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New GPS devices for ArduCopter/ArduPlane/ArduRover use
ArduCopter / ArduRover / ArduPlane specific GPS devices with uBlox NEO6 modules are here...
Finally they are here. We have been testing and developing these GPS devices over 4 months and now they are available on jDrones store. These modules are optimized for ArduCopter and…
ContinueAdded by Jani Hirvinen on March 28, 2013 at 9:56pm — 15 Comments
What did you do at eve of New Year 2013...??
Happy New Year 2013 from jDrones to all and everyone.
See you guys/gals next year ( i mean this ).
Jani / jDrones
Added by Jani Hirvinen on December 31, 2012 at 2:00pm — 5 Comments
New mystery machines arrives to jDrones
New machines are arriving to jDrones office.
What is it, we will se in following weeks. But as a hint there are some details that we can share now for it:
- It's 3.000 Kg heavy
- It's 2.7m tall, 1 meter wide and 2.8 meters long
-…
ContinueAdded by Jani Hirvinen on December 26, 2012 at 10:54pm — 45 Comments
ArduStation Mega v1.0b arrived
Our ArduStation MEGA boards arrived today and I am truly excited to see how they work. Now starts small assembly job for them and then we can start doing testing for those.
Big thanks for Colin for his original ASM work, it's great to see…
ContinueAdded by Jani Hirvinen on November 20, 2012 at 10:00pm — 93 Comments
Protecting APM2.5 Baro sensor
If your barometric sensor exposed on APM2.5?? Or you have tape/foam hack to cover it. Here is more elegant way to cover your baro nicely. On older APM2.0 baro sensor was covered with another PCB so it was not so exposed to wind blows and you got better altitude hold with it. On new APM2.5 board upper daughter board has been removed and barometric sensor is now fully exposed so…
ContinueAdded by Jani Hirvinen on November 14, 2012 at 9:45pm — 23 Comments
OpenESC one step closer or reality
We have been working lately with Jason.J and few other people to create first real Open Source ESC that is based on STM32 RISC processors. Just moment a go courier delivered first PCBs to my desk here at jDrones and we are thrilled to see how they start perform after assembly has done for these.
OpenESC pcbs are 35 x 25mm and 4 layers PCBs. Power range…
ContinueAdded by Jani Hirvinen on November 7, 2012 at 8:17am — 7 Comments
jDrones Autum 2012 HOT Combo set, Assembled kit and micro quad
You ever wanted to have a training quad for quad just for fun flying. Now you can!!
We are really thrilled of this possibility to offer for FREE these micro quads for all our customers who will buy one of our Assembled KITs. This offer is valid between 1.11 - 31.12.2012
You will automatically get one of these micro quads with…
ContinueAdded by Jani Hirvinen on October 31, 2012 at 9:09am — 7 Comments
jDrones time to move on... (part 2)
jDrones moving, the pain of brown boxes.... (part 2)
Few days ago I posted blog about construction project of our new office. And I…
ContinueAdded by Jani Hirvinen on October 30, 2012 at 7:00pm — 4 Comments
jDrones time to move on.... (part 1)
jDrones: 1.2.3.. Let's break the wall as it's time to move on....
We already stayed on our current office almost 2 years now and finally after a long search, it is our time to move to a next location. Our current office is getting…
ContinueAdded by Jani Hirvinen on October 28, 2012 at 11:00pm — 11 Comments
Announcing jD-Simplex frames and new prices
jDrones: jD-Simplex frame series are available now
Another line of ArduCopter frames from jDrones is now available.Frames uses many of the parts that are already widely used on current ArduCopter frames.
All frames are fully foldable for easy transportation.…
ContinueAdded by Jani Hirvinen on October 15, 2012 at 9:30am — 9 Comments
DEVEL: Power distribution development
Development: New power distribution board
Some of you might already seen this board on Open-source ESC development post several days ago and some not. As…
ContinueAdded by Jani Hirvinen on August 23, 2012 at 8:10am — 26 Comments
jDrones News: jD-IOBoard goes MAVLink
jDrones NEWS: IOBoard goes MAVLink 1.0
Time has come to make another exciting release. New software has been released for our mini IOBoard. With this software you are not anymore depending on static flashes, blinks and other patterns.
We made blog post about basic jD-IOBoard few weeks ago and you can read…
ContinueAdded by Jani Hirvinen on July 31, 2012 at 6:00am — 72 Comments
jDrones News: jD-IOBoard v1.0
jDrones News: jD-IOBoard v1.0 update
You had some problems on driving LED strips or something else?? Well no problems anymore.... We have seen people making all type of darlington/transistor and similar hacks…
ContinueAdded by Jani Hirvinen on July 3, 2012 at 4:30am — 194 Comments
jDrones News: jD-MediaTEK Backup Battery Tray
jDrones News: jD-MediaTEK Backup Battery Tray
Few weeks ago we introduced our new and improved…
ContinueAdded by Jani Hirvinen on July 2, 2012 at 8:14am — 4 Comments
jDrones News: Upgraded MediaTEK GPS
jDrones News: Upgraded MediaTEK 3329 GPS
Another exciting product update from us. Some people already have seen this new jDrones MediaTEK GPS. GPS is based on same GPS module…
ContinueAdded by Jani Hirvinen on June 12, 2012 at 9:30pm — 10 Comments
jDrones News: MultiMount, Multi-Arm motormount for multicopters
jDrones News: MultiMount for multicopters.
We are proud to reveal another exciting new product from jDrones. We have been working hard and long with this new product and now finally it…
ContinueAdded by Jani Hirvinen on June 4, 2012 at 7:12am — 29 Comments
jDrones Report: Beijing Hobby Expo 2012
Beijing Model / Hobby Expo May-2012
jDrones visited on Beijing Hobby Expo this May-2012. Beijing model expo is one of the biggest in mainland China. There are hundreds and…
ContinueAdded by Jani Hirvinen on May 23, 2012 at 11:21pm — 11 Comments
jDrones News: jD-X1 foldable basic frame
jDrones X1 basic frame, foldable
As one of our factories is manufacturing X525 type frames, we were able to make custom made frames for all our ArduCopter users. On this frame you can fit all earlier jDrones ArduCopter parts and extra accessories and…
ContinueAdded by Jani Hirvinen on April 25, 2012 at 4:30am — 7 Comments
jDrones News: Updates on original ArduCopter motors
jDrones News: Updates on ArduCopter motors
In last 6 months we have been working directly with 5 different motor factory and finally it's starting to be "harvesting" time for all the efforts. Because of that we are…
ContinueAdded by Jani Hirvinen on April 9, 2012 at 2:31am — 7 Comments
jDrones News: Upgraded jD-MiniOSD
jDrones News: New jD-MiniOSD with switching power regulator
(picture from test batch, production boards will be black)
We are proud to precent first set of electronics, jD-MiniOSD v1.0
Heating issues By Gone...,…
ContinueAdded by Jani Hirvinen on March 4, 2012 at 8:30pm — 17 Comments
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