Finally built the head-tracking cinewhoop, based on the HGLRC Veyron35 CR Pusher running a Diatone Mamba F722 stack and iFlight Protek35 Xing motors, flying a naked GoPro Hero8 and CaddX Polar Vista FPV camera cradled by a custom 3D printed mount, pivoting on TPU stand-offs and actuated by an all-metal geared MG90S servo signalled by a custom INAV target receiving from a TX16S via ExpressLRS controlled with a custom-cased Arduino-based headtracker on my DJI FPV Goggles V2. Complicated enough?
This video was more difficult to shoot than I thought, considering all the referenced resources and b-roll, but I think it shows the method to the madness pretty well, hope you all enjoy it!
For more resources on the topic, please visit Josh Medlin's website or YouTube channel:
https://www.medlindrone.com
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfIbmLv53ippQ8tpFiiz_RQ
For creating and setting up the headtracker, please check out Painless360's video:
https://youtu.be/Q9Av10UxBEI
And to visit the open source Headtracker Software Project:
https://headtracker.gitbook.io
Anyone wishing to add this servo to their own HGLRC Veyron35 CR Pusher, I've made that available with the caveat that I consider it to be a prototype, so it's not great and it will probably change. You're more than welcome to try it out though:
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5593440
The next video I try flying the drone using my head(tracker), assigning roll, pitch and yaw to the drone's controls. First attempt, total disaster, but a learning experience anyway, hehe:
https://youtu.be/VFNLh4sQUdE
If I can think of any more links I might add them here, and please leave a comment down below if you can think of anything that would be worth linking-to.
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🕓 Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:18 Behold, the Veyron35!
00:48 Why Not Cinelog35?
02:21 Flight Controller Complications
03:20 INAV and No Resource Mapping
04:42 Building Custom Target
05:25 Future Flight Controller?
05:42 How the Servo Works
06:24 Dedicated 5V BEC for the Servo
07:10 Why Camera Tilting?
08:46 Medlin Drone Did It Last Year
09:32 Servo Choice
10:40 MG90S All-Metal Gear Servo
12:07 ExpressLRS and AUX Resolution
13:24 TX16S Slider Control
13:56 The Headtracker!
15:36 Desktop Demonstration
16:11 How the Headtracker was Made
16:55 Painless360's Headtracker Tutorial
17:10 Why Xing Motors?
18:12 Why iFlight's Naked GoPro Case?
19:10 Elevator Music
19:29 The Nai Harn Sports Field
20:12 First Flight, No Headtracking
21:39 Second Flight, Headtracking
24:26 Position Hold Demo
25:03 Post-Flight Ramblings
26:58 Wrap-Up and Thanks