/diy/ - Do It Yourself

New bag worked a treat, it's surprising how few bags there are with lots of vertical loops for strapping things to :/

>>1456910
>free uart port means you will need at least an F4 based flight controller, these have 5 uart ports

This is misleading/wrong, as the number of available UARTs depends upon how many UARTs the board designer chooses to break out. It isn't safe to assume that any F4 board will have plentiful UARTs, or even that it will have more than a F3 board. Case in point, the TattooF4S that has been discussed before in this thread is a F4 board but only has 1 spare UART in addition to a dedicated SBUS UART RX pad. And likewise there are F3 boards like the Lux v2 which have 5 UARTs in addition to USB, even though they are 'only' F3.

>>1457063
>>1457066
>But its going to be at least 500-600 grams, so itll drag quite a bit on corners, punchout wont be breathtaking.

A 500-600g quad that is durable is far better for a beginner than a 400g quad that will snap an arm after the first big crash. Beginners don't need or want the sort of performance that a seasoned competitive racer does.

>>1457129
Weeks is a bit of an exaggeration. I flew maybe half a dozen packs LoS in self-level mode, then it took me ~20 minutes in LiftOff to figure out how to fly rate/acro & the following day I flew 2 packs IRL just fine in rate/acro. For me rate/acro was one of those things that just needed to 'click' in my head & as soon as it did I was fine.

>>1457183
>Is the Taranis Lite up to par with the QX7?

The X-Lite has much smaller/shorter throw gimbals & is really aimed squarely at multirotors (it doesn't have physical trim switches, pots for flaps, etc. that wing users often want), so you are sacrificing some aspects of form factor (it's bad for pinching) & flexibility for the small size. If you can meet local pilots & handle them both before you purchase, that would be ideal.