About

Location

Ontario


About Me:

Software guy RC Helicopter guy


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

Love of all flying machines for as long as I can remember - longtime RC fixed wing and Heli enthusiast. Other hobbies include electronics & photography making FPV a natural fit.


Hometown:

Ontario


Activity Feed

Rob G commented on Christiaan van Vollenstee's blog post DJI T600 Inspire - Hobbyking
"Beautiful machine - an APM / AC 3.x retrofit would a good winter project"
Nov 15, 2014
Rob G commented on bigkahuna's blog post I may have just witnessed the future of personal drones...not sure if I like it
" Michael,
I think the OP was more tolerant than most - at 5 feet away a paper cup filled with salt water or sand would have been a effective low-tech way of solving the problem :)
Rob, sorry, but I think that is the worst thing you can do...…"
Jul 22, 2014
Rob G commented on bigkahuna's blog post I may have just witnessed the future of personal drones...not sure if I like it
"I agree with the OP.
I am and have been an avid hobbyist for more than 20 years (fly, design, develop, code etc) and love FPV just as much as anyone else here but there is however a time and place for everything and an active weekend beach is not…"
Jul 22, 2014
Rob G commented on Marco Robustini's blog post "Hybrid" (PosHold) flight mode, what was missing in APM Copter now is reality!
"Thanks for the fantastic new mode guys.
Agility of AltHold but with wind compensation and smooth braking back to Loiter when sticks released + auto coordinated turns. No problems taking off and landing in this mode (did this several times this…"
Jul 14, 2014
Rob G replied to Chadel P.'s discussion Should I use PPM encoder or PPM receiver?
"Can 2 or more spektrum remote receivers be connected to the Pixhawk for a standard diversity solution?"
Jul 7, 2014
Rob G replied to Randy's discussion ArduCopter-3.2 beta testing
"Hi Guys,

Great work on 3.2.
Upgraded my APM dji 450 'beater' from 3.1.x to 3.2 beta 2 last night and took it for a spin.
Need some help analyzing the attached log.

- stab, ok - stick response seemed a bit more lively / robotic than before but good…"
Jun 26, 2014
Rob G commented on Arthur Benemann's blog post One year of DroidPlanner
"Congrats Arthur!"
Mar 21, 2014
Rob G commented on Jeff Taylor's blog post Tablet Ground Station via Bluetooth Telemetry Bridge
"Nothing yet @ltmno - I'll post something more complete as soon as time allows. 

After using it for a while I missed being able to see the green connection LED on the radio so this is now a bright case mounted red LED. Great for feedback. Pic later. "
Oct 19, 2013
Rob G commented on Jeff Taylor's blog post Tablet Ground Station via Bluetooth Telemetry Bridge
"Hi Guy, I've been using the bridge below for about 2 weeks.
I used an RN-42 based Bluetooth module (https://www.sparkfun.com/products/10393) and have had no problems with dropouts at 57kbs with a direct connection to the 3DR radio. 
There's also a…"
Oct 18, 2013
Rob G posted a discussion
Hi Guys, Need some help here...One of the guys at our club had a near flyaway today - from his account his hex was in ALT_HOLD when he lost cyclic control and it started to fly away. Fortunately the area was surrounded by trees, one of which caught…
Jul 18, 2013
Rob G commented on Joshua Ott's blog post New 3DR Products: Y6, X8, FPV kit, and APM 2.6
"Great, thanks."
Jul 11, 2013
Rob G commented on Joshua Ott's blog post New 3DR Products: Y6, X8, FPV kit, and APM 2.6
"Hi Guys, when will the new GPS enclosures be available for purchase in the store?

Thanks"
Jul 10, 2013
Rob G replied to Randy's discussion ArduCopter-3.0 ready for wider use
"Weekend with AC 3.0 (about 12 flights)

Upgrade:
Followed the instructions and upgraded my apm 2.5 dji 450 beater - everything went smoothly.
CompassMot was pretty easy too w/ a 28% interference score.
Had to adjust the PIDs a bit resulting in…"
Jun 24, 2013
Rob G replied to Daniel Estes's discussion Adjust YAW Sensitivity
"Try adding about 30% expo on your RUDD channel (on the radio) - this will soften the stick response close to center stick."
Jun 19, 2013
Rob G replied to Randy's discussion ArduCopter-3.0 ready for wider use
"Congratulations on the release.

Upgraded my 2.9.1b quad, verified the PID changes, did the compassmot cli setup (28% interference) - no issues.

Only time for a couple flights, alt hold and loiter seemed tighter. Like it so far.

Thank you all very…"
Jun 19, 2013
Rob G commented on binzi's blog post MAAT final version is being tested
"Very cool -would like to see more"
Jun 16, 2013
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