Gender
Male
About
Location
Frisco, TX
About Me:
Optical engineer working with WDM and the Internet at large.
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
I'm interested in moving beyond small helicopter RC into FPV for multi-rotor as well as getting into FPV on small planes. My interest is in fun, photography and eventually doing something useful with UAVs!
Hometown:
Frisco
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"I had same issue with burn out however mine worked while connecting and modifying settings etc. It was only after connecting both camera and video tx that it burned. 12v trace to video in/out fried. Now to find another odd that works."
"Thanks! Yes, I do have the logs for that "spiral of death" but I haven't had the time to dig into them yet. It was in auto and fighting high winds not moving to it's next waypoint so I switched to RTL and it came home but 200M over home position it…"
"Haha! Oops! Well after the cost of all the quad parts I had to go with the cheap but reliable Bud Light! "
The last post was almost laughable as ArduCutter barley got off the ground and certainly didn't do much in the way of entertaining. Well, it still isn't ready for Vegas however I've been feeling pretty good about the progress especially since…
"After another couple of flights it has improved significantly as far as stability. I did ensure no trim is added on my transmitter and only making adjustments to the APM. I think it is just a matter of getting the feel for it initially and letting…"
"Thanks for the comments and suggestions everyone, very helpful. I'm not 100% certain why it flipped like it did, but I was in stabilize the whole time until the end when I went to loiter. The suggested method when starting was to keep simple mode…"
ArduCutter gets airborne after the past week of building fun and a little embarrassment. It is all in the name. I recently read the line, "Multicopters are essentially flying lawnmowers.." from the ArduCopter wiki. This is not an exaggeration as my…
