I've been trying to get the RC community into FPV since 2020. It's still shocking to me how much resistance there is to ground FPV. The experience is just so much more fun in my opinion.

Welcome to the club. One of the great things about fpv crawlers is that you don't have to worry about crashing. Now you just have to add pan&tilt to the camera for an even better experience!

Re the bouncy camera: I've had a lot of success using 2 and 3 axis brushless gimbals based on the storm32 gimbal controller. Stabilizes your view and has inputs for rc connections for pan and tilt etc. Won't lie its hard to make it run well. But it can work and makes off road a lot more fun. Whether you have a gimbal or not the best first step to take is to build up off the chassis and mount your camera system extremely solidly. For fpv the Trx4 is an excellent choice! Also your slash 2wd can be a very smooth runner, one of my favorites for sure. As a guy that only does ground fpv its very exciting to see you dive into this! Cheers!

@Magneticitist

6 ай бұрын

I was wondering how you did it. It looks great. I'm going to have to try it just to make off roading that much better of an experience. Still need to learn up on what storm32 even is lol.

@JIPPERR_1

5 ай бұрын

@@Magneticitist its been a process for sure. I've learned a ton of stuff making it all work, i try to guide others to build them as well but its challenging

@jumaiproduction

5 ай бұрын

Thanks for your inputs, how do you arm dji air unit using FC? And do we need to change some settings in BF to play well with ground fpv? @jipper

@rcautoball

5 ай бұрын

Dude, I'm pumped he's diving into this as well! This might be the movement we've been waiting for to get more people into ground FPV.

Mount that FPV inside the bronco buddy!

YES , YES , YES .... I'm Off Roadin . HILARIOUS !!!

Hey Joshua just want to thank you for everything that you do I yust finished building my first quad and you helped me out verry much. Keep making the content that you do its perfect

I ended up cutting the wind sheild out and mounting the camera in the roll cage to minimize damage from roll overs

Very cool to see you bring your FPV skills to surface RC's!!! Rock crawling is so much fun!!!🤘🤘🤘

This is so freaking Kool JB! Happy New Year!!

I been doing it lately with DJI vista and added express and the range is crazy and so much fun.

Fun to see something different. I like it.

ive had an fpv system on my rc turck for years its so fun

Awesome to see you do this. I love fpv crawlers and your drone videos. Just Awesome

he sounds very excited at 2:18

Great job, I love your enthusiasm .

Fantastic work, Joshua!!! Great ride! 😃 I don't want to say "I told you", but... There you go. 😬 Happy new year! And stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

I did this to my X Maxx last summer. Its a blast, but its super bumpy. And I build mine inside a metal housing, so when it flips over, it does not destroy the camera.

@scu-dub

6 ай бұрын

I want to do this to my rustler but I want to mount the camera under the body facing out the windshield I have been looking into this for awhile !✌🏽

@dr0n3droid

6 ай бұрын

Had a rollcage on the slash to protect the 3-axis gimbal. So much fun on the road, but nauseating on dirt.

@annunakifnephilim6265

6 ай бұрын

Did the same could drive around my home but jumps for me are harder to land with fpv

@tennesseestubby

5 ай бұрын

Anybody having trouble with the Radio Master ELRS receiver not operating the throttle? Steering works and esc lights up but no throttle. Traxxas xmaxx

@R.B_B

22 күн бұрын

​@tennesseestubby UP! Have you figure out how fiz this issue

Dude every little project you do I seem to want to do..so fun in process now!!

I’ve been doing this for a couple years now in the winter. Put the cam inside the truck behind the wheel and blow your mind.

Would like to see you fly planes too

Very cool stuff

Nice Wheels, Thumbs up

That fan!!!!! Wow

I knew youd love it!

For me RC cars was a natural transition after so many years of FPV drones, oh boy is a lot of fun to race RC cars on FPV ♥♥♥

Big like! There's nothing more interesting for an FPV pilot than how it is going around on the ground....^^

I've been doing this for a couple of years with cheap analog camera/transmitters from Ali Express. Hopefully now that it seems popular, people much smarter than me will figure out a gimbal system that will stabilize or automatically keep camera level. It is hard to see straight when my truck is doing over 50mph. Also, headtracking would be dope Come on smart people! You can do it!

@wedgie502

6 ай бұрын

i have seen head tracking on a crawler (from inside the cab) and that was awesome. i havent seen any kind of anti-vibration stabilization yet though.

