Note bolts do not interfere with the traces on the top plate.Īt this point you can install the carbon tube rail system on top of the TBS Discovery. You can easily make some out of thin wood or an old gift card. The bolts that hold the tube holders on are a little long for the Discovery so I 3D printed some spacers. If your gimbal does not have a way to mount to rails then space the carbon tubes to your liking so you can improvise a mounting method. If you are using my 3D printed gimbal design, the center to center distance of the carbon tubes should be 68mm, but make sure to check in case yours varies. The mounts will have to be spaced to fit the mounting points of your gimbal if your gimbal has them. You have to be careful though because there are traces in the top plate for receiver connections you probably don’t want to destroy or short out by drilling through. To mount the tube holders you need to drill holes through the top plate of the TBS Discovery. Of course you can use any size tube mount and tube depending on what is available and the size of your gimbal. GetFPV has these 10mm carbon tubes that will serve as the rails. You can buy the tube mounts individually, but they will probably cost more. Hobbyking sells these 10mm carbon tube holders as part of a battery mounting system. Starting with the rail system I sourced the following parts. An additional problem is the Discovery is not very tall, so leg extensions have to be added to give the gimbal clearance. To mount a three axis gimbal the solution is to add rails to the top plate of the discovery, from which the gimbal can hang from. TBS Discovery Pro Credit: Team Blacksheep Original TBS Discovery Credit: Team Blacksheep
#Tbs discovery pro gimbal when plugged in mod#
At the moment there is no three axis gimbal version of the TBS Discovery, which is why this mod exists. Team Blacksheep later released the TBS Discovery Pro which incorporates a two axis gimbal. It utilizes a small ledge on the front of the frame to hard mount a GoPro and a FPV camera. The original TBS Discovery was never designed for a gimbal. Unfortunately I do not know the name of the person behind it, but all credit for this mod should go to them. I came across a great project and website documenting a TBS Discovery 3-axis gimbal mod. On YouTube, one user left a comment asking Team BlackSheep if it had "permission to make those flights." "That's not a place I would like to get caught breaking any of their laws," the user wrote.Back in the fall of 2015 I was debating airframes to carry a three axis gimbal. Federal Aviation Administration, which had fined him for using drones to shoot a promotional video (the FAA is appealing).īut while many in the drone community applaud the stunning videos made by Team BlackSheep and others, some wonder if they could backfire and lead to unnecessarily tough regulation if one day a drone causes an accident and hurts someone. Team leader Raphael "Trappy" Pirker might be feeling confident lately, having won a favorable court ruling against the U.S. Team BlackSheep flies its own custom quadrotor, called the TBS Discovery Pro, which has a fully stabilized camera gimbal and range of 500 meters to 3 kilometers (with a more powerful transmitter and antenna, users can supposedly extend the range to some 10 kilometers). To get an idea of how tall this thing is, consider that you have to stack two Empire State Buildings to get one Burj Khalifa! And by "high altitude view" we mean, holy sheep, the drone flies above the antenna atop the building. The video includes a high altitude view of the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world at 829.8 meters (2,722 feet). This time they have their camera-enabled quadrotor shooting some spectacular footage in the skies of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. Team BlackSheep is back with another of its dubiously legal but undoubtedly epic aerial drone videos.
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