For my Jr/Sr design project in college, my design team has decided to build a small RC plane / UAV. We are currently doing research for the project which will be a twin engine, channel wing design. My question is, are there any relatively cheap ways
Read more…Hello everybody!Here's my setup:-Esky Honey Bee RC 4CH FP Ready-to-Fly Helicopter-Parallax Propeller-Memsic 2125 Dual-axis Accelerometer-GPS-A willingness to run the heli into the ground as many times as it takes :PAnd here's what I've learned about
Read more…After breaking 3 props in a single day (a new record), it is probably time to start looking at adding a prop shroud or duct to my coaxial rotor discussed here before I do some real damage.
I feel really dumb asking this, but I swear I've been looking all over the web and I can't find a definitive answer. Every website I find tells me how to convert from degrees/minutes/seconds to decimal degrees, but the Parallax GPS receiver outputs i
Read more…Hey all,For people using homemade navigation units, how are guys getting airspeed? From google'ing, I've found that two pressure senors (MPX4115a), one static (inside the fuse) and one dynamic (attached to a pitot tube), could be the hardware. But I'
Read more…Does anyone know how to interact with a 5-wire servo? I would like to be able to read the commands to this servo (with my parallax propeller) and either pass through the signal or modify it. (I'm using the propeller to interface with standard 3-wire
Read more…Hi,I can see myself building many UAV’s over time but I'm not sure what to try first?Up till now I have been flying RC Helicopters. (One day I want to attempt to turn my Trex into a UAV, after successfully mastering it in planes first).Has anyone suc
Read more…Does anyone have INSTRUCTIONS (I can read theory all day long and NEVER "get it") on how to use Flight Gear as a 3D synthetic vision system using GPA and AHARS. How do you get the real time data "into" Flight Gear to produce the display. Is it possib
Read more…Does anybody know what would cause the picopilot to circle a waypoint more than once then depart for the next? I have conducted multiple test runs and have found that when I set only one waypoint it will fly to it, turn around and return. When I have
Read more…Anyone know which IR sensor would work best for measure low altitude over grass? Ultrasonics appears to be useless to the scattered random reflection but I have heard IR works good.
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Read more…Has anybody seen these yet? They are a stackable Linux single board processor running an ARM9 processor from Feescale and have peripherals like GPS and robotic control boards.
I would like to start a discussion about how the world wide roll out of BPL will affect rc wireless systems.I'd like to discuss some other troubling things about this technology but I won't today.
Read more…I'm reviewing GPS-based navigation algorithms and studying Chris's source code for the Geocrawler 3. (My team is due to make a Powerpoint presentation to our principal in two weeks for funding). I think I can make sense of most of it but one thing th
Read more…Does anyone know of a quadcopter simulator that will work with the Clearview or Reflex Simulators?Many thanksSteve
Read more…I bought an FPUV2 from Parallax (http://www.parallax.com/Store/Components/IntegratedCircuits/tabid/154/CategoryID/31/List/0/SortField/0/catpageindex/3/Level/a/ProductID/244/Default.aspx)and I was wondering if anybody could help me with interfacing it
Read more…I was poking around on Parallax's forum and dug up a demo to use the Smart mode on Parallax GPS module. Thought I would share it.
Read more…Good day,Anyone out there using the Picaxe Chips to control their UAV? Presently I am working on developing code for my project and I am still looking for a good GPS to integrate into my toy.At the moment there are so many GPS units out there that ma
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