@bushythebird

6 ай бұрын

I have also seen headtracking units before, I have never made one. It would be so cool if someone made it so the servos responded to gyro data so the camera would shake less. It gets crazy in the goggles at speed. @@wedgie502

Great fun 🙂

Biggest pro of the ground rc hobby...no FAA to deal with while we play with our toys haha nice video Joshua! I have recently got into rc drifting so I am really wanting to try fpv with it too 🤘

Definitely fun I've been doing this for about 2 years

Hell yeah! I'm definitely adding something like this to my wishlist of projects 😂😂

Did this last year with my 1:24 scale Powerwagon.. flying through my garden was amazing, but driving through it opened a whole new playground. Definitely something people should try if they have an RC car!

It's really fun

Did this to my SCX10 a couple of years ago. Lots of fun

I made one of those too, designed an enclosure for the TX, and slapped it all on a rc car, because I had a colleague that needed it to be able to inspect the crawlspace under his house. Works like a charm

I have one of those. It's easy to take an old prop to use as a mount and put it inside where it's safe from roll overs. I'm pretty rough on mine, driving on rock features and crashing. I found it was also helpful to tape a stick on top that extends over the hood and put a string with a weight on it since you have no sense of angle. and I've thrown a bunch of upgrades at it. A hobbywing axe motor gets mine to about 30mph compared to the stock 11mph.

did this years ago to my rc XJ but put the camera on a swivel so i can look everywhere., its fun, welcome to crawlers

Finally you put out the video I was hoping you would try. Thanks also consider putting out a video on installing a mini gimbal for less vibration and much more fun!. Thanks 🙏

I drive a full size vehicle every day but I don't fly a full size aircraft every day. That's what makes flying fpv so much better than vehicles. It allows me to see what flying is like. I like rc vehicles but just get bored quickly with them. Nice video. The only rc fpv vehicle that would be cool to me would be racing Formula one cars fpv on a track. That would be cool with the front tires in the fpv view.

Silly thing that I made on mine: I took a busted AIO FC (esc fried), and used that as the vtx. That way I managed to repurpose an FC, and get some OSD on it!

Ive been doing this for years in my crawlers. I also installed a set up in my 8s mojave exb. 60mph snow drift via FPV is so dam fun

Been doing this for years worth my crappy 5.8 rig. It's a great diversion when I can't fly!

Idk why more folks wouldnt do this for racing scenarios… this would be AMAZING on a roadcourse or offroad/indoor…(or oval in the good old days of rc racing)

@roblapouple7552

5 ай бұрын

Because unlike when u upo high in air on a drone when the camera is inside the car not on the roof you are so low to the ground and the camera are not really that good the ground moves so fast and camera cant focus fast and its a blurry mess .. kinda sux tbh

@JThemelis

5 ай бұрын

@@roblapouple7552 yea youre right… its prob fun for some bashing but on a track it wont be a fun time

I used to FPV my old buggy before it stopped working . I have been on the hunt for a new buggy or truggy . Something like the Lasernut will be perfect for me!

Hi Josh, about time you put a fpv system in your rc crawler. I have been using my fpv crawler since 2014. Next time you need to go with a headtracker system. It's a blast.

I have the same trx4 and wanted to do fpv on it, this was perfect timing

Been wanting to try that

Fan looks very similar to the ones we use on our rc drift motors and escs. Protek is really nice 👌

Nice

Crawling in FPV is really awesome, with DJI 03 ( there's a solution ) and ELRS you get a long range off road Car.

A little pan/tilt servo and G2 goggles and you've got a cool little scout :)

Been using RC ground vehicles with FPV to train school pupils on the way to fly FPV for the past five years. Buggies, Cars, Truggies, Hovercraft. Its a successful and well used valid process.

I've got a few of these ground FPV set ups! the best is the one on my Blizzard2.0 snow cat! Blasting through fresh powder on tracks is so much fun!

I absolutely love it, I was in the middle of doing this using the rush tank but Bardwell beat me to it!😂

So far,I have fpv'd (analog) an Arrma Typhon,an Arrma Vortex,an Axial Bomber 2,and some little Losi car for a friend.I think the Vortex on asphalt and the Bomber 2 in the woods were the most fun.Its nuts driving around the house from the couch...even more so if you use a RD40 5.8g receiver and run it into the tv.

