"The Hobbyking laser ranger is not fast enough work while in motion, nor are the other golf and hunting type laser range finder. The Bosch is fast enough however and it has a nice TTL level serial connection you can interface with your computer. The…"
"This thing does not work with Mission Planner for Windows. You can however connect with QGround Control. I think it is a timing issue where the BT module takes too long so MP times out. I am going to try re-directing to a vifrtual com port and then…"
"The KMZ flight path files failed to load on this forum so I created a screen capture of the flight-path the intrepid FX61 used to create the point cloud. Take note how I glide into the waypoints to minimize motor vibration."
"I am generating the correct checksum for MavLink packets using the CRC16CCIT 8408 polynomial in VBA. The 1021 polynomial DOES NOT WORK for me. I don't care what the documentation says, the checksum is NOT the CRC16CCIT X.25 standard. The header…"
A few more things. I don't use the built in camera trigger to trigger the photo-bursting but I do use it to test the position of the servo arm vs. PWM value the APM sees. What I do is change "set camera trigger" in the configuration screen of…"
"Cala, I trigger the lumix with the Do_Set_Servo command and I also use Condition_Delay
Here is the process. The Lumix is always in sleep mode so when shutter button is pressed for 1s, the camera turns on. This means only a single mechanical…"
"Petr,
I use the FX-61 for remote forest point cloud mapping. I also build and sell them to researchers who use them outside the USA for point cloud mapping remote forests.
I build the fx-61 system ( and FX-79 Buffalo and Sky-Hunter to name a few)…"