Hai, I am haroon and we have to make a drone with arduino. Some buddy have drone program code?
Hello!! Please, which video transmitter and receiver do you recommend to use with a GoPro Hero4 Camera. For a range of about 1 km. Thanks
@Tchabo Paul 500mW transmitter to play it safe https://www.robotshop.com/en/uav-drone-cameras-fpv.html
Ex: https://www.robotshop.com/en/8-channel-500mw-58ghz-wireless-audio-video-transmitter-fpv.html
You would need a compatible receiver, and likely an adapter cable for the GoPro.
Most are rated at 200mW, but achieving 1Km distance reliably might be pushing it.
I’m looking to build a long range camera I can use to spot my own shots. I’d like to place it near my steel targets out to and upwards of a mile away. I’ve been looking around for good ways to do that and it seems the drone community is the closest to what I am looking to do. I came across your awesome instructions here but had a few questions. What frequency should I use for that range? Are they any setups you’ve got that could work for that? Its basically the same thing you are doing on the drone but I have a lot more flexibility with power as I have nearly no weight limitations. Thank you so much for your help.
@ tikityler A normal video transmitter in the 5.8GHz range would be ~200mW (“street legal”). If you go to 500mW or even 1W, the transmission range increases a LOT, but legally speaking, you need a permit to transmit (ex. ham radio license) since you need to be aware of how it might affect other people’s devices. https://www.robotshop.com/en/uav-drone-cameras-fpv.html
Simple setup might be Camera -> Video transmitter (battery to power both) -----> Video receiver operating at the same frequency -> video display
@cbenson What would be the likely max range of one of these street legal ones be? I would be on open ground with line of site to my target. Assuming average conditions as I know that can affect it what would I be looking at? I assume decent ranges considering you can buy drones that you can watch and control from ~1 mile or so away.
Would be interesting to get other’s experiences, but you’d be safe at around 200m from 200mW. Others have gotten 120m max, while some claim 450m. Normally you would do a range test on the ground before you fly.