Totally awesome. RunCam video looked really good. Fun watching as always.

Always like my friend 👍🏼👍🏼 Very cool flight and Rippin. Love your friends property.

@JohnCuppi

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Chris! ✌️

Wow that was close to your head at the start 😎 footage is very nice and the drone looks nifty 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻😎

@JohnCuppi

2 жыл бұрын

Just a little close! haha! Luckily FPV pilots automatically have eye protection. 🤣🤣Thanks! Appreciate it.

The RunCam video looked darn good John! Nice work!

@JohnCuppi

2 жыл бұрын

For $50 it’s not bad, the whole thing is weighs like 10 grams. since 2.5” and under struggle to carry anything else. Thanks Marcus!

Very nice drone. I've been really liking the smaller ones lately. Simply cheaper to fly and maintain but just as much enjoyment. Thanks for the review. 👍

@JohnCuppi

2 жыл бұрын

Me too. I don't really even pick up my 5" quads as much anymore because these are small, quiet, and can be flown basically anywhere. I can pop down to the local park and burn a few packs with ones like this and not scare the bejesus out of people. 😅 Thanks !

Great job as always, thank you John. We are leaving for a camping trip today. Its to be 100 degrees Tuesday, should be a great time camping (lol) down by West Lafayette Indiana.

@JohnCuppi

2 жыл бұрын

Have a good trip and stay hydrated. I was baking when I reshot this video. 😅 Thanks!

I was able to Install the yellow strap in the bottom plate, there is groves cut out for the strap. If you relocate the xt30 out of the back you can easily run the battery on the bottom with a piece of the black foam from the packaging. 👍

Nice flight John! You’ve got a fantastic place to fly! Wish my motion sickness would wane so I could fly FPV! Thanks for sharing.

@JohnCuppi

2 жыл бұрын

My friend has a beautiful farmland there to fly and he let me make this video there! Thanks Flynn!

The DarwinFPV drone looks great, and very light weights also. And RunCam video looked good as well. And I love that location your flying at. Great testing John, and thanks for sharing.

@JohnCuppi

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Ron!

Love it! I love that Darwin is pushing down prices.

@JohnCuppi

2 жыл бұрын

Yes it’s nice to see something cheap for newcomers to play with. I used to recommend tinyhawk freestyle 2 - but outdated now compared to this.

With HD Zero , nice touch 😃

Awesome John. Pretty nice flight around the area. She flies great very cool. Left a like

@JohnCuppi

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Kim, ✌️

Also sweet video mate this is what got me sold on this drone, can confirm its durable, stock antenna is crap, replaced with a lumineer 5.8ghz ufl antenna. Battery strap is pants too, order better ones as they wear out after about 20 odd flights with crashes in between. Peace ✌

@JohnCuppi

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, great comment and feedback! I appreciate it and I agree with you on the strap. I forgot to mention I swapped that out for a different battery strap. But otherwise it’s a great little bind and fly quad!

@fpv_freestylersuk3345

Жыл бұрын

@@JohnCuppi one of the best 2.5" bnfs available dude!! We need people to know this lol screw tinyhawk 2 freestyles, its all about that DarwinFpv Tinyape Freestyle! I really love flying mine dude. Even when my 5" shows up I will still regularly fly it!!

@JohnCuppi

Жыл бұрын

@@fpv_freestylersuk3345 I have actually been considering making a video on why NOT to buy the TinyHawk Freestyle II and get something like this instead. I have both and although the tinyhawk Freestyle 2 flies great, it’s outdated and harder to work on compared to this quad. Emax tinyhawk is much more well known, and has better marketing, so people miss this little DarwinFPV quad. They really need to update the tinyhawk 2…

@fpv_freestylersuk3345

Жыл бұрын

@@JohnCuppi I nearly beat a tinyhawk to death with a hammer the other day, after soldering an elrs receiver onto it, i got it all soldered up good but it turned out my friend ordered a receiver that cant pull enough power from the board to power it on fully solidbred light lol 🤨 was a tad frustrated as it took me ages i have big hands and bad eyesight 🤣. It really is outdated the only real good thing about it the thf2 is the RTF bundle its not overly expensive, if DarwinFPV decided to compete and release a similar kit they could potentially steal that 2.5" spotlight that EMAX has been holding onto for some time. Personally I want to see DarwinFPV get bigger. I'll be buying myself a babyape pro soon enough to add to my growing collection, and then upgrading it lol. You know how it is 🤣

😳...good thing you flinched.. Cool video 4shO...👍🏻🍻👊🏻

@JohnCuppi

2 жыл бұрын

Lol thanks. My eyes were protected though. 😃

radtastic buddy! keep rippin!

@JohnCuppi

2 жыл бұрын

😎✌️

Hey John I have the Ape, and after a bunch of lipo's it still fly's like a champ, thumb's up for Darwin for prize and quality.

@JohnCuppi

2 жыл бұрын

Good to hear. The only thing I’m most concerned about actually breaking on it is possibly a motor, those seem to be a little on the cheap-o end there. I worry about busting one of the shafts, but this whole build is so cheap I would just replace the motors anyway if something happened.

Thanks for sharing~

@JohnCuppi

2 жыл бұрын

😎✌️

@JohnCuppi

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your help and support on the SD card issues I had. The solution you provided worked.

