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Fouad commented on Simon D. Levy's blog post 130mm quad with simple C++ firmware, Part II: The firmware
"Nice work.
Do you still have the initial version that was intended to run on the teensy ? I was thinking of utilizing it for as a starting point for a rover rc car controller?"
Dec 26, 2018
Fouad replied to nizar zd's discussion Add a parachute to a quadrotor
Oct 31, 2013
Fouad commented on Jean-Louis Naudin's blog post Position Hold flights at High Altitude with the OptiFlow Tricopter (OFT)
"@Hai,
Did you ever get flymentor3d to work in high altitude ?"
Oct 17, 2011
Fouad commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Octocopter for a RED camera
"@Owen, Well said , couldn't express it better.
Good luck for all."
Oct 15, 2011
Fouad commented on Geoffrey L. Barrows's blog post Chip design, open source, and DIY: Part 1, Indie chip design
"Great post.  Keep up the good share."
Aug 27, 2011
Fouad commented on Chris Anderson's blog post BlimpDuino home page
"We are almost mid year, any news on the new Blimp"
May 28, 2011
Fouad replied to Fouad's discussion Did I lose my APM (ArduCopter crash recovery )
"Thanks for your support.
I only have basic soldering skills, I tired my best to locate any another loose component but did not find any.
I checked VDD (pin 9,19 ) and they have good 3.1 volt , also the ground pins are connected.

I do not have an…"
Oct 17, 2010
Fouad posted a discussion
Hi,I started off with an ArduCopter , it took me a while but after I linked the three PID to three RC channels I finally got it stable in the air.My PID where  3.20 , 0.32 , 1.11.I'm using 9ch Radio, CF2822 motors, 20A ESC towardpro, 1047…
Oct 16, 2010
Fouad replied to Brett Glossop's discussion Can anyone suggest a good path for 5.8GHz tx/rx for UAV telemetry?
"I had bad experience in this subject using similar combination, here is a reference to my previous thread:
http://diydrones.com/forum/topics/score-xbee-pro-2-receivers"
May 31, 2010
Fouad commented on Jose Julio's blog post ArduIMU Quadcopter part II (mini)
"Thanks Yun.
I shifted all receiver channels to PPM encoder mapping by one (RCV ch1 = PPM ch2 ,...)and added one line in the code and it works now. (by the way max number of channels = 8)
I'm still straggling with the tuning. Although I purchase 5 of…"
Mar 22, 2010
Fouad commented on Jose Julio's blog post ArduIMU Quadcopter part II (mini)
"Looking further into it , it seems that it is hardware failure as only ch1 oscillates:
I got these readings while I pushed ch1 far right
Radio Channels:1926,1496,1407,1518,1101,1226,1017,0,
Move throttle stick to bottom to start !!!
Radio…"
Mar 19, 2010
Fouad commented on Jose Julio's blog post ArduIMU Quadcopter part II (mini)
"Jose,
First of all thanks for this very nice and easy quadcopter.
I followed up the instructions and built one large quadcopter (linke in first post) but used Quad1_mini_20.zip
I'm using Spektrum dx6i + ar6110 + PPM encorder from diydrones store.…"
Mar 18, 2010
Fouad replied to Fouad's discussion Score: XBEE pro (2), receivers (zero), Two receivers knocked down by XBEE?!
"First of all thanks for all your support.
Mark, Chris:
I already purchased 900 series, this was based on your earlier warnings “thank you” never too late to correct , but I hoped that I still can use the 2.4 for something. I guess not.
Hessel,…"
Mar 7, 2010
Fouad posted a discussion
I created very simple setup to track the speed and altitude of my RC plane.On the plane: In addition to the AR500 spektrum 5 channels,XBee pro 2.4 connected directly to ublox 407 (RX,RT) they shared a regulated 5DC power source. power by a separate…
Mar 6, 2010
Fouad replied to Dragon fly's discussion Making of a highly stabilized quadrotor
"This is the best I have found so far.
http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/arduimu-quadcopter-part-ii?xg_s..."
Mar 2, 2010
Fouad commented on Jose Julio's blog post ArduIMU Quadcopter part II (mini)
"Very impressive. Congratulations."
Mar 1, 2010
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