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Male


Location

Amarillo, TX


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

Have built ROVs and used a Parrot drone. I'm not interested in stepping up to a more challenging drone and perhaps building my own.


Hometown:

Amarillo Texas


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Barre Wheatley replied to Barre Wheatley's discussion Pixhawk2.1 ArduRover random full speed reverse
"What is interesting is whatever the Pixhawk and Mission Planner were sensing about the RC signal is not recognized by the Spectrums Fail safe. I setup the fail safe on the Spektrum and it did not have the intermittent RC drop that I saw in the…"
Oct 23, 2017
Barre Wheatley replied to Barre Wheatley's discussion Pixhawk2.1 ArduRover random full speed reverse
"I think I have solved the problem. I replace the Spektrum DSMX remote receiver and it seems to have fixed the problem. I am not sure why when the RC drops the rover ignores the fail safe settings and goes into high throttle. I'll work on solving the…"
Oct 23, 2017
Barre Wheatley posted a discussion
I am using a Pixhawk2.1,  RoboClaw motor controller  and Mssion Planner to control a rover. I have most things working well except for one issue I cannot figure out. The PixHawk outputs to the RoboClaw on channels 1 and 3 using skid steering.…
Oct 19, 2017
Barre Wheatley replied to Barre Wheatley's discussion continuous flight with way points
"I did as you said but when the copter came to the waypoint set as DO_JUMP, it started to climb and landed it self after it reached the limit of its geo fence  "
Jul 2, 2015
Barre Wheatley posted a discussion
I'm trying to make my quad copter repeat a flight path multiple times until I take control with my RC controller. I have tried to do this using way points. The problem is it would fly one pattern and land but not repeat the pattern. Is their any way…
Jun 23, 2015
Barre Wheatley replied to Barre's discussion Mission Planner Parameter Colors
"That's what I thought just could not find it documented anywhere. We re-calibrated our radio and that solved our problem now all the parms are the grey color."
Dec 17, 2013
Barre Wheatley replied to Corsair's discussion Quadrotor Flips, on Take off
"I'm not familiar with the KK flight controller. We had the same thing happen with an APM after one of my students moved a few components around to mount a Go-Pro. What turned out to be the problem is the APM was not pointing toward the front of the…"
Dec 17, 2013
Barre Wheatley posted a discussion
I bought the 3DR video kit with the drone. The video quality has been poor from the first day we started flying. The problem I am having is the video gets a lot of static while flying. The drone can be hovering or moving and the static will show up.…
Nov 26, 2013
Barre Wheatley replied to BossEd's discussion Advice on first quadcopter: Will this fly? (researched)
"I am a newbie also having only flown a Parrot Drone which really is more or less a toy but a good introduction to quads. I can only speak from what I have experienced putting together the Arducopter quad kit. Although it is a kit I definitely…"
Oct 26, 2013