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Tim V commented on Nick Sargeant's blog post 100km+ in the X-UAV Mini Talon
"Great job Nick!!!
How about posting this accomplishment on discuss.ardupilot.org as well?"
Sep 12, 2016
Tim V replied to Dardanian Dundillinger's discussion Mission Planner's Terminal tab just outputs garbled random characters in perpetuity. PICS
"Search for the cli_enable parameter, change it from 0 to 1, and access to terminal works.  It was not removed, it was disabled by default."
Jul 2, 2016
Tim V replied to Dardanian Dundillinger's discussion Mission Planner's Terminal tab just outputs garbled random characters in perpetuity. PICS
"Search for the cli_enable parameter, change it from 0 to 1, and access to terminal works.  It was not removed, it was disabled by default."
Jul 2, 2016
Tim V commented on Andrew Tridgell's blog post APM:Plane 3.6.0 released
"Tom,
Yeah, not too concerned with that particular platform.  More interested in the concept, as shown in the link in the previous comment.
So, to your knowledge, tail sitter config is not supported on Pixhawk/APM3.6, correct?

Thanks!"
Jun 15, 2016
Tim V commented on Andrew Tridgell's blog post APM:Plane 3.6.0 released
"Hello Andrew,
Does the above apply to the tail sitter/lander/landing configuration as well, as noted in the configuration below?
http://dev.px4.io/airframes-vtol-caipiroshka.html
Thanks!"
Jun 15, 2016
Tim V commented on Andrew Tridgell's blog post APM:Plane 3.6.0 released
"Great work guys!!!"
Jun 10, 2016
Tim V commented on Volta Robots's blog post 4Gmetry - telemetry over 4G
"@Silvio,
what will be coming in 4Gmetry 4?"
Jun 5, 2016
Tim V commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Reach RTK GPS can now embed ground control points in imagery
"Here are the items I used depicted in the picture above.  Also noted and referenced here
https://community.emlid.com/t/hot-shoe-integration/2539/3

Standard hot shoe Sony adapter

www.amazon.com

Promaster Sony/Maxxum to Standard Hot Shoe Adapter…"
May 12, 2016
Tim V commented on Bernt Christian Egeland's blog post Navio+, Awsome flight controller from Emlid. Tested with 4G Cellular communications
"There needs to be a way of connecting to a cloud based host to pass the traffic, from UAV to cloud host to laptop/gcs in the field.  That is the issue, correct?"
Apr 6, 2016
Tim V commented on Jani Hirvinen's blog post New ArduPilot.org Discussion Forums Online
"THE NEW SITE KICKS ASS!!!  Great job on setting up the discuss.ardupilot.org!!!!"
Mar 27, 2016
Tim V replied to Tim V's discussion MP - Plan segments
"Not clear on what you mean by defining the start point.  Here is what I do;
1.  Polygon, Simple Grid, Split into 3 segments, Accept
2.  There are additional WP's in the lower dialogue box, with RTL's and Takeoff's.
3.  Write mission
4.  Take off and…"
Feb 29, 2016
Tim V replied to Tim V's discussion MP - Plan segments
"Copter.
So, currently no documentation then?"
Feb 29, 2016
Tim V commented on Emlid's blog post New Raspberry Pi 3 with 64-bit cores and built-in Wi-Fi and BLE
"^^^^^^^^WHAT HE SAID!!!  Thank you RP!!!"
Feb 28, 2016
Tim V replied to Tim V's discussion MP - Plan segments
"I did.
Landed, swapped the batt, started up in stab, transitioned to loiter, then auto, which it them proceeded to WP1 and began all over again.
Did this twice, both times going to auto, mission started over again at WP1.
Is there any documentation…"
Feb 27, 2016
Tim V posted a discussion
Has anybody used or know where the documentation is which explains the use of "Split into x segments" on the simple grid mission plan?http://prntscr.com/a82ugzUsing MP 1.3.35.Thanks in advance.
Feb 27, 2016
Tim V replied to Patrick Poirier's discussion Proposal for companion system architecture in Companion Computer Working Group
"Patrick,

Thanks for the reply, and all you have noted make perfect sense.  That said, it all makes for some exciting times in the robotics tech arena!  The new DOT COM play.  :)
I will be receiving some of the Navio2's and would be interested in…"
Feb 21, 2016
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