Gorilla Whoop Whoop
I'm learning to fly FPV drones from zero on a 21-gram tiny whoop: goggles on, seeing what the drone sees. The episodes are the story, crashes included. The guides are the steps, for anyone setting up the same drone on Linux.
Episodes
The story: learning FPV from zero on a 21-gram tiny whoop, from why I started to firmware, antennas, and a lot of crashes.
- August 9, 20265 min read
Gorilla Whoop Whoop, Episode 0: Why Would Anyone Do This
Why FPV, how 2022 changed the way I saw it, picking cheap and crash-resistant gear, 50 hours in a simulator, and a first real flight that lasted about one second.
Read post - August 30, 20266 min read
Gorilla Whoop Whoop, Episode 1: I Flashed It, I Crashed It, I Rebuild It
Three firmware targets with the same name, a throttle that worked backwards, Wi-Fi drowning out the video, turtle mode, and a damage report with photos.
Read post - October 4, 20268 min read
Gorilla Whoop Whoop, Episode 2: I Thought Antennas Were Just Fancy Sticks
The radio side of FPV: two links on two bands, what the acronyms mean, why more power isn't the answer, radio waves that spin, the connector trap, the antennas I picked, and one motor down.
Read post - October 25, 20265 min read
Gorilla Whoop Whoop, Episode 3: The Rebuild
A C-clip that wouldn't budge, two donor motors, one screw lost to the apartment, a brand-new frame, and the first flight with matched antennas: cleaner video in the same concrete building.
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Guides
The steps without the story, written after making every mistake in them at least once.
- September 13, 20268 min read
Gorilla Whoop Whoop Guide: Setting Up a BetaFPV Air75 on Linux
Betaflight 2026.6.2 on an Air75 from Linux: USB permissions, telling the three board revisions apart, flashing in DFU mode, the settings it needs, and props-off checks.
Read post - October 25, 20269 min read
Gorilla Whoop Whoop Guide: Basics of Wireless Drone Tech
The radios on an FPV drone for beginners: two links on two bands, the acronyms, channels and Wi-Fi, power in decibels, antenna gain and polarization, connectors, and realistic range.
Read post - October 25, 20267 min read
Gorilla Whoop Whoop Guide: Basics of Drone Battery Tech
Batteries for a 1S whoop: what the label means, the voltages that matter, charging and storage, cold weather, telling a healthy pack from a failing one, and a quick reference.
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Lab projects
Autonomous Drone Flight Telemetry & AI Vision Lab
Experimental sandbox combining drone flight telemetry logging with lightweight computer vision models to test real-time object tracking and spatial mapping over varied outdoor terrain.
Key Outcome: Engineered real-time GPS telemetry synchronization with video frames, establishing an extensible testbed for autonomous edge inference.
ALT: 120m • SPD: 14m/s • GPS: LOCK (14 SAT)