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Oakland, CA


About Me:

Back to RC after 20 year hiatus.


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

FPV / X-Copters


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Andreas commented on Charles Blouin's blog post Transport Canada to investigate ''Roman Candle Attack''
"Having a hard time seeing what the outrage is about. The guys even lit the candles themselves and a snow covered river is a pretty fire-retardant environment.

In my carefree youth, I used to launch gliders with firework rockets as propulsion. When…"
May 23, 2015
Andreas commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Senate hearing will discuss Amazon drones
"Looking forward to harvest Amazon drones from trees and powerlines!"
Dec 2, 2013
Andreas commented on Andreas's blog post RCTimer Brushless Gimbal and Controller
"EVERYTHING is in the award winning documentation ;)
http://www.instructables.com/id/Brushless-Gimbal-for-Aerial-Photogr..."
Aug 17, 2013
Andreas commented on Joshua Johnson's blog post Diy Drones LinkedIn
"Very unprofessional picture. Maybe ok for a dating site..."
Jul 27, 2013
Andreas commented on Mike Machado's blog post Fake Signs On Bay Area Highways Say Drones Looking For Speeders
"Hellfires usually make me drive faster."
Jul 19, 2013
Andreas commented on Greg's blog post British CAA issue one of the first air safety notices for UAS's
"Does someone claim that the drone was ditched on purpose? Looks like a free fall crash to me, just lucky it hit the water...."
Jul 18, 2013
Andreas replied to Chris Card's discussion USE GOOGLE TO SEARCH ON DIY DRONES
"Not sure of any of the site admins looked into switching search engines?

Best workaround until then google in the following format: "xxxxxxx site:diydrones.com" and you shall find what you are looking for :)"
Jul 16, 2013
Andreas commented on fly ecilop's blog post Ecilop Eco flying camera - for FREE!
"Looks insanely complex to me. The initial Ecilop looked very elegant, but now with the additional propeller on top.... The next step is to have a mini quad dragged by the main quad and the mini quad maintains level ;)

Is there a true advantage of…"
Jul 16, 2013
Andreas commented on Joshua Ott's blog post Thirty Days (#22): Instructables Drone Contest
"All I got was this lousy t-shirt!

Really hoped for an additional APM, snif....

Congrats to the grand prize winner (3D printed modular drone kit).!"
Jul 16, 2013
Andreas commented on Andreas's blog post RCTimer Brushless Gimbal and Controller
"I just upgraded to Brugi 0.49 r161 and had a much better experience than with r77 . This version pretty much works out of the box. I only had to increase the RC min & max angles (to tilt more than 30 degrees) and reduce the RC low pass to 1 second…"
Jul 12, 2013
Andreas commented on Andreas's blog post RCTimer Brushless Gimbal and Controller
"I'm happier in 0.48, never was able to get rid of the quirks in 0.49. Although I have not tried the very latest yet.."
Jul 11, 2013
Andreas commented on Andreas's blog post RCTimer Brushless Gimbal and Controller
"Forget about the APM for a minute. Just power the BLG and the RC receiver. Connect the A1 pin on the BLG controller to an RC channel that you know works (stick is a good start). After initialization you should be able to tilt the BLG with the stick.…"
Jul 11, 2013
Andreas commented on Andreas's blog post RCTimer Brushless Gimbal and Controller
"Yes, to manually control tilt, just connect a free channel from your RC to the BLG controller."
Jul 11, 2013
Andreas commented on Andreas's blog post Deadly RC Helicopter Accident in Switzerland
"I have only flown smaller helis (maybe 300 size?) and I was not that scared of the blades as they seemed very light. But on any crash the heli seemed to dismantle itself from the kinetic energy.

Are the blades from 600 and up helis pretty heavy?"
Jul 11, 2013
Andreas posted a blog post
As reported by TagesAnzeiger.ch:A 41 year old male was found with heavy injuries to head and arms by a walker in Mauensee Luzern Switzerland. The helicopter of type Gaui Formula X7 was found next to the body and collected as evidence by the police.
Jul 11, 2013
Andreas commented on Andreas's blog post RCTimer Brushless Gimbal and Controller
"I'm only guessing that the V3 refers to Martinez V3. Hence the same firmware should work.

Great price! Good luck when you buy ;)"
Jul 10, 2013
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