About

Gender

Male


Location

Pittsburgh, PA


About Me:

I'm a degreed mech. engineer self teaching my self electronics and building home 3D printers, a quad and a robot.


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

Interested in UAV, OSD, FPV, mcu, gps and Open Source. Currently building a land based vehicle to be autonomous and FPV. This is new information to me at this point.


Hometown:

Unknown - currently in Pittsburgh, PA


Activity Feed

Brian Stott posted a discussion
FC: APM 2.5Firmware: APM 3.2.1 quadGCS: MP 1.3.24The log files on my copter  are named with a date in 1969. They then download and are converted to the time that I'm downloading them. Previous versions of this had accurate file names to date and…
Apr 17, 2015
Brian Stott replied to Jerry Normandin's discussion I upgraded a stable flying APM 2.0 quad running ArduCopter 2.7.3 to 3.1.3 and introduced a wobble
"Not sure if this is with yours but, when I upgraded mine I had a bad wobble also. Looking around the settings it ended up being Roll and Pitch P values of the PID increased about 50% (~0.085). I lowered the values to the previous stable values…"
Apr 19, 2014
Brian Stott replied to Brian Stott's discussion Radio Calibration not recognizing channels 6,7,8
"Issue resolved. Solution below ----- By myself - Poster - 4/4/2014.

In the OpenTX (9XR) transmitter Mixer page the CH6, 7, & 8 s/b P1, 2 & 3, respectively, for the physical POTs. (Then all you guys knew this and I was needing to learn. Thanks.)…"
Apr 4, 2014
Brian Stott replied to Brian Stott's discussion Radio Calibration not recognizing channels 6,7,8
"bump..."
Apr 4, 2014
Brian Stott posted a discussion
The MP, APM 2.5 setup when using Radio Calibration with my Turnigy 9XR radio, with Open9x firmware, no longer recognizes the Channel/Pots 6,7,8.The radio works fine and all features work. The radio binds with the receiver. The copter will function…
Mar 18, 2014
Brian Stott commented on X-Winder's blog post Another FAA Incident
"Private Land?
Private vehicle?
Private use? to photograph one's self at play?
Who do they, the FAA, charge? The guy paying for the pictures? OR The guy receiving for taking the pictures?
Or was the flyer directly associated with the team?
Can I take…"
Mar 18, 2014
Brian Stott commented on Euan Ramsay's blog post Payloader prototype 2
"Remember how they do swinging booms. They are supported in a triangle with a cable or rod on the hypotenuse."
Feb 16, 2014
Brian Stott replied to Will's discussion I'm a cop and need help making a drone, as well as some info
"Will, you may find help at rcgroups since this group sure sound like a bunch of diverter's making noise. They build at rcgroups also. Maybe real help."
Feb 16, 2014
Brian Stott commented on Gary McCray's blog post Some MultiCopter Design Thoughts.
"Camera Ball Turret
Vid.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NT9qEMnf6Xc"
Jan 22, 2014
Brian Stott replied to Oliver's discussion Scary Unexpected Motor Startup After Arming; Also Yaw Behavior Issue
"I agree with those who posted about LEDs. I use VERY bright LEDs purchased from ebay. They are using the LED feature as R.L. suggests. One Red and one Blue. They are like head lights they are so bright and easily light up areas on my home walls over…"
Jan 6, 2014
Brian Stott commented on PX4's blog post PX4 and 3D Robotics present Pixhawk: An Advanced, User-Friendly Autopilot
"At Brian - Why would you gut a $2,000 quad to install another multi-rotor FC?"
Dec 23, 2013
Brian Stott commented on criro1999's blog post What If They Try to Hack Amazon's Drones?
"  A simple high power radio on your frequency with wide bandwidth broadcasting white noise will drop you immediately. If malicious enough a simple directional antenna added and they've a sophisticated drone gun! With an SDR simply set the various…"
Dec 15, 2013
Brian Stott replied to Henri's discussion Skycat parachute launcher for Drones
"Henri - I'm suggesting late ---

Have a smaller tube within your launch tube. This is what you will pack your parachute into. This interior tube will be what you shoot out of your launcher. The spring and launch tube should be able to be made…"
Dec 15, 2013
Brian Stott commented on Alexey's blog post QuadroPixel, new generation of frames.
"< $3.00 Silicone caulk and you likely have it water proofed yourself. What you doing - going submarine?"
Dec 15, 2013
Brian Stott commented on PX4's blog post PX4 and 3D Robotics present Pixhawk: An Advanced, User-Friendly Autopilot
"read the posts"
Dec 12, 2013
Brian Stott replied to Randy's discussion ArduCopter-3.0.1 released!
"MP - Feature Addition?
Would this thread be acceptable to request additional settings/selections on the 'Quick' tab menu for MP?
- Add the PIDs so that when we are Tuning or Auto Tuning we can monitor what the values are. It would be handy for…"
Dec 11, 2013
More…