Eirik Mikkelsen's Page
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- About Me:
- I used to be a programmer by trade (C, Fortran, Haskell, Common Lisp, Python, Ruby on Linux, *BSD and QNX RTOS). At the age of 32 I decided to go back to university, and now I have completed a BS in physics and is currently writing my master thesis in theoretical cosmology. I have loved flying machines since as long as I can remember.
- Tell us a bit about your UAV interest
- I'm building a quad copter based on APM2.5. The quad is now complete, and I have a stack of XPS foam which is waiting to be cut into a flying wing UAV.
Eirik Mikkelsen's Blog
Self-built flying wing
Posted on September 7, 2012 at 3:00am 13 Comments 2 Likes
One of the glass fibre arms of my quad shattered after repeated hard landings on a hard-wood floor, so I have some carbon fibre replacement arms on order. Meanwhile I thought it would be fun to experiment with foam cutting and trying to build a plane from scratch. With inspiration from MyGeekShow I decided to build a…
Continue Update on first APM 2 quad build
Posted on August 31, 2012 at 6:08am 4 Comments 5 Likes
This is an update to my previous post about bulding my first quad copter. Finally the most important packages from China & Hong Kong has arrived, containing the motors and the new Hobbywing Quattro 20A ESC / 3A BEC.
I have also purchased the Turnigy 9x which was quickly updated to the ER9X…
Continue Building my first quad UAV
Posted on August 18, 2012 at 6:00am 2 Comments 1 Like
Just thought I'd write a post describing my first quad build.
Parts list:
- Hobbywing (or clone?) X-450 glass fiber frame (205 g), x-configuration
- APM 2.5 with U-BLOX GPS
- Electron 6 channel 35 MHz receiver (Hitec Optic 6 transmitter)
- Hobbywing Quattro 4x20A switching ESC (no power…
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