Thank you again, another great video From stumbling across a 250 race video to flying in less than 30 days I think. All because of the great people like you so freely sharing you knowledge.
Excellent series of videos covering the naze32 board, I'm about to start building my first quad and will be using the Naze32. But this video has given me an idea to build a 2 axis camera gimbal light enough to fit under a Syma X8C, there is a 2 axis servo driven platform on ebay weighing around 40g. Bob
Interesting video! I have a Tarot 960 Hexacopter with the Tarot 5D2 3-axis servo gimbal. Running an APM 2.6, and I want a MPU to directly control camera position, but also want APM to be able to allow override (non-stabilizing) input. This video is a good step in the right direction for me.
Really helpful and informative. Thanks man. I spotted in the Naze32 manual that you could us it for a gimble, looked it up and bam, found your video. I have been subscribed for a while and I am really enjoying the technical detail that you go into. Cheers.
Nice explanation of this feature. I have done similar on My Taranis with a 3 position switch and pot. P1 cam locked in position. P2 cam stabilized in normal position P3 cam stabilized in position controlled by pot. Works really well, but not as smooth as a proper gimbal.
Setup Camstab on the SP Racing F3 (clone) and Taranis Tx. First connect the servo to Motor 7 output pins on the flight controller. Pay attention to polarity!!! On the Taranis go to the Inputs page and assign a channel (I used 8) to the camera servo using a slider, pot or switch to control the camera. On the Mixer page use the same channel and assign it to the Camera. Edit the channel and make sure it picked up on the switch assignment, if not select the switch you used on the Imputs page. Then go to the Outputs page, select the appropriate channel and adjust the travel you want for the Camera. The first value sets the camera level position, the next two values sets the amount of up then down travel you want. You can power up the quad and change the Mid values on the fly to fine tune the level position. In Cleanflight enable the Camstab on the Modes tab. Set the sliders to their max values and SAVE. Now go to the Receiver tab and note which Aux channel is activated by the switch you used on the Taranis. Next go to the Servos Tab. You will be using Servo 0 to make the adjustments. Whatever Aux channel moved on the Receiver Tab select that input. On mine it is A4. Use the above video to adjust the Min, Mid and Max values on the Servo tab. If you want to lock down the camera so only the slider/switch controls it set the Rate to 0. I'm not getting 180 degree rotation using the slider, more like 150 degrees or so but its much better than 90 degrees. If anyone has ideas about how to get 180 degree rotation let us know.
Painless360 Me too. Just semi-idle curiosity really, I'm looking at getting into FPV and wondered if goggles, especially with head tracking, would be worth the outlay.
Unless I can daisy chain one FC to another FC via SBUS, or they make one with more servo outputs, a flight controller standing on it's own like this may be the way I go in order to not take away channels from the main FC. Thanks for the great info.
I have a request for a quick tip on how to setup cam stab with this flight controller and the new version of cleanflight. I have it semi working but it only wants to tilt in one direction as if it was not starting in the center. I feel it is probably in some of the settings. I have a home made single axis gimbal like the one here, and a 60 degree micro servo for the tilt mechanism. and my seriously pro FC is of coarse running cleanflight.
WorksopGimp I don't fly with gimbals on my models. I like to 'see' the tilt in the FPV kit. These videos are for subscribers who asked to see it done. Happy flying!
Excellent videos. I had been tinkering over this for a while as I want to manually controll a pitch cam with a slider. My problem is that i don't want it to automatically stabilise. I just want to controll the pitch manually. And since I'm using D4Rii ppm it has to be done through the controller board. That was dead easy on the cc3d but I'm left clueless on how to do it on the naze32. It seems the only way to control a servo through the outputs is to enable cam stabilisation. I could probably set the stabilise rate to 0% or so but thats not the way i want to do it. Any clues on how to control a servo for a pitch cam (without stabilisation) would be very welcome. Thanks again for the nice video series
thank you for showing us this, its a real easy tutorial to follow and you explain it well my question is, can you hook up a gimbal motor to the naze 32?(through a speed controller or something) im not sure how gimbal motors work mind
josh hodgson You can. Many different types of gimbal out there. You can see how it works in Cleanflight here - github.com/cleanflight/cleanflight/blob/master/docs/Mixer.md Best of luck with it.
Pretty easy actually :) I think attach the camera to the servo is actually the more complicated thing lol Does your radio was in mode 1? Thanks for sharing and have a great week!
first i would like to thank you for all the videos you have made, i have learned a lot of them. i wanted to ask you if you are gonna cover the blackbox feature that is in cleanflight, i have been looking at it for a while but i cant make much of it yet, i would like to try and use it for a better tune on my acro quad.
