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Male


About Me:

Gas turbine engineer. Rc hobbyist Fly paragliders and paramotors Interest in electronics but basic knowledge


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

Fly fpv rc planes Ultra micro fpv using park zone vapor with 1 gram camera and 5.8ghz video 2 meter motor glider with fpv dragon osd


Hometown:

Lincoln uk


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Gareth houghton commented on chris wilson's blog post Hobbby King has a MINI APM
"What's the best way to power this? 5v on input or output, both?"
Mar 11, 2014
Gareth houghton commented on Gareth houghton's blog post Smallest quadcopter ever?
"I would love a small lightweight APM board, I wonder if its possible to shrink it down and use a smaller GPS.

I think with the current sized APM a 200mm x 200mm sized quad is possible but not much less."
Oct 19, 2013
Gareth houghton replied to Gareth houghton's discussion Extra servo channels control in Andropilot Users Group
"Hi, thanks for the reply. 2 sliders one for pan and one for tilt and the sliders could be un sprung so the camera will stay in the position it is left in.

I also would love 2 buttons on screen to switch flaps on off and to operate the shutter on a…"
Oct 17, 2013
Gareth houghton posted a discussion in Andropilot Users Group
Hi, I wondered if it would be possible to add onscreen sliders and a couple of on screen buttons to control flaps and camera shutter etc.I need a slider or two to control my pan and tilt camera.What do you guys think?Gaz
Oct 17, 2013
Gareth houghton posted a blog post
HiI just wanted to share my new Quadcopter I have put together. Specs35mm x 35mm frame8.2 grams all up5ch full control including lights on and offPartsHubsan x4 control board4off 4x12mm coreless motors30mm propsControl is with my Spectrum DX6i using…
Oct 14, 2013
Gareth houghton posted a discussion in Andropilot Users Group
Hi, I have just got Andropilot working on my bixler2 APM2.5 and its amazing controlling everything with my nexus 7, credit due to you development guys.I would love to control my pan and tilt camera from Andropilot, would it be possible to add…
Oct 12, 2013
Gareth houghton replied to Gareth houghton's discussion Servo tester into ppm encoder
"Wow that's great such a tiny package as well. All I need to do now is learn how to program the chip with the code, have you any pointers? Many thanks

Gaz"
Jul 4, 2012
Gareth houghton posted a discussion
Hi, I was wondering if anybody can help me.I am trying to understand and put together a hand held remote for an electric powered paraglider winch.As my understanding is a servo tester output has a PWM signal, is it possible to input a servo tester…
Apr 15, 2012