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Kent


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

Love building and flying multi-rotors


Hometown:

Gravesend, Kent


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Danny Thompson replied to Randy's discussion Copter-3.3 beta testing
"Hi Randy,
Have we got any closer to what to do with this issue?  I understand that the message is ambiguous in APM:Copter V3.3-rc10 but I have not been able to find a way out of it.  Do you have any suggestions as to how to track down why EKF is…"
Sep 2, 2015
Danny Thompson commented on Thomas J Coyle III's blog post California's commercial drone industry is taking off
"Congratulations Chris.   This is good to read.  I've been using APM 2.x and now Pixhawk for just over two years and remain very impressed with the entire technical and business model that 3DR has.  The partnership struck with international…"
Jun 16, 2015
Danny Thompson replied to Nate892's discussion Auto tune repeated failure
"I had this kind of problem with APM 3.2 on a new build carbon fibre Hex.  Worked flawlessly hand tuned - but Auto Tune wrecked the PIDs, they were all over the place. 
It feels to me like AT has broken in 3.2. I won't risk it again until I read of…"
Jan 26, 2015
Danny Thompson replied to Danny Thompson's discussion Arducopter 3.2 (APM 2.6) Buzzer Too Late When Arming
"Video demonstration of the issue is now available on YouTube, here --> http://youtu.be/N5YyHUF8sZM"
Jan 24, 2015
Danny Thompson posted a discussion
In Arducopter 3.2 using APM 2.6 there is a change in buzzer behaviour (from 3.1.x) when arming the FC.The first time the FC is armed, after power up, the buzzer will beep a few moments before the propellers start to spin.  This is a good warning,…
Jan 24, 2015
Danny Thompson commented on Randy's blog post ArduCopter 3.2 ready for wider use
"You guys are the absolute best. AC 3.2 is so full of awesomeness that it is going to take some time to get my head around all that you've done (that I will be likely to use). The high quality work done by the Developer and Test teams are a…"
Nov 7, 2014
Danny Thompson commented on Roberto Navoni's blog post VR Brain Micro 5.0 : yesterday start to delivery the pre order of VR Brain Micro . Now we are working on vrbrain wiki updates will be available in the next hours .
"Hi Roberto - I am in the UK and am interested to know when we can hope to see availability in the UK for the VRBrain Micro or VRBrain 5.  It is great that this product assures that Arducopter continues to grow and be available on different hardware…"
Jun 19, 2014
Danny Thompson replied to Danny Thompson's discussion Mag Calibration Does Not Complete in MP 1.3.2/1.3.3
"This is now fixed as of Mission Planner version 1.3.4

Thank you to the developers for getting this fixed so quickly. Awesome demonstration of Open Source benefits at work."
May 25, 2014
Danny Thompson replied to Danny Thompson's discussion Mag Calibration Does Not Complete in MP 1.3.2/1.3.3
"This issue is now being tracked with the developer in GitHub here --> https://github.com/diydrones/MissionPlanner/issues/475"
May 24, 2014
Danny Thompson replied to Danny Thompson's discussion Mag Calibration Does Not Complete in MP 1.3.2/1.3.3
"Here attached is a tlog 

This is what he did to get the log:
Had a look at post on DIYdrones and as they are asking for TLogs i thought i would grab some .
uninstalled MP -> deleted MP folder -> fresh install of MP 1.3.3 .
Started MP and selected…"
May 24, 2014
Danny Thompson replied to Danny Thompson's discussion Mag Calibration Does Not Complete in MP 1.3.2/1.3.3
"It isn't failing ... simply isn't completing.  One of the lads has collected a tlog but cant post here. I'll pop it up in a while if he sends it to me.


Cheers"
May 24, 2014
Danny Thompson posted a discussion
Since updating Mission Planner (Windows) to 1.3.2 and 1.3.3 I and a number of my associates have not been able to complete Mag calibration. The new dialogue box appears when selecting Calibrate, and it rotates in sympathy with the APM 2.5/6. But no…
May 23, 2014
Danny Thompson commented on Felix Meissner's blog post Copters at the UK Security & Policing Event 2014
"I'm not sure that, given the current state of the art, the designs wouldn't look rather generic to a lot of us, especially those of us that actually build.  We'd be very familiar with the technology, even if some of it is not currently within our…"
Mar 15, 2014
Danny Thompson replied to Danny Thompson's discussion Arducopter 3.0.1 Auto Land Wouldn't Disarm
"Log file of the flight session now attached. APM 10-11-2013 Logs.zip"
Nov 10, 2013
Danny Thompson posted a discussion
Can anyone help me understand what happened during a re-maiden flight of a quad rebuild today.  Specifically I experienced strange behaviour of the APM 2.5 after it had landed the quad duringan RTL.Prior to attempting the RTL I had previously gone…
Nov 10, 2013
Danny Thompson replied to luis luisis's discussion Mission planer is running slow after the last update
"So is that it? Is there no solution to MP running slow since the update (I'm now running 1.2.72 Mav 1.0).  It was running fine on earlier versions (before the GUI colour changes) on my Dell Lattitude D630, Windows 7 64bit.  But since the update it…"
Aug 26, 2013