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Love to play with anything that flies


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Bruce Jones commented on PX4's blog post PX4FLOW Release
"Is this product dead?  I don't see where you can buy it on the 3DR store anymore.  If it's out of the product line, was it killed from lack of interest or did it have problems and issues?"
Feb 29, 2016
Bruce Jones left a comment for Bruce Jones
"Sorry, I gave up on the DX7s - too hard to program - sold it, and bought a Taranis.

Good Luck!"
Nov 10, 2015
Bruce Jones commented on Chris Anderson's blog post A Drone's Day at Maker Faire
""Everyone who attended MF was informed that there would be drones flying overhead and signed a waiver"

Did anyone else on this thread attend the Faire?  I did, and certainly didn't sign any waiver.  I have about a dozen friends who went, and none…"
May 20, 2014
Bruce Jones commented on Chris Anderson's blog post A Drone's Day at Maker Faire
"The "uncontrolled landing" late Saturday afternoon near the robot fighting area was interesting. 5 feet to the north and it would have been national headlines."
May 19, 2014
Bruce Jones replied to Artem's discussion Flight Mode and GPS Error Codes in ArduCopter User Group
"If it can't use them, APM shouldn't count them.  How are we to know how many is good?  Especially if HDop is good too."
Apr 29, 2014
Bruce Jones replied to Artem's discussion Flight Mode and GPS Error Codes in ArduCopter User Group
"I'm very curious why you'd get an error with 9 sats in view.  That should be plenty."
Apr 29, 2014
Bruce Jones replied to Thomas's discussion Why NAZA work without PIDS tuning and APM not? in ArduCopter User Group
""The end?" - Gosh, I hope not.  
Competition, sharing of ideas, and a huge variety of products is what has made this field grow so fast.  The day anybody contributing to multi-rotor design comes to and "end" will be a sad day. Especially if it's a…"
Apr 21, 2014
Bruce Jones replied to Thomas's discussion Why NAZA work without PIDS tuning and APM not? in ArduCopter User Group
"Me?  Don't I wish!  Maybe I'd get some cool free stuff.  
But nope.  You can check me out, I've been on here for ages.  xtrmtrk on other forums."
Apr 21, 2014
Bruce Jones replied to Thomas's discussion Why NAZA work without PIDS tuning and APM not? in ArduCopter User Group
"It's an engineering design decision.  APM offers you MUCH, MUCH, MUCH more configurability.  With APM you can control everything, and use it on many different kinds of R/C gear.  It's a much more versatile device.  You'll never see a…"
Apr 20, 2014
Bruce Jones replied to Thomas's discussion Why NAZA work without PIDS tuning and APM not? in ArduCopter User Group
"To answer your original question: "Why is NAZA ready to fly?" - I believe DJI is doing a bit of constant auto-tuning.  An interesting experiment is to radically change propeller sizes on a NAZA controlled craft.  For the first second or two after…"
Apr 20, 2014
Bruce Jones replied to robbie knowles's discussion external led on arp2.5 in ArduPlane User Group
"Count me in as another person who'd love to have this."
Mar 16, 2014
Bruce Jones commented on Scott Berfield's blog post Adding External LED Indicators and a Piezo Beeper for Arm and GPS Status
"This seems to have been asked before, but not answered - is LED_Mode only available in APM:Copter and not APM:Plane?  For the life of me, I can't find it in there.
If it's not there, any chance of having it added?"
Mar 7, 2014
Bruce Jones posted a discussion in ArduCopter User Group
Yesterday I received the PixHawk I ordered on January 2nd.  Four week delivery time is pretty good for a new FC from 3DR!But I've had all kinds of problems trying to use it. First I tried using the USB connection to a Mac (running OSX 10.9.1) and…
Jan 31, 2014
Bruce Jones replied to Hugues's discussion what frsky receiver for pixhawk? in ArduCopter User Group
"The problem is the "Quick Start Guide" which comes with the PixHawk clearly shows you should connect the S.BUS receiver to the SB connection.  This is wrong.  As stated above, it needs to be connected to the RC port.  It works fine there for me."
Jan 31, 2014
Bruce Jones commented on PX4's blog post PX4 and 3D Robotics present Pixhawk: An Advanced, User-Friendly Autopilot
"I bet opening up the MavLink protocol on the MP side via IP sockets, serial, USB AND BlueTooth would spark a lot of innovation."
Jan 30, 2014
Bruce Jones commented on PX4's blog post PX4 and 3D Robotics present Pixhawk: An Advanced, User-Friendly Autopilot
"As long as we're talking about integrating - include OSD functionality in the flight controller too.  There are just too many parts adding weight and failure points on these systems.
I've also wondered why OSD functionality is done on the craft - if…"
Jan 30, 2014
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