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Male


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Mountain View, CA


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

15 years ago in college I was a member of our aerial robotics team at UCSD competing in the IARC competitions with an RC helicopter. Last year I got a quadcopter kit and now I'm having fun mostly imagining what I can do with it.


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David Cheney replied to Scott Berfield's discussion Trouble building ArduCopter code
"Is there any resolution on this? I also get these errors when trying to compile with the Arduino.app from ArduPilot-Arduino-1.0.3-Mac.zip on the download site. I also suspected the Exclude Core directive, and I'm about to go downgrade to 1.0.2 to…"
Jan 22, 2013
David Cheney posted a discussion
I'm attempting to integrate an HC-SR04 sonar range finder into my APM 1.x quadcopter rig. It doesn't really fit into the model used for the other sonar drivers as it doesn't have a analog proportional voltage output, instead it uses a trigger and…
Jan 15, 2013
David Cheney replied to herve pellarin's discussion ultrasonic HC-SR04 suitable for arducopter?
"also, this deserves a cross reference here I think:
http://www.multiwii.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1033&star..."
Dec 28, 2012
David Cheney replied to herve pellarin's discussion ultrasonic HC-SR04 suitable for arducopter?
"I'm working on a solution for this. The current MaxsonarXL implementation uses a generic analog source reader with a default median filter. The interface returns centimeters, so a simple wrapper around i.e. the New-Ping library might work, but I'm…"
Dec 28, 2012
David Cheney replied to David Cheney's discussion a plethora of ESC problems, beep behavior
"finally found the data sheet in the store pages: http://stuff.storediydrones.com/ESC%20Manual.pdf"
Oct 19, 2012
David Cheney posted a discussion
I've just finished building my first quadcopter using a kit that's about a year old (APM 1.x). I calibrated all four motors using the manual method (auto-calibration didn't work) and had one successful test run where all four motors responded to…
Sep 30, 2012