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ModeratorPermalink Reply by Sgt Ric on April 29, 2011 at 12:13pm

Between the Halo Pelican and the Avatar Scorpion, people have really begun some difficult projects!

 

It used to be that everyone wanted a Predator type UAV, but now its gone WAY beyond that.

 

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Permalink Reply by Ritchie on April 29, 2011 at 12:37pm

Avatar Scorpion is the same as the Command and Conquer Scorpion going back a decade xD

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ModeratorPermalink Reply by Sgt Ric on April 29, 2011 at 2:19pm

Cool, but before you go thinking you're an old hand at old time gaming, I remember playing command line- non-graphical games on the mainframe in the '70s.

 

 

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Permalink Reply by Ritchie on April 29, 2011 at 2:50pm

Hobbit C64 1988 with my Dad. 3 years later I was writing my own games. I'm not old old school but I am ok'd school xD

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Permalink Reply by Sebastian Gralla on April 29, 2011 at 2:36pm

i think you could go with APM, using arducopter as software base, modify it to let it yaw with servos instead of differntial speeds on specific motors

-> you have a great hovering platform now you need to make it fly forward with controled flap movement....

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Permalink Reply by Zachariah L Hanson on April 29, 2011 at 4:49pm

That would be a somewhat complicated process

 

4 ch 1 for each EDF ESC- guessing here  maybe you can get away with 3 ch 1 on each of the two front to help with roll and one on the back mostly for thrusting and monuvering, maybe look for something in I2C setup

 

4 ch more for servos to control tilt of the EDF pods.  

 

The Halo look is cool looking but not that pratical, since its a space ship. Maybe translated into a plane form so that you can gain some efficiently in forward flight,  lol but now you might as well look at making an Ospree it would be less complicated, although not simple.

 

Chances are on your setup you would need a 10-12 ch controller, some really complicated software, a major in electrical design and proramming, a 2 year supply of hot pockets and NOS energy drinks.  lmao..  I wish you much luck in a very ambitious project.  Also not sure if they make a counter rotate edf which you would need so it didnt just spin under its own tourque force.  I have seen some T shaped quads out there which dont seem to be too sable but you might be able to use something like that to get it up and transfer to a forward flight.

 

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Permalink Reply by Sebastian Gralla on April 29, 2011 at 5:04pm

when you use I2C ESCs there will be no problem with channels, yes it needs a complex code, but why not try it? :D

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Permalink Reply by Max Oltersdorf on May 26, 2011 at 9:09am

Do you know were i can find I2C ESC's?

 

Don't suppose you have any pointers for programing them?

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Permalink Reply by Sebastian Gralla on May 26, 2011 at 9:32am

the mikrokopter guys have two different models low power and high power

there are also other brands like 1hoch4

and you can use reprogram some of the standard ESCs like turnigy plush to use I2C

 

I have written an arduino demo program for controlling these ESCs, will post it later this day

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Permalink Reply by Max Oltersdorf on May 26, 2011 at 9:47am

Thank You !

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Permalink Reply by Sebastian Gralla on May 26, 2011 at 11:57am

here is the code. For any questions -> drop me a message or a mail ;)

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• I2C_Motor.pde, 1 KB

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Permalink Reply by Max Oltersdorf on May 26, 2011 at 4:38pm

Thanks

This helps alot

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