I need a full 3axis gimbal for a Sony nex or similar for doing some stable video of moving vehicles. I had a zenmuse H3-3D but it was involved in a crash when my NAZA v2 had a malfunction. I'm moving completely away from the dji equipment, I want something(gimbal) I can repair if need be. I've been using your tutorials on the naze32 for my 250 quad and APM 2.6 for my volantex fixed wing ,I've also got an f550 & an f450 running the mini APM pro and a f330 with a mini apm (the first little mini APM ). So while setting up a few things on my NAZE I saw this one on gimbal servo's and thought it's probably going to be similar to an Alexmos 3axis gimbal board. I'm putting a 3dr PixHawk on my new tarot 680pro and looking at the Sony nex sized gimbal for it. Anyway if you have any tips for setting up a decent gimbal for a Sony nex5 that'd help. I think those size gimbals are good to fit a GoPro on as well if you change the gimbal PIDs.
+Michael Withington I've only used the cheap and cheerful BGC style gimbals here. For steady video I would use a gimbal with an separate integrated controller and spare channels on the radio to refine the direction etc. Best of luck with the project!
hi love your videos very easy to follow. I have hooked up my gimbal as per the video on my mini the thing that i noticed is if you hold the quad on its side and move it up and down the camera still moves side to side . My question is can i stop this in the setting or the CLI your help would be great cheers keep up the great work
+STANLEY MADNESS Not sure, happy to help but please watch ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-olIqTiSJHIY.html and come back to me with more detail of what you've tried..
Nice video has always! I have a request I know that it has nothing to do with it but would you consider making a video in configuring a tricopter with the naze32!? I have bought the hobbyking trifecta and I'm having trouble configuring it. Thanks.
Painless360 What are the problems? I build it it's my second build, the first was a quad from HK too, a 250. First flight the tail was all jitter. This was with stock settings on the naze. Then I tried with some settings I found on a forum, it was flyable but I couldn't control it. It was hopping all around and then I striped the servo. I changed the servo and it flyes like when I striped the servo. Basically my problems are settings with the name and the rotation of the props. I wouldn't mind changing the fc with the cc3d you wouldn't have any videos on it? Thanks for the help!
Choosing and setting up a tail servo on a tricopter is a bit of a black art. I have found that any vibration on the frame from poorly balanced props or motors will make it worse. Make sure everything is balanced and mount the Naze32 on an anti-vibration mount or vibration absorbing foam. Make sure that there isn't any pressure on the servo and it isn't compressed and that the output shaft lines up perfectly with the tail assembly - any pressure on the output shaft sideways can cause it to 'hunt'. Best of luck.
I have set up my taranis using SG as the source for the channel .It is AUX 4 0n the the modes. When the SG is operated it moves the gimbal back,neutral and forward. In SG- the auto level works to a point but altering the % in the the servo page has no effect on the amount travel. I can't seem to get full travel when trying to self level.
This is very excellent. Im just getting into FPV and came across this! One question. I have a DX6 and I had set Aux1 to flight modes and Aux2 to Arm. Can I piggy back on Aux2 so that when I arm the motors the gimbal engages? I don't want to give up my Arm channel. Its helpful in crashes to kill the motors before they get damaged without doing a stick movement.
David Fonseca Not sure how you would piggyback. I arm using the sticks as every flight controller allows for this method and it is consistent as you change boards and firmware.Best of luck with it.
I think I figured it out. I am using Aux1 to Arm the motors and I will use Aux 1 to engage the gimbal as well. I think it will work. I will let you know if it does. :)
Excellent video series !! If I can ask? Am i going to have an issue reassigning the ESC pins on my Naze32 if i am using a Full size zmr250 PDB?? I see no way to relocate them as they are "conveniently" positioned very near each ESC. The Naze32 is soldered directly to the PDB, so Am I correct in assuming that I cannot shift the numbering? Thanks and keep up the great vids.
Great vid and really helped me set up my cam, Now I want to get ride of the auto and just put it where I can set it at certain angles. Is there a way to do this??
