DIY TinyWhoop FPV Racing Gate with Timer

[@blakelibby2140]

Love the direction this gate is going! I think itll be very successful when you can get it to work seamlessly with tracking multiple racers times seamlessly. Also, may I suggest putting mounting holes in your base? Such as we see in chargers for power tool chargers? Then we could mount it on walls or ceilings! 😊

[@mikelbcn91]

Great project!! I also tried building a gate with ultrasonic sensors but they were not reliable or fast enough. I was using a raspberry pi. Switched to a laser sensor and it was much more reliable, but mounting it it's harder as laser and sensor need to be perfectly aligned. I have it on my todo list.. As a solution for multiple pilots, I know of a couple products that use the VTX frequency to differentiate the pilots.

[@professorboots]

Thank you! I think the laser would be a great alternative but could definitely see mounting as an issue. I’m looking into alternative methods right now

[@Harel-DIY]

well done! keep posting those cool projects! I'll make sure to take a shot at building it.

[@professorboots]

Will do! I wish you the best of luck let me know if you have any questions!

[@im_ricebowl]

dang i literally just was thinking about a whoop racegate. Thanks for sharing man! cant wait to build one myself!

[@professorboots]

Yeah it’s one of those things that just seems so right haha. And no problem my pleasure!!

[@AboveTheBigSky]

Well done John. Mind BLOWN!!!

[@professorboots]

Haha thank you! Thought you might get a kick out of it.

[@xyxy1024]

You could now connect an FC between your 5.8 GHz RX module and goggle video in, and have the OSD chip overlay lap times on top of your video feed. I did some BetaFlight hacking at some point, let me know if this is interesting to you

[@ChezzyDirt]

any progress on the gate? looks great

[@elonmoishkrl8981]

Ayyy this is a great v2 of the first one!

[@professorboots]

Eyyyyy, Thank you it was pretty fun to build and mess with!

[@13reesej]

What quadcopters are you flying in the video

[@professorboots]

Mainly a 1s flywoo firefly nano baby, and a mobula6

[@Wildest_Wahoo]

Are you still building this? I need one! 😅

[@nyder1331]

the screen should be covered fully that you can't see anything other than pixels ,it will look better and it is the right method that i think you can easly find in screen datasheet

[@NicolaiVdS]

since its a gate why not use nfc tags (or any other type of tag) to fergo the ultra sonic detectors ? i think you can create some sort of a scanner in the tube and have each racer its own tag ;)

[@NicolaiVdS]

surplus: i saw each lap is the total amount of second, would be nicer to know how long each lap took

[@professorboots]

Thank you so much for the feedback! I’ll definitely look into the nfc tags, sounds promising!

[@mikelbcn91]

Interesting, but I have my doubts that the reader is fast enough or that you can pass at a distance from the reader?

[@joegroom3195]

NFC is typically short range and gets expensive to go long range. Same with RFID. I was thinking a barcode scanner. It'd be a simple barcode sticker on the whoop, so light weight. Nothing fancy, doesn't need to be a 2D barcode. The ESP32 supports a camera and there's code to read barcodes. The question is, would the camera and recognition be fast enough to capture the barcode as it's flying through.

[@patrickrotter515]

I assume you don’t sell them anymore since I couldn’t find it on your webpage.

[@madlymortgage]

Any change your doing a multi pilot version?

[@Kylechaneymultimedia]

Dope as hell! Keep on keepin on.

[@professorboots]

Thanks man!

[@jituunggul]

Hi, do u sell it? Click on pre order not available now

[@professorboots]

I ended up taking it down, still need to work out some bugs

[@jituunggul]

@@professorbootsHi, will you able to resolve the bug and sell it soon?

[@jituunggul]

@@professorbootshope to hear from you soon

[@TheBattery00]

What happen to the pre order link? Am i too late?

[@professorboots]

I ended up taking it down because I realized there was still some things I wanted to figure out before selling it. But everything is open source of you feel like building it

[@jf5336]

Just tried to pre-order your gate and the link appears to be broken. Can you look into that? AND....tried the Discord link, but it had expired. So so frustrated!!

[@professorboots]

I’m so sorry, one of my goals this week is to go through and update all the links.

[@jf5336]

@@professorboots Thank you. I will make a purchase.

[@SeanPitts]

Amazing dude.

[@SeanPitts]

Let me know if you do another run! Subscribed.

[@localhost-steve]

Kinda sucks that you killed the links in the description result in 404... oh well.

[@sarahmiller9188]

Great!