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Father, Professional Engineer, Commercial Pilot, Flight Instructor, Glider Pilot, Cyclist (racing and endurance), CEO, Embedded & Industrial Control Design and Manufacture, RC Flyer and Instructor (F3A, F3C, Turbine). Currently PhD student (in order of importance).
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Extension of professional interests to RC. RC came first. Then flying. Then engineering. Then own business. Then fatherhood and everything changed....
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"Andrew. I got the simulation working by renaming ..\MAVProxy\eggs\mavproxy-1.4.32-py2.7.egg to something arbitrary. This left ..\mavproxy-1.6.1-py2.7.egg
This was a standard windows installation, so it appears the file is a leftover from a previous…"
This was a standard windows installation, so it appears the file is a leftover from a previous…"
"Andrew, thanks for your reply. http://ardupilot.org/dev/docs/sitl-native-on-windows.html is the documentation link I used. I don't want to use the precompiled sitl because I want to make changes to ArduPlane for my research project and test them in…"
"Additional comment: sim_vehicle.sh contains a hard coded folder reference "c/users/username/documents/github/arduino". This is not good coding. I am not the only person to use c-drive ssd for boot only and d-drive as a mechanical raid array for…"
The SITL for Windows discussion appears to be dead since Feb of last year.I will post my query here in the hope it gets noticed."I setup sitl on Windows 7. I followed the recipe in the web documentation exactly. Cygwin is working fine. Mavproxy…
"Setup sitl on Windows 7. Followed the recipe in the web documentation. Cygwin working fine. Mavproxy installed without errors. Python installed. jbsim installed properly. Built the sitl versions of ArduPlane and ArduCopter sucessfully without…"
"You probably don't have a bootloader in the APM. If it is new it may have been supplied without one.
Follow the directions to install a new bootloader. You will need an FTDI dongle and some patch leads."
Follow the directions to install a new bootloader. You will need an FTDI dongle and some patch leads."
"I can't believe no one bothered to answer your query.
Yes, APM2 will work just fine as a stabilizer and you don't need to connect external sensors. I do this myself and it's a good use for old APM2s. You can even use the mode features to have…"
Yes, APM2 will work just fine as a stabilizer and you don't need to connect external sensors. I do this myself and it's a good use for old APM2s. You can even use the mode features to have…"
"Paul, the problem with measuring tank contents in an aircraft is that the fluid is subject to forces outside of the aircraft's inertial frame of reference. Put simply, the fluid sloshes around. Full size aircraft face this problem. Float sensors…"
"Nothing can drive a steeper motor, but you are correct - BGC cannot drive stepper motors. It can however drive BLDC motors in micro-stepping mode, and BLCD motors are "dirt" cheap. I did not offer a solution to George's problem of driving stepper…"
"This is a technical forum, not Facebook. You can't make unsubstantiated claims. Tell us exactly WHY it will not work. OG said:
This most definitely will not work !!! What you need is adrduino and stepper shield or steeper drivers code already out…"
This most definitely will not work !!! What you need is adrduino and stepper shield or steeper drivers code already out…"
"Here is an idea. Get any gymbal controller. There are cheap clones on eBay. These are designed to run two stepper motors in micro-stepping mode. The micro-stepping mode gives you less torque but finer resolution and is ok if you balance your…"
"Ok, now I get it. I just had a look at the perp's profile. He's a commercial vendor and my comment seems to have offended his commercial interests. I was not aware this was a site offering free advertising to vendors in exchange for appearing to…"
"So much for your friendly environment of peers. My third ever post and I am abused by another member - called "arigont" - clearly he means arrogant. What for? For posting a completely objective reply to a member's questions about a subject I know…"
"You are not "losing voltage". The device is not turned on. The circuit of the chip shows a BE junction from the output to ground. If your ground pin is floating then you would expect to see what you see now - and of course the circuit would not be…"
"I have attached a document I wrote last year which should answer the questions you have. It is a pdf version of a ppt presentation so it doesn't have all of the commentary. Essentially a modelling program was written which designs an octocopter…"