Painless360 have you created a video showing how a servo motor can be used to control the manual zoom ring on a camera lens? I'm looking to find a way to build a camera lens 'Follow Focus' system using a servo motor or small diameter brushless motor, connected to a receiver and controlled from a dial/knob channel on a transmitter. The rotation of the servo/brushless motor needs to be able to be set somehow so that it doesn't turn too far, or not far enough, when zooming a camera lens in and out. Turning a lens too far with a high torque motor may cause damage to the lens mechanism. Hope you can help. Cheers
looking to build something like this. www.24shots.com/silencer-flight-remote-follow-focus-and-zoom-system-for-aerial-rigs/ need to find small compact brushless motor and learn how to control the motor and set stops for it. will certainly let you know when i conquer it!
Another awesome video! can the servo pin be moved to pin 5 or 6? I'd like to put this on my zmr250 quad, with a pdb that the naze32 get plugged into, so pin 1-4 are set.
+Olav Austad Sorry I don't understand the question. The Naze32 wasn't designed to have all of this kit on it and sometimes you have to choose one of the other. I've tried to make it as easy as possible in these videos so they the amount of plugging in/moving wires is kept to a minimum. Best of luck.
hi there.. here i am again...sorry to disturb you.... got everything to work perfect as on your video... by any chance... would you know how to set up servo speed while using the pitch servo... it is moving very fast... and it would be great to reduce the servo speed a bit.. not the range.... if you have time.. i would appreciate to have your opinion... cheers
I have got a real stumper for u I trying to get a aux chanel to pass though the naze but hears the problem it on a trycopter and I'm running the frsky D4r-2 ppm with GPS rssi osd or Bluetooth it can be set up like the gimbal control but when I do it doesn't come up on the servo page I also try ed setting it in the cli it call set flags_1 or 2 that changes it for 5,6 or 7,8 but can't really use those can you put it on the motor output that are free and also how do you tell the naze your running sonar with ppm because when I try with trycopter it turns motor 2 off
Is it possible to let the gimball work by itself automatically when the flight controller board turns on, without any command from the remote controller?
1. Is it possible to use little brushless outrunner instead of servos? 2. Do i need ESC then I would like to put a gimbal in my homemade quad but Iam not sure if i should buy a cheap 40€ China 2axis or choose a selfmade one. Looks like my naze 32 supports that in a kind of way a gyro is also in board
So if I just wanted the servo on a switch to move between two preset positions (flight and landing) and not have the auto levelling would I simply set the 'rate' value to zero?
Can the CC3D be able to use the stick to 'look around' like the Naze as you've shown in the last few minutes? I ask because I'm thinking of using a CC3D as a pure Gimbal controller for my FPV cam for stabilized video, and the feature to 'look around' along with stabilization would be awesome :D
I'm wondering if this is the simplest solution to a slightly mad project I'm contemplating - that of building an RC sailing dinghy that is stabilised by the weight shift of a robotic "crew" (I was disappointing to discover that the RC Laser boats were actually keel-boats - a missed opportunity there I think). With your vast experience of the available flight controllers can you suggest a better solution? Any help gratefully received! Thanks.
It could be possible to use the 'stabilised' control output from a flight controller for that. I'd use the output for the orientation you want to correct for - yaw I'm guessing? Or, you could use the stabilised output for cameras using a mode called CAMSTAB.. Best of luck, it sounds like a fun project. See my INAV build in a boat for ideas for setup...
@@Painless360 Many thanks for the reply. I should have said that it's only the roll axis I want to stabilise with the weight shift, the crew being just a doll with a weighted head to hang out on whichever side is to windward (a fun task for several servos and an Arduino I suspect. However you have an interesting point about yaw stabilisation - it would be a handy additional capability that could also make the roll stabilisation easier. I'll take a look at your INav boat build - sounds fun too!
Yeah, that should work, roll axis stabilisation :D A car steering gyro mounted vertically could be a simple way to do it too.. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hX0OndLSwwM.html . best of luck!
if the 1st and the second are for pitch and roll servo(i need only pitch) where i ll plug the 5v input because i use kiss esc so they dont have bec and i have to power my naze through a 5v step voltage regulator!!
Hello I have my tilt servo working and moving in the right direction, but movement is to much. I am using 2016 04 22 naze32 and my servo tab does not look anything like yours in the video. Please help.
hi pl........would this also work for an omnibus f3 flight controller....in inav with ibus......and how would it be hooked up..............thanx pl......
Nice video , i made one with my naze32 (after a try on the apm), but it seems that i get some noise/interferences , and the servo is making some microsteps , almost unvisible , but can be seen on the video.I even put the nase32 in a shield metal box,but still the same.any idea?If i connect to the output of the APM 2.8 i get also the same result.
