I bought a Hubsan X4 to practice with while waiting for my Iris to arrive. I highly recommend using something like the X4 to practice before flying the Iris (and I see many others here recommend it too).
I was trying to figure out why the gimbal tilt was backwards on the CH6 knob and I found out my answer in another thread - just click the "Reverse" checkbox in Mission Planner on the Optional Hardware Camera Gimbal setup.
I'm wondering if anyone has added a FPV kit to the IRIS. I would be interested in how and where to mount the parts (camera, transmitter with antenna, additional battery?).
Would there be enough space in the shell? If anyone has done this already, p
How long will my battery last at wide-open-throttle? Will the battery warning kick in before I start losing altitude? How much weight can the Iris hold? What happens if my transmitter dies during flight? Which props work the best?
Brand New less than 5 hours old. Never left the ground. I read everything I could find about the proper way to launch and recover the craft. Set the radio up according to the manual. I went through three sets of blades. Broke the screws holding one o
Just had a great maiden flight earlier today with my IRIS. I flew one full battery using ALT/HOLD, and then did another flight fully autonomously using DROIDPLANNER. I have a few questions I'd like to ask about using droid planner and flyin
So, I got my Iris all put together today and I have a couple of questions:
1. What is the reason for the poor fit of the props? I though I was going to cut my finger on the motor trying to tighten the props down. Is there an easier way? Also, I boug
Thanks to the help of a friend much smarter than me, my IRIS now features custom LED lighting and the DragonLink FPV system. I can't begin to explain how impressed I am with everything about this quad from 3DRobotics. Well done! Link to more photos h
Based on some of the comments I have stumbled over here and at http://ardupilot.com/ here is my "wishlist" for add-ons as well as "fixes" to IRIS. Please chime in if something is missing or some of the items are completely out of whack.
I'm looking for feedback from other IRIS user who have installed the Tarot gimbal avaialable as an option when ordereing your IRIS. Some of the things I have noticed are:
1. Gimbal does not level all the way, slightly tilted.
After about 2 weeks of tinkering I finally got Mission Planner working and let the Iris fly a mission. After everything I tried, I wondered if the process could be a lot simpler. So I'm going to post my guess on how someone could fly right out of t
I have already submitted all my information to the IRIS Hardware support forum, so I thought I'd share this video with my fellow IRIS owners. I had heard about the IRIS props just stopping but I thought I was immune since I have been having so many
Does anyone know where to find documentation or replacement parts for what's inside the bottom cover of the Iris? I don't see anything on the 3DR website that matches the Iris.
As a private pilot, I have to log my flight time. Before I got my IRIS, I made a determination to make a separate logbook for flying the IRIS or any other drone. For someone who wants to perhaps earn some income from drone flight somehow (however i