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Male
About
Location
Urbana, IL
About Me:
http://zx81.isl.uiuc.edu/camilleg/
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
University researcher using everything from micro quads to 3DR X8's. Published 60 articles in RC Sport Flyer. More: http://scholar.google.com/citations?sortby=pubdate&hl=en&user=QmbeOvsAAAAJ&view_op=list_works
Hometown:
Urbana, Illinois
Activity Feed
"Solved. I unbolted the 4x4 cm mast base from the copter. Then I slid the mast into a 4x4x10 cm block of EPS, gooped moderately on the bottom and sparely on the top. So now the antenna sits on a pillar of foam."
"A friend suggested replacing the mast with a 2 cm EPS foam block, because most of the compass's interference comes from the motors, not the small amount of ferrous metal in the copter's core. However, others on this forum report interference…"
Copters tip over. (In other news, sky is blue, water is wet.)Within days of its maiden flight, my colleague's Y6 broke the 3-inch carbon-tube mast supporting the GPS antenna and compass. Ditto for my X8, though I luckily fractured only the clamp…
