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Male


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Wilen, SZ


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

General interest in all FC's available. Tested Feyutech, quadpowered, NAZA, MWII, Naze32 - now onto APM


Hometown:

Zurich


Activity Feed

Sam Grob replied to Alex's discussion Solo -- availability Europe in 3DR SOLO
"Think I'll wait till some reputable reseller in Europe has them - not a fish-and-chips shop ...
3DR never really cared about Europe in the past, was hoping they would shape up a bit with the SOLO, but alas ...."
Jul 7, 2015
Sam Grob commented on AKRCGUY's blog post 3D Robotics IRIS+ Mapping & Follow-Me Demo
"Just to not confuse people, I assume you hit the "Follow" button, the "Dronie" button does a short away-and-back auto mission."
Oct 12, 2014
Sam Grob replied to Randy's discussion ArduCopter-3.2 beta testing
"Quite funny, it was actually the "Check for updates" button that messed up my installation of MP 1.3.10
Updated to 1.3.10.1 (Beta) and all is good again ;-)"
Sep 29, 2014
Sam Grob replied to Randy's discussion ArduCopter-3.2 beta testing
"Has PosHold been renamed to Position between RC9 and RC 10 ? I had been using flight mode 16 "Pos Hold" and now it seems to no longer exist ??"
Sep 28, 2014
Sam Grob replied to Randy's discussion ArduCopter-3.2 beta testing
"Point taken. Last time I looked I got the impression I would have to somehow select/declare all modes I would like to have simple mode active, so I used reset-to-armed-yaw - seemed less complicated then. I will re-visit  GUI/docs and reorganize my…"
Sep 9, 2014
Sam Grob replied to Randy's discussion ArduCopter-3.2 beta testing
"All of the modes please. This for me is fallback in itself - to regain a sense of orientation if anything goes wrong in any mode.
Don't have much time to think about whether the mode I happen to be in at the moment is possibly enabled for the good…"
Sep 9, 2014
Sam Grob replied to Randy's discussion ArduCopter-3.2 beta testing
"Your frame looks to be extremely similar to mine (Xplorer Pro 500, see http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1994987) - isolated sections and all.  Have been flying it with APM 2.6 and now PixHawk, firmwares from 3.1.xx to now 3.2RCxx.…"
Aug 14, 2014
Sam Grob replied to Matthew Bradley's discussion 3.2 PosHold (Hybrid) not working
"Same here (3.2 RC3) on APM 2.52. All modes working fine including Loiter. Hybrid (now PosHold) not holding position. Auto-Tune working very "sporadic" - sometimes almost a minute between iterations, see attached log (switched by C8). Was unable to…"
Jul 20, 2014
Sam Grob replied to Hugues's discussion How to assign a receiver channel as a pass-thru Pixhawk ? in ArduCopter User Group
"Randy, let me first say thanks for the huge amount of work the devs and especially you put into this. I am in no position to try to influence the priorities on the "to-do-list". 
But this feature - a simple, straight, no hacks , no crutches passthru…"
Mar 20, 2014
Sam Grob replied to Rolf Blomgren's discussion APM MavLink to FrSky X8R S.Port converter
"Problem found and fixed. A teacher once said to me "start with the basics" - was a break in the TX  cable I used, how embarrassing ...
BTW I am also running a 3DR power module (4S batt in my case) - my IO voltage measures 4,96 V. Pretty close but…"
Mar 6, 2014
Sam Grob replied to Rolf Blomgren's discussion APM MavLink to FrSky X8R S.Port converter
"Got a small problem with the initialization routine.
If i connect Teensy alone to APM telemetry port (RX, TX and GND) I receive no data at all on my Taranis (LED is on, flickering)
If however i connect Teensy in parallel with the 3DR radio…"
Mar 3, 2014
Sam Grob commented on David Dewey's blog post New SplineNav 0.3: Smoother Yaw, and Manual Yaw Override
"This is the feature that would set APM apart from all other FCs. Why is this getting no love from the APM devs ? Don't they want DJI to have sleepless nights ?
:-)"
Jan 17, 2014
Sam Grob commented on Sue Rosenstock's blog post Pixhawk is Ready for Takeoff
"I certainly hope that a bit of that new abundant processing power goes into spline navigation. It amazes me how marketing does not realize what nugget they are sitting on ;-)"
Dec 18, 2013
Sam Grob replied to Andrew Tridgell's discussion APMrover2 2.43 released in ArduRover User Group
"Is the compassmot setup feature disabled in APMrover ? I was going to do it like in copter but did not see it in CLI
With all these high power lines it might be worth a try ?"
Nov 3, 2013
Sam Grob replied to Andrew Tridgell's discussion APMrover2 2.43 released in ArduRover User Group
"Excellent work, made me build a rover based on a Maverick 4WD electric chassis. Works like a charm now - navigation precision almost down to centimeters. Used default params - NAVL1_Period now at 8, will next try to raise that since I have a minor…"
Oct 20, 2013
Sam Grob replied to Jonas Hii's discussion ArduCopter throttle problem when armed
"Are you using 3.0.1 or a later (Beta) version ?
This will be the standard behaviour in future, already implemented starting with 3.1RC2"
Oct 17, 2013
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