After my initial review this April I can now show you 3 month of progress and you will see how well it did on my difficult lawn. See the little issues I ran into, some tricks, easy fixes and hear if I still would recommend this product.
Thursday, June 26, 2025
Difficult Lawn? Here’s How the Luba 2 Performed After 3 Months
Wednesday, June 18, 2025
3DMakerPro Eagle LIDAR scanner - see the improvements
Had this LIDAR for 7 month now and have seen a lot of improvement. See the updates for both the firmware and the most recent Software. These days they have reduced the price again, with this link: https://shrsl.com/4wxfx the Code: RSC15 for 15€ off should be applied automatically!
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JimuMeta (3DMaker): https://scene.jimumeta.com
Downloads:
RayStudio 1.0.6
Firmware update 1.0.7
(Calibrate files) But I really think you need to contact their support to get appropriate calibration data for your SN / Device.
✅ ALL of my POINTCLOUD example data for you to download and inspect (get free CloudCompare to open it) π‘https://cloudcompare.org (open source! - best pointcloud tool I found during research)
Unreal Engineπ₯ and Unreal Engine Pointcloud plugin
Thursday, June 12, 2025
AtomRC DolphinPro Review, flights, chase shots
AtomRC asked me to test the DolphinPro - which was an instant "YES" for me - since I love the previous Dolphin! The new one comes with many improvments - here you see all the details - and I took my time to properly testfly it, give you some INAV insights, mods, and STL files.
SPECS / INFO:
Wingspan: 800mm
Length: 862mm
WingArea: 16.96d㎡
Material: EPP
Motor recommend: 2807 1100KV
ESC: ≥6S 50A BEC
Propeller: 8040-2
WEIGHT: 959g (all except battery)
FLIGHTTIME: 21 min cruising around = 2110 mah (2x 1300mah 6S Lipos)
so 15-20 mins on 2600mah 6S
~25-35 mins on a 5000mah 6S LiIon
BATTERY OPTIONS
2x 1300mah 6S Lipo - far back
1x 1300mah 6S Lipo - all the way fwd
1x 5000mah 6S LiIon pack
GPS altough it's just an BN220 and not a modern M10 - acquisation was quick and sats were plenty
Wingspan a bit shorter than old one, denser foam (at least the grey version),
VTails larger, further in the back,
VTail + Ailerons - plenty options! (spoilerons for landing?, Speedbrake?)
Wingfences - instead of downward facing wingtips (which broke easily)
Control rods "beefier" not the bendy wires
LEDs installed
Nose: different options, magnets + screws - no glue needed
Wire channel below battery for nice Video cable install!
TIPS:
SECURE the LIDs (front one comes with a screw - use it!)
Back LID flew away in a highspeed test (140kph)
Use this "AtomRC Canopy locking arm (verschluss nupsi).stl" and a little bowden tube glued into fuselage with a screw.
I use INAV: 7.1.1 (at the moment)
To have correct MAH readings in your OSD (if you use their AtomRC FC) you can set this SCALE (I've calibrated it and it looks accurate now):
set current_meter_scale = 170
Autolaunch settings:
set nav_fw_launch_max_angle = 90
set nav_fw_launch_motor_delay = 200
set nav_fw_launch_climb_angle = 18
set nav_fw_launch_timeout = 10000
set nav_fw_launch_max_altitude = 0
set nav_fw_launch_thr = 1750
set nav_fw_launch_idle_thr = 1300
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Plane details at ATOMRC
LINK to my Gdrive: (motormount, Back-Lid, INAV DIFF)
Alternative Motormount (by someone else)
Antennamount
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Ten Cent Man - Splasher! / Scetchy - Aiyo
I use EPIDEMIC SOUND, check their nice tracks here: https://bit.ly/3p6OGE0
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