I have a GY401 gyro and want to make a camera mount that is stabilized on the roll axis only, such as the one on Chris' Predator.What I would like to do is to make this a 'stand-alone' system (with its own battery) that has no connection to the airpl
Read more…Hello,I like to get into hobby UAVs and I wanted to buy an electric park flyer or something bigger that I can convert into an UAV.What are the considerations when selecting an aircraft. Obviously lift capacity is important, but I also want something
Read more…Hi Guys,I am starting small by first trying to display live data to a 2 X 16 Serial LCD and the debug window. I am copying, pasting and editing code to try and achieve this. So far I have learnt a lot! I am using a BS2Px and a EB-85A GPS receiver.Bel
Read more…When I power up the quadcopter I notice one of the motors will turn very slowly in reverse until I flick it in the right direction when it seems to work OK. I have found the quadcopter very difficult to control. The motors do not seem to spin all fre
Read more…I have only casually been following the discussions about recent FAA advisories regarding use of UAV's, capped most recently with Patrick Egan's report from the March 4th UAS Airspace Panel.If I understand correctly, non-commercial users can fly unma
Read more…Hi I was wondering what some good relitively inexpensive digital cameras that can work with the prism camera chip. Also, the co-pilot is a receiver that can replace the receiver in your kit plane? And can you define what of the eight servos in the co
Read more…I do not know if any of you have seen this UAV yet. It is called the hyper blimp. It is an outdoor blimp that is being marketed as a camera platform. There is also footage on the site that shows one that stopped responding to controls, drifted into d
Read more…Im trying to decide on a cheap, relaible data modem that has atleast 10 miles of range. i would like to adapt it to work with my standard tx and fly my fpv plane, and later with the paparazzi im going to build.
Read more…Hi I have no idea of how to program in open source code I have some html web programming experience that is very basic is there a website or book that I could buy that could help this?
Read more…Not surprisingly, something goes horribly wrong when I haven't changed anything.After finally getting R/C integration with my basic stamp to work, four days later when I haven't touched anything, both my continuous rotation servo and one of my receiv
Read more…I've been thinking about a blimp experiment and wondered whether anyone could make a recommendation ?The Plantraco Micro Blimp is reported to be neutrally bouyant with 188gm load - see http://www.coe.drexel.edu/ret/personalsites/2004/roodojalvos/web/
Read more…http://www.centeye.com/Guys, check out this site, they are doing some very interesting things. They have a chip that mimics the vision of insects using optical flow. This is mounted in a free flight model plane and keeps it from flying into obstacles
Read more…heres my twin boom pusher i have been working on. its almost done im just waiting on a crystal and new motor mount. in the first version it had a 3s 4200mah lipo and flew 30+ min flights with plenty of power.this is allot more streamline and lighter
Read more…As part of my PhD, I'm trying to design and build a UAV. But the UAV needs to a bit durable than your average RC aircraft. Therefore I was thinking about building one from composite materials, Fibreglass, Carbon Fibre, etc. Does anyone have any exper
Read more…I found this link...looks cool and has free software for designing PCB boards.Price is reasonable as well!Express PCB
Read more…We are interested in reading the number of microseconds that a digital pin is set to HIGH. Wiring natively lacks a micros() function to tell us this so we need to write an accurate one.This is the actual implementation of millis() in wiring.c for the
Read more…Hey everyone! I thank you for taking time out of your busy flight day to help get me going to converting my Sig Cadet Sr. to a UAV!Currently the RC has a JR 600 Receiver, Os 52 4stroke (a bit on the under powered side) and a with with ailerons. This
Read more…Hello, I am working on building a UAV fo my master's thesis. I bought a Parkzone Slo-V 3 channel plane to hone my mad flyin skillz. So far I am accomplished at quickly ending my flights by smacking the plane into the ground. I will keep working on th
Read more…Thought this was pretty neat -- I always wanted a paddle-plane...UAV potential here for sure:A small robotic aircraft powered by rotating "paddle-wheel" wings could yet rule the skies, if renewed interest in an antique design bears fruit.Several inte
Read more…Hey everyone!I've been lurking for a while now, and I'm finally taking the plunge. However I'm coming at this from the wrong angle - programming/electronics experience with no flight experience at all :/There's a local flying club which I'm going to
Read more…