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Curt Filipowski commented on Curt Filipowski's blog post UAV Devboard Funjet
"Sorry for the lack of updates (and lack of options file), weather has been beautiful here and I've been spending my time flying and working on other projects and not posting.  I spent a little more time working with my gain values and have a fairly…"
May 19, 2011
Curt Filipowski commented on Curt Filipowski's blog post UAV Devboard Funjet
"Ahhhh,
Many thanks Bill!  I will update MPLAB tonight and try again.  Thanks for the tip, I probably would have spent a few hours banging my head against the wall before finding that out.
 
Thanks again!
Curt
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May 3, 2011
Curt Filipowski commented on Curt Filipowski's blog post UAV Devboard Funjet
"Thanks guys,
I tried loading in the new firmware last night but my compiler is failing on the linking step with the 3.0 firmware.  I'll look more closely into that in the coming days but I did have another very successful flight with the older 2.5…"
May 3, 2011
Curt Filipowski posted a blog post
After spending the last year or so experimenting with the UAV devboard on my larger flying wings I decided to spice things up a bit.  I had a funjet with a gopro mounted to the nose that I used for FPV.  Last summer it took a nasty crash when I lost…
May 2, 2011
Curt Filipowski commented on Earl's blog post Intersting UAV
"Nice presentation but defiantly not something that going to last a considerable time in the field.  I could see large use of this for oilfield applications (similar to my line of work) but some sort of landing net might be a better idea.  I do…"
Apr 25, 2011
Curt Filipowski commented on Curt Filipowski's blog post Sentinel V2
"I agree Scott!

Maiden Flight:

Last weekend I decided it was time to see how the stability and waypoint functions worked in the air. After flying around in manual mode (super easy to fly, definatly my most stable wing yet!) to achieve yaw lock I…"
Apr 8, 2010
Curt Filipowski commented on Curt Filipowski's blog post Sentinel V2
"Morli, thankyou for the compliments and insights! I will secure the GPS lead before flying. A motor pod fairing may be in the wings future.

Gary,
Yes sir, thankfully the wing is also Gene's design so the pods he builds are directly compatible with…"
Mar 31, 2010
Curt Filipowski commented on Harald Molle's blog post Ardupilot goes into the water Part 1
"Very interesting use of technology, cant wait for part 2!"
Mar 30, 2010
Curt Filipowski commented on Curt Filipowski's blog post Sentinel V2
"Thanks! I actually got the center ABS pod from Centexflyer, he runs a SAR service out of the states using wings (http://www.rpflightsystems.com/MainPage.html), they have some amazing looking wing!

The winglets are slightly larger then I originally…"
Mar 30, 2010
Curt Filipowski posted a blog post
Here is the successor of my previous wing. Basically the same as the old design with a new ABS molded center pod. It will be flying with the UAV devboard and now that the snow is finally melting in my field and I have the newest version of matrix…
Mar 30, 2010
Curt Filipowski commented on Ben Levitt's blog post MatrixPilot 2.0 Released for UAV Dev Board
"Morli,
Check out my blog post, I have a link to the build log of the wing as well as 2 videos of it flying around. I'll post more as I make progress with the devboard...but we have a high of -30C this saturday/sunday so no flying for me (and this is…"
Dec 11, 2009
Curt Filipowski commented on Ben Levitt's blog post MatrixPilot 2.0 Released for UAV Dev Board
"Also, I just realized I will be running Matrixpilot on a wing I named the Sentinel...sounds like it was meant to be from the beginning ;)."
Dec 11, 2009
Curt Filipowski commented on Ben Levitt's blog post MatrixPilot 2.0 Released for UAV Dev Board
"Great work everyone! I'm right at the point to start testing my wing so I'll load up matrixpilot this weekend to play around with."
Dec 11, 2009
Curt Filipowski commented on Chris Anderson's blog post T3, Round 4: Map a quarter-kilometer!
"Arg, this is one of the things my wing was designed to do...unfortunately I only recieved my autopilot last night and have many many weeks of tweeking and tuning to get thru first...I'll have to delay my entry closer to T3, Round 38 ;)."
Dec 3, 2009
Curt Filipowski commented on Bryan Cuervo's blog post Flight tests with the UAV DevBoard
"Bryan, your attention to detail is not wasted here. I also read about the tail volume ratios but I ended up erroring on the side of to large. I am betting the washout you have added into your wings is what is holding your stability with small…"
Nov 22, 2009
Curt Filipowski commented on Bryan Cuervo's blog post Flight tests with the UAV DevBoard
"Wow I would have thought a flying wing would be super skiddish without winglets. The paths looks really nice. My devboard is on the way for my wing! I joined the google group and am looking over the beta code. There is a possiblity I'll hit you up…"
Nov 21, 2009
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