About

Gender

Male


Location

Batavia, IL


About Me:

Just an ordinary guy getting ready to start my Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering and then a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering as well. Want to work with UAVs in the future. Wish me luck...


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

Want to tread into the brave new world with is UAV dev. Lets see what happens soon.


Hometown:

Batavia, IL


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Daniel NIkolov posted a discussion
Hello Everyone,I have been using maytech 65amp ESCs on the multirotors for my team the last couple of years. However, I find that they do not properly sync to the same signal when using the Pixhawk. Has anyone had and overcome this issue?Regards,Dan
Mar 22, 2015
Daniel NIkolov replied to Daniel NIkolov's discussion SimonK ESC issues.
"Hey Simon k,
     Things went really well afterall with the ESCs. I checked all the inputs as well as my multiwii settings and made sure that I was seeing 1000-2000 range and that solved it. Plus whatever person had the remote for the last quad…"
Feb 24, 2014
Daniel NIkolov posted a discussion
I have been trying for the last couple of days to get my ESCS that came preflashed with SimonK firware.http://montorc.com/ztw-spider-series-30a-opto-multicopter-esc.aspxI am using a ar8000 spektrum receiver module. I can not for the life of me get…
Dec 30, 2013
Daniel NIkolov posted a blog post
It would seem over time this little community is picking up in notoriety. This is awesome everyone and the growing numbers and increased projects and creativeness show what a truly unique community we have here at DIYDrones. Keep it up and I am sure…
Jan 17, 2012
Daniel NIkolov left a comment for AD
"how much flight time do you get from the senior telemaster?
 
regards,
Dan"
May 15, 2011
Daniel NIkolov commented on crystal garris's blog post techpod 2.0 progress blog
"Actually the one I found you could buy a separate interface board. Is this what you are talking about?
http://shoprmaelectronics.com/sdfcb-rsinterfaceboardforsonyfcb-ex11...
Congrats on the new job in the aerospace sector. Hope to be there myself…"
May 12, 2011
Daniel NIkolov commented on crystal garris's blog post techpod 2.0 progress blog
"I was looking into using this image sensor as well and was wondering if you have any tips on what to do. I want to output video but also control to the zoom functions as well. Any reference or help you can provide would be great. Does the video go…"
May 11, 2011
Daniel NIkolov commented on William Cox's blog post The Open Lidar Project - Hack the Neato XV-11 Lidar for a $400 Bounty!
"the only bad thing is that this is scanning in only one plane while a lidar can scan in many planes at the same time. In order get any type of usefulness from this you would need a pan and sweep system. Panning about the y-axis. It is possible to…"
Nov 16, 2010
Daniel NIkolov posted a discussion
Feasibility of such an airframe design?I know the next generation of fighters are called for to be quicker and more maneuverable than anything we have ever seen but how long until the hobby world can keep up? I honestly know that we are years from…
Nov 16, 2010
Daniel NIkolov commented on Ryan's blog post Free OS UAV Plan!
"Can you send the plans to me as well. Very nice job here on the Airframe. daniel_p_nikolov@hotmail.com"
Nov 13, 2010
Daniel NIkolov commented on Raytrace Nomad's blog post Trex Boom Copter Drawings ready and waiting for machining...
"Are you using solidworks to do the modeling or another cad system?"
Sep 20, 2010
Daniel NIkolov posted photos
Sep 17, 2010
Daniel NIkolov commented on Ben's blog post First bumpy, but successful landing in X-plane with Erlang autopilot
"Yeah for the most part. Keep me updated on your progress as it seems like a good practice and tuning system for your autopilot."
Sep 17, 2010
Daniel NIkolov posted a discussion
I am getting started on developing an IMU for the paparazzi system. Anyone that would like to throw in their comments and ideas would be appreciated. In the end I can read the tech docs and come up with a lot of the values myself but I might need an…
Sep 14, 2010
Daniel NIkolov commented on Ben's blog post First bumpy, but successful landing in X-plane with Erlang autopilot
"What type of source code are you using to run the serial data into the autopilot and the instructions back out? I have heard that some people are using Perl to do this. Do you have any reference material to the coding?"
Sep 14, 2010
Daniel NIkolov posted a discussion
There is so much about Kalman filters in the past and how much better they are at reducing noise in a system. I have seen some basic equations but not having studied math in quite some time was a hindrance to understanding what I am looking at. Does…
Feb 18, 2010
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