About

Gender

Male


Location

San Diego, CA


About Me:

I am a High School student that loves code, robotics and electronics. I currently work for Aerial Mob.


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

I love everything autonomous from cars to boats and quad-copters, if it moves without organics then I want to know about it.


Hometown:

San Diego


Activity Feed

Gabriel Jacobs replied to Edgar Scott's discussion WOW, as a TBS Disco flier with this really looks interesting. in ArduCopter User Group
"More info here. http://www.suasnews.com/2014/08/30508/tbs-gemini-fpv-racer-mini-hex/

Says that RTF will be 600$ without receiver. Exciting. Unfortunate timing for me though seeing as I just droped 500+ on a QAV250 racer."
Aug 7, 2014
Gabriel Jacobs commented on Timothy Clemans's blog post Wedding quad copter on CBS This Morning
"It is nice to see those DJI phantoms being used. They look a lot less scary and are great reliable quads. I am waiting until another company can get there quads on TV cough cough*** 3D robotics."
Aug 5, 2014
Gabriel Jacobs replied to kiran pal's discussion Can I put structure around the rotors of quad copters?
"Maybe a duct of some sort, but that may result in efficiency loss (I have heard gain too not aerospace engineer).
I would look at jet turbine design although they use high rpm muiltiblade structures so many motors with 2000kv plus like these…"
May 27, 2014
Gabriel Jacobs replied to kiran pal's discussion Can I put structure around the rotors of quad copters?
"I would reccoment making a pair of prop guards or buying a frame with built in motor protection. This is a prop guard hobbyking sells you could make http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/__52012__11_inch_universal...

and this is a frame that has…"
May 23, 2014
Gabriel Jacobs replied to Christian Elsen's discussion 3DR: You need to recall IRIS!!! in IRIS
"I fixed the issue. I just had to re-balance motors and spent 2 hours tuning the Pids. But seriously unless you expect everyone to have experience with drones the Gimbal should be made easier and the fact I had to go find the manual online and not in…"
Apr 26, 2014
Gabriel Jacobs replied to Christian Elsen's discussion 3DR: You need to recall IRIS!!! in IRIS
"I tried changing the Pids on my Gimbal, now it is screwed, it seems to think it is everywhere and yaw is roll, I re-installed motor and board firmware used default Pids and 3DR Pids and my own. There is no good documentation. Disappointed, now I…"
Apr 26, 2014