"I agree with Jay. Hobbyking are great for their cheap prices, and if you're flying around a park you can risk the occasional malfunctioning servo. I'm not sure I would fly a UAV out of sight trusting Hobbyking's quality control to bring it back?…"

"Could you post some pics and a link to it's website? Maybe some specs and pricing info?"

"I think the best idea is not to fly under the approach path. If you insist on breaking the law by doing so then having no lights would probably be less confusing for the full size aircraft. CASA regulations say no model aircraft within 3nm (5km) of…"

"From my personal experience, the mediatek GPS works fine as long as you keep it away from the other electronics, especially cameras. I have mine about 10cm out on one wing and never have any problems.
Airspeed sensor is nice, but I find that having…"

"I'm sure the Dev Team can give you a better answer, but basically you can't test the motor speed on the ground.

As long as you have a GPS lock you should be able to see the APM switch to RTL mode on the ground (I think), but to "test" the motor…"

"There's an open request for that feature. Vote for it. :)"

"I'm a Turnigy 9x fan, but you have to do the upgrades. If you're wanting something you can just take out of the box and use then don't get the Turnigy."

"I thought of another nice panel today. mah used.

This goes in MAVLINK_MSG_ID_SYS_STATUS
osd_batt_mahused_A = osd_batt_mahused_A + (osd_curr_A * 0.0000027777777777771 * (millis() - osd_batt_update_time));
osd_batt_update_time = millis();

I need to…"

"Ok tazers and flame throwers are definitely in the "don't try this at home" category, but an airsoft gun on an ar-drone (with the indoor hull), that's awesome!!! Someone tell the ar-drone marketing dept!"

"http://code.google.com/p/arducam-osd/source/browse/#svn%2Ftrunk%2FT...
You need some version of svn to download it. TortiseSVN was recommended to me and works well.

Come join us in the "Adding Extra Features to MinimOSD" thread. :)"

"I'm going to guess that the answer lies in the size of a 'notch'.
A control channel has roughly 1000 steps, ranging from 1000 to 2000. The upper and lower limits vary with each controller, but 1000 is a rough average. Roughly in the middle is the…"

"My first question is; what video transmitter are you using?

My wiring diagram (if you will excuse me writing a diagram) is...

Power:
3S battery positive connects to camera power and minimOSD video-in V+
MinimOSD video-out V+ connects to video…"

"James is right. I fly mode 3 (also in Australia) and it's the channels that APM cares about, not how the channels are controlled. Throttle is always channel 3, aileron is always channel 1, regardless of which mode your transmitter is. For the sake…"

"Gabor, Pedro and Burt,

There are a few redundant things I've noticed while coding the OSD. Things like warnings turn the OSD on, because the warnings used to be inside the panel list. Once I moved them out of the osd_on if statement then there was…"

"Gabor,

Do we have software for editing the character files? I think we need to create an RSSI icon for Burt's RSSI display. It also needs adding to the config tool. I started looking in to that today, although Pedro seems to have done a lot of work…"