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USE GOOGLE TO SEARCH ON DIY DRONES

Started this discussion. Last reply by iskess May 7. 5 Replies

The only way to get meaningful search results from this site is to use GOOGLE's advanced search feature to search this domain.I have a terrible time trying to search for information on this site.I'm…Continue

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Combined Pitot Tubes LEAK!

Started Jan 13 0 Replies

I hope this is the correct place for this.There seems to be an ongoing problem with the 'combined pitot tube'I refer you to this discussion       …Continue

Pitot Tube Question

Started this discussion. Last reply by Mark Colwell Apr 14. 32 Replies

I just got one of the new style pitot tubes with combined static & dynamic tubes.I noticed that if I plug the four holes around the tube and plug the hole at the tip, that there is cross flow of…Continue

 

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Chris Card replied to Hugues's discussion NEVER connect a Capacitor backup or voltage protector on APM board
"The "hidden" connections in the EagleCad drawings, for the A0-A9  5Volt power rail, and others are connected to a polygon filled are on the two inner layers,  #2 & #15. By default the they are not shown in eagle for clarity.…"
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Chris Card replied to Hugues's discussion NEVER connect a Capacitor backup or voltage protector on APM board
"I use Panasonic FR series low ESR electrolytic capacitors for my capacitor banks, along with ceramic caps in parallel with the electrolytic caps. HERE is a link to a Digi-key page showing an example of the Panasonic capacitors. Generally,…"
Wednesday
iskess replied to Chris Card's discussion USE GOOGLE TO SEARCH ON DIY DRONES
"Thank you for this post, discussion, thread...I don't even know what to call it. This site has me so damn confused I can't find anything. This is actually the only thing I HATE about the APM. I had complaints about RCGroups, but after this…"
May 7
Andreas replied to Chris Card's discussion USE GOOGLE TO SEARCH ON DIY DRONES
"Yes search is useless... But using Google Search might be possible even with Ning: http://creators.ning.com/forum/topics/how-to-add-custom-google "
Apr 25
Jonathan Gerald Pelham replied to Chris Card's discussion USE GOOGLE TO SEARCH ON DIY DRONES
"It's probably worth going to something more like a wiki format. "
Apr 25

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Mark Colwell replied to Chris Card's discussion Pitot Tube Question
"They have known about this issue since Feb 2011, but no action, QA is a mystery at 3DR. Great blog by Users, DIY QA too. "
Apr 14
Willem replied to Chris Card's discussion Pitot Tube Question
"Just got in to this, mine came last week from 3dr, and guess what, yep just the same. Whats irritate me is that 3dr knows from this faulty pitot tubes, and still go on selling them to every one. I do not call that a good service at all! Thanks for…"
Apr 14
Chris Card replied to paul riseborough's discussion A batch of faulty Pitot/Static probes - how to detect and fix in the group ArduPlane User Group
"This pitot tube problem have been going on for quite some time now. For detailed photos, see this rather old post. Pitot Tube cheers"
Apr 8
Chris Card replied to Heino R. Pull's discussion Ardustation II 2.0.17 Release for ACM 2.9.1 - Small Fixes and Additional Range/Bearing Algorithm
"Yeah, it works now! When I extract zip files, winzip puts the files in a parent folder of the same name as the archive, and I think had the files buried one folder too deep in the sketch directory, as well, all my messing around with the…"
Mar 14
Chris Card replied to Heino R. Pull's discussion Ardustation II 2.0.17 Release for ACM 2.9.1 - Small Fixes and Additional Range/Bearing Algorithm
"Hi Heino, I appreciated the work that you have put into Ardustation-ii. I have been using Arduino on off , but it seems like things change every time I take a break from it. I've never encountered this much trouble with compilers before APM…"
Mar 14

Developer
Kevin Hester replied to Chris Card's discussion Pitot Tube Question
"Thank you for this post.  I used your recipe and fixed my 3dr airspeed probe this evening..."
Mar 12
Chris Card replied to Thomas Wurdig's discussion Unfair customer service
"Hi Thomas: I certainly sympathize with your situation. It is a simple & honest error, but it is your error. This type of error has happened to me in the past too, though not with 3DR, it sucks but it happens. Certainly 3DR has it's policies…"
Mar 11
Chris Card replied to Iman Sadeghzadeh's discussion Arduplane firmware downgrade problem (V2.70 to V2.68) in the group ArduPlane User Group
"I just posted about this, before seeing your discussion. I replied in arduplane-2-70-altitude-failure I believe that some "funny-stuff"  is happening when trying to migrate parameters or by loading them from a file. I printed…"
Mar 11
Chris Card replied to Marc's discussion Arduplane 2.70 Altitude failure in the group ArduPlane User Group
"Today I was experimenting with firmware versions ( on the bench only) to see how or if the parameters in the eeprom  from one version affected  firmware settings of another.  [i.e. upgrading / downgrading firmware versions] and either…"
Mar 11
Chris Card replied to Marc's discussion Arduplane 2.70 Altitude failure in the group ArduPlane User Group
"I flew my Skywalker with APM 1.4 hardware + V2.70 firmware last Tuesday and it seemed to be holding altitude. In fact 2.70 did quite well, better than me on manual mode, considering the wind was 7 m/s  gust to 11 m/s."
Mar 10
Chris Card commented on robert mcintosh's blog post That was fun!
"+1 That was quite nice!"
Mar 10

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About Me:
I have recently re-ignited my interest in R/C airborne craft.
I think it was the FPV & AP systems that hooked me.
II work in special effects for film & T.V.
I'm no longer a kid but I still enjoy R/C boats and planes, model rockets.
I also like photography, boating (being around water), motorcycles & electronics.
Tell us a bit about your UAV interest
I am interested in doing aerial photography.
It is my hope be able to map with photos, [for example; The area around a lake], from different directions to produce a "street-view" 360 Deg PAN -TILT etc. Maybe use it to show seasonal changes over an area.
Hometown:
Toronto

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New Firmware for XBeePro900

Posted on January 5, 2011 at 10:46pm 7 Comments

I just noticed that there is a new firmware available from DIGI for the XBeePro 900MHz radios.

The new firmware #1061 has added a choice for 1 or 2 stop bits for serial I/O.

New sleep functions , could be useful ground-side but not likely needed.

There also are some new network node functions.

There are 3 more diagnostic commands and there are functions for I/O sampling.

I haven't read though the updated manual, yet, but I hope to get to this weekend if the weather… Continue

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