Walkera's latest: Micro Racer Rodeo 150
1Walkera recently announced their latest entry into the Racer market with the Rodeo 150. Not quite half the size of the Runner 250, they tout this one as being stable enough for indoor flight, fast and powerful enough for outdoor racing. They’re also claiming an optimized camera and VTX circuit with significantly reduced video lag.
Currently the RTF version is available in black or white from the usual Chinese vendors at a price of about $230 and includes the Rodeo with integrated camera and VTX, battery, charger, and Devo 7 transmitter.
I’ve been wanting to build a little 150 or smaller FPV drone for indoor flight. Might be giving this a shot after I finish clearing out my current fleet.
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it’s soooooo cute!
I have the parts to build the TWiT 150 (sub 250g FPV racer), but haven’t managed to find the time. Lord knows I don’t need another Devo transmitter, cute as this thing is.
@fultonmartin Did that happen to you too? I have four Devo 7, a 7e and a F12e. They just seemed to sprout like weeds somehow.
@ruouttaurmind I actually bought a 7e because somebody reviewed it as a good, solid, small, cheap transmitter that could be loaded with alternate firmware–even though I already had three full-size xmitters bound to all my UAVs, plus all the proprietary ones. I’ve yet to use it…
@fultonmartin Have you done the Deviation conversion on it yet? I got the 7e for the same reason. Planning on fussing around with Deviation. Not sure why, exactly. I’m not seeing any advantage for my particular use. But maybe after I play with it a bit I’ll start to see the potential.
@ruouttaurmind Yup, Deviation was the main reason–I did the ‘upgrade,’ but wasn’t at all familiar with the stock firmware, so didn’t recognize any improvement. Apparently you can control some of the ‘toy’ copters, so if you had a bunch of them, you could throw those transmitters away, and if you add some hardware, you can throw away your (my) FlySky, too. If time ever hangs heavy, I may do that, but it would be more to see that it works than for any real advantage it would give me.
Any of you duders pick up the Rodeo 150? The Cheerson CX10 are all in disrepair. Looking for something a little bigger, but…smaller!
@sportykev For indoor flight? Or outside?
I have a Syma X1 that’s basically the same feature set as the CX-10, but has about a 12 inch wheelbase. Small enough to fly inside, and stable enough to fly outside. It only weighs about 50g, so light enough that it can’t do much damage inside. The downside though, doesn’t do well in the wind outside. Super stable flyer though. Very controllable. And durable! I’ve beat the tar out of mine and it just keeps going.