So you get all that freedom of movement, the freedom of flight, opening the door to creative expression on an unprecedented level. Now this: we’re putting a camera on that drone! And the camera transmits the image to a display and then to your eyes, so you’re virtually sitting inside the drone! It can move up, and down, and forwards, and backwards. By adjusting the thrust between the motors, the drone can tilt itself and move through the air in any direction. What makes a drone so awesome is how versatile its range of movements is. Unless specified otherwise, you can assume we’re talking about a quadcopter - a drone with 4 motors. There are also bicopters (2 rotors), tricopters (3 rotors), hexacopters (6 rotors), octocopters (8 rotors), and so on. The most common multi-rotor type is a quadcopter, which has four rotors (spinny things). A multi-rotor is an aircraft that flies not by air traveling over wings, but by propellers blowing air downwards. In technical terms, our FPV Drone can be categorized as multi-rotors. But today, the word drone is globally used to describe the small non-manned flying machines that rely on multiple propellers to sustain flight. The word drone has taken on many meanings over the past few decades.
While you could technically install an FPV system on any remote controlled vehicle, such as a RC car, RC boat, RC airplane, and more… here at Rotor Riot, it’s all about FPV DRONES!
What if, instead of flying a virtual aircraft, you could be flying a real aircraft through a real environment? That’s FPV!īut how does it work? We’ll dig deeper into this later on, but to put it simply, you put a camera on a remotely controlled vehicle, that transmits the video it captures, in real time to a display that you look at while you control the vehicle. Maybe you’ve played a video game where you fly an aircraft through a virtual environment. Imagine that, instead of looking at the vehicle from the outside, you could be virtually “sitting” inside the vehicle? That’s FPV. You might have played with a Radio Control (RC) toy before, such as a toy car.