About

Gender

Male


Location

Little Rock, AR


About Me:

Teacher at Beebe High School - Beebe, AR.


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

The 2014-2015 school year I will be teaching an introductory UAV/Drone course.


Hometown:

Little Rock, AR


Activity Feed

Chad Mercado replied to J M's discussion Do I need the PPM encoder to connect the ar8000 to Pixhawk?
"Huge thanks on the tuning tipoff. We haven't done all of this, which is probably exactly why we're not stable at all. This changes up my approach quite a bit. Still plan on getting the PPM encoder working, but definitely will start here first."
Dec 1, 2014
Chad Mercado replied to J M's discussion Do I need the PPM encoder to connect the ar8000 to Pixhawk?
"Ok, Thanks. I've got some time this week with the break so my plan is to troubleshoot quite a bit. When you say adjust the throttle and other parameters I assume you mean to recalibrate through APM? Anything specific beyond what it gives me that I…"
Nov 22, 2014
Chad Mercado replied to J M's discussion Do I need the PPM encoder to connect the ar8000 to Pixhawk?
"So we've flown the Quad a few times only using the Satellite receiver. Control has been a huge issue. I've lost control 2 different times in which the throttle was still responding, but direction was not at all. Whichever direction I attempted to…"
Nov 21, 2014
Chad Mercado replied to J M's discussion Do I need the PPM encoder to connect the ar8000 to Pixhawk?
"Thanks for the responses. We gained some big time ground last week. Got Mission Planner running, and the satellite worked fine once I got calibration started. Unfortunately when we got off the ground we went into an immediate flip that resulted in a…"
Oct 27, 2014
Chad Mercado replied to J M's discussion Do I need the PPM encoder to connect the ar8000 to Pixhawk?
"DIY Quad

I am trying to not use the AR8000 as mentioned previously.

I've bound my DX7s to the receiver by plugging 1 ESC into the AR8000 and THRO out, and using the bind plug as well. When I unplug the AR8000 and try to use the receiver directly…"
Oct 20, 2014