! ^^ I work on an ROV with FPV, camera gimbal and to control everything i use the PS1 equivalent of a power glove. Cyborg ahoy! (As soon as i get the damn thing water tight.)
https://hackaday.io/project/185615-turbo-super-submarine
Looking good!
Not sure, but if anybody is looking for more inspiration or a project to join and work on, I started a list of open projects in the (flying) field of FPV: https://github.com/Matthias84/awesome-flying-fpv
The contest ended a week ago, who won?