Hey Everyone, my name is Justin Cunningham and I'm a member of the flight team at 3D Robotics. I have been working for the company since the beginning of last May, and it has been, BY FAR, the best job I've ever had. I started out in production, so that means some of those GPS, radio telemetry,…

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In Robots Podcast #126, interviewer Per talks with Gurvinder Virk about his…

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I have measured very good Zaccel vibrations with this mounting system. It consists of a suspended acrylic base plate (3mm thick) on which a silicon pad (6mm thick) is placed. The APM case is placed on it with a little pressure from a velcro band.

The O-rings go through holes on each corner of…

Making a 3D model of something with pictures isn't something new to most of us, but there have been a lot of people getting into drones recently and I wanted to show something useful you can do with your drone. Autodesk's 123D Catch has a very useful feature not everyone knows about; Once you have your 3D…

3DR ArduCopter kits are back in stock at the 3D Robotics store. The kits have gone through a slight redesign both in mechanical design and documentation. Our new facility in Tijuana, Mexico as well as better suppliers for parts have allowed us to greatly improve the…

It has been going well but I think I will be very pushed for time to make the deadline for the next deliverable.

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Hi Guys, I have been a bit slack with my updates lately. The Microstrain AHRS has been integrated onto the plane and the driver for LabVIEW real-time is working however I have run out of time to develop it for FPGA. I got it mostly working in FPGA but that last 20% was taking too much time so I just went for easy the RT driver that I had already made.…

Hi guys, I just wanted to share some photos of my minimalist ArduCopter 3DR. The APM is using Jason Short's power hack, a Spektrum adapter, and a DSM2 remote Rx. the OilPan is standard except for the compass, which is one of the first ten or so HMC5883L prototype boards from a while ago. The rest of the frame is mostly stock (arms, ESCs, motors), but the stack-up is a little shorter than usual, and…

ABB, the world's biggest industrial automation company, is promoting a very impressive humanoid concept platform called FRIDA.  I want it real bad.  From IEEE Spectrum Automation Blog

"Traditional industrial robots are big, expensive,…

• Installed AP and failsafe electronics.
• Installed & tested water bottle drop mechanism
• Installed and calibrated IR sensors.
• Installed & tested GPS
• Due to issues with the ppm encoder i have only achieved partial system integration however I am still able to switch between full-auto mode and…

Hi All,

The plane was successfully flown in manual (RC) mode however the motor blew up approximately 2 minutes into the flight. The following footage (20 seconds) is of the plane gliding in for a smooth landing after motor failure (please excuse the camera shake my little bother was filming).

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