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How Not to Work on your Quad

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Added by estebanflyer on July 1, 2012 at 10:47am — 31 Comments

Total misconception___Drone use in the U.S. raise privacy concerns

Drone use in the U.S. raise privacy concerns



A U.S. Air Force RQ-1 Predator unmanned aerial vehicle from the 432nd Wing out of Creech Air Force Base, Nev., takes off from the Rafael Hernandez Airport outside Aguadilla, Puerto Rico for a mission.

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Added by estebanflyer on April 5, 2012 at 6:40am — 8 Comments

Glorious Day for my Arducopter: Second Flight

 

Special thanks to Paul Dowling and Jason Short for their help with PID's tunning! I would have never taken off without their advice.

 

Both stabilize and simple mode work flawlessly.

 

The beast is flying with four 4 cells batteries, 400 gram each. wingspan is 120 cm. Propellers are 14 X 7 3 blades.

Total flight…

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Added by estebanflyer on September 25, 2011 at 8:30am — 18 Comments

Four modes switch for Futaba T6EX

The T6EX doesn't have a 3 position switch channel, so I had to combine channel 5 and 6 to get four modes. I made it work with a pot that has double terminals for each knob position, so that way there is always 2 pins to connect cables to for a single position.

 

Think of this knob as a bridge between same terminals: A to A, B to B, etc, closing the circuit to ground.

Channel 6 is connected to a terminal A and a terminal B from the opposite side.

Channel 5 is…

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Added by estebanflyer on July 2, 2011 at 2:00pm — 23 Comments

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Season Two of the Trust Time Trial (T3) Contest has now begun. The fourth round is an accuracy round for multicopters, which requires contestants to fly a cube. The deadline is April 14th.

A list of all T3 contests is here

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