Scott Thompson's Blog – April 2012 Archive (1)

Implementing ESC Fail Safe

I had a request to provide information on how I implemented an ESC fail safe on my quadcopter and posted a small image of the process under the ArduCopter 2.5 firmware thread. Since I suspect there may be a more general interest in this, I'm posting a blog segment on this fail safe.

Above is an image of the process.

Also, here's a pdf…

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Added by Scott Thompson on April 23, 2012 at 4:30pm — 9 Comments

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