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Aerial photographer, diving into the RC world.


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For orthophotography and remote sensing.


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Colin Bouriquet replied to Colin Bouriquet's discussion Problem with Ublox (NEO-6P) and APM2
"Thanks Mark !
Yes UBX-NAV-SVINFO is off, here is a capture of the serial port (Logfile.ubx attached) you can open it in u-center to check.
Logging settings are 38400,N,8,1
I have the magnetometer enabled and compass declination is set.

Here is what…"
May 15, 2012
Colin Bouriquet replied to Colin Bouriquet's discussion Problem with Ublox (NEO-6P) and APM2
"Yes, it is not a problem of acquisition, AssistNow offline data available during all the tests, a couple of seconds to get a fix... Problem must be elsewhere... Maybe different protocol with NEO-6 chips ? More options to add in config when uploading…"
May 15, 2012
Colin Bouriquet posted a discussion
Hi, I'm trying to connect an Ublox receiver to the APM2 (ArduPlane 2.34), here is what i've done so far :I've configured the serial port on the chip to only transmit the following messages at 38'400 baud and 4Hz…
May 15, 2012
Colin Bouriquet commented on Andrew Fernie's blog post Extracting data from tlog files for plotting in Excel
"Very nice... i've been looking for this kind of tool... Thanks !"
May 13, 2012
Colin Bouriquet replied to Andy Demartini's discussion No Boot on Battery/ESC or UBEC
"Anything new about this topic ?
I've sent back my board to 3DR, it came back with a new shield, the dataflash card doesn't seem to move in its slot anymore. We had a successful mission, and on the second one, GPS fix problem appeared again. 3 hours…"
May 3, 2012
Colin Bouriquet commented on Colin Bouriquet's blog post Six modes with Graupner MX-16
"Sorry Michael for the late answer... I have no experience with Graupner telemetry and have never tried the SD card yet."
Apr 23, 2012
Colin Bouriquet replied to Daniel Gru's discussion Questions about the APM2
"Yes exactly Vernon... Then it must be a misunderstanding, i must have missed the fact that you were talking about the SAME battery... Of course i assumed when i talked about independent power source that the BEC must have been powered by a separate…"
Apr 19, 2012
Colin Bouriquet replied to UAS_Pilot's discussion Antenna Tracking with Mission Planner
"Michael, i think i'm missing something about the antenna tracker... How does it know the GPS position of the antenna in order to follow the plane turning around it ? Is there a setting to define the postion of antenna ?"
Apr 15, 2012
Colin Bouriquet commented on Trent at MyGeekShow's blog post Successful Raptor Maiden Flight!
"I've been waiting for this post ;-)
Very neat... congrats Trent !"
Mar 31, 2012
Colin Bouriquet replied to Joel Venable's discussion APM2 and Ground Control
"Mission planner should take care of that : http://diydrones.com/forum/topics/antenna-tracking-with-mission-pla..."
Mar 27, 2012
Colin Bouriquet commented on Barry Nash's blog post New Quadcopter from scratch
"Neat ! What's the total price of the order ?"
Mar 27, 2012
Colin Bouriquet commented on Toby Mills's blog post What is the maximum range of an Xbee? - Lets find out...
"Toby> Where did you get your 900Mhz 14dBi patch ? Thanks."
Mar 21, 2012
Colin Bouriquet replied to Ryan's discussion APM2 GPS Red LED and data help (CRASH REPORT, ANYONE ELSE?)
"Do you use telemetry ? Or you're just able to connect to mission planner using USB cable when the plane is on the ground ?"
Mar 4, 2012
Colin Bouriquet replied to Ryan's discussion APM2 GPS Red LED and data help (CRASH REPORT, ANYONE ELSE?)
"Either the wiki is wrong, or we both have defective boards... i've never seen the red led going solid, and since there is a dedicated blue led for GPS 3D fix..."
Mar 4, 2012
Colin Bouriquet replied to kelly.jellison's discussion APM 2 locking up.
"So... very unpleasant day to the field today... we've encountered some of the problems we had before... even bricked the XBees once (this haven't been happening in a while, still painful having to unmount everything to unbrick them)...
BUT... we…"
Mar 2, 2012
Colin Bouriquet commented on Colin Bouriquet's blog post Six modes with Graupner MX-16
"Thanks Chris."
Feb 26, 2012
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