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Aereal photography, Athonomous flight


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Eric-Jan Swinkels posted photos
Jan 6, 2014
Eric-Jan Swinkels commented on Oliver's blog post A $109 GoodLuckBuy Brushless Gimbal for the H3 GoPro
"@ Richard: I havehad it working with 2s and 3s batteries without any problem. Somewhere in my previous posts I mentioned where you can find tuning information. Worked fine for me, and I am not an expert at all."
Sep 12, 2013
Eric-Jan Swinkels commented on Oliver's blog post A $109 GoodLuckBuy Brushless Gimbal for the H3 GoPro
"I think I heard that same noise when I was tuning PID at some point. It did go away when I reached the (for me) optimal settings."
Sep 10, 2013
Eric-Jan Swinkels commented on Oliver's blog post A $109 GoodLuckBuy Brushless Gimbal for the H3 GoPro
"@mP1: yes, this refers to the GUI that is included in the zipfiles that you can download here: http://code.google.com/p/brushless-gimbal/downloads/list
This is a maual i found as well:…"
Aug 26, 2013
Eric-Jan Swinkels commented on Oliver's blog post A $109 GoodLuckBuy Brushless Gimbal for the H3 GoPro
"I have had it working with directly connecting a 2S lipo. Currently mine runs on a 3S and I read you can go up tp 6S but I am not going to try that. No bec required."
Aug 19, 2013
Eric-Jan Swinkels commented on Oliver's blog post A $109 GoodLuckBuy Brushless Gimbal for the H3 GoPro
"Just for the record... In the Pitch and Roll tab the RC portion of the screen is used to set the manual Pitch and Roll functionality (if you connect a lead to A1 and ground you can use a second free channel to use for manual roll)
The RC-Channel is…"
Aug 19, 2013
Eric-Jan Swinkels commented on Oliver's blog post A $109 GoodLuckBuy Brushless Gimbal for the H3 GoPro
"Turns out that I was mistaking a lead to be ground.. It wasn't. Now I have the manual pitch on channel 8 of my Turnigy 9X working as well!"
Aug 19, 2013
Eric-Jan Swinkels commented on Oliver's blog post A $109 GoodLuckBuy Brushless Gimbal for the H3 GoPro
"Randy, there is only one lead going to the receiver, not to your Naza! It is intended to enable manual tilt but I have not got it working yet..."
Aug 19, 2013
Eric-Jan Swinkels commented on Oliver's blog post A $109 GoodLuckBuy Brushless Gimbal for the H3 GoPro
"Hi Richard, It is my understanding that PID's differ gratly between versions. Below are my settings for Roll and Pitch. Please note hat both motos are reversed. Hope this is of help to you."
Aug 18, 2013
Eric-Jan Swinkels commented on Oliver's blog post A $109 GoodLuckBuy Brushless Gimbal for the H3 GoPro
"Hi Oliver. The controller is based on an Arduino, much like the APM is. I found this usefull info on RC groups: http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1901828. I think it tells you all you need to know.
Best,
Eric"
Aug 18, 2013
Eric-Jan Swinkels commented on Oliver's blog post A $109 GoodLuckBuy Brushless Gimbal for the H3 GoPro
"Sure looks good! I have the same gimbal and it is certainly not bad at all. The controller is the Martinez open source controller and gui and software can be found here: http://code.google.com/p/brushless-gimbal/downloads/list.

I was not yet able…"
Aug 18, 2013
Eric-Jan Swinkels replied to Andreas's discussion ESC arming issue (Turnigy Plush 40)
"Same problem here, i have it only with my 2.0 board and Turnigy Plush 30 escs. For now i am using a separate battery to power up the apm before aplying lipo to the escs but hopefully a fix will be created for this.

Thanks!

Eric"
Aug 11, 2013
Eric-Jan Swinkels replied to Eric-Jan Swinkels's discussion No connection through Mavlink 1.0 (1.2.50 - 2.9.1b)
"So the problem is that the APM get's stuck in ESC calibration mode, which obviously freezes the access to the board through Mavlink. It appears to be limited to be limited to ArduCopter 2.9.1.b. If I install other software, it seems to be working…"
May 17, 2013
Eric-Jan Swinkels replied to Eric-Jan Swinkels's discussion No connection through Mavlink 1.0 (1.2.50 - 2.9.1b)
"Any thoughts anyone?"
May 16, 2013
Eric-Jan Swinkels posted a discussion
Hi all,On the forum I only came accross one topic that resembles my problem but I am pretty sure that the resolution in that tread will not help me at all. I have upgraded to 2.9.1.b (hexa) through USB. this process completed without any…
May 15, 2013
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Aug 8, 2012
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