I raced surface RC growing up but got out of it a long time ago and got into fpv flying before dropping it around 2019/20. About a month ago I got back into RC stuff in general and have been planning a fpv crawler for next summer. For now though its winter and I got the RCTF snowcat ready to go... just need snow lol.

Yes!!!!! I knew it was coming lol i asked and jb answered 🙏🏼🔥

Build a headtracker pan and tilt instead and install it in the car

With that sweet, sweet radio and a little work you can set up buttons to turn on crabbing and 4 wheel steering, at which point that crawler becomes one of the most fun and challenging things you can do in RC.

Sweet! Nice rig! I did this year's ago with an AIO fpv camera transmitter on a walkayra 1/24 rally car. Chased cat all through the house.

Great clip and welcome to surface RC glad to have you. Project suggestion…include head tracking to surface fpv solution…TIA

Awesome JB! I have basically the same truck and I put the MotionSic servo-gimbal thing in the driver seat and added head-tracking. It's AMAZING. I highly suggest the upgrade.

@ddegn

6 ай бұрын

Head-tracking sounds really cool. I want to try it myself on one of my RC ground vehicles.

@willsintheair

5 ай бұрын

@@ddegn The channel Painless360 has a good tutorial for the DIY headtracker. It's not very complicated.

I did a little narrated rip with my Traxxas TRX-4m a couple months ago on this very subject! it's so fun! Now we just need to wait until real-time stabilization is developed to put it on faster rigs. I also (not FPV, 2020/21 when I started creating) mounted a GoPro on my Traxxas MAXX and stabilized the video in post for much smoother video. But yea, it is a hell of a good time driving these around. Now put a better control link on it and use that new RadioMaster MT12 with a LR protocol like TBS or ELRS and then you can get further, crawlers don't need a strong link because most are controlling it in close proximity. Great vid!

Think this is great you have covered this on your channel

This year was my first FPV truck experience. I have a 20 year old Traxxas T Maxx nitro truck, and I just made a box with an analogue camera and eachine nano vtx. I cut a hole in the bonnet and popped the camera out just above the front bumper. it was an absolute blast, but wow, the old control links with the crystals are terrible!! 😂❤

Scrolling through these comments, the only words that light up for me and of a further interest was Head Tracking. xx

I've been putting FPV cameras on "sleds" for years now. (I call em sleds, when the camera and vtx (and often a dedicated battery) are all on a self contained unit that I can strap to my rc cars and stuff. My favorite rc vehicle right now is a tiny 1:35 scale rock bouncer with a caddx ant and a tbs nano sized vtx. I drive it around the school where I work, into offices, classrooms around the halls. its a blast! - I had issues with the range of the control link, so I hacked my own expressLRS surface radio and flashed some pwm firmware to a elrs receiver. - Thankfully radiomaster has released a proper elrs surface radio which I just got last month. much better than the homebrew solution!

I was doing this with my Axis crawler back in 2011

Put a 1w vtx on my 1/10 about 2 months ago and was great except the vibration. Put small cam/vtx on the 1/24 scale crawlers for the kids and due to the slower speeds the vibration isn't so bad and works fantastic!

Time for a 3 axis gimbal, gets rid of the shakes

@dr0n3droid

6 ай бұрын

You need to eliminate vertical movement. A 3-axis gimbal won't do that, it only changes angle. You'll need gimbal with a long swingarm, or a spring mass damper of some sort.

@Cowboy-Ben-Alman

3 ай бұрын

Really need a drone that follows the car

Great video! I know this is a quad channel but while you are at it covering other things, it would be very cool to learn how to build an FPV wing from scratch, especially from you since you would explain it all the way unlike many others I watched 😆

10:42🤣Is it just me who finds this way too funny? It was just sitting there in the drawer😂

Cool design....found your file folder but did not see the finished part 3mf....Thanks for the cool video.😎

I did this on the inside of an scx24 and I love it

I set this up recently as well. Traxxas Summit with Radiomaster MT12 elrs for longer range, dji vista camera with pc cooling fan similar to JB in this video, but also added a servo to turn the camera bound to a knob on radio.

Gotta put the camera inside the cab for peak immersion. My 1/24 scale axial fits one of those aio 200mw analog systems in the cab and it's great and doesn't overheat.

