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Researcher @ D-CIS Lab
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Professional interest from an 'intelligent airborne systems' point of view.
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"The crate is from this shop: de-generaal.com. Although it's great for keeping it safe during rough transport, it does not come with foam, and its pretty big and heavy. For normal everyday use I use the case below: It's much lighter and as you can…"
Since my last post I've upgraded this quadcopter. Most important upgrade is the motors and props:HK NX-4006 530kv motorsGraupner 14x8 propsWith these, and a 170gr dummy weight on the gimbal, I get these numbers when hovering the quad:5000mAh 4S: 14A…
"I did an indoor endurance test last week, with the following configuration:
Props: APC 14x4.7
LiPo: 5000mAh 4S
Payload: Gimbal + GoPro in protective casing, 100mw 5.8GHz video Tx + DPC-171 cam
Battery consumed: 4666mAhFlight time: 800s
As you can…"
Props: APC 14x4.7
LiPo: 5000mAh 4S
Payload: Gimbal + GoPro in protective casing, 100mw 5.8GHz video Tx + DPC-171 cam
Battery consumed: 4666mAhFlight time: 800s
As you can…"
"Not much news due to bad weather here in NL. I did find the weak spot in the frame though:
The motor mount broke after a hard landing. I'm glad I didn't install the ESCs on the motor mount by the way... I'm very happy with the overall strength of…"
The motor mount broke after a hard landing. I'm glad I didn't install the ESCs on the motor mount by the way... I'm very happy with the overall strength of…"
Farnell has some nice small ABS casings that can fit both 3DR style radios as well as XBee's on their breakout boards. You can cut parts out easily with a hobby knife. I use them for both the airborne and ground radio's. Link & pics:RX2007 ABS…
"I'm flying with the (default) settings I also used to fly my 3DR frame. I do notice some wobble when doing a fast descend, but I guess this is more due to prop wash than a configuration issue. I will be adding some FPV equipment shortly. "
"It's this one: http://www.csgshop.com/product.php?id_product=62"
I've been building a new Arducopter recently. Here are the ingredients:RC Timer X650 frame (with Xaircraft cowl iso the supplied transparent dome)RC Timer 30A ESCs with SimonK firmwareAX-2810Q 750KV motors with integrated prop adaptersGF1245…
"I also like the idea of adding some additional dogfight elements. My original plan was to add some non-intrusive game-like features, such as awarding points for tailing the opponent at a certain distance, or formation flying challenges. And then…"
DogfightOSD is a custom firmware for the popular Remzibi and MinimOSD boards that allows your plane to broadcast its own position data (lat/lon/alt) and receive and display information received from a second aircraft onto the display. To this end, a…
I'm using a hardware configuration which doesn't allow me to send commands to my mt3229 GPS, so I'm wondering whether it is possible to configure the mt3229 to binary, and then store this configuration so it will output binary in stead of NMEA when…
"Here you can find a DCM implementation for the CHR-6d IMU, made by Vassilis:
http://vrhome.net/vassilis/dcm/"
http://vrhome.net/vassilis/dcm/"
