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Roscommon, MI
About Me:
fabrication and machine shop at home with full cnc router plaz table for cutting wood or carbon fiber
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
have run helicopters and planes for a long time, now have a s500 diy and cheerson c-20
Hometown:
Roscommon, MI
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"Getting a little busy around home. I am hoping to keep up with some writing on the projects I am working on. I have 3 different designs going right now plus upgrading my gimble to encoder motors( I designed the mounts for both encoders and pots for…"
"@ Thomas Stanley-Jones the tool that Cala suggested works great for servo plug type connectors and the pins and sockets can be found just about anywhere-hobby.
As for the DF13 connectors I buy from Digi-key, here is the link to the CONN CONTACT…"
As for the DF13 connectors I buy from Digi-key, here is the link to the CONN CONTACT…"
"I have the controller (ArduCopter), gps and landing gear installed. Tested all the motors and Tomorrow I plan on my first video ever of testing it out. Suppose to get up to 40 degrees here so hopefully not 15 mph winds.
If all goes well I will build…"
If all goes well I will build…"
"Just bought a HK fabrikator when they were on black friday sale. Works pretty good and i have made a lot of items so far. Still working on the right heat combination tho"
"The motor mounts will be 2.5mm thick here and are 3mm on my big ones which I have had 3-4 crashes with the 3mm mounts on my Tarot 680 style hex and only cracked one and broke a few CF propeller. I accidentally used a 3mm cutter on these and was…"
Trying to make something a little more compact than my last design-still haven't had that one in the air-snow and cold!! Anyway I have a 550mm octo with 240mm plates turning 12" props. Working on getting the pixhawk setup now. Bought a 3d printer so…
"Mike, you are correct--I don't know if there was a good lock. I do know that I always get good GPS on everything I use here in the boonies where I live, even my 20? year old garmin has less than 15' error .
But I do know it was human error! I…"
But I do know it was human error! I…"
"Had good gps signal. It did not go into rtl by itself. I did it when loiter started to fly off and the rel switch turned the motors off.
I set the hex presets. As I said it was flying fine and had it trimmed pretty steady in stabilize and alt hold.…"
I set the hex presets. As I said it was flying fine and had it trimmed pretty steady in stabilize and alt hold.…"
I built the a big heavy lift that I have been posting about on here using a Pixhawk. Before i put it in the air i wanted to experiment with something smaller so I built a hex with a ardupilot. 2212-920 motors multistar 20a slim and n8m gps. Got it…
"Found the problem. I have been using the cable that came with the cuav and just noticed the rx tx wires reversed on the module end! Switched them and everything works now. tomorrow I will go out and calibrate the compasses and hopefully fire it up. "
"ready to fly this thing but can't get the 3dr telemetry to connect to tne Mission planner software. Both V2 units power up. I have them talking to each other-green lights and in initial setup I can get the setup information for both ground and air.…"
"The motor mounts on this one are designed with grommets in each mounting hole sandwiched by thin washers, the top half of the arm clamps are threaded so i can adjust tension on the grommets then tighten the bottom half of the clamp to hold it all…"
"There are lots of discussions no the subject and multi's with the motors slung under. My opinion would be that the closer to cg the less the motors are working to stabilize so there would be some gain but I am not sure how much. There are a lot of…"
"There is 3d software like blender and onshape that is easy to use so you can easily put your ideas to a .igs file. Almost any library has a 3d printer and will print out your files for an small fee $5 for a decent size part. Some even let you use…"
