About

Gender

Male


Location

Free State


About Me:

I currently live in the land of sunshine (South Africa) where I'm an advanced control engineer working in the petrochemical industry. I'm happily married to a young wife, although I recently started irritating her by yet again finding a new hobby other than wining and dining her :)


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

Drones seemed a good way to expand my control knowledge in a new field. The fact that drones fly whereas plants stand still whilst being automated helps to keep me interested!


Hometown:

Sasolburg


Activity Feed

Bart Saaiman replied to Eric Lee's discussion Anyone had problem ordering from 3DR store? in IRIS
"Yes and Yes"
Jun 24, 2015
Bart Saaiman replied to Eric Lee's discussion Anyone had problem ordering from 3DR store? in IRIS
"I've had frequent problems with their website not loading, especially since they revamped it after releasing the SOLO.  Now all you see is that stupid quadcopter being advertised on every single page.  The only thing they care about at the moment is…"
Jun 24, 2015
Bart Saaiman replied to Randy's discussion ArduCopter-3.1 released!
"I also reloaded firmware until I realised you only need to change the compassmot parameters back from NaN to 0.  The HUD stops spinning after that.  It's a bit quicker than reloading everything."
Apr 15, 2014
Bart Saaiman replied to Bart Saaiman's discussion HIL firmware upload fail for ArduPlane
"I think everyone with a pixhawk needs to make a feature request for adding APM HIL simulation firmware support for the unit."
Mar 31, 2014
Bart Saaiman replied to Bart Saaiman's discussion HIL firmware upload fail for ArduPlane
"Hi Michael

Thanks for the reply.  I'm loading onto the px4 (pixhawk, px4mu2 or whatever else it's called - it's quite confusing).  Anyway I've since done some reading and it seems as if the HIL simulation version of the APM firmware is not…"
Mar 31, 2014
Bart Saaiman replied to Bart Saaiman's discussion HIL firmware upload fail for ArduPlane
"Just an update, I tried loading the firmware with no instruments connected, same result however."
Mar 30, 2014
Bart Saaiman posted a discussion
Hey guysI was just wondering if anyone else was experiencing a problem I'm currently struggling with.  I am running mission planner 1.2.99 (on Windows 7 64 bit with all of the latest updates) with ArduPlane V2.78b successfully loaded onto my…
Mar 30, 2014