Gender
Male
About
Location
Baldwin, MD
About Me:
I live in Maryland, USA. I'm 16. Prior to building UAVs, I flew rc airplanes and helicopters. I then looked in to FPV and outfitted two planes and a quadcopter to fly FPV.
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
I began building UAVs when I found the APM 2.5+ board to fit my first quad copter with. At the time I simply wanted it to improve my FPV capability. Over time, however, I became more interested in the UAV aspect. I am currently leading a high school team to a college level UAV competition. Our team is using a APM 2.5+ piloted FPV raptor 2m.
Hometown:
Baldwin, MD
Activity Feed
Hi,Does anyone here have any idea why my FMU power light turns off when I arm the Pixhawk?The FMU power is solid green right up until I arm the Pixhawk and then it shuts off. The mavlink also shuts off with the FMU. I don't know if it makes any…
"Thanks for all the replies, this year I had to just tell the judges that is wasn't a major concern. Now that the competition's over I'm going to buy an external compass. "
"Now that the competition's over I may actually try that. I wonder if it will display it on the HUD and read it out loud. "
"Now that the competition's over, thats what I'm going to do. I have an external compass which I tried to put in until I found out a solder bridge needed to be cut on the board. I didn't want to cut that right before the competition in fear of…"
I'm currently running a APM 2.5+ board on a skywalker 1880. Due to tightly packed electronics, occasionally the compass will give out bad reading and the "BAD Compass Health" warning will show on mission planner's HUD. Despite the error, the plane…
