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Building X5 FPV UAV

Building a strong UAV.

 

I added a cut off switch was fitted, the xt60 at the rear.

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Added by Christiaan van Vollenstee on March 11, 2013 at 11:47am — 18 Comments

First aerial mapping trial

After a few months of trial and error, I finally figure out the basic of aerial mapping. Blessed with good weather two days ago, I took out my Skywalker 1900, APM 2 equip with Canon S100 to a near by oil palm estate own by a friend. The Skywalker with my current param track extremely well even in strong cross wind condition. 

The total flight time is about 30 minutes from take off to landing covering 320 Ha of land at 300 meter altitude. The cross line distance is…

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Added by keeyen pang on January 25, 2013 at 10:00pm — 9 Comments


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Idea for Roll/Tilt for the Skywalker platform

Hi All

I have been thinking about a ROLL/TILT for the skywalker platform and I came up with something like this. This design is great for Roll/Tilt stabilization.…

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Added by Hooks on December 29, 2012 at 3:00pm — No Comments


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Condor Skywalker 1880

The new Condor Skywalker 1880 is now ready for sale at FPVflying.com.

The Condor skywalker is made out of nice black EPO foam just like the…

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Added by Hooks on June 5, 2012 at 6:00am — 18 Comments


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Pan & Tilt for camera inside fuselage

A pan & tilt system for Skywalker / X8 wing for installation inside fuselage.

Here you have some pictures for inspiration and stl files if any should be needing this P&T.…

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Added by Hooks on May 12, 2012 at 4:25am — 16 Comments

UAS Build, Airframe HK FPV 168

Well I just recieved my FPV 168 from HK.com. The only damage I was able to spot from shipping was the tip of a horizontal stab. Here are my plans for the build.

I want to have a pan and tilt camera hanging on the underside of the fuselage. I bought the pan and tilt system from ServoCity. I got 2 continues rotation servos. My second payload will be a 12 mega pixel still camera to take pictures of the ground for mapping. 

The telemetry is using a 2.4 GHz…

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Added by Joseph on March 15, 2012 at 6:30pm — 18 Comments


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Skywalker belly protection

Skywalker belly protection

Many have been asking for this belly protection for the Skywalker platform. Finally we decided to make this in big numbers so it can be available for the people…

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Added by Hooks on November 27, 2011 at 5:13am — 9 Comments

Testing the GoPro 2

Ive been doing some testing with the new GoPro2 HD video camera. I bought it out of necessity after loosing my GoPro HD in flight :( But, having the HD jump ship was a blessing in disguise, because the new GP2 boasts some impressive features.

While shooting in 1080P, you can choose 3 different field of view (fov) settings: Wide at 170, medium at 127, and narrow at 90. Heres a video I made testing the different fov settings on a Skywalker foam airplane.…

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Added by Matt Gunn on November 22, 2011 at 6:17pm — 14 Comments

Skywalker w/APM & GoPro HD

Added by Derin Hakan Karakurt on October 22, 2011 at 10:10am — No Comments

Demo of APM auto mode with Skywalker

 

 

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aiplane: skywalker 

TX: futaba 12fg

LRS: 400 mhz

weight: 2250 g

battery: lipo 4 cell…

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Added by jim C. on October 19, 2011 at 2:00pm — 16 Comments


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Strong EPO Foam Skywalker UAV platform for sale

The new EPO foam version of the Skywalker UAV platform are now for sale.

Price 144 USD + 40 USD in shipping.…

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Added by Hooks on April 17, 2010 at 10:30am — 25 Comments

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