About

Gender

Male


Location

Buffalo City, South Africa


About Me:

Geek, tinkerer and technology nut


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

Im buying a quadcopter, looking to learn more about the technology.


Hometown:

East London


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David Viaene replied to John's discussion Droneshare
"Anyone ever find a solution. I always get errors :("
Jan 27, 2016
David Viaene replied to Nigel Brown's discussion Waypoint Flight Major Oscillation at the end for no know reason
"Thats what I do. I always set my last waypoint as RTL. "
Jan 26, 2016
David Viaene posted discussions
Jan 25, 2016
David Viaene replied to David Viaene's discussion My quad crashed and I am not sure why....
"Yup, that was totally it. Throttle needed to be up :D"
Jan 25, 2016
David Viaene replied to David Viaene's discussion My quad crashed and I am not sure why....
"Everything was controlled via the tower app, but we had to switch the controller on for it to arm. However, we kept the throttle down. If the throttle was down while it was in auto mode would it have reacted like this?"
Jan 25, 2016
David Viaene replied to David Viaene's discussion Thermal or IR based stock counting? in Agricultural UAVs
"Another thing I want to know, who specializes in the software that counts animals? Is there a FOSS alternative yet? :)"
Jan 17, 2016
David Viaene replied to David Viaene's discussion Thermal or IR based stock counting? in Agricultural UAVs
"Your contributions are very informative :DI want the end machine to use under $9000. Be durable and accurate. The multi role purpose will be important for farmers here. If it can count stock and keep a look out for farm attacks in anti poaching ops,…"
Jan 17, 2016
David Viaene replied to David Viaene's discussion Thermal or IR based stock counting? in Agricultural UAVs
"Have added your website to my list of resource links when i get around to building this."
Jan 17, 2016
David Viaene replied to David Viaene's discussion Thermal or IR based stock counting? in Agricultural UAVs
"Im designing these for farmers in remote african countryside with farms of 5000ha to 30000ha"
Jan 17, 2016
David Viaene replied to David Viaene's discussion Thermal or IR based stock counting? in Agricultural UAVs
"Hiya, I live in Africa. FAA not my problem :D"
Jan 17, 2016
David Viaene posted a discussion in Agricultural UAVs
So before I start this, please let me know if I am reiventing the wheel. If there are already reasonable solutions out there please stop me and let me know!Our farms have cattle and sheep. I would like a drone similar to the LA100 series…
Jan 9, 2016
David Viaene replied to David Viaene's discussion What do you think the most efficient motor / blade combo is for a S500 frame?
"Thanks for being so helpful.
What flight times do you get with that rig?"
Jan 2, 2016
David Viaene posted a discussion
Greetings fellow geeksI want to make a bunch of these for some friends of mine. We are going to work with S500 frames as shown below. What blade size / motor size should I purchase with these for highest levels of endurance efficiency? 
Dec 28, 2015
David Viaene posted a discussion
I see there is a 3.3 upgrade. I do the whole upgrade through USB. It installs and then verifies. I do all the accelerator and compass calibration. It seems to install via both the firmware install and via the wizard. But when I restart my quad it…
Dec 26, 2015
David Viaene posted a discussion
Well technically its my second. My first was a really cheap $50 mini quadcopter which lasted about as long as you would expect a cheap quadcopter to last.So Im buying one and there seems to be a fair priced one in my local town. I was wondering if…
Nov 12, 2015