1st Really nice John. I wanna get that 👊🏻👊🏻Thanks brother for your thoughts

@JohnCuppi

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for leaving a comment again, appreciate it!

Menyenangkan sekali mempunyai drone fpv

@JohnCuppi

9 ай бұрын

Yes, this is a great FPV drone :)

Niceeee. The jumper t pro with internal expressLRS Will work with that little guy?

@JohnCuppi

Жыл бұрын

It will work.

Yeah! On 4K mode the runcam looks really Good! And yes this vtx not really “Looks” like other 400mw I saw on other vids. Any way to upgrade it? Any suggestion for a better antenna? Maybe it’s a good idea to purchase it now while I’m waiting for my batts to arrive. Would Appreciate a nice quality antenna to buy :)) thanks for the vid mate ! ✌🏻✌🏻

@orenrez655

2 жыл бұрын

And yea I know it’s 1080 only but changing to 4K on KZread still looks very good!

@JohnCuppi

2 жыл бұрын

What I would do maybe before replacing the vtx is try getting a longer dipole antenna and insert one of the little antenna tubes it comes with. Get it a little higher up than where it sits and see if that helps. I think I mentioned the battery lead mess in the back is definitely blocking some of it as it sits now. Next, I would look at replacing it with maybe a small lolipop type antenna as well if that didn’t improve anything. And yes! you can upgrade the vtx easily to a different one. Any vtx you like. If you’re looking for a recommendation for a replacement, you could try a TBS Unify Pro32 Nano which can do up to 500mw. I used that to replace the vtx in my Emax TinyHawk 2 and the video was so clean. It weighs only 1 gram as well which is just amazing! But you would also probably be just fine with an Eachine Nano vtx too, which is half the cost. Personally… I would like to convert this quad to HDzero so I’m probably going to go that path. Thanks for hanging in, and checking out my review! Really appreciate the engagement and discussion.

@JohnCuppi

2 жыл бұрын

@@orenrez655 4K is how everyone should watch FPV reviews and videos if possible, even though it’s upscaled. This is the closest way to see how it should look, because the 4K video encode by KZread gives a LOT of big rate and data which is so important to have with the high speed movement we do in these videos. Without that, you lose so much detail with 1080. I always take the time to upload any video I make for this reason in 4K, even if the source was not 4K.

@orenrez655

2 жыл бұрын

@@JohnCuppi I think for a starter I wouldn’t go straight to change the vtx itself as all this small tight soldering is a bit scary , like you said I need a recommendation for a decent antenna(not sure which one to look at or even which connector) but yeah, it seems to enjoy this 600mw power the antenna needs to be changed to avoid all the interference around it . About HDzero, if you have a digital goggles I can’t wait to see the outcome!

Nice I want to get one I won't stabilize most likely

@JohnCuppi

2 жыл бұрын

I really wanted this camera to do stabilization with. In fact... I didn't want to buy it until runcam fixed the gyro data problems. They did, and so I purchased it. But gyroflow has been difficult for me to use; it's a complicated application get good results out of. So, I am only going to use this camera on quads where every bit of weight counts. On this DarwinFPV tinyAPE, it saves 16 grams of weight vs. an insta360go2 which is pretty significant. The flight feel is still pretty damn good with the thumb on, and the 300mah battery I picked out. However, the tinyAPE *could* still handle the insta360go2, though, it'd just be less nimble.

Where’s the STL file for that Runcam? Can’t find it anywhere!

Could the vtx issues be improved by adding another antenna? The small dipole next to the battery might be an issue that reduces range.

@JohnCuppi

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, I think this is a great point and I muttered a bit about that during one of these flights. Just a longer length dipole that gets it higher up would help!

@zombie_brainsgaming9562

2 жыл бұрын

Was thinking the same i saw these mushroom looking antennas that have the save gold connector as the little black antenna on banggood pretty cheap and add twic the length on the antenna

@JohnCuppi

2 жыл бұрын

@@zombie_brainsgaming9562 I think those are the foxeer lolipop ✌️

Me and my mate both have one of these and the thumbcam wont fit the drone unless you buy 3s 300 mah batteries, ideally we want to mount it with the standard 2s 450mah. Has anyone designed a 3d printed mount that could go around a 2s 450mh battery? Hit me up if you anyone fancies 3d printing some up for a negotiable fee.

hate when they don't use hex

@JohnCuppi

2 жыл бұрын

Is this common with DarwinFPV quads? I’ve never seen this on any others.

@TorontoFPV

2 жыл бұрын

@@JohnCuppi crux35 stack bolts

@JohnCuppi

2 жыл бұрын

@@TorontoFPV Ah-ha! I forgot about that. It was a curious choice to use those for the stack, for sure. Darwin went 100% no-hex for the whole quad though. I assume it had to have been cheaper in some small way.

@TorontoFPV

2 жыл бұрын

@@JohnCuppi I would agree lol I love all the little details and have a few mental health issues so I'm going full titanium lol for a couple bucks it's so worth it.

Almost lost an ear there bud...lol

@JohnCuppi

Жыл бұрын

😂

geek

@JohnCuppi

2 жыл бұрын

drone geek and proud of it. 🤓