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3D RoboticsPermalink Reply by Chris Anderson on May 26, 2008 at 4:10pm

I'm not familiar with this board/platform. It's a quadcopter controller, yes? But then you mention a "rudder"...I'm confused.



Howard, one for you?

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Permalink Reply by Howard Gordon on May 26, 2008 at 6:23pm

I don't know the details of the UAVP except for their I2C ESC's. With the X3D-BL, the calibration process is really critical, and my guess is that there is a similar setup process for UAVP. UAVP has a really active forum, and while most of the threads are in German, they have an English section as well - http://forum.uavp.ch/

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Permalink Reply by Victor on May 27, 2008 at 4:00am

Thanks. Sorry, the Rudder / Yaw .

I tried to find the UAVP forum, was unable. Thanks

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Permalink Reply by Howard Gordon on May 27, 2008 at 7:21am

http://forum.uavp.ch/viewforum.php?f=26

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Permalink Reply by Jim Solinski on March 9, 2010 at 5:58am

Hi Victor and All,
It has been almost two years since you last posted, but I thought I would give you an update on the current UAVP open source project that was generously started by Dr Wolfgang Mahringer. It is still alive and has taken on new life with a complete code update and rewrite by Dr. Greg Egan and is now called the UAVX. It keeps the original ability of the board to be used in a quadrocopter and tricopter configuration with a firmware change, the baro altitude hold, the ability to use standard and I2c ESCs, and a compass for solid heading hold and gyro compensated pitch and roll for Aerial Video Photography. In addition, Prof Egan has kept the "keep it simple and low cost" philosophy of the original design, enhanced flight performance and added GPS position hold and return to home and auto land capability. In the works are waypoint navigation and firmware that will allow for taking advantage of the new PIC's 40hz processing speed. The active forum for this project is here: http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1093510 To use the new firmware you must replace the 16F876 PIC with a plug-in replaceable 18F2620 PIC. The parts are all available from a shop in California: www.quadroufo.com. The UAVX project is truly open source. The code and WIKI is at our Google code site: http://code.google.com/p/uavp-mods/ We are a friendly group who enjoy helping all newcomers interested in our fun project;)
Cheers,
Jim
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Permalink Reply by Victor on March 9, 2010 at 5:34pm

Thanks. My Quadro is hanging on the wall, I was waiting till something came along that would help simplify the way the board works. I tried every setting I could, and never could get it to fly. so i gave up on it. Now maybe I might be able to set it up properly and actually use it. I will look into the info you posted. Thanks again.

Victor

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