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Male
About
Location
Sacramento, CA
About Me:
I'm an auto mechanic by day, and a tinkerer the rest of the time.
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
I started with quadcopters but now I'm branching into rovers as well.
Hometown:
Pollock Pines
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"I think it boils down to the code is all optimized to be used with RC components. So 3 wire standard RC outputs from the Pix. If you are using a robot with a motor driver I think the signals are not the same and you need to translate them somehow."
"A lot of people like the Traxxas ready to run trucks, they have plenty of power and are large enough to carry additional electronics. Also ground clearance is better on trucks than it is on cars, it makes the rover a bit more forgiving to learn on…"
"Output 3 but yeah that's how I would do it. You're a little bit out of my standard R/C car based wheelhouse but I imagine you would get the desired result doing it that way. Something that big I would have some sort of remote emergency brake on…"
"Not too sure about your diagram but I imagine you could use your brake on the throttle channel and just set it so full throttle = brake off and brake applies the brakes as expected. It looks like you are planning on using some pretty heavy duty…"
"Absolutely that could cause a vibration problem."
"Try this:
http://www.impconcepts.com/documentation/IMPConcepts3DRIrisRetractsKit(CarbonLegs).pdf"
http://www.impconcepts.com/documentation/IMPConcepts3DRIrisRetractsKit(CarbonLegs).pdf"
"I have had it track me by walking around with the laptop, so that will work. I don't know that sonar will work very well for tracking, maybe you could use a companion computer and do some sort of visual tracking? I had an idea a while back after…"
"As far as I know tower's follow mode does not work with a rover, at least it didn't last time I tried. It works great with a copter but I couldn't get it to work with rover. I have used follow successfully using a laptop running mission planner…"
"Oh Sebastian may have it. I did that once on a race quad and the same thing happened, violent flips."
"Looks like that left rear is lacking power. I would recommend checking connections and ESC calibrations as recommended. Also that the motor spins freely by hand."
"Asif what FC do you have? I have an APM 2.8 on my rover and I had the compass jumper in the wrong spot, I had the same issue where I couldn't calibrate the compass."
"Maybe your compass/gps is picking up interference, is it possible to relocate it and try again?"
"Mag offset learning in compass cal?"
"Sent."
"I too cannot login to the new site with my current credentials. If I password reset it doesnt recognize my email addy and if I try to create a new account it says its already taken."
