About

Gender

Male


Location

Springfield, MO


About Me:

Background mainly in film production. I've been building and flying multirotors for a couple of years. I've recently taken on the job of collecting ndvi imagery of crops for a local precision agricultural company.


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

Aerial Filming, crop stress imaging, mapping


Hometown:

Washington, MO


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Chris B posted a discussion
This X8+ was briefly used as a mapping platform and has flown only a handful of missions. Like new condition. Extra props are included but no ground station radio. Originally paid over $1700. Asking for $1300 obo. Buyer pays shipping…
Jul 8, 2015
Chris B replied to Simon Walker's discussion Problems with DJI E600 ESC / Motors not starting together with PixHawk
"Can anyone share their starting PID values for the E800 kit with an extended Tarot 680pro? "
Jun 19, 2015
Chris B replied to Raphael Aguirre's discussion ESC init problems with Pixhawk and Tmotor Air 40A
"According to the Air 40A ESC manual, those other two aren't receiving a output signal from the throttle channel from the receiver. So it might actually be a ESC calibration issue. I don't have much experience with Futaba products so I don't know if…"
Jun 19, 2015
Chris B replied to Raphael Aguirre's discussion ESC init problems with Pixhawk and Tmotor Air 40A
"hmmm...thats pretty interesting. Maybe you could flash your pixhawk with the latest stable version of arducopter and start from scratch. I would also check the continuity of each of your solder joints. Also check your RC_3 MIN and MAX PWM values…"
Jun 18, 2015
Chris B replied to Raphael Aguirre's discussion ESC init problems with Pixhawk and Tmotor Air 40A
"They should work fine together. I use the Tmotor Air 40A ESC with Tmotor 580kv motors and a Pixhawk FC. I used the all-at-once ESC calibration method listed on the Ardupilot wiki page. http://copter.ardupilot.com/wiki/initial-setup/esc-motor/
I…"
Jun 18, 2015
Chris B replied to Darrel Maddy's discussion Mission planner camera control,Sony A5000 and gentWIRE_FOCUS
"I currently use a GentWire Focus cable to trigger my Sony A5100 using MP. You have to configure the camera trigger option to a "servo" and set the pwm value to 1800 or so. You have to mess around with the PWM values to get the camera to trigger…"
Apr 15, 2015
Chris B commented on Gary Mortimer's blog post 3D Robotics introduces Solo, the world’s first smart drone
"More
Quote:

Originally Posted by Jason Short
Props are 10 x 4.5





Quote:

The Pixhawk 2 is a refined version of pixhawk1, the dual processor flight controller we have today. But it has internal damping and 3 IMU's which are used to for…"
Apr 13, 2015
Chris B commented on Gary Mortimer's blog post 3D Robotics introduces Solo, the world’s first smart drone
"sourced from a thread on RC Groups 
Ok, Jason Short is on the Solo FB page answering a lot of questions. He's an actual 3DR employee.
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Production units have 2DBi omni directional diversity antennas. We opted for that to give users the ability…"
Apr 13, 2015