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Emmen


About Me:

Mechanical Engineer, linux and open source enthousiast


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

I have been flying RC Aircraft for a long time, this is something new


Hometown:

Emmen


Activity Feed

Gerrit Jan Baarda commented on Joshua Ott's blog post Flying in 25 m/s wind
"@leonard. They are not using arducopter. Their kit is quite impressive (and expensive) they had an altura frame with full HD live video link with them when I talked to them at OHM2013. There they told me that they used their own designed. "
Dec 8, 2013
Gerrit Jan Baarda commented on Gary Mortimer's blog post The new forums need YOU!
"I think the new forums are a great thing, good job! 
@Joshua
So is the intention of these forums (for example) to replace the 2000+ replies item 'Arducopter 3.01 released!'? 
If so then I suggest closing off the Ning forums or at least make it very…"
Sep 29, 2013
Gerrit Jan Baarda replied to MIKE STONE's discussion Connectors for ArduPilot and other Boards
"If anyone with wiki access is reading this, I think this is good info for on the wiki.
Gerrit Jan"
Aug 9, 2013
Gerrit Jan Baarda commented on laurent khong's blog post FPV camera test : Mobius, #808 V2 FPV, Gopro Hero 2
"@ Justin
The SJ1000 looks very nice, but as it says in the video, that camera only has HDMI out and doesn't stream video as it records."
Aug 6, 2013
Gerrit Jan Baarda posted a discussion
Hi,I'm running Megaplanner on kubuntu 13.04.Everything seems to go fine on startup. However I'm not able to use my telemetry because the arrow on the drop down box for choosing the baud rate is not available.There is a white rectangle over the place…
Jul 29, 2013
Gerrit Jan Baarda replied to Roger McClurg's discussion Low cost laptop for Mission Planner
" I don't think MP requires a lot of resources.
I've been running MP an an acer aspire One 522,  a 1Gb, 10" netbook that has a 1280x720 screen resolution. The screen resolution was my main reason for buing it. It has about 5 hrs. battery time. The…"
Mar 21, 2013
Gerrit Jan Baarda commented on David Mobach's blog post Telemetry radio case for XBee & 3DR style radios
"Are those the same Hammond Electronic boxes the you can get at Conrad? I use those as enclosures for most of the small PCB's that tend to accumulate around the APM. Diydrones would take a look at those boxes and design their PCB's so they fit one of…"
Jan 11, 2013
Gerrit Jan Baarda posted a discussion
A while ago I had a bad crash (prop failure), and now my copter is not loitering properly anymore.What happens is that it initially does fine for a few tens of seconds and then it starts circling with ever increasing speed.When I calibrate the…
Jan 6, 2013
Gerrit Jan Baarda commented on Scott Fuller's blog post GPS case?
"This is the english page about the box."
Dec 22, 2012
Gerrit Jan Baarda commented on Scott Fuller's blog post GPS case?
"I've used a case I bought at conrad for my Ublox GPS, some foam and your fine."
Dec 22, 2012
Gerrit Jan Baarda commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Introducing the new better, cheaper APM 2.5+ kit (with power supply/sensor, enclosure, new GPS)
"Pricing for the uBlox module seems a little weird:
If I order the APM2.5+ without GPS (159.99) and a separate uBlox module (49.99) total cost is 209.98,
but is I order the APM2.5+ directly with uBlox GPS its 229.99? "
Nov 23, 2012
Gerrit Jan Baarda replied to Gerrit Jan Baarda's discussion How to run mission planner on debian
"Unfortunately version  1.2.12 of the mission planner does not work anymore on mono due to a mono bug. Version 1.2.14 does show an error message:



And after this a black screen is show. If you click on the navigation tab the naivgation screen is…"
Oct 8, 2012
Gerrit Jan Baarda commented on Chris Anderson's blog post New issue of IEEE Robotics journal does deep comparison of ArduCopter, other open source FCs
"According to the article, it looks like MK has one of the less sophisticated control algorithms. In my own expirience however MK has better loiter and auto performance compered to arducopter. See for example this for a rather spectacular…"
Oct 6, 2012
Gerrit Jan Baarda commented on Chris Anderson's blog post Some recent features added to the Mission Planner
"@jacekheli @Jay Byron
I think mono is available for mac. I run MP on linux using mono without much trouble now, my guess is it should run almost the same on mac. "
Aug 23, 2012
Gerrit Jan Baarda posted a discussion
I had a lot of trouble getting mission planner to run correctly on my linux 64bit debian sid system.After lots of fiddling and tweaking I found installing ONLY mono-runtime and libmono-winforms2.0-cil makes mission planner run fine. So for those of…
Aug 15, 2012
Gerrit Jan Baarda commented on Andreas M. Antonopoulos's blog post ArduCopter 2.7 Released!
"Great Job!
I just flew with standard parameters and for me this is the first release that had reasonable loitering in windy conditions right out of the box. With all provious version I never could manage anything but mediocre a no wind conditions.…"
Jul 25, 2012
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