About

Gender

Male


Location

Caldwell, ID


About Me:

I love DIY and things that fly, started when I was 15 making my own rocket motors, got my first computer around the same time and now I am an NOC engineer and still love building things myself.


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

I simply love things that fly and I love computers.


Hometown:

Caldwell


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jackson.eyton replied to jackson.eyton's discussion Syma X1 Conversion
"Oh.. sad day. No love for me today. *bump*"
Jul 16, 2013
jackson.eyton replied to jackson.eyton's discussion Syma X1 Conversion
"Perhaps I should explain my main goal... I would like to work on a small drone that would fly through grape vineyards at a scheduled time carrying a few simply sensors and catalog the data from the sensors with the current GPS coordinates. The drone…"
Jul 15, 2013
jackson.eyton replied to jackson.eyton's discussion Syma X1 Conversion
"Oh!!! So the telemetry is definitely for wireless programming right? Where the radio controller such as a FlySky should work for control? I presume that there is a manual flight mode switch on the APM? At this point it looks like it might just be…"
Jul 15, 2013
jackson.eyton replied to jackson.eyton's discussion Syma X1 Conversion
"So in further research it appears that I would likely need an APM 2.5 preferably with GPS. What I'm not sure about is the Telemetry and power connectors. The battery that comes with the X1 is a standard JST connector which the APM comes with either…"
Jul 15, 2013
jackson.eyton posted a discussion
Hi All, its been a while since I have been on here. I got me a Syma X1 quad RC. It love the thing, very simple and tough. I was curious if anyone has converted one of these to be a drone or if anyone has experience converting traditional RC quads…
Jul 15, 2013
jackson.eyton posted a discussion
Has anyone used this?http://store.diydrones.com/PhoneDrone_Board_p/br-phonedrone.htm It seems to me that with this board and an android phone you can have all the sensors of the phone and the processor of the phone actually handle the flight…
Sep 30, 2011