Its fun when theres a few and race

Great video. Next step - add a Storm32 3-axis gimbal to stabilize the video. I've seen several others doing that - it is a project I plan to work on soon to add to my FPV RC car.

Been looking to do this to my trx6 and maybe the trx4 as well! I seen a new 2.5mw with metal case and fan thatd be perfect!

Dope

Ive been doing this with the WalkSnail system. It works great; however no sound and sound is actually important on a crawler so you can hear the motor and whats its doing. Plus if an engine sim is used its really about 50% of the experience using FPV especially on a crawler.

Been doing this for years I’m surprised more people don’t do it

@TheCiardellas

6 ай бұрын

Now everyone is gonna do it 😂

omg I remember the video when you walked into frame with an armful of those Vistas during peak COVID, lol

Yeah this is super fun I did it already just taped my tiny whoop on my RC truck worked great I remember a few years back there was a guy up here on YT who posted vids of him getting in police chases out on the highway with his super fast long range RC car it was pretty cool

Oh....I'm in the process of making a FPV pod, Joshua, but I don't have a 3d printer, so I'm going to cut it out of PVC sheets I made myself (from PVC pipes). I also don't have HD FPV, so I'm using a Caddx Turtle v2 and a Rush Tank Mini VTX. But I wasn't planning on putting a fan!!! I know it's not ideal, but I have some small PC fans! I'm going to see if any fits a 20x20 stack! 😃 The difference is that I'm building it with 2 sheets, one on the bottom and other on the top, using brass standoffs. So, I'm going to need to make a hole in the top part as well! And, anyway, I'm going to use it for rc cars and airplanes, fixing it with dual lock in them. 😊

Really cool :) would be interesting to see if ground vehicles become more popular for fpv, it should be possible to build some quite nice vibration absorbers

@SmirkInvestigator

6 ай бұрын

A gimbal might be overkill but it'd be sweet. On TikTok I've seen a lot of comical caravans of FPV RC car vids.

@middleagedbaldguy6774

6 ай бұрын

Softer suspension and tires do it. I have an FPV traxxas Summit thats like driving a couch.

@edrone_

5 ай бұрын

The FAA has definitely helped push more of us into ground rc lol 😆

@roblapouple7552

5 ай бұрын

cameras cant focus fast enough its a blurry mess unsuitble for racing so close to the ground .. its not like a BIG go pro stuck on the roof then watching recording the live feed is terrible because cameras cant handle focus on the ground moving so fast camera tech transmitting is not good enough yet

@JimmyRussle

5 ай бұрын

@@roblapouple7552pairing a wide angle lens with small aperture and high ISO sensor makes focus irrelevant. Its pretty easy to accomplish.

I’m doing this with my t-Maxx! That’s it!

For those that have ever played the FPS game Half-Life, Joshua sounds like the scientist that engages with Gordon Freeman. (this is meant as a compliment). This video especially shows JB's mad skills in harnessing power.

You're Joshua Bardwell, and you're going to crawl something today. Gotta find a good use for them ancient air units XD

My Bad...I am stupid ..I found it. Thanks for the print !😎

I center punched a telephone pole with my Traxxas slash using Fpv..haha.. GPS at 43 miles an hour.. by the way, I’m still ordering more parts

@pottyputter05

6 ай бұрын

Lmao still finding shards in the grass but damn it was fun

Next turtle mode. Building with parts you have is awesome. That's how some of us build much of the time. Then head tracking.

Crazy I am doing the same thing!

I did this to my traxxas slash but with walksnail an the camera mounted on the inside to protect form the elements an flips its fast an fun just wish i had other people to race with in fpv

It gets boring quite quickly, half the fun , for me, is watching a Crawler crawl over stuff, kinda mesmerising. You just see rocks or sky with fpv, good vid tho 🤙

I've got a couple RC4WD crawlers. The Gelande 2 is on a linked coilover suspension that I modified for a particularly smooth and realistic ride quality. It could be a good candidate for this. I've kind of always wanted to do that. Might have to get another body to modify and place the camera in the cab. I'd probably have to pick up DJI though. HDZero is kinda overkill when latency almost doesn't matter.

my friend im impres you are very help full and great videos very inteligent

I haven't watched one of your videos in about 2 years but the rc fpv crawler seems interesting. Need to do a high speed pass rc fpv car.

It's crazy how long it took you to get into this lol. Tons of fun

Rid is getting real folks