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Male
About
Location
Queen Creek, AZ
About Me:
I'm a lapsed pilot, new to RC and drones. I'm a software engineer just getting into physical computing.
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
I built a DIY tricopter, using the kk2 board. The thing flies great until I crash it, which I do depressingly often. (I am flying the sim a lot lately to save $$$, lol). I just bought APM2.5 and a hexacopter kit. I'm planning to get that working and explore the world of autonomous flight, and FPV. The tricopter is fun for zooming around but I want something better able to carry FPV and a gopro, with improved range. My long term goal is to build something that will automatically follow a target and film it while avoiding obstacles like trees, signs, stray kids, police cars, etc. I would also like it to be able to land autonomously on a dedicated platform. Kind of like a carrier landing.
Hometown:
queen creek, AZ
Activity Feed
"Same problem here. Also, I cannon arm the APM any more. "Error: Arm message rejected by MAV""
"Awesome. Now put a gas engine on that puppy and fly FPV all day..."
"You might see if there's a local hackerspace. They will almost certainly have a laser cutter."
"What Greg said. Also, make sure your rudder controls move the yaw indicator in the right direction. My "servo" was reversed and no matter what I did it wouldn't arm until I figured that one out."
"Just a wild guess, here, but I'm wondering if the huge DistToMav value played a part? When it RTL'd, if it was trying to go to the MAV location, that might explain why RTL went flying off in some random direction..."
"I have been having a glitch where it would RTL for no reason while just flying about in Stabilize. Looking at the logs, I think that the RTL was triggered by a perceived low battery (the battery was fine, but the voltage did drop due to control…"
"There's a TED talk featuring the guy from that robotics lab that does all the crazy quadcopter stuff like juggling and cooperatively building things. In the TED talk, he snips off half of two props, and the machine flies while spinning rapidly.…"
"Now that is one fine video."
"Regarding the yaw, there's a setting, I believe it's called "waypoint yaw behavior", in the advanced settings part of MP. You can tell it to face the next waypoint, maintain current yaw, etc. One of the settings controls which way it faces during…"
"Have you checked your vibration levels? I, and a few others on this board, have encountered issues like you describe when vibration gets too high.
For example, my hexa was loitering fine with carbon props that were well balanced. As a test I…"
For example, my hexa was loitering fine with carbon props that were well balanced. As a test I…"
"Could one of your ESC's be hitting the low-voltage cutoff?"
"Nice. I'm considering a Y6 for my next bird.
Based on your post, I bought the Goodluckbuy gimbal. Awesome piece of kit, it works great right out of the box on my hexa."
Based on your post, I bought the Goodluckbuy gimbal. Awesome piece of kit, it works great right out of the box on my hexa."
"Awwwww. What a cute little bugger. I want one."
"Every problem I have had is self-inflicted, so far. The software is complex enough that it sometimes behaves mysteriously and we must pester the Randy's of this world to examine chicken entrails (also known as "logs"). As Arthur C. Clarke put it,…"
"Sweet! Congrats and thanks for sharing."
