#What is this board

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noble radish
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I have no idea what this FC is, any help is appreciated (hint: it’s probably old as shit), it blinks red and green when plugged in and uses micro usb

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I think it’s something like the EMAX Skyline32 but I’m not Shore (it’s from a Google image search)

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and if its too old then what FC do you guys recomend

chrome osprey
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Plug it into Betaflight, it should be able to tell you

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(assuming it's running Betaflight)

noble radish
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i tright that and it didnt work! any other options??

chrome osprey
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Did it make a sound when plugged in? If not, you might not have been using a data USB cable

noble radish
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the pc made the usb plugging in sound

chrome osprey
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Cool cool. It might not be running Betaflight then 😢

noble radish
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yeaaaahhhhh

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what else can i use exept betaflight

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and can i convert it to beta flight

chrome osprey
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Ardupilot, Emuflight,

noble radish
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( i have no idea what im doing)

chrome osprey
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Actually it might be worth seeing if either of those configurators see the board

chrome osprey
noble radish
chrome osprey
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I agree it looks very similar to the EMAX boards you said, though I can't find any that look exactly the same

noble radish
noble radish
chrome osprey
noble radish
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yeah

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he dosnt respond tho

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ever

chrome osprey
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I assume you're just trying to get a secondhand drone into the air?

noble radish
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precisly

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or however you spell it

chrome osprey
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Yeah old drones can be tricky

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Actually you could try running ImpulseRC Driver fixer and then Betaflight again (assuming you're on Windows)

noble radish
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its more anciant but yea

chrome osprey
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If that doesn't work then I'd try the other configurators

noble radish
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ill try the impulse one first and then the other ones

noble radish
chrome osprey
# noble radish its more anciant but yea

Trust me, that's not ancient 😅 I had a secondhand drone that had an F1 flight controller (as opposed to the F4/F7 that are used today) and an FPV camera that pointed downward and had like a 60 degree FOV

chrome osprey
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You plug in the drone, run the program, and hopefully you'll be able to see it in Betaflight after that

noble radish
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oki doki

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ill check

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be back

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i shall return

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been plugged in for a while now

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i belive it is a stack (the FC)

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shit

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wrong application

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same story

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chrome osprey
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Weird. Try plugging it in after you start up ImpulseRC?

noble radish
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nope

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dont work

chrome osprey
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Damn. Your best bet is probably to get your friend to respond about what the board is 😅 I can try looking around online some more too

noble radish
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yeeeaaahhhh

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we shall see

tropic sparrow
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F1... yikes

noble radish
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ill try the other softwares

tropic sparrow
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this will not be supported by anything modern

noble radish
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oh no mine isnt f1

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idk what it is

tropic sparrow
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maybe I'm reading it wrong

noble radish
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thas the problem

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maby

tropic sparrow
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STM32F103

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so yes, F1

noble radish
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ITS F1

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DAMN

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huh

tropic sparrow
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maybe Cleanflight

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no idea though

noble radish
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ill have to just hope its configured and fly it like this for a while

tropic sparrow
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getting this working will be much more painful than just spending $30-40 on a new FC

noble radish
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and then buy a new flight controller

noble radish
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but

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im broke to the point of no return

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but

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what fc do you recomed

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that wont make me cry over the price

tropic sparrow
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where are you from?

noble radish
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how come?

tropic sparrow
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to search stores actually useful to you

noble radish
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oh

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sweden

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thanks btw

tropic sparrow
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are you fine with AliExpress?

noble radish
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uhhhhhh

tropic sparrow
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that's the cheapest way I can think of

noble radish
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id prefer not to but yeah shure

tropic sparrow
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if you have paypal you should be good

noble radish
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i do not

tropic sparrow
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well, even then it's ususaly fine, I've only had like one order not finish in a way I was satisfied with

noble radish
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allright

tropic sparrow
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that's the cheapest ok option that I know of

noble radish
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thanks alot

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btw

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cleanflight seems to work

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ill still get a new fc but i can hold out

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Also

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the fc has nothing to do with the reciver right?

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just wondering if it will work with new radios

chrome osprey
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Yeah receiver is separate. For smaller drones it can be built into the flight controller, but for these larger drones they're almost always separate

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It might be running FlySky, which I would highly recommend upgrading to ExpressLRS though

noble radish
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the last guy said he used a flyski radio so yeah

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how do i upgrade

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and

tropic sparrow
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old firmware might not support newer wire communication protocols that modern receivers use

noble radish
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when i bought my googles it came with a camera setup

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when pluged in the drone looks powerd up

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but the googles dont get signal

chrome osprey
noble radish
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should i wait and plug it into a battery or change the camera

chrome osprey
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Yeah VTX is usually only powered if a battery is plugged in

noble radish
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alr ill wait then

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how do u upgrade from flyski tho

chrome osprey
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The VTX on the drone usually has lights that indicate the band and channel it's transmitting on. Though they're not that useful without a user manual. Your goggles should have an auto-scan feature that searches the channels. It's not great because you might not end up on exactly the right band/channel, but it'll be better than nothing

chrome osprey
# noble radish how do u upgrade from flyski tho

Get a new receiver, solder that onto the new flight controller. It's pretty straightforward, the user manual for the flight controller will come with a wiring guide to tell you what to connect where

noble radish
noble radish
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regardless

chrome osprey
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Depends on what kind you have

noble radish
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elrs

chrome osprey
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An ELRS receiver will work, a FlySky receiver won't

noble radish
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ohhhhh

chrome osprey
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You'd have to get a separate 4in1 TX module and slap that on the back of your Pocket

noble radish
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then i need a new reciver

chrome osprey
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Yes, but it's likely it won't work with your current FC

tropic sparrow
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it might, it might not

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though ELRS can output legacy wire protocols too

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like SBUS

chrome osprey
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Ooh I didn't know that

noble radish
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ill get the m2 pocket and try

tropic sparrow
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not ideal tho

noble radish
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if it dont work

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ill make a new post

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thank you guys for the support!

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ill se what i can do now

noble radish
tropic sparrow
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think of the protocol as a "language"

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the receiver might talk in a language that the flight controller cannot understand

noble radish
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but elrs has google translate?

chrome osprey
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Yeah pretty much lol

noble radish
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so even thogh the drone is anciant i can use the m2 pocket

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ill ask you guys how to do that whan the radio comes

tropic sparrow
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if you get an ELRS receiver for it, yes

chrome osprey
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The only thing that the radio talks to is the receiver. As long as those are compatible (ELRS to ELRS, for example) and the receiver is compatible with the FC, then you're good

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So yeah ELRS receiver, using Google Translate to talk to the FC, should work just fine

noble radish
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oki then i need a new elrs receiver

chrome osprey
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Those should be fairly cheap

noble radish
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any good elrs receiver recomandations?

tropic sparrow
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Anything from Radiomaster, Happymodel, Namimno, BetaFPV, and many others

noble radish
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Ceap?

tropic sparrow
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?

noble radish
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cheap?

chrome osprey
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They all should be less than 20 USD

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I see a SpeedyBee ELRS RX for like 5 USD on AliExpress, though it's a "new user deal" thingy so I don't know if it gives it to everyone or not

tropic sparrow
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the SpeedyBee ones are okay

noble radish
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ill get a radiomaster cus thats the same as my radio

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ill just save vitroids list

chrome osprey