+francois Bonin I'd maybe try another servo, servo still provide the super smooth movements needed for stabilized camera control. But this is an easy cheap way if you want your camera to auto compensate for tilt. Best of luck
SOLVED. My new FPV stuff takes to much power. So the flight controller can't work normally. Also arming doesn't work with the FPV stuff. Do you know if it works when i connect the FPV stuff to the balancer plug?
I'd power all of the FPV things from a separate connection to the PDB on the model. If you can't get that then the balance tap will do at a pinch but that's not designed for high current draw. We normally add an extra JST connector to the PDB when we build to power things like this (see the power video in the 'Quadcopter Building for Beginners'..
Great video! Although I'm having a problem with the servo settings. All steps followed right up till the 4:00 minute mark...when I plug the battery in the servo just starts winding and winding...All my settings match your in the video. I'm using a tower pro micro servo sg90... Any Ideas? Thanks again.
+Painless360 I'm brand new to servos, so I'm not sure what extra info would be helpful. upon powering up the servo runs till the mechanical stop no matter what i set the rate or max or min angles in cleanflight
Tricky for me to help in situations like this via RU-vid comments, the process in the video worked for me so all I can suggest is double check all the steps..
Did the servo and motor pinout change? I followed the video, and I don't get the two pan and tilt servos in the servo tab, I only get the generic row of servos. Also, the serv peggs out at full tilt upward, and motors 1 and 2 are on 3 and 4.
Personally I'd use a more modern flight controller for a larger model like a Hex. If you still want the gimbal then you'll have to look at another FC to control it.. Best of luck!
in base flight while plugged into the computer the servo moves at a speed i like, but after i unplug it and power it down and power back up it moves super slow. any help
I have an Problem whif my Drohne/camstab. if i have camstab enabled Motor 3&4 dosnt work anymore. All Resource are correct I use cleanflight and an naze 32
hi great video. I am looking to do this on my zmr250 but have noticed there is no option of thunder the servos on the 1.13 version of clean flight it says I need v1.14 but I can't find this. any way you can help with this. thanks.
So if I used an Alexmos instead it will control brushless motors without any other hardware? Im just about to start trying to set up a larger camera and require the extra torque. Im a big fan of your instructional video's, Thanks for the time you put in for us all.
I have a naze 32 Im using on my quad copter. I have my esc's in ports 3 through 6 and my tilt servo in port 1. I have a bec to power the naze board but the only available slot is 2 which is for the pan servo. Is that a problem to use it for a BEC? I ask because for some reason My quad keeps loosing power and falling out of the sky when I have my tilt servo setup turned on. When I have the camera fixed mounted everything seems to work fine.
Hi there... I used to fly a cc3d with open flight using the gimbal.. as I changed to cleanflight on the cc3d, I could not make the gimbal work again.. so I did order a new Naze 32 as the one you showed on this video... lol.. but got the same problem.. servos do not move lololol... anything I could be doing wrong? Would appreciate your help. cheers...
+Leandro Carvalho This is the process that worked here, I'd check you have all the steps (including setting the output PWM range for the connector you are using) covered. Best of luck!
Turning ON the SERVO_TILT kills one of the motors of my quad! If I turn it OFF then only all motors work normally.. I'm running CleanFlight/BetaFlight on CC3D.
Tried a lot of things so far. But I'm reverting back to LibrePilot. Maybe CleanFlight is not for me at the moment...Besides, I don't like one of the CleanFlight features, with ZERO throttle when armed, pushing Roll or Pitch will actually flip the quad while on the ground!
Julian Ochonski Is this related to another question you've already asked? if so please reply to the original comments as otherwise it gets tricky for me to keep track. :) Glad the motor is working. Happy flying
How can I make my servo turn the full 180 degrees instead of the 90 it's doing now? I don't want any stabilisation, just purely rotation from the controls. :)
With the pins moving upon camstab activation, is there no longer a pin 5 for LEDS or did that move somewhere else? Would I need to use a dedicated LED micro controller?
Painless360 in your video, you show the pins 1-4 moving 2 spots and I wasn't sure which pin becomes #5. Does it still keep moving down the line (to the flip side of the board)?
+Mikey Yarbrough (Godfinder) Same here! I can change the channels to control the cam with a knob. I cant change the direction or gain the servo response! No solution?
mish111990 If you watch the video series this is touched on. There are excellent resources - the answer you seek is here - www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2319688&page=69 Best of luck.
Happy to help but please watch ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-olIqTiSJHIY.html and come back to me with more detail of what you've tried..
