News Raspberry Pi cinewhoop drone swoops in with a Zero 2 W to run the live video feed

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Artur Pękosz has created a custom cinewhoop drone that uses a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W to relay video feed to FPV goggles.

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[Conor Stewart]

Why thought? What advantage does this have over normal FPV systems?

Analogue video can be recorded with a DVR on the drone and digital video systems often include an SD card slot to store the video. Or if you want to record good video then you add an action camera to it.

The connection from the camera to the pi may be digital but it is probably transmitted as analogue because it is much cheaper and easier to do, meaning the resulting video probably won't be any better than normal analogue FPV cameras.

What is the latency like on the video? If it's too high it is pretty useless for flying FPV, around 30-40 ms is generally considered to be about as high as you want to go, although lower is better.

Does it add an OSD? It would probably be quite easy as it just uses a pi and camera module but it would probably add latency too.

If the pi was running a system to make the drone autonomous then it would make more sense but putting a pi in there just to record and transmit video just seems a bit pointless.