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Toronto


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Building a variable pitch quadcopter.


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Canada


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Vladimir Kvitnevskiy commented on Nik's blog post New UAV design to advance commercial applications
"Should that be "nikita@" instead of "niktia@"?"
Apr 24, 2018
Vladimir Kvitnevskiy commented on Kirill's blog post SmartAP Power Distribution Board
"How much current can the 5V rail provide? Asking because I'm wondering if it will power a vTX or some power-hungry servos."
Apr 17, 2017
Vladimir Kvitnevskiy commented on YC's blog post iPad LCD as Displayport monitor
"Are these for sale?"
Apr 13, 2017
Vladimir Kvitnevskiy commented on Joe Renteria's blog post Helicopter Concept
"The mounted brushless motors need power. For that, you could use a slip ring in your shaft, every other idea seems harder to implement. I'd assume they would still be pretty hard to put together for a prototype."
Nov 22, 2016
Vladimir Kvitnevskiy commented on Randy Sonnicksen's blog post Multi-Rotor Scalability
"Neat analysis. I like that someone went out of their way to document this stuff.
The last sentence, "This is primarily due to the exponential increase in the polar inertia of the rotor blade", leaves a bad taste. P^5 is not exponential, 5^P is. If…"
Apr 23, 2016
Vladimir Kvitnevskiy commented on Hugues's blog post Easter chickens could care less about Hobbyking's carbon fiber tubes...
"Hey Gary,

Can you show an example of your o-ring clamps? For the quad frames I have (tarot fy650, HK talon v2), they don't have any rubber between the aluminum clamps and the carbon fiber tubes."
Mar 26, 2016
Vladimir Kvitnevskiy commented on Hugues's blog post Easter chickens could care less about Hobbyking's carbon fiber tubes...
"Personally, I order from alibaba. The two problems are minimum order quantities (depends on seller) and shipping fees.
I found Dragon Plate to be more expensive, although I'm sure their quality is sky-high. Also, their metric selection was lacking…"
Mar 26, 2016
Vladimir Kvitnevskiy commented on Hugues's blog post Easter chickens could care less about Hobbyking's carbon fiber tubes...
"A while back I bought a 12mm x 500mm carbon tube (circular, not square) from hobbyking to compare against the same size tubes from a carbon fiber supplier. HK's tube flexed way more (5x?), and weighed more, too."
Mar 26, 2016
Vladimir Kvitnevskiy commented on Gabor H's blog post Galileo arrived with recent FW update for u-blox 8 series users
"The 2.01 release notes [1] say that the firmware filename is UBLOX_M8_201.89cc4f1cd4312a0ac1b56c790f7c1622.bin. If you modify my 3.01 link with the new filename, you get https://www.u-blox.com/sites/default/files/UBLOX_M8_201.89cc4f1cd43..."
Feb 1, 2016
Vladimir Kvitnevskiy commented on Gabor H's blog post Galileo arrived with recent FW update for u-blox 8 series users
"Just flashed my M8N from ublox. Works fine withi u-center, all the new features seem to be there.

Make sure you use u-center 8.20 and the flash.xml from 8.20 as well.

Direct link to the…"
Feb 1, 2016