Hi - and thanks again for your videos. I have tried everything and cannot get servo tilt to work on my SP F3 racing flight control board. Have you had any any luck with getting servo tilt function on the SP Racing board? I don't know why but, would using SBUS have anything to do with it not working? Thanks again
+Painless360 - I figured it out, and it's worth nothing that on the SP Racing board the pitch and roll servo pins have been moved to motor output 7 & 8 rather than 1&2.
SP3 racing board DOES NOT WORK! I thought the answer was below... but, it is not mapped to pin 7/8. When I go to monitor the motors in CF you can see the pitch and roll moving on pins 1/2, but it does nothing to the servo :-(
+Scott Kelly Hi, I connected gimbal servo to M2 next to tail servo and from gui activated servo_tilt and from modes tab activated CAMSTAB mode. It works but I don't know how to control it manually :(
jarnoorasmae did you figure it out ? Have you tried fatshark goggles with head tracking yet ? I'd like to find out how that works. I haven't made a gimble before and I have a project in mind. 😊
hi mate is it possible to control the servo from 2 switches on the TX I.e a switch for arming the auto tilt but also a variable switch like the middle to on a flysky i6 to move the servo to a set degree with the twisty switch if that makes sense??
Yep, that's what an ESC is designed to do.. If you're new to R/C then there are loads of useful videos in the 'Introduction to Remote control' playlist. Best of luck!
Thanks for the reply, i meant is it possible to connect a brushless motor with an ESC instead of the servo motor so that the camera movement will be smoother ? I have seen some tutorial that connect servos to the FC as camera gimbals, but never a brushless with ESC.
i did have a try , did the same as you said in vid , but the motor outputs dont change and couldnt get servo to move , no worries , was worth a try :) thanks for taking time to reply , keep up the good work :)
+Painless360 I want to run a simple tilt gimbal and I am using a X8R receiver with a sbus to ppm converter so it can run in PPM. My question is -If the sbus to ppm goes to Pin1 where do i hook up the tilt gimbal?
+Painless360 i checked agian all the connections!!! i have enabled all the checks in the cleanflight.the servo works only the default settings because when im trying to save something else only in servo setting it doesnt allow me to do it.in the other pages of cleanflight i can use the save!!
Ive got it soldered on #2 header and the servo is powering up but not moving when I move the quad around, its just kind of locked into position, changing the servo setting in cleanflight has no effect but in the motor section both 1 and 2 servo bars do move when I move the quad.
yay I fixed it, basically you were right, im using the Naze32 Rev6 which doesnt shift the headers like on other Naze32 versions so I had to type the following commands into CLI: resource MOTOR 1 B06 resource MOTOR 2 B07 resource MOTOR 3 B08 resource MOTOR 4 B09 resource SERVO 1 A08 resource SERVO 2 A11
I ended up frying that board, I got a Matek F405-OSD Betaflight Flight Controller, bloody awesome, or the all-in-one Matek F405-AIO, even more lighterweight and compact, they seem to be ahead of the game Matek.
Painless360 I tried fitting a Camera servo but i am running into trouble. I am using baseflight and it doesn't appear to have this function. I tried installing cleanflight but it won't connect to my Naze. Apparently there are issues running cleanflight with Windows 7. Heeeeeeeeellllllpppp
I managed to get it to work eventually. For some reason my Naze takes several attempts to save settings. I have no idea what causes this. It seems very slow to save, sometimes takes a minute or so to save.
Hey Painless360, I have searched endlessly but cant find an answer. And i figured there would be no better person to ask other then you!. Im trying to have the servo work on a switch instead of tilting? I have the servo setup where it works on a switch, but the servo also uses tilting. But i just want SWITCH ONLY. Any ideas? Please i hope you have an answer for me :(
I'm trying to get this to work here for a video too - not simple as it looks is it! Once I've figured it out I'll get the video up.. If you crack it before - let me know (I think its something to do with CAMSTAB and the Servo menu)..
Got it! Pretty much same thing. 1.) Make sure motor pinout's are on 3,4,5, and 6. (In my case Ubec on pinout 2, and Servo on 1.) 2) Servo_Tilt enabled. 3) In servo tab, set user preferred min/max values, and auxiliary channel, set "Angle Min/Angle Max" to 0%, And under "Direction And Rate" set to 0%. Once Direction and Rate is set to 0% I see that axis tilts no longer influence servo control.
Happy to help but please watch ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-olIqTiSJHIY.html and come back to me with more detail of what you've tried..
