Have you ever driven a racer in the rain? This is obviously not recommended, at all, because electronics are not friends with humidity. Yet with components entrenched behind a fairing and a bit of insulation, it is possible to drive even if the weather decides otherwise. There remains another concern: in the rain, with a racer, the drops of water on the FPV camera are painful! You can try using products that prevent water from settling on a surface, but that doesn't work very well.
The solution ?
It was imagined by Dima Tsvetkov. His name means something to you? Remember, he had proposed propellers to be printed in TPU! (see here). Its assembly is quite simply a wiper for racer. It is based on a servo, an arm and a small brush. The magic of its editing? He included the instructions to integrate manual or automatic scan to radio controls under OpenTX! The Lens Wiper, a good joke or a really usable project? It's up to you…depending on the weather at your location! The description of the project and the files to download can be found on Thingiverse.
Thanks to Christopher for the info!
This post could have waited until April 1st :p
LOL ! It's great !!
I adore :-))
Too bad, we can't see what it looks like in the mask, but the idea is nice 🙂
only missing an automatic rain sensor and that's good!! 🙂
funny funky but personal I delicately rub a small hydrophobic product and it does the job it's not perfect but at least nothing passes in front of the cam ^^
Very good idea, just don't crash violently otherwise everything will be shattered ^^.
Has anyone ever tested something like RainX?
Could it also stick if you fly fast?
Dima flies in snowstorms in Russia.
I think it will help him.
A good solution is to reverse the direction of the propellers.
It works well for light rain, but there you have to protect the card well because the air flow leads all to the edges of the racer.
It is enormous !!!!!!